Monday, July 31, 2017

In the news, Tuesday, July 18, 2017


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JUL 17      INDEX      JUL 19
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from AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray after newly surfaced sex abuse documents: I'm not going to resign
A city councilwoman is asking the Seattle mayor to consider stepping down after a newly surfaced investigation believed Ed Murray abused a foster son in 1984. Murray's former foster son, Jeff Simpson, is one of four men who publicly accused him this spring of sexually abusing them long ago. Murray adamantly denies the allegations, but he declined to seek re-election in the upcoming race. Councilwoman Lorena González released a statement on Monday that said she is “deeply concerned” about the mayor’s ability to lead, and she asked him to consider stepping down as mayor. A couple of mayoral candidates are sharing that sentiment, calling on the mayor to resign.

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from Asia Times Online

US healthcare bill dead, dollar hits 10-month low
Legislative failure adds to doubt surrounding Trump economic stimulus. The US currency’s drop came after two more Republican Senators expressed their opposition.

Asian Development Bank wary of Russia’s AIIB membership
Russia isn’t an ADB member, but is a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, complicating relations between the two development banks

ADB ready to cooperate with AIIB in Asia, insider says
But the former Asian Development Bank official and regional expert warns that the two development banks may butt heads in the future. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is now open to cooperating with China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), though the potential for more competitive relations lurks in the wings.

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from Breitbart

Trump Warns of Further Venezuela Sanctions: ‘We Will Not Stand By as Country Crumbles’
President Donald Trump has sent out another clear message on the worsening political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, promising “strong and swift economic actions” should socialist leader Nicolás Maduro push ahead with plans to create a non-elected “constituent assembly.”

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

Gingrich: Harvard Says CNN is 93% Negative -- That's an 'Attack Network,' 'Propaganda Network'
Commenting on how the White House is taking new approaches with its daily press briefings, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he would exclude CNN from the briefings because a study by Harvard determined that CNN's coverage of President Trump was 93% negative, which makes them an "attack network," a "propaganda network."

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from Competitive Enterprise Institute

CEI's John Berlau Testimony Before House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment
Today, CEI's John Berlau testified before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

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from Daily Wire
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After Alleged Sexual Abuse Victim Goes Public, Seattle Mayor Urged To Resign
On Monday, a Seattle city councilwoman asked Seattle mayor Ed Murray to resign after an alleged victim of Murray’s sexual abuse went public for the first time.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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There Really Were Health Nazis
There really were Health Nazis. They were ahead of their time when it came to regulations regarding tobacco use. Hitler despised smoking, and he used the power of the state to stop it.

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

The Power of Haudenosaunee Women
‘The strength of the Haudenosaunee women is legendary’ and can be seen from the women’s rights movement to Standing Rock

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from Intellectual Takeout

How Classic Cartoons Created a Culturally Literate Generation
The cartoons from our parents' and grandparents' generations weren't mind-numbing - they were an important pathway to knowledge.

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from Mises Institute
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To Fix Healthcare, We Need to Repeal a Lot More than Obamacare
The focus on Obamacare as the source of all our health-care woes has distracted us from the real foundations of the healthcare mess. If actually improving the lives of taxpayers and constituents were the goal, the GOP could have focused less on specifically repudiating the Obama agenda, and instead looking for ways to undo decades of government meddling in healthcare — which has produced the expensive, inflexible, and monopolistic healthcare system we have today. 

Don't MacLean on Me
As I mentioned in an earlier article, Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains has aroused controversy, in large part owing to her many inaccuracies and misleading remarks.  I’d like in this note to call attention to a few more of these.

Immunity for Prosecutors Encourages Fraud
Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors Creates the Classic “Lemons Problem.” Public officials argue that to be able to carry out their duties, laws must protect them from lawsuits by disgruntled individuals or those harmed by wrongful actions of government agents. The U.S. Supreme Court especially has protected prosecutors, granting them absolute immunity as long as they committed wrongful acts within the scope of their legal duties. Prosecutorial immunity provides an incentive to government prosecutors to engage in fraud if it's good for their careers.

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from Orthodox Christianity

ARE WE WAX OR FIRE?
Fr. James Guirguis: Nothing attracts others to God like people who are genuinely faithful to God and to His commandments. In fact, it is sometimes said that people have no problem with Jesus but that they have a problem with the followers of Jesus whom they’ve encountered.

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from The Spokesman-Review

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from Washington Examiner

Alan Dershowitz: New York Times ignoring me because 'I don't have the right point of view'
Alan Dershowitz recently tried to publish an opinion piece in The New York Times that President Trump likely did not attempt to obstruct justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey. But Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner over the phone on Monday that the Times had "no response" to his submission. The widely known legal commentator and cable news fixture said he remains a "liberal Hillary Clinton supporter," but said after reading an op-ed in the Times that argued Trump could be charged for criminal conduct in Comey's firing, he reached out in June to the paper to present an opposing view.

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from The Washington Times

Alan Dershowitz: New York Times won’t publish me because I offer ‘alternative point of view’
Harvard law professor emeritus and prominent liberal author Alan Dershowitz said The New York Times won’t publish him because he’s offering an “alternative point of view” on the Trump-Russia collusion allegations.

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from The Week

The party of failure
The GOP controls both houses of Congress. It holds the White House. For seven years its leadership railed against ObamaCare, and its rank-and-file members voted to repeal it, over and over again. Yet here we are, six months into the Trump administration, and what has the party managed to deliver?

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