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from Defense News
European Deterrence Initiative funding continues to grow in the fiscal year 2019 defense budget request, this time by $1.7 billion. The FY19 request released Feb. 12 asks for $6.5 billion. The Pentagon requested $4.8 billion in FY18 and received $3.4 billion in FY17. The EDI account — initially called the European Reassurance Initiative — was created to help Eastern European allies rest easier and deter Russia from further incursion into Europe following its illegal annexation of Crimea and continued aggression in the region.
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
The Looming National Security Crisis: Young Americans Unable to Serve in the Military
The military depends on a constant flow of volunteers every year. According to 2017 Pentagon data, 71 percent of young Americans between 17 and 24 are ineligible to serve in the United States military. Put another way: Over 24 million of the 34 million people of that age group cannot join the armed forces—even if they wanted to. This is an alarming situation that threatens the country’s fundamental national security. If only 29 percent of the nation’s young adults are qualified to serve, and if this trend continues, it is inevitable that the U.S. military will suffer from a lack of manpower. A manpower shortage in the United States Armed Forces directly compromises national security.
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The Looming National Security Crisis: Young Americans Unable to Serve in the Military
The military depends on a constant flow of volunteers every year. According to 2017 Pentagon data, 71 percent of young Americans between 17 and 24 are ineligible to serve in the United States military. Put another way: Over 24 million of the 34 million people of that age group cannot join the armed forces—even if they wanted to. This is an alarming situation that threatens the country’s fundamental national security. If only 29 percent of the nation’s young adults are qualified to serve, and if this trend continues, it is inevitable that the U.S. military will suffer from a lack of manpower. A manpower shortage in the United States Armed Forces directly compromises national security.
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from The Hill
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.Merit-based migration and border security are key to fixing immigration crisis
When your bathtub is nearly full, it's usually a sensible idea to turn down the spigot. If only Congress and the White House can agree on that, we could have a historic deal in the next few weeks that secures legal status for minimally 800,000 "Dreamers" while securing the southern border and adopting more sensible policies to prevent further influxes of immigrants. Of course, nothing in Washington is that simple in these days of intense partisan rancor and inconsistent Twitter diplomacy by the White House.
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from iFIBER One News
Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in deaths of two Coulee City residents
Two Coulee City residents died Monday night from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. First responders were called about 7 p.m. to a trailer park in the 500 block of West Walnut Street in Coulee City after a landlord found the renters, a male and female, dead inside a home, according to the Grant County Sheriff's Office.
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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)
Rep. Ormsby admits drinking, crashing car in Olympia
An elected official from Spokane in the Washington House of Representatives admitted drinking and crashing his car in Olympia Saturday night. A report from the Thurston County Sheriff's Office says Rep. Timm Ormsby crashed his Jeep into a yard around 5:30 Saturday evening. Records say Ormsby's vehicle left the road and crossed over a ditch/culvert. "The impact 'popped' the vehicle up out of the culvert/ditch and caused it to go airborne and ultimately began to roll in the air and land on its driver's side and stop on the top," according to the incident report. The investigating deputy reported smelling a "heavy odor of alcohol" coming from the vehicle. Ormsby told the deputy that he was turning onto the road when his wife sent him a text message; he said the message distracted him, which caused him to swerve and crash. The report said, "he said the next thing he knew, he was upside down."
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Sex and Grace in the Life of Texas Guinan
Mary Louise Cecilia “Texas” Guinan was born in 1884 into a Roman Catholic family. She attended parochial school and made her sacraments. As a young woman, she worked in vaudeville and as a chorus girl before landing a role in a silent picture called The Wildcat in 1917. She tried to make a name for herself as a singer and an actress, but her real success came during Prohibition, when she opened a speakeasy called the 300 Club in New York. After all the glitz and light had faded, in a bleak hospital room in Canada, a priest standing in the person of Jesus placed a healing hand on her head and marked her as Christ’s own forever. It was just an ordinary day for him, but for her it was extraordinary.
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from Miami Herald
I am a child of domestic violence. So forgive me if I take the latest White House scandal personally. I don’t know any other way to take it. For the record, the White House says it takes domestic violence “very seriously,” yadda yadda yadda. Take it for what it’s worth. It’s worth nothing to me, personally.
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
Global Warming vs. Solar Cooling: The Showdown Begins in 2020
The sun may be dimming, temporarily. Don't panic; Earth is not going to freeze over. But will the resulting cooling put a dent in the global warming trend? A periodic solar event called a "grand minimum" could overtake the sun perhaps as soon as 2020 and lasting through 2070, resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth — all bringing a cooler period to the planet that may span 50 years. The last grand-minimum event — a disruption of the sun's 11-year cycle of variable sunspot activity — happened in the mid-17th century. Known as the Maunder Minimum, it occurred between 1645 and 1715, during a longer span of time when parts of the world became so cold that the period was called the Little Ice Age, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in death of Coulee City couple
Two elderly people were found dead Monday in Coulee City in what appears to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that at about 7 p.m., a trailer park owner in the 500 block of West Walnut Street downtown found the man and woman dead inside their home. Investigators believe the two were killed by inhaling carbon monoxide, likely from a propane stove or heater.
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Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in death of Coulee City couple
Two elderly people were found dead Monday in Coulee City in what appears to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that at about 7 p.m., a trailer park owner in the 500 block of West Walnut Street downtown found the man and woman dead inside their home. Investigators believe the two were killed by inhaling carbon monoxide, likely from a propane stove or heater.
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