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from The American Spectator
Yes, Carly Fiorina Was Fired
The real question is why wasn’t Hillary?
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Yes, Carly Fiorina Was Fired
The real question is why wasn’t Hillary?
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from Breitbart
GAY GROUP CANCELS CHARITY BECAUSE GAY HOTEL OWNERS SPOKE WELL OF TED CRUZ
Pictures of Bill Clinton Giving a $500K Speech in Moscow
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from The Daily Caller
Bruce Jenner: ‘I’m A Republican And A Christian’
After months of speculation that he was transitioning into a woman, Bruce Jenner confirmed the news in an interview with Diane Sawyer that aired on ABC Friday night, clarifying that he is also a Republican and a Christian.
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Seven Big Failed Environmentalist Predictions
I recently discussed what it would take to prove that global warming is actually occurring, that it is caused by humans, and that it will be catastrophic. But that’s not the full picture. To understand why so many of us are so skeptical about global warming, you have to understand the environmentalists’ larger track record: a long series of failed predictions and bogus prognostications of doom. It has been 45 years now since the first Earth Day. You would think that in this time frame, given the urgency with which we were told we had to confront the supposed threats to the environment—Harvard biologist George Wald told us, “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken”—at least one of the big environmental disasters should have come to fruition. Fifteen years ago, an article in Reason took a look at claims like this from the first Earth Day in 1970. The specific quotations have been helpfully excerpted here and have been bounced around a lot on the Internet and on conservative talk radio for the last few days. It is a comical litany of forecasting gone wrong.
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from First Things
CONFESSION AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. “I was perhaps twelve years old when my mother first told me about my great grandfather’s grisly slaying.” We had talked before about the massacres. But that particular news hit home and unsettled my American-girl mind."
from The Federalist
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, online magazine
Seven Big Failed Environmentalist Predictions
I recently discussed what it would take to prove that global warming is actually occurring, that it is caused by humans, and that it will be catastrophic. But that’s not the full picture. To understand why so many of us are so skeptical about global warming, you have to understand the environmentalists’ larger track record: a long series of failed predictions and bogus prognostications of doom. It has been 45 years now since the first Earth Day. You would think that in this time frame, given the urgency with which we were told we had to confront the supposed threats to the environment—Harvard biologist George Wald told us, “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken”—at least one of the big environmental disasters should have come to fruition. Fifteen years ago, an article in Reason took a look at claims like this from the first Earth Day in 1970. The specific quotations have been helpfully excerpted here and have been bounced around a lot on the Internet and on conservative talk radio for the last few days. It is a comical litany of forecasting gone wrong.
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CONFESSION AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. “I was perhaps twelve years old when my mother first told me about my great grandfather’s grisly slaying.” We had talked before about the massacres. But that particular news hit home and unsettled my American-girl mind."
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from Forbes
Exercise Can't Save Us: Our Sugar Intake Is The Real Culprit, Say Experts
In a fascinating and scorching editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, three authors argue that the myth that exercise is the key to weight loss – and to health – is erroneous and pervasive, and that it must end. The evidence that diet matters more than exercise is now overwhelming, they write, and has got to be heeded: We can exercise to the moon and back but still be fat for all the sugar and carbs we consume. And perhaps even more jarring is that we can be a normal weight and exercise, and still be unhealthy if we’re eating poorly. So, they say, we need a basic reboot of our understanding of health, which has to involve the food industry’s powerful PR “machinery,” since that was part of the problem to begin with. The major point the team makes – which they say the public doesn’t really understand – is that exercise in and of itself doesn’t really lead to weight loss. It may lead to a number of excellent health effects, but weight loss – if you’re not also restricting calories – isn’t one of them. “Regular physical activity reduces the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia and some cancers by at least 30%,” they write. “However, physical activity does not promote weight loss.”
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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Rescue Christians) (Shoebat.com)
[Information from this site may be questionable.]
(FFMU) (Rescue Christians) (Shoebat.com)
[Information from this site may be questionable.]
Hilary Clinton: Christians In America Must Deny Their Faith In Christianity
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from Freedom Foundation (WA)
from The Heritage Foundation
State Says Bakers Should Pay $135,000 for Refusing to Bake Cake for Same-Sex Wedding
An Oregon administrative law judge recommended today that the bakers who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding should be fined $135,000.
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from KING 5 (NBC Seattle)
House approves reforms for monitoring of criminals
A bill that sets basic ground rules for the use of electronic monitoring of criminals in Washington State is on its way to Governor Inslee's office. The bill would ban the use of home detention for suspects in violent or sexual crimes. It also would set new standards for the private monitoring industry.
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from RT (Russia Today)
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
US to deliver F-35 jets to Israel to maintain military edge
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US to deliver F-35 jets to Israel to maintain military edge
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from The Spokesman-Review
Teen arrested for University High School bomb threats
An 18-year-old girl was arrested late Friday for writing bomb threats in University High School bathrooms three times in April, causing the school to be evacuated twice. Calynn E. Moore is facing three felony counts of threats to bomb or injure property. Deputies believe she is responsible for threats found in two different women’s bathrooms on April 13, 14 and 20. Moore is a student at the school.
Spokane police arrest second shooting suspect
Spokane police have arrested the second suspect in connection with the shooting of a man in a pickup truck near 13th Avenue and Cowley Street Tuesday evening. Keantray D. Bryant-Muellner, 18, was booked into the Spokane County Jail on charges of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree robbery Friday afternoon.
Missing elderly man found dead near Tekoa
Noel Edward Campbell, 80, a Coeur d’Alene Tribe elder missing since early April, was found dead Thursday in a forested area a few miles north of Tekoa, Washington, off of Stateline Road. Campbell, who had diabetes and was partially blind, last was seen at the Gateway Café in Plummer around April 2 and was reported missing April 16.
Statue of Liberty being evacuated due to suspicious package
Huge magma chamber spied under Yellowstone supervolcano
Scientists have spied a vast reservoir of hot, partly molten rock beneath the supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park. It’s big enough to fill the Grand Canyon 11 times over.
USGS report: Man-made earthquakes on the rise in Oklahoma
Oklahoma has experienced the most earthquakes thought to be triggered by human activity in the eastern and central United States, according to a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey. Last year, the state registered more quakes of magnitude 3 or higher than California.
Drone kills of hostages won’t deter continued U.S. strikes
A fiery barrage of missiles from CIA drones inadvertently killed two Western hostages, including an American, during an attack on a suspected al-Qaida hideout in northwestern Pakistan, but U.S. officials said Thursday that they won’t stop using drones to target and kill terrorists.
Spat deepens among county commissioners
A political battle over the proposed sales tax increase to fund public transit has prompted allegations by Al French that his colleagues used personal cellphones to circumvent public meeting laws. Commissioners Todd Mielke and Shelly O’Quinn deny those claims and say the political cracks may run deeper than a controversial ballot measure.
The alarm at former President George H.W. Bush’s Texas home was broken for at least 13 months before the Secret Service fixed it, according to a report released Thursday by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general.
Volcano in Chile erupts after 42 years
A handful of people who ignored an evacuation order shoveled ash off roofs, but otherwise Ensenada appeared a ghost town after almost all of its 1,500 residents fled to safer ground following twin blasts from the Calbuco volcano.
Stricter water limits in offing if L.A. goals unmet
Los Angeles water officials approved new watering restrictions Thursday that could be imposed if the city’s conservation efforts flag in the coming summer months.
Loretta Lynch confirmed 5 months after appointment as attorney general
Loretta Lynch won confirmation as the nation’s first black female attorney general Thursday from a Senate that forced her to wait more than five months for the title and remained divided to the end. The 56-43 vote installs Lynch, now U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, at the Justice Department to replace Eric Holder.
Arizona sheriff admits investigation into judge’s wife
In a bombshell revelation, Sheriff Joe Arpaio acknowledged Thursday that his office was behind a secret investigation into the wife of the judge presiding over a racial-profiling lawsuit against the brash Arizona lawman known for his anti-immigration patrols.
Petraeus gets probation, fine for military leak
Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced Thursday to two years’ probation and fined $100,000 for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
Michael Brown’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Thursday, opening a new chapter in the legal battle over the shooting that killed their son and sparked a national protest movement about the way police treat blacks.
House asks to question Hillary Clinton
A Republican-led special House committee asked Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to answer questions in May and June on her use of private emails while secretary of state and her response to the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
U.S. weighs training Iraqis to guide airstrikes
The administration has been reluctant to put U.S. special forces at risk by deploying them on the ground in Iraq to call in strikes against targets associated with Islamic State. At the same time, officials have been reluctant to rely on the Iraqis for a job that requires lengthy training.
Ghostly Armenian remembrances haunt the nation’s capital, heartbreaking, but often incomplete. An abandoned bank building stands empty downtown, the site of a long-planned Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial that’s buried beneath spectacularly acrimonious litigation. It’s near the White House, whose centennial commemorative statement today will omit the word “genocide.” On Capitol Hill, too, lawmakers go only so far in remembering what started in the Ottoman Empire on April 24, 1915.
EU commits ships, aid to immigrants
Late to the rescue, European leaders came through Thursday with pledges of big ships, aircraft and a tripling in funds to save lives in the Mediterranean after the deaths at sea of more than 1,300 migrants over the past three weeks, and agreed to lay the groundwork for military action against traffickers.
Felts Field hangar to include museum, aviation services
Spokane airport and business officials Thursday announced construction of a $2.8 million hangar at Felts Field that will house aviation business and a long-sought aerospace museum. A group of three businessmen involved in aviation in Spokane are building the 40,000-square-foot hangar which will be known as Felts Field General Aviation Flight Center. One of three hangar bays will become the home of Honor Point Military and Aerospace Museum, which will be seeking donations to help pay for build-out of its interior space. The project calls for leasing 10,000 square feet of the hangar to Honor Point. see also http://honorpoint.org/
Earthquakes shake North Idaho
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.1 earthquake at 7:32 p.m. about 14 miles southeast of Sandpoint, east of Lake Pend Oreille, just south of Kilroy Creek. The second quake was recorded at 10:43 p.m. The 4.2-magnitude quake’s epicenter was within Lake Pend Oreille, just west of Hope. A third earthquake, magnitude 3.3, was reported eight miles east-southeast of Sandpoint at 1:28 Friday morning.
Fire departments bill trucker for hazmat cleanup
Local fire departments are asking a trucking company to pay for overtime and other costs related to a leaking tanker truck that forced the closure of Interstate 90 for 18 hours in September. The tanker truck was pulled over Sept. 14 after another driver reported a strong smell emanating from it. A 6-mile stretch of the freeway was closed in both directions while the truck was parked at the Washington State Patrol weigh station and Port of Entry near Liberty Lake.
Local fire departments are asking a trucking company to pay for overtime and other costs related to a leaking tanker truck that forced the closure of Interstate 90 for 18 hours in September. The tanker truck was pulled over Sept. 14 after another driver reported a strong smell emanating from it. A 6-mile stretch of the freeway was closed in both directions while the truck was parked at the Washington State Patrol weigh station and Port of Entry near Liberty Lake.
Requiring employers in Spokane to provide workers paid sick leave took another step forward this week. The Spokane City Council on Monday approved the formation of a committee comprising health, labor and business representatives to help craft a paid-leave law.
South Hill shooting suspect held on $1 million bond
Witnesses saw Diandre R. Johnson before and after a shooting on the South Hill Tuesday night, and several told police he was angry and threatening to kill someone. Johnson, 18, appeared in court Thursday and was ordered held in the Spokane County Jail on $1 million bond on a charge of attempted murder.
Indicted state Auditor Troy Kelley might have pay withheld during voluntary leave
A spokesman for Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday they believe the state has the authority to withhold pay from indicted state Auditor Troy Kelley, based on legal advice received from the state attorney general’s office.
Inslee calls special session starting Wednesday; budget negotiations to resume sooner
The Washington Legislature will go into overtime to handle key issues, including the $38 billion budget needed to keep the state running for two years starting July 1. Legislators will wrap up their regular session, which could have gone until midnight Sunday, sometime this afternoon. Gov. Jay Inslee will call them back into special session starting Wednesday for as many as 30 days.
In brief: Cybersecurity training program to launch
The University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene will offer cybersecurity training to professionals in the information technology field. The program begins in August. It’s geared toward people with at least two to four years of work experience who need additional training to perform security analyst work.
Potter, ex-leader of Jobs Plus, honored
Bob Potter, who led Jobs Plus Inc. for 15 years, was inducted into the Idaho Hall of Fame on Thursday at the economic development corporation’s annual luncheon at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Potter, 87, retired as president of Jobs Plus in early 2003. He is credited with bringing over 70 companies to North Idaho, including Buck Knives and Center Partners, a large call center
Baby sitter acquitted in child’s death
A North Idaho baby sitter accused of killing a 2-year-old in her care has been found not guilty. Natasha N. Hodges, 31, wept as the 2nd District Court jury read the verdict Wednesday, clearing her of first-degree murder. The trial stemmed from the Aug. 30, 2012, death of Rylee Mingo.
Theia, dog left for dead, has surgery
A stray dog that was bashed in the head and left for dead in a ditch has had surgery at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital. The dog used to roam the streets of Moses Lake and survived on food scraps. It is believed she was hit by a car in March and that someone apparently struck her in the head with a hammer to put her out of her misery. The dog was buried in a field but somehow survived and showed up at a nearby farm with a dislocated jaw, leg injuries and a caved-in sinus cavity.
Nasdaq beats record set during dot-com bubble
Fifteen years, one month and 13 days. That’s how long it took the Nasdaq composite index to close above the record it set at the apex of the dot-com bubble. The Nasdaq rose 20.89 points, or 0.4 percent, to 5,056.06, above the record of 5,048.62 it set on March 10, 2000.
Business in brief: GuestHouse deal extends Red Lion Hotels’ reach
Red Lion Hotels will buy 73 franchise license agreements for $8.5 million from GuestHouse International LLC.
Jobless aid numbers signal fewer layoffs
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was little changed last week, evidence that employers are cutting few jobs.
Ford cuts plant shift, citing sales slowdown
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it’s laying off 700 workers at a Michigan assembly plant because of slow sales of the small cars and hybrids it makes.
Starbucks reports higher quarterly profit
The Seattle-based chain reported a higher quarterly profit Thursday, with sales jumping 7 percent at established U.S. stores. The company said much of the increase came from higher spending per visit.
Comcast likely to end bid for Time Warner Cable
Bloomberg News and the New York Times both said Thursday that Comcast is planning to drop its $45.2 billion bid to purchase Time Warner Cable after pushback from regulators.
New home sales, mortgage rates drop in March
Sales of new U.S. homes plummeted in March, as the spring buying season opened with sharp declines in the Northeast and South. The Commerce Department said Thursday that new-home sales fell 11.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000.
Shawn Vestal: Spreading a little free literature in honor of Get Lit!
Amy Goodman: The flying postman’s dire message
Editorial: Lawmakers never have time for campaign finance reform
Bruce Jenner says, ’For all intents and purposes, I am a woman’
Bruce Jenner’s much-anticipated ABC interview with Diane Sawyer kicked off Friday night with some tears and an expected revelation. “For all intents and purposes,” Jenner said, “I am a woman.”
Obituary: Mccall, Helen Cora (Cragun)
30 Oct 1927 - 16 Apr 2015 Chattaroy
Obituary: Rattray, Lorraine Elizabeth (Landt)
11 Jun 1921 - 16 Apr 2015 Reardan
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