In the news, Tuesday, May 14, 2019

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from Anglican Journal
News & Media Website in Toronto, Ontario

Come to the table: St. Luke’s Table in Ottawa breaks ‘social isolation’

This is the third post in a four-part series. On a typical day, about 100 people come to St. Luke’s Table for breakfast, and around 150 for lunch. "Our real mission is to provide basic needs to people, which is food, personal care items like toiletries,” says Executive Director Rachel Robinson. “But then we do what I think is really important as well, [which] is we provide community for people. We break social isolation.”

Creating community: Renovated church building provides housing and support in Winnipeg’s west end

This is the fourth post in a four-part series. “For people to see that churches are willing to put their resources towards caring for the neighbourhood, I think it’s really important to have that happen,” says St. Matthew's rector the Rev. Gwen McAllister.

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from Forbes

No, The Rich Don't Get Rich At The Expense Of The Poor

Zero-sum thinking is not only misguided, it has a negative impact on every single zero-sum believer and on society as a whole. Psychologists have discovered that zero-sum thinking is a major source of envy. Anyone who believes that the only way to become rich is at the expense of others will naturally envy and begrudge the rich their wealth. This zero-sum mindset is also the basis of the socialist theories that have brought so much suffering to humanity over the past hundred years or so. Bertolt Brecht, the author of the poem quoted at the beginning, was not just a poet, he was also a communist who revered Josef Stalin. Anyone who believes that it is only possible to become rich at the expense of others has created a barrier to their own success. Honest people who believe that the rich are all crooks, will never strive to become rich themselves. Zero-sum beliefs function as an unconscious psychological barrier against wealth. And people with no moral scruples who think in zero-sum terms can even find themselves drawn to a life of crime. Across the world, prisons are full of people who thought they could only get rich at the expense of others.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Danger of Enviro-Apocalypse is Probably Overstated

Al Gore’s assertion in 1992 book that "living species of animals and plants are now vanishing around the world one thousand times faster than at any time in the past 65 million year" couldn’t have been further from reality.

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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED

In the US, Rich States Spend Less on Welfare
The key to a high quality of life is a free economy devoted to trade and entrepreneurship. Contrary to what we're told about Europe's welfare states, more government social spending doesn't cause economic prosperity.

The Problem with Aggregate "Calculations" of the Value of Immigration
It's impossible to calculate the cost and benefit immigration without considering psychic profit and loss. And the government definitely is in no position to make any of these calculations at all.

Social Security's Winners and Losers
If Social Security was efficient, equitable, reliable or sustainable, defending it might be sensible. But it is none of those things.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)

LEFT-CENTER BIAS

U.S. News calls Washington 'The Best State in America'
U.S. News & World Report is calling the Evergreen State the best in America in a new report. Washington topped the "Best States" list over No. 2 New Hampshire, No. 3 Minnesota, No. 4 Utah and No. 5 Vermont. Idaho ranked 16th on the list, Oregon 27th and Montana 29th.

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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com

Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia

5 children and teacher killed in Sunday School terror attack in Syria
Six people were murdered and another eight were wounded in a terrorist attack at a monastery in northwestern Syria on Sunday, reports the Christian Broadcasting Network. It is believed that the attack in Al-Suqaylabiyah was a targeted attack against Christians. The Associated Press reports that among the fatalities were five children ranging in age from 6 to 10, in addition to the children’s Sunday School teacher, who were killed near a monastery during an assault on the town.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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from U.S. News and World Report

Publisher in Washington, D.C.

Why Washington Is the Best State in America
Cleaner energy and a booming tech sector help the Evergreen State lead the nation in the 2019 U.S. News Best States ranking. That Washington state boasts a booming economy is hardly a shock. The state is home to Amazon.com, after all, and a mature tech sector led by Microsoft. Washington apples, wheat, hops and grapes feed and inebriate the world. Boeing Co. aircraft circle it. But Washington has a supercharger: power.  Cheap, climate-friendly electricity drives Washington's economy, the nation's fastest growing, according to the U.S. News' Best States ranking of economic growth. The tech-heavy state's expectedly strong broadband network sits atop one of the nation's best electrical systems, one well-positioned as the country shifts away from coal- and natural gas-generated electricity. The state expects to be coal-free by 2025, while still charging rates among the nation's lowest. Aging hydroelectric dams provide most of the electricity Washington uses or exports, but windmills and solar arrays are increasingly common sights on the arid rolling hills east of the Cascade Mountains. Gov. Jay Inslee, the state's leading clean energy evangelist-turned-presidential hopeful, describes those projects as doubly fruitful: Customers get clean energy, and rural residents get economic opportunity.

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