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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS
In a long but surprisingly weak story, the New York Times’ Charles Duhigg is the latest analyst to try to find an argument for why antitrust law should be used to break up Big Tech firms (Duhigg’s particular target is Google). In so doing he makes many of the same mistakes that have been made repeatedly on both the left and the right.... The mistakes include taking debunked claims from competitors at face value, ignoring empirical data, and applying a revisionist history to how antitrust law has developed.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
16 Booker T. Washington Quotes on Liberty and Personal Responsibility
Booker T. Washington, who sought “the most complete freedom compatible with the freedom of others,” attracts surprisingly little attention. That is an important oversight because, rather than promoting government coercion of others as a “solution,” he demonstrated the moral means to success — self-improvement, which also benefits others through voluntary arrangements.
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from Independent Journal Review
RIGHT BIAS
Just Hours Before His Death, Billy Graham Made One Final Post to Social Media
Legendary evangelist Billy Graham, who counseled presidents, died Wednesday at the age of 99 years old. But before his death, Graham posted on Facebook one last time. He said:
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Another Misfire at the New York Times
The New York Times is uniquely bad on the subject of firearms. There are two ways to understand that sentence, and both apply: Among major news publications, the Times regularly exhibits an unparalleled level of illiteracy on the subject of firearms, and it exhibits comparable illiteracy on practically no other subject. Even on such self-acknowledged weak spots as American religion, the Times rarely sinks to the level of outright stupidity that characterizes its coverage of firearms and related crimes. The Times remains unembarrassed by routinely displaying on this subject a level of ignorance that would cause its editors to blush in shame if the subject were, say, Shia–Sunni relations or the geography of Togo. This has many unhappy consequences, one of which is that the Times is distorting public discourse about this important subject when it should be enriching it.
Scottish town devastated by gun violence has advice for America: Say ‘no more’
For the Scottish town of Dunblane, one deadly shooting massacre was enough. After 16 children and a teacher were murdered in 1996, Britain outlawed hand-gun ownership. After years of watching deadly shootings in the U.S. with little change in American attitudes toward gun control, some in Dunblane feel inspired by students in Parkland, Florida.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Could Disappear Within 20 Years
The iconic Great Red Spot of Jupiter may disappear in the next 20 years, according to a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
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There will never be another Billy Graham, because the world that made him possible is gone
As word of Billy Graham’s death spread on Wednesday morning, commentators observed that since he retired in 2005, no evangelical leader has emerged to occupy his unique place in American society. But even if there were anyone out there with the same talents that enabled Graham to represent all of evangelicalism, we likely would never know it. The cultural context in which Graham became one of the most important religious figures in American history was radically different than the one that exists today.
RIGHT BIAS
Just Hours Before His Death, Billy Graham Made One Final Post to Social Media
Legendary evangelist Billy Graham, who counseled presidents, died Wednesday at the age of 99 years old. But before his death, Graham posted on Facebook one last time. He said:
"If you went for a walk in the woods, but then decided to wander off the path, and found yourself surrounded by a thicket of thorns and poison ivy, who would you blame? Would you blame the person who built the path? No, of course not. Instead you'd blame yourself if you were honest, because you alone were responsible for wandering from the path.
In a far deeper way, this is what happens when we decide to leave God out of our lives. For a time, it may seem like wandering away from Him doesn't make any difference; it may even seem easier and freer. But eventually it catches up with us—just as wandering off that path and into the thicket caught up with you." —Billy Graham
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
LAMBETH 2020 AND AFRICAN ANGLICANISM
Nearly 60 percent of Anglicans worldwide are African. But African Anglicanism is frequently misunderstood. Bishop Jack Spong memorably referred to African Christianity as “a very superstitious kind of Christianity” just before the 1998 Lambeth Conference.[1] Such post-colonial condescension did great damage. But alongside this, starry-eyed depictions of African Anglicanism need tempering with realism. African Anglicanism has great strengths, but also significant problems.
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Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
LAMBETH 2020 AND AFRICAN ANGLICANISM
Nearly 60 percent of Anglicans worldwide are African. But African Anglicanism is frequently misunderstood. Bishop Jack Spong memorably referred to African Christianity as “a very superstitious kind of Christianity” just before the 1998 Lambeth Conference.[1] Such post-colonial condescension did great damage. But alongside this, starry-eyed depictions of African Anglicanism need tempering with realism. African Anglicanism has great strengths, but also significant problems.
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from National Review
RIGHT BIAS
The New York Times is uniquely bad on the subject of firearms. There are two ways to understand that sentence, and both apply: Among major news publications, the Times regularly exhibits an unparalleled level of illiteracy on the subject of firearms, and it exhibits comparable illiteracy on practically no other subject. Even on such self-acknowledged weak spots as American religion, the Times rarely sinks to the level of outright stupidity that characterizes its coverage of firearms and related crimes. The Times remains unembarrassed by routinely displaying on this subject a level of ignorance that would cause its editors to blush in shame if the subject were, say, Shia–Sunni relations or the geography of Togo. This has many unhappy consequences, one of which is that the Times is distorting public discourse about this important subject when it should be enriching it.
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from PBS (& affiliates)
Scottish town devastated by gun violence has advice for America: Say ‘no more’
For the Scottish town of Dunblane, one deadly shooting massacre was enough. After 16 children and a teacher were murdered in 1996, Britain outlawed hand-gun ownership. After years of watching deadly shootings in the U.S. with little change in American attitudes toward gun control, some in Dunblane feel inspired by students in Parkland, Florida.
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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Could Disappear Within 20 Years
The iconic Great Red Spot of Jupiter may disappear in the next 20 years, according to a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Yahoo News
There will never be another Billy Graham, because the world that made him possible is gone
As word of Billy Graham’s death spread on Wednesday morning, commentators observed that since he retired in 2005, no evangelical leader has emerged to occupy his unique place in American society. But even if there were anyone out there with the same talents that enabled Graham to represent all of evangelicalism, we likely would never know it. The cultural context in which Graham became one of the most important religious figures in American history was radically different than the one that exists today.
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