The "safe" BPA-free plastics we've been using the past few years may be even worse than the ones they replaced.
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The "safe" BPA-free plastics we've been using the past few years may be even worse than the ones they replaced.
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Democrats in California really don’t get economics:
California lawmakers are targeting the expected windfall that companies in the state would see under the federal tax overhaul with a bill that would require businesses to turn over half to the state.
There are two problems with this approach. First, taxes are a cost of doing business. Profit is the margin added to cost that allows a business to keep doing business. So if California raises costs by confiscating federal tax money businesses would have saved under the new federal tax plan, those businesses will simply calculate their prices based on the higher cost — and pass the increase on to consumers.
In other words, the citizens of California would pay the new state tax, not businesses.
Second, the California assembly assumes that business owners will just sit there and take it, which is observably not the case.
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Maybe the president wouldn’t have ruffled so many feathers if he’d used the preferred term of the Peace Corps, “fecalized environments.”
Apparently, that’s a thing.
You will find more statistics at Statista
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THE LAMENT of Habakkuk and his vision of supernatural war are the focus of this week’s Bible study.
Click here for the notes and audio.
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No, not Hillary’s illegal email server. That was bad enough, but we’re talking about the use of America’s intelligence community by one political party against another.
Click here for the notes and audio for this week’s P.I.D. Radio.
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MORE PEOPLE believe in ET than in the God of the Bible. Josh Peck, co-author with Derek of The Day the Earth Stands Still, discusses why a couple of Christian researchers and authors spent half a year writing a book about UFOs and “alien” abduction.
Click here for the audio podcast, or click here for the video version of the interview.
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Evidence points to the Obama administration using the FBI and the NSA to spy on Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.
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The Pentagon is reportedly concerned about a weapon Russia may be developing — an underwater drone designed to create a 1,500-foot high tsunami that would contaminate a wide area with radioactive cobalt-60.
Also: Mike Pence in Israel; missing FBI texts; missing NSA data; and M7.9 quake off Alaskan coast.
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Google has suspended a fact-checking feature on news results after a "malfunction" caused a noticeable slant toward a progressive definition of "real news."
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Media has finally noticed that the collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign was between Hillary's campaign, the DNC, and the FBI.
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In the same week the World Economic Forum’s discussion of global warming was disrupted by heavy snow, climate scientists debate the merits of spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to cool the planet (while reminding us that chemtrails are an Internet conspiracy theory) and publish research on the environmental impact of sandwiches.
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THE SOJOURN in Egypt was such a defining moment in the history of Israel and Judah that you would think the last thing Judeans would want is to go back there. You would be wrong.
Click here for the notes and audio for this week’s Bible study.
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WE FINALLY got around to watching two of the recent movies in the Superman franchise. It reminded us how obvious it is that pop culture is doing a far better job of selling theology than the church.
Click here for the notes and audio for this week’s edition of P.I.D. Radio.
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The gap in the scriptures between the ages of 12 and 30 have led to a number of theories about his “lost years” and true identity. Jack Davila-Ashcraft, author of The Messianic Secret: Discovering the Lost Years and True Identity of Jesus, explains why historical documents and the New Testament actually do reveal the the Messianic Secret.
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The Jerusalem Post reports that former Secretary of State John Kerry is negotiating directly with the Palestinian Authority, reportedly encouraging Mahmoud Abbas to 'stay strong and do not give in to Trump.'
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White people who do yoga are perpetuating systemic racism, according to a religious studies professor at Michigan State. She’s missing the real point.
Also: House Intelligence Committee votes to release Nunes Memo; another head rolls at FBI; and Super Blue Blood Moon over US early Wednesday morning.
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Like him or hate him, President Trump's State of the Union address was unquestionably the best speech of his life.
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Carl Gallups, author of Gods and Thrones, joins us to analyze the State of the Union speech, Donald Trump's first year in office, and the opposition of the deep state to the president and his supporters.
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The memo is out. Here are some key takeaways, courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
- The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.
- Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.
- The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.
- DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.
The key point: The FBI did not disclose to the FISA court that the information it used in the warrant application was opposition research on Trump paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That was a gross abuse of the power of the FBI and DOJ, which employed a private contractor (Fusion-GPS) to dig dirt and gave it access to NSA intercept data on American citizens.
This memo doesn’t include everything the HIC knows about the matter, suggesting that this is just the tip of the iceberg. There may be more political wrangling over this in the months ahead.
But that’s not the iceberg. Consider these points from the excellent Last Refuge:
The House Intelligence Memo is simply using the example of currently known FISA abuse to open the door and show the U.S. electorate how corrupt this unaccountable institution has become. Behind that door are very uncomfortable realities for all of those who constructed the weaponized agency; and also those who have benefited from it.
Consider:
When IRS head Lois Lerner unlawfully sent the 21 CD-ROM’s containing the “Schedule B” filings of over a million Americans to the Obama administration, the recipient was the DOJ. (LINK) It was the DOJ who was chosen to utilize the political lists in their “Secret Research Project“.
When U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen demanded DOJ lawyers attend ethics classes due to their false representations to his court — he was highlighting a corrupt DOJ. (LINK)
When the case against the Bundy family was recently thrown out of court, it was the “gross malicious conduct” of the DOJ highlighted by the judge. (LINK)
This is the same DOJ who denied their own Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, the right to conduct oversight on DOJ internal action. (LINK – pdf) The expressed Justice Department intent in every action has been an attempt to remain unaccountable.
The U.S. Justice Department has become a rogue agency weaponized against its political opposition in almost every jurisdiction.
The Russian collusion investigation is a decoy to distract us from a scandal that is far bigger than Watergate, which brought down a sitting president.
Under Richard Nixon, five guys broke into DNC offices at the Watergate hotel to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg of “Pentagon papers” fame.
Under Barack Obama, the surveillance powers of the NSA and legal authority of the Department of Justice were deployed against the presidential campaign of Donald Trump — to the point of actively trying to sabotage his administration after the election in November of 2016.
This is yuge.
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A quick analysis of the Nunes memo, which was released today at the direction of President Trump. As we thought, it summarizes an abuse of power by the DOJ and FBI under President Obama in an effort to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.
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