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from BBC News (UK)
A woman, critically injured after being hit by a marked police van, was flown to hospital by the Duke of Cambridge on his final shift with the East Anglian Air Ambulance. The van struck the woman, who was on foot, at 22:20 BST on Thursday. Officers were responding to a 999 call relating to a missing woman when the crash occurred. Prince William and his team flew her to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. The woman, aged in her 50s who was injured in the crash, was the same woman whose safety police were alerted to, Norfolk Police said.
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from Business Insider
Trump to sign Russia sanctions, Moscow retaliates
US President Donald Trump will sign legislation that imposes sanctions on Russia, the White House said on Friday, after Moscow ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in retaliation for the measures and said it was seizing two US diplomatic properties.
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from Christian Today
Hundreds of Muslims converting to Christianity in Finland, churches say
Finland has reportedly seen a flood of conversions from Islam to Christianity, with hundreds of asylum seekers from the Middle East turning to the Christian faith, officials in the Evangelical Lutheran community said.
from Coeur d'Alene Press
HAZEL RESIGNS FROM GOP CENTRAL COMMITTEE
President Trump has changed the daily scuffle of politics by turning Twitter into a weapon. Out here in Kootenai County, there may not be any political power tweets, but insiders are watching “The Great Email War.” Christa Hazel, a well-known player in local Republican circles, caused an uproar Wednesday night with an email debate involving Brent Regan, chairman of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. After a thousand-plus words exchanged by each side — most about committee procedures and even references to Robert's Rules of Order — Hazel submitted her resignation as a precinct committee person within the KCRCC.
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from Conservative Intelligence Briefing
Lena Epstein Leads John James and Bob Young in U.S. Senate Primary
In a poll just released by the Trafalgar Group, Lena Epstein is out in front of the other announced Michigan U.S. Senate Republican candidates. The poll of Republican Primary voters has Lena Epstein: 9.4%, John James: 7.1%, Bob Young: 5.8%. Kid Rock received 49.6% in the Trafalgar Group poll, but this is no real surprise at this stage in the race, considering his virtually 100% name I.D., and the huge waves he’s made in the media with his new website and provocative statements. Most people believe he will not actually enter the race. If and when Kid Rock decides not to run, it’s very likely Epstein will receive the majority of votes that would have been cast for him. Like Kid Rock, she has massive appeal to conservative voters that prefer a political outsider.
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from Episcopal News Service
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from First Things
Pride turns the clock back. The humble are the true progressives. With a solitary act of pride, Uzziah’s story is reversed. Because of pride, the king who fought and ruled like David ends his life as pathetically as Saul.
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from The Heritage Foundation
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Heritage President Dr. Edwin Feulner Responds to Failed Obamacare Partial Repeal Vote
In Washington, there are no permanent victories or permanent defeats. We will continue to press for completely rolling back the damage caused by Obamacare and replacing it with a patient-centered health system that works better for all Americans.
New Report Exposes Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2016 Election
The Government Accountability Institute concluded in its report that thousands of votes in the 2016 election were illegal duplicate votes. The Institute points out that the quality of the voter registration data in some states is very poor, with missing and obviously incorrect information. We have serious, substantive problems in our voter registration system across the country and that voter fraud is, without a doubt, real.
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Heritage President Dr. Edwin Feulner Responds to Failed Obamacare Partial Repeal Vote
In Washington, there are no permanent victories or permanent defeats. We will continue to press for completely rolling back the damage caused by Obamacare and replacing it with a patient-centered health system that works better for all Americans.
New Report Exposes Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2016 Election
The Government Accountability Institute concluded in its report that thousands of votes in the 2016 election were illegal duplicate votes. The Institute points out that the quality of the voter registration data in some states is very poor, with missing and obviously incorrect information. We have serious, substantive problems in our voter registration system across the country and that voter fraud is, without a doubt, real.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Key Native-Focused Senators Blocked Obamacare Repeal
American Indians from Alaska to Maine had pressed for Congress to vote against President Trump’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act
Where Did the Affordable Care Act Repeal Fail?
Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain cast the deciding votes against an Affordable Care Act repeal, but where did the bill really fail? Republicans, as a group, do not know where they want to lead the country on health care. They know they don’t want Obamacare (even though it’s based on conservative, market-based ideas). They sure as hell know they don’t want universal health insurance, either Single Payer such as Medicare for All or a government health service like Great Britain’s.
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Key Native-Focused Senators Blocked Obamacare Repeal
American Indians from Alaska to Maine had pressed for Congress to vote against President Trump’s effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act
Where Did the Affordable Care Act Repeal Fail?
Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain cast the deciding votes against an Affordable Care Act repeal, but where did the bill really fail? Republicans, as a group, do not know where they want to lead the country on health care. They know they don’t want Obamacare (even though it’s based on conservative, market-based ideas). They sure as hell know they don’t want universal health insurance, either Single Payer such as Medicare for All or a government health service like Great Britain’s.
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from The Living Church
A CATECHISM OF NATURE (7): GRASS
Are we wearing out the earth’s ability to sustain us, tilling the ground into oblivion, coming to the end of some invisible tether? The earth’s resources are renewable, it’s true. But their renewal is predicated upon man’s faithful and prudent stewardship. There is no justification in passing definitive moral judgment on the squandering of our ecological inheritance if we cannot see it as an inheritance to begin with, as something with which we have been entrusted by the one to whom it really belongs, to whom we will have to render an account of our stewardship.
Facing into the Eucharist
Growing up during the Cold War, I could not imagine a day when the communist Soviet Union and its client states in eastern Europe would ever be a fading memory. Then the Berlin Wall fell, and the unimaginable has become the new normal. Coming into Anglican Christianity via the Episcopal Church, I could not have imagined a day when celebrating the Eucharist ad orientem — presider and people all facing “liturgical east” during the eucharistic prayer — would be considered cutting edge, nouveau, très chic. But, judging from responses in social media to recent remarks by Cardinal Robert Sarah, that day is upon us.
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Government Workers Don't Magically Become Altruists
Why should one assume that those in control of the state would act in a way more in accord with justice than would actors on the private market?
For a New Libertarian
Blood and soil and God and nation still matter to people. Libertarians ignore this at the risk of irrelevance.
A CATECHISM OF NATURE (7): GRASS
Are we wearing out the earth’s ability to sustain us, tilling the ground into oblivion, coming to the end of some invisible tether? The earth’s resources are renewable, it’s true. But their renewal is predicated upon man’s faithful and prudent stewardship. There is no justification in passing definitive moral judgment on the squandering of our ecological inheritance if we cannot see it as an inheritance to begin with, as something with which we have been entrusted by the one to whom it really belongs, to whom we will have to render an account of our stewardship.
Facing into the Eucharist
Growing up during the Cold War, I could not imagine a day when the communist Soviet Union and its client states in eastern Europe would ever be a fading memory. Then the Berlin Wall fell, and the unimaginable has become the new normal. Coming into Anglican Christianity via the Episcopal Church, I could not have imagined a day when celebrating the Eucharist ad orientem — presider and people all facing “liturgical east” during the eucharistic prayer — would be considered cutting edge, nouveau, très chic. But, judging from responses in social media to recent remarks by Cardinal Robert Sarah, that day is upon us.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Why should one assume that those in control of the state would act in a way more in accord with justice than would actors on the private market?
Blood and soil and God and nation still matter to people. Libertarians ignore this at the risk of irrelevance.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman (1989) by Andrzej Szczypiorski
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great (1743) by Henry Fielding
The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius (c. 54AD) by Seneca
Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
The Abbess of Crewe (1974) by Muriel Spark
The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
The Book of Daniel (1971) by E L Doctorow
The Country Girls (1960) by Edna O’Brien
The Radetzky March (1932) by Joseph Roth
The Death of Virgil (1945) by Hermann Broch
The Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak
The Tortilla Curtain (1995) by T C Boyle
Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux (1867-68 and 1873-74) by Anthony Trollope
The Year of the French (1979) by Thomas Flanagan
The Quest for Christa T (1968) by Christa Wolf
The new president's media style is more reminiscent of corporate PR than traditional political briefings. Emmanuel Macron had been elected for 11 days when the press first protested. The new French president was heading to Mali for his first diplomatic visit, and his press office announced they would start choosing the journalists who would be allowed to cover it. This did not go down well.
from New York Times
Down the Mighty Columbia River, Where a Power Struggle Looms
The Trump administration has proposed selling off portions of a vast system that produces nearly half of the nation’s hydropower electricity.
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from Orthodox Christianity
In the capital of the Greek island of Corfu, the second international festival of Christian culture “Russia-Greece: Together Through the Ages,” will take place August 10-13. One of the key events of the festival, a large gala concert, will take place on the commemoration day of St. Spyridon on the city’s main square.
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from Rare America
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
Rand Paul just blocked the defense bill, and John McCain is not happy about it
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is calling for a debate on rolling back authorizations for the use of military force that began during the George W. Bush administration. “One generation cannot bind another generation to perpetual war,” Paul said in a 2016 op-ed for Time magazine. “Our Constitution mandates that war be authorized by Congress. Period.”
Rand Paul just blocked the defense bill, and John McCain is not happy about it
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is calling for a debate on rolling back authorizations for the use of military force that began during the George W. Bush administration. “One generation cannot bind another generation to perpetual war,” Paul said in a 2016 op-ed for Time magazine. “Our Constitution mandates that war be authorized by Congress. Period.”
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from Reason Magazine
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
TIGER, Pork Included in the Senate's Transportation Sausage
The wasteful, supposedly temporary economic recovery program lives to fight another day.
Congress Wants to Know Why the BOP Won't Let Elderly Prisoners Go Home to Die
"Compassionate release" is an excellent tool that the BOP refuses to use.
TIGER, Pork Included in the Senate's Transportation Sausage
The wasteful, supposedly temporary economic recovery program lives to fight another day.
Congress Wants to Know Why the BOP Won't Let Elderly Prisoners Go Home to Die
"Compassionate release" is an excellent tool that the BOP refuses to use.
from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Telegraph (UK)
Meet Woody Johnson - the new billionaire US ambassador to the UK - and his glamorous wife
Being named as ambassador to the Court of St James’s is the highest social achievement any American can obtain. It is a trophy coveted by all political bigwigs, not only for its diplomatic status during the posting, but because forever after, the US government bestows one of its few honorifics – The Honorable – on those who served. The latest couple to have been awarded this diplomatic cherry: Woody and Suzanne Johnson, billionaire supporters of President Trump. Robert ‘Woody’ Johnson IV, 70, is the great-grandson of the co-founder of the eponymous pharmaceutical company. According to government disclosure documents, he has a net worth of about $4.2 billion.
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