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from Crosscut
News & Media Website in Seattle, WA.
Washington continues to see a significant rise in cases of the novel coronavirus. The pandemic doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Dec. 8 that he would continue the current restrictions designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 until at least Jan. 4.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
Compelling Peace
Between October 12 and 19, 1895, British Major General Sir Bindon Blood, K.C.B., after a bloody four-month campaign, accepted the surrender of the Mamund tribe of India’s Northwest province, along with that of its Afghan allies. The British had prevailed. But their losses—251 men out of 1,200—were proportionately greater than the tribesmen’s, who had lost 350 men out of a much larger population of fighting men. But the tribes surrendered because, as Cavalry Lieutenant Winston Churchill, attached to Sir Bindon’s force observed, “when [the tribesmen] turned their eyes toward their valley…not a tower, not a fort was to be seen. Their villages were destroyed. The crops had been trampled down…and the winter was at hand.”1 Much as they hated the British, they were now forced to devote their full attention to fighting hunger and the elements. These, it seems, proved more compelling than casualties of combat.
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from The North American Anglican
Media/News Company: "A journal of orthodox theology in the Anglican tradition"
Gerald McDermott responds to Gillis Harp's take on "The Future of Orthodox Anglicanism."
We all know the dangers of the pot calling the kettle black. Professor Gillis Harp’s review of The Future of Orthodox Anglicanism is an illustration of this truism. He charges that the theology of several of its essays (mine and Barbara Gauthier’s) is “wishful” because they evince a “romantic sacramentalism” derived from “outdated” histories of Anglicanism. Our presentations are instances of “whimsical history” because they are not rooted in more recent scholarship. Thus we miss the facts that Richard Hooker was thoroughly Reformed and the 1662 BCP is “incurably Protestant.” Apparently Harp has missed the more recent scholarship of Nigel Voak, whose Richard Hooker and Reformed Theology (Oxford University Press, 2003) argues that while Hooker was “in part a Reformed theologian,” in his Lawes and late works “many other beliefs can be identified with him that distance him from the Reformed tradition” (319). Did Hooker really stray from what Harp calls “the broad mainstream of Reformed tradition”?
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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It’s possible, if unlikely, that a small economic-relief package will be approved in a post-election “lame duck” session of Congress. More likely, a broad rescue measure could be enacted early next year, particularly if Joe Biden wins the presidency and his fellow Democrats capture the Senate. Even if President Donald Trump were to win re-election, most analysts foresee at least a modest stimulus next year. Until then, economists worry that the United States risks repeating a mistake made after the 2008-2009 Great Recession, when limits on federal spending and layoffs by states and localities hindered a recovery. More aid to states and cities could forestall further layoffs. States, which are generally required to balance their budgets, must now do so with less revenue.
China’s government said Monday it will impose sanctions on U.S. military contractors including Boeing Co.’s defense unit and Lockheed Martin Corp. for supplying weapons to rival Taiwan, stepping up a feud with Washington over security and Beijing’s strategic ambitions.
I sometimes hate things in the newspaper myself, I might tell them. I had the wind knocked out of me Sunday morning, for example, when I saw the editorial-page endorsement of the incumbent president. A newspaper endorsement favoring a man who assaults the truth hourly, and calls journalists the enemy of the people, is impossible to understand. An endorsement that lays out all the reasons to oppose the worst president in the history of the nation – and, by implication, the reasons to support his fundamentally decent, mainstream, boring, honest opponent – and then says go ahead and vote for the worst president in history anyway is an utter mind-twister.
Paul Graves: With only eight days until Election Day, so much of daily thought and conversation centers on political matters. I still hear people question whether they’ll vote because they think their votes don’t matter. To that I say: Your vote may or may not matter in the final tally, but it can always matter to your sense of power, conscience and consequence.
With protesters chanting outside the meeting, the Coeur d’Alene City Council voted 4-2 Monday afternoon to require face coverings in indoor or outdoor public places, with certain exceptions, such as children under the age of 5 or people with medical conditions.
The moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected. And for the first time, the presence of water on the moon’s sunlit surface has been confirmed, scientists reported Monday.
Tensions between the European Union and Turkey have risen further after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan questioned the mental state of his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. Several EU officials harshly criticized Erdogan’s comments over the weekend and the bloc’s executive arm, the European Commission, said on Monday that the Turkish leader should change his approach if he does not want to derail the bloc’s attempts at renewed dialogue with his country.
Workers from the state Department of Agriculture managed to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the U.S. without suffering any stings or other injuries, the agency said Monday. The nest, located in Whatcom County near the Canadian border, created concern because the Asian giant hornets are large and their sting can be lethal, especially if a person is stung numerous times. The hornets also pose a huge threat to honey bees that pollinate many crops.
Women’s rights activists and many thousands of supporters held a fifth day of protests across Poland on Monday, defying pandemic restrictions to express their fury at a top court decision that tightens the predominantly Catholic nation’s already strict abortion law.
A week before U.S. elections, expectations and attention are unusually low in a foreign country that may have more at stake than any other. Many Mexicans would be glad to see a more neighborly president who hasn’t called Mexicans rapists or threatened to build a wall against them, but the relationship has survived a Donald Trump presidency, so there’s a feeling it can handle any outcome. In the streets, few can name Democratic candidate Joe Biden, but there’s a general sense that Mexicans are ready to take their chances with someone other than Trump.
The Red Dragon restaurant at 1406 W. Third Ave. began life as a Safeway store built in 1939, one of many buildings built by, or for, the giant grocery chain. The grocery store was closed vacated in the mid-1950s and the building became a state liquor store until around 1976. In 1978, a Chinese restaurant, Ding How, opened there. It was later called Chan’s Dragon Inn. Today, it’s the Red Dragon.
Folks keep telling me how easy Donald Trump has made my job. For four years, I’ve had these discussions in which we ruminate on the singular awfulness of that man and then the other person says, by way of consolation, “At least you never have to worry about finding something to write about.” ... No, Trump has made my job not easier, but more difficult. And four years of him have left me drained. Which is why I’m here to do something I’ve never done in the 26 years – spanning six presidential elections – I’ve had this platform. I’m here to endorse a candidate.
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