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from CNN
LEFT BIAS
How tall you are might hold clues to your risk of various health problems, such as blood clots, according to a new study. Height can be an independent predictor of your risk for venous thromboembolism, or VTE, also known as blood clots, according to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. That blood clot risk was lowest among the shortest women and men and appeared to increase with height, the research showed.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Compulsory Schooling Is Incompatible with Freedom
America's Founding Father knew that forcible education was incompatible with freedom. If we care about freedom, we should reject compulsory schooling. A relic of 19th-century industrial America, compulsory schooling statutes reduced the broad and noble goal of an educated citizenry into a one-size-fits-all system of state-controlled mass schooling that persists today.
Yes, the Alt-Left Exists and It's Terrifying
The Alt-Left masquerades as a form of liberalism, but it has more in common with authoritarianism than its true believers can (or want to?) admit. It claims to speak for the marginalized, but it either ignores or attempts to hatefully shame members of marginalized groups who do not subscribe to the ideology.
Race Relations Are Improved by Free Markets, Not Collectivist Politics
Markets make friends where politics creates enemies.
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from Financial Times
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
As congregations dwindle, is the Church on the brink of extinction? All is not yet lost. The 16th-century theologian Richard Hooker is still the authority cited by many of those trying to steer a path for an institution whose hold on the national imagination seems increasingly to be to do with things that happened a long time ago. “Hooker’s stool” suggests that Anglicanism rests on the three legs of scripture, tradition and the application of reason. The furniture analogy fits the Church’s down-to-earth nature. It is the third of these that distinguishes the Church of England, and good sense counts. Anything can be sorted out over a cup of tea.
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from Huffington Post
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Limited time for creative play, Limited physical activity, Teaching that focuses on standards and testing, Frustration and a sense of failure.
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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)
The investigation into who started the Eagle Creek Fire may not have resulted in authorities identifying a suspect so quickly if it hadn’t been for one woman who says she saw what happened the day the fire started. Liz FitzGerald says she saw how the fire started after seeing a group of teenagers on the Eagle Creek Trail Saturday. “I saw this boy lob a smoke bomb down into the ravine,” she said via phone Tuesday night. “I saw his friend or a guy that was there with him videotaping it with his phone. I looked over, and I said, ‘Do you realize how dangerous that is?’”
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Wales Elects 13th Archbishop
A Church in Wales electoral college chose the Rt. Rev. John Davies as the church’s 13th archbishop on Sept. 6 Davies has served as the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon for the past nine years.
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Stanley Fischer Is Out at the Fed
Fed Vice Chair and Yellen ally Stanely Fischer announced his unexpected resignation today, citing “personal reasons.” His term as a Fed governor wasn’t to be over until 2020 and his vice chairmanship was to end June of next year.
3 Good Things about "Price Gouging"
As so often happens in the wake of a natural disaster, government officials in Texas are currently investigating claims of “price gouging,” which the office of the Attorney General reminds residents is illegal after the governor declares a disaster. This is a classic example of the ostensible contrast between greed and altruism, capitalism and charity. Economists who favor the free market know the standard arguments for letting the price skyrocket to “clear the market” when there are supply shortages and demand spikes. When sellers can price goods freely, we are all better able to plan and conserve for future use of essential goods.
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Wales Elects 13th Archbishop
A Church in Wales electoral college chose the Rt. Rev. John Davies as the church’s 13th archbishop on Sept. 6 Davies has served as the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon for the past nine years.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Fed Vice Chair and Yellen ally Stanely Fischer announced his unexpected resignation today, citing “personal reasons.” His term as a Fed governor wasn’t to be over until 2020 and his vice chairmanship was to end June of next year.
As so often happens in the wake of a natural disaster, government officials in Texas are currently investigating claims of “price gouging,” which the office of the Attorney General reminds residents is illegal after the governor declares a disaster. This is a classic example of the ostensible contrast between greed and altruism, capitalism and charity. Economists who favor the free market know the standard arguments for letting the price skyrocket to “clear the market” when there are supply shortages and demand spikes. When sellers can price goods freely, we are all better able to plan and conserve for future use of essential goods.
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from New Statesman
"The leading voice of the British left, since 1913."
Economic justice is the idea that the economy will be more successful if it is fairer: that prosperity and justice go hand-in-hand rather than in opposition to one another.
from Open Culture
from Orthodox Christianity
What is happening today in Russian-American bilateral relations is a “phantasmagoria,” and Russia should not take an example from those politicians in America who threaten them, stated the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations (DECR) of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, who recently returned from a trip to the United States. American authorities earlier demanded the closing of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and two buildings of trade representatives in Washington and New York, justifying it as a response to the Russian demand to reduce the number of employees of the diplomatic mission of the U.S. in Russia. Russian diplomats complied with this demand by September 2. Moscow called this action an unfriendly move. “The policy is built on certain rules which have existed for many centuries, and which have their own principles. What is happening now between Russia and America, in my view, is a phantasmagoria, because those sanctions that were declared, those measures that were announced, are unlikely to bring benefit to anyone on this or that side. They cannot lead to improved relations between two countries,” Met. Hilarion stated.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
The creation of a sovereign Kurdish state in Iraq could result in the remapping of the Middle East and the collapse of the established status quo, Israeli political analyst Avigdor Eskin writes for RIA Novosti. Eskin notes that regardless of the potential repercussions the Iraqi Kurds are determined to hold an independence vote on September 25. The emergence of a sovereign Kurdish state in the Middle East would turn the region upside down resulting in the de facto abolition of the international doctrine of the inviolability of Mideast borders, Israeli political analyst Avigdor Eskin writes in his op-ed for RIA Novosti, commenting on the upcoming independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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from WIRED
Security firm Symantec is warning that a series of recent hacker attacks not only compromised energy companies in the US and Europe but also resulted in the intruders gaining hands-on access to power grid operations—enough control that they could have induced blackouts on American soil at will. And yes, most signs point to Russia.
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from WQXR
Radio Station in New York
Luciano Pavarotti died on Sept. 6, 2007, and is much missed even though, 10 years on, he still seems to be with us in so many ways. His recordings and videos of live performances sit on the shelves of millions of people around the world, from those of us who love opera dearly to mass audiences whose one classical vocal CD might be of Pavarotti, perhaps in the company of tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, his colleagues in a huge money-making enterprise known as The Three Tenors.
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