Thursday, June 29, 2017

In the news, Monday, June 12, 2017


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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Washington Post Agrees With Clinton: She Lost Because She's a Woman
In Monday’s Washington Post, the media’s pathetic attempt to blame everyone but Hillary Clinton for her election loss trudged on. Today’s paper highlighted a study by two professors at the University of Texas at Dallas, that surveyed what voters felt about women in the workplace, and whether or not their answers fit into a “traditionalist” or “progressive” mindset.

Charlie Daniels: What Would Happen If Liberals Got the World They Wanted Here on Earth?
I sometimes wonder how the mainstream media, judicial system, sanctuary cities and liberal politicians would fare in the kind of world they are trying to bring about: a world without borders, a world without morals, a socialist society ruled by an all-powerful, central government that would control the distribution and quality of health care, the parameters of abortion, the length of people’s lives through euthanasia and the population’s practice of religion.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Automation Is Not "Different This Time," and That's a Good Thing
A video bemoaning the rise of automation and machinery went viral the other day. The video suffers from two fatal errors. First, it attributes more weight to that which is seen than to that which is unseen. It's easy to talk a lot about the jobs mechanization will destroy. It’s easy because we see the jobs disappearing. But it’s very difficult to talk about the jobs that will appear. That requires imagining new products, industries, and circumstances that don’t yet exist. The second fatal error is the confusion of work and consumption. Some people enjoy and derive fulfillment from their jobs. To that extent, jobs are good. But to some degree – and in some cases, it’s a large degree – the only reason people do their jobs is that they are paid. To that extent, jobs are a bad thing. Personal fulfillment aside, jobs are a means to an end – and that end is consumption.

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from First Things

American couples are combatting loneliness with open marriage instead of friendship and childbearing. Marriage can be strengthened by openness—not to novel sexual partners, but to friendship and children.

The Abortion–Breast Cancer Link
Recent Trump appointee Charmaine Yoest has stated on previous occasions that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, a position supported by science and denied by the mainstream media.

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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Rural Appalachia is facing a healthcare crisis. I fear it's going to get much worse
If the Republican party throws up its barriers to Medicaid, there will be many victims of that decision.

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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

President Trump, Don't Forget About Tibet
President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget would zero out funding critical to advancing freedom in Tibet. Defunding efforts to empower Tibetans sends the signal that the U.S. no longer cares about advancing liberty in places like Tibet and Xinjiang. The last two U.S. administrations affirmed the Middle Way approach policy, but it remains to be seen whether it will be supported by the Trump administration.

Good Riddance to the Paris Accord
The Paris Protocol was a losing proposition for American taxpayers and households and businesses that rely on affordable, reliable energy. Business leaders fail to consider what Paris would (or wouldn’t do) to affect global temperatures. Energy poverty is a clear, immediate concern, and the role that fossil fuels have played in making peoples’ lives easier, healthier and cleaner is undeniable.

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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Family Tree Shows Senator Jeanne Shaheen is Direct Descendant of Pocahontas
Senator Jeanne Shaheen claim during a CNN interview that she is a descendant of Pocahontas supported on public Ancestry.com records

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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Fed Officials Can't See What's Right In Front Of Them
While the Federal Reserve has an explicit dual mandate to keep prices stable and maintain full employment, they have unofficially taken on new goals like maintaining financial stability. If central bank policy is responsible for creating bubbles, then how could a central bank official say that spotting and preventing bubbles is “really hard”? It’s like a detective admitting he’s stumped about who is starting all of these fires around town, while he’s holding a container of fuel, a matchbook, and a book titled Arson for Dummies.

Could Donald Trump Save the Internet?
The internet is an incredible tool that has radically changed human society, with the potential to do even more. The last thing we should ever want to do is treat that power like a public utility.

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from Orthodox Christianity

Divorces are a real disaster of our times. Statistics indicate that every second marriage ends in divorce, while ten years ago only every third marriage failed. And even couples who married in the Church now divorce more often. Broken lives, the loss of any hope of building personal happiness, unhappy children who are very likely to imitate the behavior pattern of adults, the inevitable diminishing of the role of family and family values in the society—these are the most evident consequences of divorces.

CANONICAL UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IS MOST INFLUENTIAL IN UKRAINE ACCORDING TO MINISTRY OF CULTURE
A third of all clergy, two thirds of all Orthodox parishes, three quarters of all seminary students, and nearly all Orthodox monasticism belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), the only canonical Church in Ukraine.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)

Iran Dispatches Warships to Oman Amid ‘Controlled Insecurity’ in the Gulf
A flotilla of Iranian warships departs for the Gulf of Oman amid an ongoing diplomatic crisis on the Arabian Peninsula. 

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International

Study: Vegetarian diets twice as effective at weight loss
Vegetarian diets help with muscle fat loss, which improves glucose and lipid metabolism to help people with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

Montana congressman Gianforte sentenced for assaulting reporter
The newest member of the U.S. House of Representatives pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting a reporter and must now undergo anger management counseling. "It was not my intention to hurt him," congressman-elect Greg Gianforte said in court. 

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