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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
The posts are a staple of liberal social media: Attacking the greedy billionaire who could “easily” give everyone $1 million. “Jeff Bezos could give every single American $3 million and he’d still have $188.8 billion.” “Imagine if @JeffBezos decided to give $1,000,000 to each of those 33 million out of work. It’s pocket change to him.” It is not just random social-media postings. In March, MSNBC’s Brian Williams went on the air and endorsed a tweet that stated: “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million . . . He could have given each American $1 million.” His guest, New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay, concurred that “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing.” It is not true. Instead it is a spectacular failure of arithmetic. Michael Bloomberg’s $500 million in ad purchases could have otherwise given each American $1.52 — not $1 million. And dividing Jeff Bezos’s $200 billion in wealth equally among 330 million Americans would provide $600 each, not $1 million or $3 million.
There’s a giant scheme afoot to disenfranchise voters in November — it’s called mail-in balloting. Mail-in voting has, like many things in our politics, taken on the aspect of tribal warfare — if President Donald Trump is vociferously against it, Democrats must be vociferously for it, and vice versa.Absentee voting is unquestionably less secure than in-person voting, but there’s no evidence of widespread fraud. Nor is there evidence that, at least prior to this campaign, mail-in voting has favored Democrats, as the president believes. Trump shouldn’t be trying to delegitimize the process, a point that journalists have often made. Yet there hasn’t been enough focus on the other side of the equation: Does it make sense for Democrats to be fervent boosters of a process that may lead to a historic number of votes cast in a presidential election not counting? Stacey Abrams, call your office.
The current period of national unrest and racial turmoil began in Minnesota. It was in Minneapolis that George Floyd died in police custody, sparking protests and a renewed emphasis on criminal-justice reform nationwide. It was in Minneapolis that protests first descended into riots, with other cities soon following suit. Yet while most of the country will eventually move on from this turmoil, Minneapolis will be among the cities facing the greatest difficulty in recovering from the financial devastation that the riots left behind. The economic fallout will haunt it for decades to come.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
Philaret Denisenko, the “Patriarch” of the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate,” has tested positive for COVID-19. Denisenko, 91, the former canonical Metropolitan of Kiev, is undergoing treatment in a hospital after the virus was discovered during routine testing, and his state of health is satisfactory, reports the site of the “Kiev Patriarchate.” A few days ago, Alexander Drabinko, a former bishop of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church who went into schism with the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine,” also reported that he has the coronavirus, though without symptoms. In June, Symeon Shostatsky, the only other bishop who went into schism together with Drabinko, was being treated in the hospital for the coronavirus. He has since recovered.
The cross on the grave of a royal Greek couple at the cemetery at the Tatoi Palace outside Athens was found vandalized on Monday. The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports stated that police found the cross on the grave of King Paul I of Greece and Queen Frederica broken into three pieces during a routine afternoon patrol, reports Royal Central. King Paul ruled from 1947 until his death in 1964, being succeeded by his son, Constantine II, who currently heads the deposed Greek royal family. Queen Frederica, born Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and Prince of Brunswick- Lüneburg, was Queen Consort during Paul I’s reign, thereafter Queen Mother.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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