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from The Babylon Bee [Satire]
Caravan Of Liberal Americans Makes Way Toward Socialist Paradise Of Venezuela
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from Faith & Freedom blog.faithandfreedom.us
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from First Things
The final sessions of the Kavanaugh hearings were an embarrassment for the United States. And given the outsize influence of American politics and media on the world, deeply regrettable to those beyond the borders. During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Michelle Obama said of the various vulgarities emanating from Donald Trump: “When they go low, we go high.” Whether that was itself true, nobody was going high as the Senate judiciary committee took up Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Kavanaugh. And once everybody goes low, it is difficult for anyone to reclaim the moral high ground. The political culture of the United States will not soon recover.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
The Truth About the Lame-Duck Judicial Confirmations
When the Senate resumes its work on November 13, look for Democrats to re-double their efforts to prevent filling the many longstanding vacancies. We are in the longest period of triple-digit judicial vacancies in 25 years. Whether it’s the needs of the judicial branch, past confirmation practice, or both, the Senate should get to work as soon as they return.
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The Truth About the Lame-Duck Judicial Confirmations
When the Senate resumes its work on November 13, look for Democrats to re-double their efforts to prevent filling the many longstanding vacancies. We are in the longest period of triple-digit judicial vacancies in 25 years. Whether it’s the needs of the judicial branch, past confirmation practice, or both, the Senate should get to work as soon as they return.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Heroes of Progress, Pt. 4: Landsteiner and Lewisohn
Our fourth Heroes of Progress are Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner and German surgeon Richard Lewisohn. Landsteiner discovered the existence of different blood groups and Lewisohn developed procedures that allowed blood to be stored outside of the body without clotting. The two breakthroughs made blood transfusions far more practical and are credited with saving over 1 billion lives.
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from The Inlander
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
Big money for big oil is flowing into next month's election
With tons of help from big oil companies, the fight to defeat Initiative 1631, which would put a fee on carbon pollution, is now the most expensive campaign to defeat an initiative in state history, with those opposed to it dumping more than $26 million into the fight.
Is Lisa Brown a radical firebrand or a pragmatic moderate?
There was a moment, during a rally in Pullman last year, when Lisa Brown seemed like a different kind of candidate. She's talking about political courage, about leading outside of the mainstream, even when it's risky. She points to her fight in the Washington State Legislature, first when she pushed for a law against discrimination by sexual orientation and then when the Legislature legalized same-sex marriage. "I think the issue of our time right now, that has the same resonance of having a logjam that needs to be broken, is health care — universal health care!" There's a torrent of applause and whooping and cheering from her audience. She quotes liberal Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, that "health care is a basic human right and it's time to fight for it."
Once a deficit hawk, Cathy McMorris Rodgers now condemns her opponent for making budget cuts
In 2011, in the depths of recession, with the American economy starving, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers called for the American government to go on a diet. The budget deficit had topped $1.3 trillion, and McMorris Rodgers was warning that America was careening toward a Greek-style debt crisis. Today, McMorris Rodgers is on the other side: She's championing the deficit-ballooning tax cut. She's criticizing her opponent's recession-era budget cuts. And she's charging that Democratic attacks that she wants to cut Medicare or Social Security are flagrantly false. Not only does McMorris Rodgers not see the tax cut as a problem for the deficit — she sees it as part of the solution.
"The Very Best of Us": A look at Bing Crosby's career during WWII
Though he's now known as Bing Crosby's biographer, Gary Giddins never set out to write about him. Sure, he'd heard of the Spokane-born crooner, at one time America's most recognized celebrity, but Giddins really wanted to write about Duke Ellington. Thing was, Ellington's estate had just been donated to the Smithsonian, and it was going to take years to archive. So, the hard sell his editor had been making, trying to get him to write a Crosby biography, finally landed. Giddins dove in, conducting hundreds of interviews. The resulting book, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903-1940, was published in 2001 and covered the first part of Crosby's life. While many opened their doors to Giddins for that book, it wasn't until it was published that Crosby's widow not only agreed to an interview, but allowed Giddins to go through mounds of letters from soldiers, as well as Crosby's journals and financial documents, for a never-seen-before peek at his life during the '40s. "After days of that, I had a whole different story about the Second World War that I never anticipated," Giddins says. "I really wanted to write a book not just about Crosby, but about the home front and what that is."
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
Big money for big oil is flowing into next month's election
With tons of help from big oil companies, the fight to defeat Initiative 1631, which would put a fee on carbon pollution, is now the most expensive campaign to defeat an initiative in state history, with those opposed to it dumping more than $26 million into the fight.
Is Lisa Brown a radical firebrand or a pragmatic moderate?
There was a moment, during a rally in Pullman last year, when Lisa Brown seemed like a different kind of candidate. She's talking about political courage, about leading outside of the mainstream, even when it's risky. She points to her fight in the Washington State Legislature, first when she pushed for a law against discrimination by sexual orientation and then when the Legislature legalized same-sex marriage. "I think the issue of our time right now, that has the same resonance of having a logjam that needs to be broken, is health care — universal health care!" There's a torrent of applause and whooping and cheering from her audience. She quotes liberal Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, that "health care is a basic human right and it's time to fight for it."
Once a deficit hawk, Cathy McMorris Rodgers now condemns her opponent for making budget cuts
In 2011, in the depths of recession, with the American economy starving, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers called for the American government to go on a diet. The budget deficit had topped $1.3 trillion, and McMorris Rodgers was warning that America was careening toward a Greek-style debt crisis. Today, McMorris Rodgers is on the other side: She's championing the deficit-ballooning tax cut. She's criticizing her opponent's recession-era budget cuts. And she's charging that Democratic attacks that she wants to cut Medicare or Social Security are flagrantly false. Not only does McMorris Rodgers not see the tax cut as a problem for the deficit — she sees it as part of the solution.
"The Very Best of Us": A look at Bing Crosby's career during WWII
Though he's now known as Bing Crosby's biographer, Gary Giddins never set out to write about him. Sure, he'd heard of the Spokane-born crooner, at one time America's most recognized celebrity, but Giddins really wanted to write about Duke Ellington. Thing was, Ellington's estate had just been donated to the Smithsonian, and it was going to take years to archive. So, the hard sell his editor had been making, trying to get him to write a Crosby biography, finally landed. Giddins dove in, conducting hundreds of interviews. The resulting book, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years, 1903-1940, was published in 2001 and covered the first part of Crosby's life. While many opened their doors to Giddins for that book, it wasn't until it was published that Crosby's widow not only agreed to an interview, but allowed Giddins to go through mounds of letters from soldiers, as well as Crosby's journals and financial documents, for a never-seen-before peek at his life during the '40s. "After days of that, I had a whole different story about the Second World War that I never anticipated," Giddins says. "I really wanted to write a book not just about Crosby, but about the home front and what that is."
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
The Creepy Normalization of Bulverism
At some point you’ve probably heard an opinion of yours about morality, religion, or politics summarily dismissed with a reaction like: “You only say that because you’re a _____!” or “That’s just an excuse for _______.” Frustrating, isn’t it? If you’ve supplied reasons for your position, they don’t tackle those reasons. They just assume you’re wrong and purport to explain, usually in terms unflattering to you, why you make your error. What many might not realize, however, is that this action is a fallacy known as Bulverism. The name was coined by C.S. Lewis in an essay included in his widely read collection God in the Dock. In essence, Bulverism is a toxic hybrid of two better-known fallacies: petitio principii (begging the question) and ad hominem (impugning one’s opponent’s character without addressing his argument).
The Creepy Normalization of Bulverism
At some point you’ve probably heard an opinion of yours about morality, religion, or politics summarily dismissed with a reaction like: “You only say that because you’re a _____!” or “That’s just an excuse for _______.” Frustrating, isn’t it? If you’ve supplied reasons for your position, they don’t tackle those reasons. They just assume you’re wrong and purport to explain, usually in terms unflattering to you, why you make your error. What many might not realize, however, is that this action is a fallacy known as Bulverism. The name was coined by C.S. Lewis in an essay included in his widely read collection God in the Dock. In essence, Bulverism is a toxic hybrid of two better-known fallacies: petitio principii (begging the question) and ad hominem (impugning one’s opponent’s character without addressing his argument).
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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