Saturday, May 25, 2019

In the news, Thursday, May 16, 2019


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from Anglican Journal
News & Media Website in Toronto, Ontario


A post-colonial church will "rediscover the power of discipleship," writes National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald.

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from Commonweal Magazine

Resisting a Throwaway Culture
What Does it Mean to Be Prolife in the Age of Trump?
Nothing—neither moral purity nor brazen opportunism—can guarantee the prolife movement’s success. Movements in defense of those who can’t defend themselves face countless obstacles. We remember the ones that somehow prevailed against the odds, not the others that fell short of their aims. What is clear, as Pope Francis reminds us, is that we cannot hope to persuade anyone that the disposability of the unborn matters to us in the way we say it does if we seem resigned to all the other ways in which our society treats human beings and the world they share as disposable.

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from Daily Mail (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Turning back the tide of time: Bones of King Canute's wife, who 'walked over hot metal to prove she did not cheat on him', have been discovered in chests at the UK's Winchester Cathedral 
The bones of an 11th-century English queen are believed to have been discovered during research into a cathedral's secret treasures. Remains found in six 1,000-year-old chests in Winchester Cathedral are thought to be those of Queen Emma, wife of two Anglo-Saxon kings. She was betrothed to King Ethelred The Unready and upon his death, married his successor, King Canute. She was also mother to two later kings: Edward the Confessor and King Harthacnut. Her bloodlines also gave William the Conqueror a claim to the English throne for his 1066 invasion of the UK through her fater, Richard IO, Duke of Normandy who had a bastard son

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Five Reasons Capitalist Chile is Better than Socialist Venezuela
To fully appreciate Venezuela’s decline, it is useful to compare its fate to the massive political and economic improvements experienced by the people of Chile.

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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota

Underemployment: The American Economy's Biggest Underreported Story
Both economists and the media constantly monitor the unemployment rate. And for good reason. It says a lot about the health of the economy. But it isn’t the only significant one. The underemployment rate provides a different, but very important, look into the labor market. Underemployed is defined as an individual with a college degree who has a job that only requires a high school diploma.

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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED

Losing Income Tax Privacy Is a Real Danger
Last week the New York Times published some of President Trump’s 1980s and 1990s tax returns information. The information detailed President Trump’s financial difficulties during that time. While you would not know it from reading some media reports, this is old news. In fact, President Trump openly discussed his financial difficulties on his popular reality television show. What should be of great concern is the possibility that the person who leaked the returns — who the paper says has legal access to President Trump’s tax records — is an IRS employee seeking to undermine the president. This would hardly be the first time an IRS employee has leaked confidential information because he disagreed with the taxpayer’s politics.

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from The Nation Magazine
LEFT BIAS

There’s No Running From the Horror of Alabama’s Anti-Abortion Law
For Democrats, this must be the hill we fight on—and even die on, if necessary.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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