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from CBS News (& affiliates)
Capital One data breach hits more than 100 million people applying for credit
Capital One said a hacker got access to the personal information of over 100 million individuals applying for credit. The McLean, Virginia-based bank said Monday it found out about the vulnerability in its system July 19 and immediately sought help from law enforcement to catch the perpetrator.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Imagine a person who, acting entirely on his own initiative and exclusively from a desire to help the needy, decides to take from the rich and give every penny to the poor. Would that find approval from Jesus, his apostles, or anyone of authority in the early Church? If you’ve read the New Testament with even the least depth and discernment, you know the answer can’t possibly be yes.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
Despite Federal Return Capital Punishment Is Dying Out
The U.S. federal government recently ordered the death penalty to be reinstated for the first time in sixteen years and has scheduled the execution of five death row inmates. This policy change goes against the widespread trend toward fewer executions. Twenty-one U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia, have totally abolished the death penalty for all crimes. Seven of those states abolished the practice in my lifetime. New Hampshire just officially abolished it in 2019. The move to reinstate capital punishment federally in the United States represents a reversal after more than a decade-long hiatus in the federal use of capital punishment.
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from Miami Herald
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Trump thinks he’s found a tried-and-true path to re-election. Has he, white Americans?
If you are a regular here, you may have heard this story before. But it bears repeating. In 1958, George Wallace ran for governor of Alabama against John Patterson, a fire-breathing segregationist. Wallace, though also a segregationist, was considered enough of a racial moderate to be endorsed by the NAACP. So naturally, he was trounced. Sometime afterward, as recounted by biographer Marshall Frady, a rueful Wallace made a defining declaration to a room full of politicos: “John Patterson out-nigguhed me. And boys, I’m not goin’ to be out-nigguhed again.” As history shows, he never was. Which is to say Wallace, who became governor in 1963, was never again found deficient in stoking racial animosity for political gain. He understood its power to drive white voters to the polls. As is beyond obvious by now, Donald Trump does, too. His Twitter attack on Baltimore over the weekend — “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” “a very dangerous & filthy place” — was but the latest in a long line of racist invective designed to gin up white support.
If you are a regular here, you may have heard this story before. But it bears repeating. In 1958, George Wallace ran for governor of Alabama against John Patterson, a fire-breathing segregationist. Wallace, though also a segregationist, was considered enough of a racial moderate to be endorsed by the NAACP. So naturally, he was trounced. Sometime afterward, as recounted by biographer Marshall Frady, a rueful Wallace made a defining declaration to a room full of politicos: “John Patterson out-nigguhed me. And boys, I’m not goin’ to be out-nigguhed again.” As history shows, he never was. Which is to say Wallace, who became governor in 1963, was never again found deficient in stoking racial animosity for political gain. He understood its power to drive white voters to the polls. As is beyond obvious by now, Donald Trump does, too. His Twitter attack on Baltimore over the weekend — “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” “a very dangerous & filthy place” — was but the latest in a long line of racist invective designed to gin up white support.
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from Psephizo (blog)
Tim Murray writes: One of the pleasures of the last few weeks was the chance to review the collection of essays edited by Robert Myles, recently published under the title Class Struggle in the New Testament (Lexington/Fortress, 2019). In a publishing culture that increasingly values quantity of output over any discernible value or purpose, it refreshing to find the editor explicitly clear on the intentions of the volume: to “reinvigorate an exploration of class and class struggle within the study of the New Testament and its world,” arguing for the use of class, as a “significant analytical category in biblical studies” The contributors attempt this from a broadly Marxian framework. Indeed, Myles strongly emphasises “class struggle” to signify the conflict inherent in economic and social reality, rather than allowing class to designate some kind of individual identity. Again, it is good to find him explicit about the real target of his monograph: neoliberalism and “capitalist realism in which liberal-democracy and capitalism are regarded as the only feasible political and economic systems”. He is also at pains to argue that such ideology is deeply embedded in biblical studies, both “constrained by it” and “generative of it” Such clarity is not as common as it should be and I’m grateful to Myles for putting his cards on the table from the opening paragraphs onward, especially as I too find myself disaffected by the neoliberal ideology he describes and feel deeply frustrated with ‘capitalist realism’. I resonate with his desire to ‘struggle’ against a system that perpetuates enormous injustice whilst insisting that there is no alternative.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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