Sunday, September 27, 2020

In the news, Thursday, September 17, 2020


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from TheBlaze
RIGHT BIAS; TV Network

As wildfires scorch the West Coast, debate is raging on the internet over what exactly is causing the fires — climate change or human acts of arson. And as Glenn Beck pointed out on Wednesday, it appears the left and Big Tech have already made their determination and have resolved to make that everyone else's determination, too. Over the past week, PolitiFact summarily shot down allegations of human-made fires and Facebook announced a sweeping policy to flag and remove posts on the platform suggesting as much. But that flies in the face of the truth of the matter regarding the wildfires, which is that many of the fires burning through California, Oregon, and Washington state were in fact started by criminals. While reasonable people might argue about the extent to which climate change and/or poor forest management made the fires worse than they otherwise would have been, there can be no doubt that many of these fires would not have existed at all if they had not been intentionally started by humans.

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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California

The Military-Industrial Complex
President Donald Trump’s recent warning about the influence of the defense industry has sparked comparisons to Dwight Eisenhower’s assertion that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” When Eisenhower spoke those words in his 1961 farewell address, he believed that the massive growth of America’s peacetime armed forces had given them and the defense industry enough power that they could “endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” It was a warning against the broad threat that the defense establishment posed to American society, a threat comparable in many respects to those posed by other parts of big government. ...  As Eisenhower knew, such problems could not be eliminated altogether, but they could be held down. The solution that Eisenhower offered, in a less-quoted passage from his farewell address, remains relevant today. “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry,” said Eisenhower, “can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

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from MyNorthwest.com
Media/News Company in Seattle

With Washington parents attempting to navigate virtual learning, an idea for partial tax refunds has been floated since taxpayers are paying a premium price for education and not getting it, as many school resources are shuttered. Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Maia Espinoza is pushing for this in her race with Chris Reykdal. “These ‘back to school’ plans are really just an assault on working families and, frankly, single parents,” she told the Dori Monson Show. “There is no plan to reopen that’s made clear for schools, and we’ve seen that the result is a majority of school districts opting to go online. So people are asking themselves, ‘then what are we paying for?’ We’re seeing record rates of people pulling their kids out of public school to home-school them.” “As parents work, this is not working, and there are costs associated with having to educate your kids at home,” she added. “So I firmly believe — actually, back when schools closed in the spring, I put out an op-ed that said parents should receive a $2,500 student stipend to be able to fill in the gaps to educate their kids. So I absolutely think the education dollars that we spend in the state belong to the student, not the system.”

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from Newsweek
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  American weekly news magazine

JENNA ELLIS , CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY AND PERSONAL COUNSEL TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
Understanding the purpose of the U.S. Constitution is more important in 2020 than at any time since its adoption on September 17, 1787. There have been many fights and struggles in America's history, and they have always been fought on ideological grounds. Our Revolutionary War that led to ratification of the Constitution and our system of government was fought because our Founders believed that every human being is made in the image of God and endowed by Him with certain unalienable rights. Severe infringement upon our rights necessitated declaring independence and appealing to the highest source of law—the God revealed in the Bible—for the moral uprightness of our revolution.

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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California

A planned House vote on a bill to decriminalize the possession of marijuana was canceled on Thursday under pressure from law enforcement lobbyists and other pro-prohibition special interests. The expected floor vote on the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act would have been the biggest accomplishment yet for cannabis reformers, but the effort has been postponed until after Election Day, Politico reports. Democrats have gotten weak-kneed about a bill that they once saw as a major criminal justice reform.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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