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In the news, Friday, June 23, 2017


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from Allen West
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Escaped ISIS sex slave makes House Democrats look like IDIOTS
As reported by CNN, A former ISIS sex slave urged Congress Tuesday to more aggressively fight the terror group and offered her condolences for the massacre in Orlando, saying she’s not surprised by it. Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped captivity in 2014, told the Senate Homeland Security committee that “the USA must act. We must terminate Daesh (ISIS) and all such terror.” “Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons,” she testified, with the assistance of a translator. “The Yazidi people cannot wait.”

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from Christian Today

'Trump wants you to be in his reality show': US theologian Stanley Hauerwas challenges the Church
American theologian and ethicist Professor Stanley Hauerwas has hit out at Donald Trump and offered a stark challenge to the contemporary Church. 'Donald Trump is an idiot who wants you to be in his reality show', Hauerwas said. 'The challenge is not to let him dominate your life.'

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from The Daily Caller
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Is America Really Coming Apart, As Charles Murray Suggests?
A government big and powerful enough to cause widespread psychosis after presidential elections is a government without much legitimacy. People become irrational about politics precisely because government depressingly controls so much of our lives. It chooses winners and losers. It is the superstar player in American society, rather than the referee.

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from First Things

How do the Beatitudes help us understand human flourishing? Must we hunger, thirst, and mourn?

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH TRANSHUMANISM?
Transhumanism operates under the mistaken belief that intelligence is “the most precious and powerful resource in existence.” Sorry, Elon Musk. Intelligence isn’t our most powerful resource, love is.

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from The Heritage Foundation
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Coal in America Is Already Clean. Why ‘Clean Coal’ Is a Boondoggle That Needs to End.
The Obama administration played an unhelpful game of words when it came coal and clean energy. Washington should pull the plug on clean coal.

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from Indian Country Today Media Network
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Native History: Pres. Calvin Coolidge Summers In Black Hills, Adopted By Sioux
Calvin Coolidge's adoption as Leading Eagle overshadowed by his decision not to run for re-election
On June 23, 1927, the Sioux County Pioneer, a newspaper in south central North Dakota, reported that U.S. President Calvin Coolidge would be adopted into the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

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from NPR (& affiliates)

Could The Best Memory System Be One That Forgets?
Intuitively, we tend to think of forgetting as failure, as something gone wrong in our ability to remember. Now, Canadian neuroscientists with the University of Toronto are challenging that notion. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Neuron, they review the current research into the neurobiology of forgetting and hypothesize that our brains purposefully work to forget information in order to help us live our lives.

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from Patheos
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10 Signs You’re A Liturgical Snob
Snobbery can affect any category of people: food snobs, wine snobs, sports snobs, shoe snobs, book snobs, etc. etc. ad infinitum. One group of people not often mentioned but highly afflicted is that of the Liturgical Snob. Liturgical snobbery is not necessarily a bad thing.

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from Reason Magazine
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Police Roadblocks Are Rights-Free Zones In Madison County, Mississippi
For generations, poor, black residents of Canton, Mississippi have lived under siege from a heavy-handed sheriff's department.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from UPI News Agency - United Press International

Trump signs law to fire bad workers, guard whistleblowers at VA
"What happened was a national disgrace," Trump said of the 2014 VA scandal involving long wait times at some clinics.

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from The Washington Post

Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault
Early last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried “eyes only” instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President Barack Obama and three senior aides.

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