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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 Anglican Journal
A new Anglican-run community shelter to provide a home for trafficked children is on course to open next year in Accra, Ghana. The bishop of Accra, Daniel Mensah Torto, told journalists this week that Hope Community would resettle and educate trafficked children who had been rescued. The refuge, funded by the diocese of Accra in partnership with the U.S. embassy in Ghana, is part of a five-year anti-trafficking program.
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
W.V. Governor's Switch To the GOP Lands Democrats At a New Low
At a GOP rally in Huntington, West Virginia on Thursday, Democratic Governor Jim Justice announced that he will be changing his party affiliation to Republican. Justice appeared at a rally with President Donald Trump at his side, where he publicly declared his registration change to a crowd of around 9,900 people.
W.V. Governor's Switch To the GOP Lands Democrats At a New Low
At a GOP rally in Huntington, West Virginia on Thursday, Democratic Governor Jim Justice announced that he will be changing his party affiliation to Republican. Justice appeared at a rally with President Donald Trump at his side, where he publicly declared his registration change to a crowd of around 9,900 people.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The current model for delivering healthcare is unsustainable and rapidly headed for the dreaded “death spiral." Out-of-pocket payment (OPP) by consumers for routine medical care would transform the system from one dominated by third party payers toward a model that would put consumers in charge of their healthcare dollars, and for the first time unleash market disciplines into the equation.
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from First Things
Doctors are prescribing opioids for patients' use in committing suicide—federal law should put an end to it. If we want people to stop abusing opioids, we cannot continue allowing doctors to prescribe overdoses intentionally.
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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
It was our agonising job as Charlie Gard's care team to say: enough
My Great Ormond Street colleagues and I did what we believed to be in Charlie’s best interests. We do not deserve abuse.
It was our agonising job as Charlie Gard's care team to say: enough
My Great Ormond Street colleagues and I did what we believed to be in Charlie’s best interests. We do not deserve abuse.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
Why the Justice Department’s Affirmative Action Fight Is What America’s Colleges Need
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to investigate and potentially sue universities that intentionally discriminate against certain applicants based on race. This is welcome news. For too long, the federal government has allowed schools to put a thumb on the scales and admit certain races over others. It's high time that the Justice Department joined this effort. Colleges shouldn’t let race color their decisions as to whom they will let inside their ivied walls.
At Last, U.S. Tackling Russian Belligerence Head On
In the last week or two, we’ve seen some significant steps in which the Congress and the White House are putting the Kremlin on notice about its bad behavior. Washington, D.C., is pushing back on Moscow’s attempts to muscle us around. For starters, President Trump signed a punitive economic sanctions bill yesterday. If there’s one thing Moscow has always — and will always — understand and respect, it’s strength. Let's make sure we continue to show it.
Strong Jobs Report for July Gives Trump Momentum for Tax Reform
The U.S. economy created 209,000 jobs last month, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, exceeding expert predictions by nearly 30,000 jobs. This gives the Trump administration momentum to continue pushing for meaningful reforms that help grow the economy and increase prosperity. These numbers signal that Americans are seeing reasons and motivation to jump back into the labor force to seek employment, and are actually finding jobs. There is no question that if significant tax reform is passed, other jobs reports in the near future will make this one look insignificant.
Why America Must Capitalize On Its Alliances in the Asia-Pacific Region
North Korea is the single largest threat emanating from the Asia-Pacific region today. This aggressive behavior makes our Asia-Pacific alliances critically important. President Trump seems to recognize this. Going forward, the United States should take heed of its past “powerplays” and use them to capitalize on the strength of its alliances in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Continuing Threat to Religious Liberty
Colorado baker Jack Phillips declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex-wedding reception because with every cake he designs, he believes he's serving Christ. The progressive movement gave us the administrative state and government began to regulate more areas of life, and the infringement on religious liberty increased. Religious-liberty protections help preserve the conditions that make peaceful coexistence possible. They acknowledge man's dignity and the reality of pluralism. All of America is better off when these freedoms are protected, as they allow room for all of us to live according to our consciences — and to appeal to other people’s consciences in seeking to persuade them of what we regard as the truth in matters of faith.
Yes: Trump Policy Would Mitigate Real Risks
All who desire to serve their country in uniform are to be commended. That includes transgender individuals. Too few Americans wish to serve. But every soldier must be ready at a moment's notice to deploy to a distant hostile battlefield, with no guarantee of a continued supply of medical treatment. Such caution and prudence exercised by Trump seems to be the best policy option until the complete impact on readiness can be determined.
Conservatives Must Demand Spending Controls in Exchange for Raising Debt Ceiling
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has indicated that the federal borrowing limit must be raised by Sept. 29, or the U.S. could run out of money to pay its bills. Congress should not abdicate that authority by writing Mnuchin a blank check and getting nothing in return for American taxpayers. Congress should insist on substantial spending controls in exchange for more deficit spending.
Recommendations for the Next Ballistic Missile Defense-and-Defeat Review
The Trump Administration must advance U.S. missile defense capabilities, including ballistic missile defense interceptors located in space. It should also acknowledge the unique contributions of missile defense to U.S. and allied security in the face of threats like those posed by the large and growing North Korean and Iranian ballistic missile arsenals. By emphasizing steps ranging from ensuring that our current interceptors are optimized, to positioning the United States to address future threats by funding defense technologies and interceptors in space, the ballistic missile defense-and-defeat review provides a unique opportunity to put the U.S. missile defense policy on a sounder footing than its predecessors have done.
The EU Must Not Threaten the Sovereignty of Poland
The European Union, which has long interfered in the affairs of sovereign European nations, looks to be meddling in the political affairs of Poland. The European Union came close to stripping Poland of its voting rights in the Council over an internal debate about judicial reform.
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Why the Justice Department’s Affirmative Action Fight Is What America’s Colleges Need
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to investigate and potentially sue universities that intentionally discriminate against certain applicants based on race. This is welcome news. For too long, the federal government has allowed schools to put a thumb on the scales and admit certain races over others. It's high time that the Justice Department joined this effort. Colleges shouldn’t let race color their decisions as to whom they will let inside their ivied walls.
At Last, U.S. Tackling Russian Belligerence Head On
In the last week or two, we’ve seen some significant steps in which the Congress and the White House are putting the Kremlin on notice about its bad behavior. Washington, D.C., is pushing back on Moscow’s attempts to muscle us around. For starters, President Trump signed a punitive economic sanctions bill yesterday. If there’s one thing Moscow has always — and will always — understand and respect, it’s strength. Let's make sure we continue to show it.
Strong Jobs Report for July Gives Trump Momentum for Tax Reform
The U.S. economy created 209,000 jobs last month, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, exceeding expert predictions by nearly 30,000 jobs. This gives the Trump administration momentum to continue pushing for meaningful reforms that help grow the economy and increase prosperity. These numbers signal that Americans are seeing reasons and motivation to jump back into the labor force to seek employment, and are actually finding jobs. There is no question that if significant tax reform is passed, other jobs reports in the near future will make this one look insignificant.
Why America Must Capitalize On Its Alliances in the Asia-Pacific Region
North Korea is the single largest threat emanating from the Asia-Pacific region today. This aggressive behavior makes our Asia-Pacific alliances critically important. President Trump seems to recognize this. Going forward, the United States should take heed of its past “powerplays” and use them to capitalize on the strength of its alliances in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Continuing Threat to Religious Liberty
Colorado baker Jack Phillips declined to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex-wedding reception because with every cake he designs, he believes he's serving Christ. The progressive movement gave us the administrative state and government began to regulate more areas of life, and the infringement on religious liberty increased. Religious-liberty protections help preserve the conditions that make peaceful coexistence possible. They acknowledge man's dignity and the reality of pluralism. All of America is better off when these freedoms are protected, as they allow room for all of us to live according to our consciences — and to appeal to other people’s consciences in seeking to persuade them of what we regard as the truth in matters of faith.
Yes: Trump Policy Would Mitigate Real Risks
All who desire to serve their country in uniform are to be commended. That includes transgender individuals. Too few Americans wish to serve. But every soldier must be ready at a moment's notice to deploy to a distant hostile battlefield, with no guarantee of a continued supply of medical treatment. Such caution and prudence exercised by Trump seems to be the best policy option until the complete impact on readiness can be determined.
Conservatives Must Demand Spending Controls in Exchange for Raising Debt Ceiling
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has indicated that the federal borrowing limit must be raised by Sept. 29, or the U.S. could run out of money to pay its bills. Congress should not abdicate that authority by writing Mnuchin a blank check and getting nothing in return for American taxpayers. Congress should insist on substantial spending controls in exchange for more deficit spending.
Recommendations for the Next Ballistic Missile Defense-and-Defeat Review
The Trump Administration must advance U.S. missile defense capabilities, including ballistic missile defense interceptors located in space. It should also acknowledge the unique contributions of missile defense to U.S. and allied security in the face of threats like those posed by the large and growing North Korean and Iranian ballistic missile arsenals. By emphasizing steps ranging from ensuring that our current interceptors are optimized, to positioning the United States to address future threats by funding defense technologies and interceptors in space, the ballistic missile defense-and-defeat review provides a unique opportunity to put the U.S. missile defense policy on a sounder footing than its predecessors have done.
The EU Must Not Threaten the Sovereignty of Poland
The European Union, which has long interfered in the affairs of sovereign European nations, looks to be meddling in the political affairs of Poland. The European Union came close to stripping Poland of its voting rights in the Council over an internal debate about judicial reform.
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from The Living Church
UNPLANNED PARENTHOOD
Whatever you think about Planned Parenthood, I suspect that most of even the most vociferously pro-life conservatives agree with this basic principle, tantamount to one of the core assumptions of modern democratic life, that pregnancies should be, for the most part, with rare and rarely charming exceptions, planned. There are two categories of pregnancy: wanted and unwanted; planned and unplanned. We seem to have forgotten about the existence of a complicated middle ground that probably includes most babies born in history, i.e., pregnancy that is wanted but not precisely planned, expected but still unexpected, welcomed but not precisely wanted, wanted but wanted with fear, trepidation, and a great deal of uncertainty. There’s a lot that we can and should work on. But no policy change — even a dramatic reversal of Roe v. Wade — is going to make us into a culture of life. Neither will having lots of babies. It has to start with us refusing to put babies next to video games and fur coats on the list of things that we want or don’t want.
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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
5 Cities That Got F**ked By the Olympics
The Olympics are an awful deal for the cities that host them. Take it from the organizers in these five cities. You might be certifiably insane to want to host an Olympics.
Harvesting Roadkill Now Legal in at Least Half of U.S. States
Oregon is the latest. Let's welcome this tasty trend.
Do Too Many Libertarians Celebrate a False 'Perfection of the Market'?
[Podcast] Michael Munger on the radicalism of public-choice economics, the failure of Democracy in Chains, and how the libertarian movement needs to evolve.
America's Cities Double Down on Trolley Follies
Streetcars continue to see cost overruns while failing to produce promised economic development. A rash of recent streetcar developments have run into cost overruns and delays, thanks to faulty economic reasoning and an open faucet of federal dollars.
The Justice Department Is Asking Legal Marijuana States to Do the Impossible
Sessions wants Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to do something that can't be done. Laws themselves will not eradicate forbidden behaviors. Laws discourage those behaviors and punish people who engage in them.
Individualism Increasing Across the World
The richer people become, the more eagerly they throw off the shackles of collectivism.
Donald Trump Should End the Afghanistan War
Donald J. Trump has an opportunity to fulfill his predecessor's promise and to secure a real legacy builder—he should take it. He should resist efforts within his administration to escalate it instead.
Researchers Highlight the Government's Complicity in Heroin Deaths
The more drug warriors crack down on opioids, the more dangerous they become.
From Bork to Willett: Is the Conservative Legal Movement Going Libertarian?
Libertarian legal ideas are gaining ground.
Crazy Pet Anti-Vaxxers Provoke My Canine Lyme Disease Vaccine Envy
Lyme disease vaccine has been available for dogs since the 1990s; humans may get it next year. Anti-vax madness has taken hold among Brooklynite hipsters who are refusing to get their dogs and cats inoculated.
Will All Seriously Ill Americans Be Granted the ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Meds?
Senate approves bill giving some earlier access to treatment. A state-level movement to allow Americans who are seriously and potentially terminally ill to access medication earlier in the approval process may successfully be going national.
Jeff Sessions Is Taking Law Enforcement Back to the 1980s
On asset forfeiture, prison sentences, and police oversight, Trump’s beleaguered attorney general is rolling back decades of progress. Jeff Sessions' view of criminal justice policy is out of line with the moves of his own party in states and localities around the country, and it really revives policies that run counter to evidence that exists now.
The Democrats' 'Better Deal' Means More Government Control Over American Businesses
Dems are pushing economic protectionism, giving more power to unelected officials, and public shaming of American businesses.
Police, Teachers Unions Protect Workers at Expense of Public
It's how their rules were made to work. Legislators have put union protections above public protections.
5 Cities That Got F**ked By the Olympics
The Olympics are an awful deal for the cities that host them. Take it from the organizers in these five cities. You might be certifiably insane to want to host an Olympics.
Harvesting Roadkill Now Legal in at Least Half of U.S. States
Oregon is the latest. Let's welcome this tasty trend.
Do Too Many Libertarians Celebrate a False 'Perfection of the Market'?
[Podcast] Michael Munger on the radicalism of public-choice economics, the failure of Democracy in Chains, and how the libertarian movement needs to evolve.
America's Cities Double Down on Trolley Follies
Streetcars continue to see cost overruns while failing to produce promised economic development. A rash of recent streetcar developments have run into cost overruns and delays, thanks to faulty economic reasoning and an open faucet of federal dollars.
The Justice Department Is Asking Legal Marijuana States to Do the Impossible
Sessions wants Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to do something that can't be done. Laws themselves will not eradicate forbidden behaviors. Laws discourage those behaviors and punish people who engage in them.
Individualism Increasing Across the World
The richer people become, the more eagerly they throw off the shackles of collectivism.
Donald Trump Should End the Afghanistan War
Donald J. Trump has an opportunity to fulfill his predecessor's promise and to secure a real legacy builder—he should take it. He should resist efforts within his administration to escalate it instead.
Researchers Highlight the Government's Complicity in Heroin Deaths
The more drug warriors crack down on opioids, the more dangerous they become.
From Bork to Willett: Is the Conservative Legal Movement Going Libertarian?
Libertarian legal ideas are gaining ground.
Crazy Pet Anti-Vaxxers Provoke My Canine Lyme Disease Vaccine Envy
Lyme disease vaccine has been available for dogs since the 1990s; humans may get it next year. Anti-vax madness has taken hold among Brooklynite hipsters who are refusing to get their dogs and cats inoculated.
Will All Seriously Ill Americans Be Granted the ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Meds?
Senate approves bill giving some earlier access to treatment. A state-level movement to allow Americans who are seriously and potentially terminally ill to access medication earlier in the approval process may successfully be going national.
Jeff Sessions Is Taking Law Enforcement Back to the 1980s
On asset forfeiture, prison sentences, and police oversight, Trump’s beleaguered attorney general is rolling back decades of progress. Jeff Sessions' view of criminal justice policy is out of line with the moves of his own party in states and localities around the country, and it really revives policies that run counter to evidence that exists now.
The Democrats' 'Better Deal' Means More Government Control Over American Businesses
Dems are pushing economic protectionism, giving more power to unelected officials, and public shaming of American businesses.
Police, Teachers Unions Protect Workers at Expense of Public
It's how their rules were made to work. Legislators have put union protections above public protections.
from Religion News Service
Britain’s first Anglican same-sex marriage celebrated in a Scottish church
The first gay marriage in an Anglican church in Britain took place this week, a day after Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby described the continuing squabbles over same-sex marriage in the worldwide Anglican Communion as “intractable.”
from The Spokesman-Review
Todd Hudson, Hudson Hamburgers, RIP
Huckleberries has confirmed, thanks to Adam Mayer/KHQ, that co-owner Todd Hudson of Hudson's Hamburgers has died. Adam confirmed the news with the family moments ago. Todd was stricken recently with aggressive cancer. A Facebook post from Nate's New York Pizza alerted us to Todd's death today: "Last night we lost a great person in our local community Todd Hudson, one of the owners of Hudson's Hamburgers. You will be missed my friend! Thoughts and Prayers to the Hudson Family."
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from Tribal Tribune (Nespelem, WA)
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from Washington Policy Center (State)
A dollar buys more in right-to-work states
A study released by the respected Tax Foundation yesterday ranks Washington among the top 10 most expensive states in which to live. The study calculates the real buying power of $100 in each state to measure the true cost-of-living. Once again, Hawaii, New York, California, New Jersey and Maryland rank as the top five highest-cost-of-living states, with Washington rounding out the top ten. States in the south--Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, followed by South Dakota and Kentucky--boast the five lowest costs-of-living. In these states a worker’s raw income may be lower, but he can buy more with it.
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