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from Asia Times Online
Relations between the two countries are at an all time low as they have been on opposite sides of the conflict in Syria.
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from Conservative Tribune
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Trump Broke 20-Year Tradition by Not Celebrating Ramadan at White House
President Donald Trump sent countless liberals into yet another unhinged tizzy Saturday by breaking with a 20-year tradition and not hosting an Eid al-Fitr (or Iftar) dinner in celebration of the end of Ramadan.
Trump Broke 20-Year Tradition by Not Celebrating Ramadan at White House
President Donald Trump sent countless liberals into yet another unhinged tizzy Saturday by breaking with a 20-year tradition and not hosting an Eid al-Fitr (or Iftar) dinner in celebration of the end of Ramadan.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Seattle's Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City's Own Study Confirms
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study, a study supported and funded in part by the Seattle city government, is out with a new NBER paper evaluating Seattle’s minimum wage increase to $13 an hour and it finds significant disemployment effects that on net reduce the incomes of minimum wage workers. The losses were so dramatic that this increase “reduced income paid to low-wage employees of single-location Seattle businesses by roughly $120 million on an annual basis.” On average, low-wage workers *lost* $125 per month.
You Can't End Poverty without Cutting Taxes
Bigger government means less individual generosity. The more of our money government consumes, the less we give to private charities and local community members in need. There is no compassion in keeping the downtrodden impoverished, nor is it good for the economy. These realizations led Milton Friedman to proudly proclaim: “I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.” Reasons abound and the possibility exists. We simply need to make the case.
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from Gizmodo
Another major cyberattack is quickly spreading across Europe and has now infected systems in the US as well. Researchers at Symantec and other leading security firms are confirming that ransomware is being spread via EternalBlue, an exploit leaked in April by the ShadowBrokers hacking group, which is said to have been stolen from the US National Security Agency.
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from The Living Church
Toward Greater Unity
Like Episcopalians in the United States, Anglicans in Britain are considering full communion with Methodists. The Church of England and the Methodist Church in Britain are to consider proposals that would bring them into a new relationship of full communion, after 200 years of formal separation.
ANGLICANS AND THE ECHO OF HISTORY
There are impulses at work in the Church, on both the right and the left, a desire to sweep away the tired old past and to start over again. This desire is founded on an illusory hope. The demands of “justice,” “love,” or “truth” will not sustain the weight pressed upon them as the single interpretive tool to order the Church’s life. These demands cannot trump orthodoxy, or the rich experience of the Church in the past, which is the context of orthodoxy. History is where God works and reveals his will. Those who want to sweep away the mistakes of the past by escape from it are more likely to perpetuate those same mistakes, in the very process of wielding their own theological and pastoral “broom.”
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from Orthodox Christianity
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear the latest religious freedom case, involving another incident of a Christian baker refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding, Fox News reports. Jake Phillips, owner of Lakewood, CO’s Masterpiece Cakeshop, declined on the basis of his Christian faith to bake a customized cake for the gay union of David Mullins and Charlie Craig in July 2012. The custom cake designer of 22 years informed the couple that to create a cake honoring a gay marriage would conflict with his religious beliefs, but that he would be happy to create other types of cakes for them. Rather than find another bakery, the couple decided to punish Phillips for holding to traditional Christian principles and filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which found that Phillips had violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, reports CNN.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a pro-abortion Democrat, has unilaterally prohibited all state-sanctioned trips to Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Texas because those states have passed legislation allowing those who uphold natural marriage and biological gender to live by their sincerely-held beliefs.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Wenatchee World
UPDATE: Firefighters hope to stop Spartan Fire’s momentum
Thirty mph winds could delay fire crews’ plans to burn-out an area near Kingsbury Road and Jumpoff Ridge and stop the momentum of the Spartan Fire in Malaga.
Spartan and Sutherland Canyon fires 10 percent contained
Fire officials are reporting some progress Tuesday morning in fighting two fires burning on opposite sides of the Columbia River. The Spartan Fire burning near the Malaga-Aloca Highway in Chelan County is estimated at 4,500 acres and 10 percent containment. The Sutherland Canyon Fire in Douglas County is estimated at 3,000 acres and 10 percent containment.
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