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from Breitbart
Socialism Has Destroyed Venezuela – So Why Does the Opposition Trust the Socialist International?
Socialism has destroyed Venezuela. State corporate takeovers, strict price controls, and a food rationing system have left the country poor, sick, and literally starving. Socialist political repression has killed countless Venezuelans in the past decade and put an untold number of others in the nation’s notoriously violent prisons.
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from Business Insider
Walmart has a new kind of discount — and it's impossible for Amazon to beat
Starting April 19, the retailer will offer a discount to customers who ship purchases to one of Walmart's more than 4,700 US stores instead of to a home or elsewhere.
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from CBS News (& affiliates)
Reality Check: The Cost Of Subsidized Transit
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Minnesota Legislature is preparing deep budget cuts to Twin Cities transit systems, especially light rail. Critics say taxpayers pay millions of dollars a year to subsidize every passenger. While it’s true that taxpayers subsidize every passenger on the light rail, it’s less than you think and less than other common transit systems, like suburban buses.
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from CNN
The brain computer interfaces aimed for by Elon Musk and others offer the promise of scientific breakthrough but carry risks to consciousness and individuality, says Ed Finn.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Legacy: Big Profits for 'Big Yogurt'
At the moment of its implementation in 2011, Michelle Obama’s revamped federal school lunch program was an unmitigated disaster, seeing kids toss even more food into the trash than they previously did, and causing school districts to shell out more money as the months went by. But there was at least one winner in the political games of the federal school lunch program who, thanks to ties to the powerful lords of the state, made lots and lots of cash: Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani yogurt.
Glass-Steagall Would Not Have Prevented the Financial Crisis
If the Glass-Steagall Act had not been partially repealed in 1999, the 2007-08 financial crisis would have unfolded in largely the same way. Could reviving this outdated banking regulation greatly damage both Main Street banks and our financial system as a whole?
Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Legacy: Big Profits for 'Big Yogurt'
At the moment of its implementation in 2011, Michelle Obama’s revamped federal school lunch program was an unmitigated disaster, seeing kids toss even more food into the trash than they previously did, and causing school districts to shell out more money as the months went by. But there was at least one winner in the political games of the federal school lunch program who, thanks to ties to the powerful lords of the state, made lots and lots of cash: Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of Chobani yogurt.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
If the Glass-Steagall Act had not been partially repealed in 1999, the 2007-08 financial crisis would have unfolded in largely the same way. Could reviving this outdated banking regulation greatly damage both Main Street banks and our financial system as a whole?
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Syrious Questions of Moral Consistency
With his firing of missiles into Syria, it took our new President about 76 days to start doing exactly what all the others do. I wonder if this one expects a different result?
How Nationalism and Socialism Arose from the French Revolution
Just as liberalism began to transform the world, two pernicious ideas began to vie with it. Nationalism and socialism began to capture the imaginations of intellectuals and would eventually displace liberalism completely in the hearts and minds of the West.
There Are No Good Arguments for Syrian Intervention
Nobody is claiming that America’s national interests are being threatened. Instead, the case for intervention is that Assad is a bad dictator who is doing bad things. If having an oppressive government is what triggers U.S. intervention, there will be perpetual war. President Trump's attack on Syria is plainly illegal, unauthorized, unjustifiable, short-sighted, and wreckless.
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from First Things
America’s national epic was not written in meter and verse. Nor, for that matter, was it written by an American. Yet The Pilgrim’s Progress is nonetheless the primal American story, the account of our mad flight from order and lonely quest for grace.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
The U.S. Should Tread Carefully on Social Media Vetting
The Trump Administration and Congress are looking at social media screening as a method of detecting terrorists trying to come to the U.S. Social media screening is likely to be of little value and consume resources better spent elsewhere in the U.S. counterterrorism enterprise. Depending on how these searches are done, they also raise the prospect of serious cybersecurity concerns and detrimental repercussions for American citizens travelling abroad. The U.S. should carefully consider the usefulness of broad social media vetting before proceeding further.
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The U.S. Should Tread Carefully on Social Media Vetting
The Trump Administration and Congress are looking at social media screening as a method of detecting terrorists trying to come to the U.S. Social media screening is likely to be of little value and consume resources better spent elsewhere in the U.S. counterterrorism enterprise. Depending on how these searches are done, they also raise the prospect of serious cybersecurity concerns and detrimental repercussions for American citizens travelling abroad. The U.S. should carefully consider the usefulness of broad social media vetting before proceeding further.
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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
PHOTOS: Washouts close multiple highways in Eastern Washington
The Washington State Department of Transportation says there are several road closures on the east side of the state due to recent rainfall.
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from KING 5 (NBC Seattle)
7 ways to save at Costco
For true frugalistas, Costco is a way of life. This membership-only warehouse club is the largest in America, and the second largest retailer in the world behind Walmart. Chances are, you or someone you know is a member.
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from Mashable
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Snapchat knows which restaurants you snap from, and it has plans to make serious cash from it.
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from National Catholic Register
Benedict XVI gave a tremendous gift to the English-speaking world in 2009, when he finally realized a dream centuries in the making, and established a permanent canonical home for groups from the Anglican tradition seeking to enter the Catholic Church with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. Here's why the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith during Benedict XVI’s papacy realized that it had to take charge of the reunion project.
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from The Seattle Times
Though Whole Foods has long been seen as a buyout target, activist investor Jana Partners set off a new wave of speculation this week when it acquired a stake and urged the company to evaluate a sale.
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from The Spokesman-Review
City, Avista, and golf organization apologize for misunderstanding that led to bulldozed mile-long road on South Hill bluff
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
US President Donald Trump blamed the current situation in Syria on Moscow's support for country's President Bashar Assad, calling the Syrian leader "an animal," in an exclusive interview with Fox Business on Wednesday. He stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was supporting "a very bad man," and believed such an alliance would be bad for Russia and the entire world.
Tech giant Google has rolled out a new feature that can purportedly discern fake news from fact. Radio Sputnik’s Loud and Clear spoke with Dr. Robert Epstein from the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology about this feature and the dangerous implications of corporations having the power to define reality.
Commenting on the recent US cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday there's no evidence that Damascus used chemical weapons, but there's clear evidence of international law violation by Washington.
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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
"The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship," the chief U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.
The city of St. Louis is suing the NFL over the Rams' relocation to Los Angeles 15 months ago. The 52-page lawsuit was filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court by the city, county and the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority. The suit also names the NFL's 32 teams as defendants and seeks unspecified damages and restitution.
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from The Washington Post
Economists are arguing over how their profession messed up during the Great Recession. This is what happened.
Over the past two weeks, academic economists (and a couple of bystanders) have been arguing about why economics wasn’t able to guide policy better during the Great Recession. Some blame nonacademic economists. Others blame prominent academics. Others still say that economic advice doesn’t really matter, because politicians will pay attention only to the advice that they wanted to hear anyway.
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