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from America Magazine - The Jesuit Review
Pope Francis: A priest who hasn't learned to carry the cross is "useless"
A priest who does not willingly embrace Christ's cross and who does not try to lighten the burdens of his people is not worthy of the name, Pope Francis said.
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from BBC News (UK)
The Archbishop of Canterbury is to meet Palestinian and Israeli political leaders as part of a 12-day tour of the Holy Land. His visit comes two weeks before US President Donald Trump is due to arrive in Jerusalem to try to revive the moribund peace process.
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from CNN
from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Bill Nye, the Population Control Guy Unmasks Anti-Human Bias at Base of Modern Liberal Thought
Apparently, Bill Nye is attempting to “save the world” by controlling its population. Bill Nye’s exchange with his panel on population control unmasks and illustrates the anti-human bias at the base of much of modern liberal progressivism. This goes all the way back to people like Paul Ehrlich, who in the 1970s was predicting worldwide population explosion resulting in widespread famine or pestilence and all-around catastrophe, none of which came true. Look to China, to see the danger of this worldview.
Obamacare Architect Blames Problems with Obamacare on Trump
Obamacare architect MIT professor Jonathan Gruber on Sunday blamed the problems with Obamacare on President Donald Trump, telling “Fox News Sunday” that before Trump was elected, there were no counties in the U.S. that did not have an insurer.
Newsweek Writer Wishes for ‘Torture’ and ‘Death’ On GOP Families After AHCA Passes
Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald has no problem using his platform as a member of the media to hurl death threats against those whom he disagrees with. After House Republicans passed the AHCA last Thursday, the liberal writer took to Twitter to air his grievances against the bill by wishing that their family members would be tortured and die. (Yes, really.)
Leftist Seattle Mayor's Soda Tax Now Champions 'Social Justice'
The same Seattle mayor that is undergoing allegations of sexual abuse of male minors is now raising taxes, all in the name of "social justice." Seattle's Mayor is reworking a soda tax proposal to fight, get this, "white privilege".
Bill Nye, the Population Control Guy Unmasks Anti-Human Bias at Base of Modern Liberal Thought
Apparently, Bill Nye is attempting to “save the world” by controlling its population. Bill Nye’s exchange with his panel on population control unmasks and illustrates the anti-human bias at the base of much of modern liberal progressivism. This goes all the way back to people like Paul Ehrlich, who in the 1970s was predicting worldwide population explosion resulting in widespread famine or pestilence and all-around catastrophe, none of which came true. Look to China, to see the danger of this worldview.
Obamacare architect MIT professor Jonathan Gruber on Sunday blamed the problems with Obamacare on President Donald Trump, telling “Fox News Sunday” that before Trump was elected, there were no counties in the U.S. that did not have an insurer.
Newsweek Writer Wishes for ‘Torture’ and ‘Death’ On GOP Families After AHCA Passes
Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald has no problem using his platform as a member of the media to hurl death threats against those whom he disagrees with. After House Republicans passed the AHCA last Thursday, the liberal writer took to Twitter to air his grievances against the bill by wishing that their family members would be tortured and die. (Yes, really.)
Leftist Seattle Mayor's Soda Tax Now Champions 'Social Justice'
The same Seattle mayor that is undergoing allegations of sexual abuse of male minors is now raising taxes, all in the name of "social justice." Seattle's Mayor is reworking a soda tax proposal to fight, get this, "white privilege".
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from EUobserver
Macron, a new Franco-European monarch
French presidents, with the Republic's pomp and the powers granted to them, are often called a "republican monarch". If a victory celebration is a presage of things to come, then France and Europe may have found in Emmanuel Macron a new kind of French monarch. One who is national as much as European, modern yet seeking tradition, but one who will have to start a revolution in order to stay in power.
'Le Pen could come back much stronger'
The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, must manage the country more effectively than his predecessor, socialist Francois Hollande. Otherwise, far-right leader Marine Le Pen could come back in a much stronger position.
Deadlock on organic farming rules 'breaking records'
A legislative file that aims to encourage farmers to switch to organic farming remains deadlocked, as “little progress” was made last week during trilogue talks between MEPs, national governments, and the European Commission.
EU relieved by Macron's win
EU leaders saw Macron's victory as a blow against nationalism and Russian meddling, but one in three French voters still picked the far right.
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Macron, a new Franco-European monarch
French presidents, with the Republic's pomp and the powers granted to them, are often called a "republican monarch". If a victory celebration is a presage of things to come, then France and Europe may have found in Emmanuel Macron a new kind of French monarch. One who is national as much as European, modern yet seeking tradition, but one who will have to start a revolution in order to stay in power.
'Le Pen could come back much stronger'
The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, must manage the country more effectively than his predecessor, socialist Francois Hollande. Otherwise, far-right leader Marine Le Pen could come back in a much stronger position.
Deadlock on organic farming rules 'breaking records'
A legislative file that aims to encourage farmers to switch to organic farming remains deadlocked, as “little progress” was made last week during trilogue talks between MEPs, national governments, and the European Commission.
EU relieved by Macron's win
EU leaders saw Macron's victory as a blow against nationalism and Russian meddling, but one in three French voters still picked the far right.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
There Is Nothing Wrong with Falling Prices
According to "TheUpshot" column in the New York Times, there's a problem with cheap goods that needs fixing. It's an odd lament that prices apparently aren't rising fast enough, but that's the story the Times' business journalists are telling. The declining prices that have the Times mildly hysterical are a sign of rising living standards for all.
How Capitalism is Setting Washerwomen Free
Has anything changed the world more than the internet? South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang thinks so. He would argue that one invention – an engine of liberation – has had a far more powerful effect on daily lives. He means the washing machine, of course, which the late Hans Rosling called the greatest invention of the industrial revolution. It freed women from the chore of laundry – or at least from spending one full day a week every week doing it. Today, washing machines are still doing the work they were doing 80 years ago – which isn’t just cleaning clothes. These juddering boxes are life-transforming technologies that allow women to put their time and labor to more constructive use.
Why Pre-Existing Conditions Should Be Left to the Market
Would you want to be a patron of a restaurant that didn't want you as a customer? This question gets at the fact that government healthcare sets up incentives for health insurers to avoid the sickest people because they would not be able to charge for pre-existing conditions. Obamacare looked good because insurers could no longer charge for pre-existing conditions. Now a coalition of 150 patient groups complains this creates a government-fostered race to the bottom that "completely undermines the goal of the ACA."
Libertarian Jesus Memes Lampoon Leftists
I hope we all can agree that it is admirable to help the less fortunate with our own time and money. But remember, Jesus never said he wanted the government to help people instead of us.
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from First Things
“The time has come,” writes Luigino Bruni (The Wound and the Blessing), “to rewrite the economic and civil history of societies, taking seriously the civil and economic role of charisms.” It's impossible “to understand either the past or the present situation in European economics deeply (or well beyond Europe) without taking charisms seriously” (99). Charisms are sources of social as well as spiritual renewal. No problem can be resolved without eros, because those who are helped must feel themselves attractive, beautiful, and lovable.
We see it in France, we see it in America: The metaphysical dream that has dominated the West for decades is being challenged. The driving political questions of our time turn on an increasingly stark contrast between nationalism and globalism. The French election made this clear.
The typical suicidal person is not a tragic figure fated for self-destruction, but a vulnerable individual suffering treatable mental health problems. "13 Reasons Why" portrays suicide inaccurately and irresponsibly. “13 Reasons Why” presents suicide as a therapeutic exercise. Suicide vents resentment, settles scores, and delivers payback. Given the way fictional depictions of suicide exert influence on troubled young people, that’s an irresponsible message to send.
When Joseph Ratzinger resigned as Pope Benedict XVI, some of his opponents predicted, unkindly, that his abdication would be the only thing remembered about his life and pontificate. It turns out that it is Benedict’s critics who are now being eclipsed, while Joseph Ratzinger’s reputation continues to rise. Ratzinger’s achievements are significant not just for the following they’ve produced, but for the keen insights and teachings they contain.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Eating cheese does not raise risk of heart attack or stroke, study finds
Consumption of even full-fat dairy products does not increase risk, international team of experts says
Eating cheese does not raise risk of heart attack or stroke, study finds
Consumption of even full-fat dairy products does not increase risk, international team of experts says
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Trump names 10 nominees to federal courts on heels of Gorsuch win
President Trump began his bid Monday to reshape the makeup of the lower federal courts, with the White House announcing 10 judicial nominees it described as Trump's "third wave of Federal judicial appointments."
‘Centrist’ Victory in France Calms Nerves, Yet Solutions to Core Problems Seem Distant
Clearly there was no passion for either Macron or Le Pen in Sunday’s runoff in the hyper-political nation. Macron took 66% of the vote, defeating Marine Le Pen, who took about 34%, according to final results.
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Trump names 10 nominees to federal courts on heels of Gorsuch win
President Trump began his bid Monday to reshape the makeup of the lower federal courts, with the White House announcing 10 judicial nominees it described as Trump's "third wave of Federal judicial appointments."
‘Centrist’ Victory in France Calms Nerves, Yet Solutions to Core Problems Seem Distant
Clearly there was no passion for either Macron or Le Pen in Sunday’s runoff in the hyper-political nation. Macron took 66% of the vote, defeating Marine Le Pen, who took about 34%, according to final results.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Andrew Jackson: the Father of Genocide of the South and Eastern Tribes
The Indian Removal Act displaced thousands of Native people from their homelands and thousands died on that journey. Andrew Jackson is the father of Native American genocide in the Southeast. We should not forget that the United States Congress passed that Act by one single vote, either. Although the concept was Jackson’s, Congress was an accomplice. Greed was behind the creation of the Removal Act. Fifteen years after his death and after this horrendous act of genocide, the Civil War broke out. One Georgia soldier who participated in the removal said “I fought through the War Between the States and seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.”
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Andrew Jackson: the Father of Genocide of the South and Eastern Tribes
The Indian Removal Act displaced thousands of Native people from their homelands and thousands died on that journey. Andrew Jackson is the father of Native American genocide in the Southeast. We should not forget that the United States Congress passed that Act by one single vote, either. Although the concept was Jackson’s, Congress was an accomplice. Greed was behind the creation of the Removal Act. Fifteen years after his death and after this horrendous act of genocide, the Civil War broke out. One Georgia soldier who participated in the removal said “I fought through the War Between the States and seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.”
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Ron Paul: President Trump is about to embark on his first foreign trip, where he will stop in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, before attending a NATO meeting in Brussels and the G-7 summit in Sicily. The media and pundits have loudly wondered why hasn’t he gone on a foreign trip sooner. I wonder why go at all?
As Ludwig von Mises noted, unrestrained immigration is not without its downside. By the standards of the protectionists' economic arguments against immigration, state-to-state migrants in the US are a very big problem.
What individualism teaches us is that society is greater than the individual only in so far as it is free. To advocate any clear-cut principles of social order is today an almost certain way to incur the stigma of being an unpractical doctrinaire.
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from National Review
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Progressives Eat One of Their Own in the Latest Campus Controversy
The logical endpoint of anti-speech academic radicalism seems clearer than ever. There is no argument that is too stupid for academic radicals. There is no lie that these “scholars” aren’t willing to tell to advance their agenda. Just ask liberal-feminist philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel, the latest victim of the ritual “two minutes hate.” Her crime was serious: She had the audacity to write a paper exploring the arguments “for and against transracialism” and argued that “considerations that support transgenderism extend to transracialism.” In other words, she took the question that millions of Americans asked when Rachel Dolezal was exposed — if a man can “really” be a woman, why can’t a white person “really” be black? — and explored it through a liberal, feminist lens.
Progressives Eat One of Their Own in the Latest Campus Controversy
The logical endpoint of anti-speech academic radicalism seems clearer than ever. There is no argument that is too stupid for academic radicals. There is no lie that these “scholars” aren’t willing to tell to advance their agenda. Just ask liberal-feminist philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel, the latest victim of the ritual “two minutes hate.” Her crime was serious: She had the audacity to write a paper exploring the arguments “for and against transracialism” and argued that “considerations that support transgenderism extend to transracialism.” In other words, she took the question that millions of Americans asked when Rachel Dolezal was exposed — if a man can “really” be a woman, why can’t a white person “really” be black? — and explored it through a liberal, feminist lens.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
The centrist President's next challenger could come from the populist far left instead.
The Canadian golden boy has a seriously dirty track record on tar sands.
The only good thing about the pledge is that it can't be kept.
Western apologists for the Soviet Union believed they were in the vanguard of history.
The average global sea level has risen by more than 20cm since 1980 – that’s a rate of 0.5mm per month – according to new research from the Basque Centre for Climate Change. These are frightening statistics for Europe’s vulnerable coastal cities including Barcelona, Istanbul, Dublin and others. With homes, infrastructure and indeed entire economies at stake, it’s crucial for authorities to understand the extent of the risk these cities are facing – and take steps to manage it.
from The Spokesman-Review
Gonzaga students call on university to divest from fossil fuels
Joining a growing campaign on colleges campuses across the U.S., Gonzaga University student leaders are calling on the Spokane school to divest its $200 million-plus endowment from fossil fuels.
Comcast, Charter to cooperate as threats from wireless grow
Cable operators Comcast and Charter Communications said Monday that they will work together as they prepare to offer cellphone plans to customers. As part of the deal, Comcast and Charter agreed that they wouldn’t buy other wireless companies for one year, or make related deals without consulting each other first.
Itron acquires Georgia-based energy services company in $100 million cash deal
Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. has acquired Comverge, a privately held company that provides software, hardware and services to electric utilities implementing demand response and energy efficiency programs. The cash transaction is valued at about $100 million, Itron said Monday.
‘Get out’ spray-painted on home of refugee family in Spokane
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from The Telegraph (UK)
Another Arctic ice panic over as world temperatures plummet
In recent months, global temperatures have plummeted by more that 0.6 degrees.
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from UPI News Agency - United Press International
The EPA dismissed at least five of its scientific advisers, opening seats the head of the agency may give to representatives of agencies regulated by the board. "This is completely part of a multifaceted effort to get science out of the way of a deregulation agenda," commented Ken Kimmell of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "What seems to be premature removals of members of this Board of Science Counselors when the board has come out in favor of the EPA strengthening its climate science, plus the severe cuts to research and development -- you have to see all these things as interconnected."
President Trump's government went to federal court again Monday to appeal a national injunction that's keeping his so-called "travel ban" from taking effect. For Trump's order to take effect, his administration needs to win two appeals, in Virginia and Seattle, or hope the Supreme Court steps in.
President Donald Trump is expected to nominate 10 judges to federal court positions on Monday, a senior White House official said. With Neil Gorsuch successfully confirmed to the Supreme Court, Trump must fill 129 openings on lower federal courts. The unusually high number of vacancies will allow him to remake the federal judiciary. The 10 names to be announced Monday are likely the first in a wave of regular nominations, The New York Times reported.
Officials working in President Barack Obama's administration said the former president warned President Donald Trump against hiring Michael Flynn.
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Emmanuel Macron for winning the French presidential election, urging him to end "mutual distrust."
French voters elected centrist Emmanuel Macron president on Sunday in a decisive rebuke of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
Former President Barack Obama challenged lawmakers to show "political courage" on healthcare in his acceptance speech for the Profile in Courage Award. "I hope that current members of Congress recall that it actually doesn't take a lot of courage to aid those who are already powerful, already comfortable, already influential," Obama said Sunday after receiving the award on the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's birth.
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from The Washington Examiner
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized efforts to tear down southern monuments to Confederate leaders because she doesn't believe in sanitizing history. "I am a firm believer in 'keep your history before you' and so I don't actually want to rename things that were named for slave owners," she said Monday on Fox News. "I want us to have to look at those names and recognize what they did and to be able to tell our kids what they did and for them to have a sense of their own history. When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better it's a bad thing," she said.
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