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Bruce Friesen
Bruce Friesen is Parish Administrator at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga, California. He has been a champion for the practice in church and civic communities for almost two years and has participated in more than 20 Living Room Conversations.
Oct 14 2021
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Former NPR CEO opens up about liberal media bias
Most reporters and editors are liberal — a now-dated Pew Research Center poll found that liberals outnumber conservatives in the media by some 5 to 1, and that comports with my own anecdotal experience at National Public Radio. When you are liberal, and everyone else around you is as well, it is easy to fall into groupthink on what stories are important, what sources are legitimate and what
New York Post (Opinion)
Feb 03 2022
News
Mo Brooks: Biden Admin Spent Over $2 Billion to Transport Illegal Aliens Across U.S.
Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “The Evening Edit,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) reacted to the Biden administration flying illegal immigrants across the United States.
Brooks lamented that billions of dollars have been exhausted on illegal aliens rather than the American people. He added there was “no end to how much damage the Biden administration seeks to do.”
“It’s now more than
Breitbart News
Oct 13 2021
News
Social Security payments to jump most in 39 years as inflation surges
Millions of retirees and other Americans receiving Social Security benefits in 2022 are set to receive the biggest payment increase in four decades, following a pandemic-driven inflation spike.
The Social Security Administration said Wednesday that next year's cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will be 5.9%. That amounts to a monthly increase of $92 for the average retired Wednesday,
Fox Business
Mar 31 2021
Analysis
Human Rights Campaign Honors International Transgender Day of Visibility 2021
Today, the Human Rights Campaign honors International Transgender Day of Visibility. Held annually on March 31, International Transgender Day of Visibility is a time to celebrate transgender and non-binary people around the globe and acknowledge the determination it takes to live openly and authentically. Advocates also lift up the violence and discrimination that many transgender and non-
Human Rights Campaign
Dec 30 2021
Analysis
How the Pursuit of Unknown Viruses Risks Triggering the Next Pandemic
"I CAN FEEL THE fear — fear of infections,” Tian Junhua said as he gazed wide-eyed at a clump of bats clinging to the wall of a dark cave. “Because when you find the viruses, you are also most easily exposed to the viruses.” Tian, a researcher for the Wuhan Center for Disease Control who was featured in a 2019 video released by the Chinese state-owned media company SMG, described his work
The Intercept
Mar 24 2020
News
The coronavirus isn’t alive. That’s why it’s so hard to kill.
Viruses have spent billions of years perfecting the art of surviving without living — a frighteningly effective strategy that makes them a potent threat in today’s world.
That’s especially true of the deadly new coronavirus that has brought global society to a screeching halt. It’s little more than a packet of genetic material surrounded by a spiky protein shell one-thousandth the width
Washington Post
Nov 16 2021
News
GOP Reps Call on Top Biden Admin Officials To Testify on Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal
A coalition of Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress is demanding that senior Biden administration officials appear on Capitol Hill to be questioned about the bungled U.S. exit from Afghanistan, which cost American lives and left hundreds of Americans stranded in the Taliban-controlled country.
Rep. Michael McCaul (Texas), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs
Washington Free Beacon
Nov 16 2021
Analysis
How you could see cleaner air and water with Biden’s new infrastructure law
President Joe Biden signed into law on Monday a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes $350 billion to address long-ignored environmental threats. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is the largest sum in recent memory directed at cleaning up pollution, from replacing lead pipes to capping methane-spewing oil wells.
The funding could make a serious dent in air and water
Vox
Jun 15 2021
Opinion
This Is Your Brain on Critical Race Theory
Last week, the actor Tom Hanks responded to calls for a more robust accounting of America’s racial history by penning a piece in the New York Times about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. “For all my study,” Hanks conceded, “I never read a page of any school history book about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black
National Review (News)