Monday, July 31, 2017

In the news, Thursday, July 13, 2017


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JUL 12      INDEX      JUL 14
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Pelosi Calls for Release of 'All Communications' Within Trump's Family
"This week we saw cold, hard evidence of the Trump campaign, indeed the Trump family, eagerly intending to collude, possibly, with Russia--a hostile foreign power--to influence American elections,” House  Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told  news conference on Thursday. She called for the release of all communications with Trump campaign and Trump family.

Maine State Rep. Makes Veiled Death Threat Towards Trump
Maine State Rep. Scott Hamann called out President Trump in a now-deleted Facebook post filled with expletives and even a veiled death threat against Trump. Hamann also voiced his disgust for Trump supporters, and said former president Barack Obama “ran quite possibly the classiest 2 term presidency in US history.”

Trump Has Putin Over a Barrel
A few years back, in one of his finest moments, Sen. John McCain said on a Sunday talk show, "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country." It was right when he said it, and it's even more right today.

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from Daily Wire
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Trump's Border Wall Gets Full $1.6B Funding In 'Big Win'
A House spending bill that quietly moved forward on Tuesday funds all of Trump's initial $1.6 billion wall plan for the U.S.-Mexican border. The funding comes as part of the fiscal 2018 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.

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

Are Seat Belts Making You Less Safe?
Although the laws were well-intended, auto accidents actually increased after the seat belt requirements were passed and enforced. Why? As economist Steven Lansburg explains, “the threat of being killed in an accident is a powerful incentive to drive carefully.”

10 Things You Never Knew About Orwell's 1984
When Orwell worked as a propagandist for the BBC, there was a conference room there numbered 101. This room was the room of which he based the location for some of his more horrifying scenes, making the scenes themselves all the more horrifying.

The Real Reason Government Wastes So Much Money
Why does government waste so much money? With such reckless abandon? Simply put, government programs are a magnet for scammers. Worse, penalties for fraud are trivial or nonexistent.

Labor Unions Are Now Filing Grievances Against Goats
A major union is rallying its supporters to battle the latest job-stealing enemy: goats.

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from National Review
RIGHT BIAS

Media Beware: The Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Dangerous Joke
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the “civil rights watchdog group” that ABC and NBC so prominently cite, has become a dangerous joke. It’s a joke because the very idea that Christians are members of a “hate group” merely because they advocate for orthodox Christian principles and the liberty to live those principles is so intellectually and ideologically bankrupt that it’s barely worth addressing. But the joke’s not funny anymore. In our polarized times, radicals use the SPLC’s hate-group designations to justify violence. Politicians and corporations use the designation to marginalize and punish good men and women.

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from The New Republic
LEFT BIAS

Trump’s Russian Laundromat
How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.

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from Observer (New York)

Images Are Coming in From Humanity’s First Flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Raw images of the Great Red Spot are coming in from the Juno spacecraft.

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from Orthodox Christianity

“EVERY HUMAN LIFE IS A GIFT FROM GOD”. THE LONG JOURNEY OF A SWISS CATHOLIC TO ORTHODOXY
Pierre Haab, a Swiss ex-Catholic who was disappointed with his religion and was carried away by Buddhism, Hinduism and other screamingly “fashionable” Eastern teachings and who is now a subdeacon of the Orthodox Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross in Geneva, speaks about his conversion to Orthodoxy.

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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

DHS to American Citizens: Let Us Scan Your Faces, or No International Travel
Another nugget of privacy threatened in the name of national security.

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from The Seattle Times

Fox Business show slams Seattle as ‘socialist hellhole’
In the opening of her Fox Business show “Kennedy,” "Lisa Kennedy Montgomery called the Seattle City Council “commies” and “do-gooder authoritarians,” and called Seattle a city “where freedom died along with every good singer from the ’90s.” Seattle used to be one of the most beautiful and livable cities in the world, but it has devolved into a socialist hellhole," according to Fox Business.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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