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from Business Insider
LEFT-CENTER BIAS

Top Senate Republican questions Christine Blasey Ford's truthfulness after sworn statement from ex-boyfriend contradicts some of her testimony
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is questioning Christine Blasey Ford's truthfulness regarding allegations Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. An ex-boyfriend of Ford's, whose identity remains anonymous, provided a written statement that seemingly contradicts claims she made while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee September 27. Grassley sent a letter to Ford's lawyers demanding they provide key materials. Ford's legal team says she stands by her testimony.

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from CBS News (& affiliates)

Toys R Us comeback in works as bankruptcy auction canceled
There may be a second act for Toys R Us, which shut down hundreds of stores over the summer. A group of investors said in a bankruptcy court filing Tuesday that it's scrapping an auction for Toys R Us assets. The investors believe they'll do better by potentially reviving the toy chain, rather than selling it off for parts. The investors said they'll work with potential partners to develop new ideas for stores in the U.S. and other countries "that could bring back these iconic brands in a new and re-imagined way." Toys R Us suffocated under a staggering $5 billion debt load before liquidating its U.S. assets this year.  A leveraged buyout hobbled the company and hundreds of stores were shuttered in June to the dismay of children and numerous generations of one-time children.

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from Conciliar Post

A life without suffering is no life at all. We worship, though we often forget it, a God that embraced suffering. Jesus came not to condemn the world and its suffering but to “save” it all through suffering (John 3). The most basic tenet of the Christian walk is sacrifice—sacrifice not with the goal of placation, but transformation. The sacrifice of the heart involves testing everything—our words, actions, and motivations—to assess whether it bears fruit. And that fruit is selflessness. That fruit is love, and joy, and peace.

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from Faith & Freedom
blog.faithandfreedom.us

How George Soros Influenced Republican Sen. Jeff Flake
Remember the two women who confronted Republican Senator Jeff Flake at the elevator outside the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Kavanaugh hearing last week? And remember that Flake came back for the vote, and after promising he would vote in favor of moving Kavanaugh forward to the full Senate, changed his mind and said he would keep his promise only if the committee allowed another FBI investigation of Brett Kavanaugh? The 7th such investigation over Kavanaugh's life of public service. Let's take a closer look at who is backstage.

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from First Things

COURAGE IN THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND
Forty years ago this week, the Catholic Church was in serious trouble. The last years of Pope Paul VI had witnessed an endless sequence of controversies, of which mass dissent from the encyclical Humanae Vitae—dissent that would have devastating effects on clerical discipline and erode episcopal authority—was but one. Then came a brief moment of exuberance, as Catholic spirits were lifted by the election of Cardinal Albino Luciani to the papacy.  Then, 33 days into what seemed a promising pontificate, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his bed on the morning of September 28, 1978.  And the Church was plunged back into Bunyan’s Slough of Despond.  The shock of the pope’s death was perhaps most intense among the men who had just put Luciani on the Chair of Peter. What God was saying, some cardinal-electors concluded, was that it was a time for courage. So when the two principal Italian contenders in the second conclave of 1978 deadlocked and essentially cancelled each other out as candidates, several cardinals summoned up the courage to propose what then seemed virtually unthinkable: looking outside Italy for a pope. It also took courage for Karol Wojtyła to accept election, knowing that he would have to leave the rich Cracovian culture from which he drew strength and inspiration. But it’s the courage of the cardinal-electors on which we might well focus our attention now, when the Catholic Church seems bogged down in another Slough of Despond. 

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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)

Fire in Elmer City destroys 4 mobile homes, damages 2 others
Okanogan Counter Emergency Management says a fire that started outside Elmer City Tuesday destroyed four mobile homes and damaged two others.

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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

Neighbors devastated by aftermath of Elmer City fire
As police continue to investigate what caused a 15-acre fire to break out at the Grandview Village Mobile Home Park Tuesday night, neighbors are devastated by the damage left behind. 

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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Economics Everywhere, Politics Nowhere: The Benefits of Swiss Decentralization
Is there any hope in the Western World that individual citizens can win some release from the relentless and imprisoning growth of government? In the US, government spending, a reasonable proxy for their power over us, increases every year, except for a few minor blips. The citizens’ situation becomes more and more dire. We have precious little say and little influence over our taxes, our health care, our energy and water supplies and costs, not to mention the social rules with which the government constrains us. The number of rules and regulations, using the proxy of pages in the Federal Register, also increases every year, and very few rules are removed. The government closes in on us more and more every day. There is one western country that we might look at to see a glimpse of hope. That country is Switzerland. In a small landlocked country with precious little in the way of natural resources except water, the people have created a high level of prosperity based on innovation and creative capitalism.

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from Orthodox Christianity
Organization in Moscow, Russia

“THE CHURCH DOES NOT BOW TO POLITICIANS”—PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA
Continuing his fraternal visit to the canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa concelebrated the Great Consecration of the rebuilt Holy Transfiguration Cathedral in Bolgrad with His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine. The Alexandrian primate again offered words of support and consolation to the Ukrainian faithful, as he had during the services he celebrated in Odessa, noting that he came to Ukraine to bear witness to his love and to the fact that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is the only canonical Church in Ukraine, reports the site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.



ESTONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONDEMNS CONSTANTINOPLE’S INTERFERENCE IN UKRAINE
The Holy Synod of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has published a statement on its official website expressing “its deep concern over the dangerous development of the Church situation in Ukraine caused by the unilateral actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.”

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Fire destroys multiple mobile homes in Okanogan County’s Elmer City
A fire tore through a mobile home park in Okanogan County’s Elmer City on Tuesday, destroying several homes and displacing multiple families. Maurice Goodall, director of Okanogan County Emergency Management, said the 15-acre fire sparked up in the afternoon at the Grandview Village mobile home park on the north end of the town, where it spread to six buildings, leveling four and damaging two. Four families were displaced and are staying with members of the Colville Tribe.

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from The Star (Grand Coulee, WA)

In Elmer City, high winds whip up fire, burning homes
High winds threw an Elmer City fire across Highway 155 last night after a blaze started in the Grandview Mobile Home Park below the highway. Details were sketchy last night, but one person with an emergency channel radio said at least three mobile homes had burned. From a vantage point a couple miles away, the fire apparently had burned up a ravine that skirts the town to its south, threatening houses on the hillside.

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from Townhall.com
RIGHT BIAS,  HIGH,  American conservative website and print magazine

BREAKING: Capitol Police Just Arrested a Democratic Congressional Staffer in the Doxxing of GOP Senators
Capitol Police on Wednesday evening arrested a Democratic congressional staffer who allegedly doxxed a handful of Republican senators and then posted their personal information online. Jackson Cosko, 27, was charged with making public restricted personal information, witness tampering, threats in interstate communication, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, second-degree burglary and unlawful entry, although additional charges could be added. Cosko most recently worked for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) but has also been a staffer with Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Fox News reported.

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