Thursday, April 6, 2017

RSN: Garrison Keillor | The Beauty of Adversity




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Garrison Keillor | The Beauty of Adversity 
A Republican townhall meeting. (photo: AP) 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "And now spring comes tripping along, and thanks to the brutal winter, we will be better than ever, fly higher thanks to having sunk so low, perhaps even achieve magnificence of some sort. This is the theory. Adversity makes us stronger." 
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UN Security Council Meets on Syria 'Gas Attack,' Pressure on US to Act 
Al Jazeera 
Excerpt: "The UN Security Council on Wednesday opened a meeting on a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 72 of people, including 20 children." 
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LGBTQ Employees Protected by Federal Civil Rights Act, Appeals Court Rules 
Barbara Campbell, NPR 
Campbell writes: "Teacher Kimberly Hively alleged Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend, Ind., denied her a full-time job because she is a lesbian. On Tuesday, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said such discrimination violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 8-3 ruling is the first by a federal appeals court to recognize the law as protecting workplace rights of LGBT employees." 
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Trump Administration Attacks Rule Protecting Retirees From Getting Ripped Off 
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress 
Covert writes: "As things currently stand, a financial adviser helping a retiree pick investments doesn't have to put the retiree's interests first. Instead, the adviser can steer his client toward products that make him money but that might not be the smartest investment choice. This conflicted advice has been estimated to cost Americans $17 billion a year." 
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Allegations of Plagiarism: Section of Neil Gorsuch's 2006 Book Copied From a Law Review Article 
Chris Geidner, BuzzFeed 
Geidner writes: "A short section in Judge Neil Gorsuch's 2006 book appears to copy - at times word-for-word - from a 1984 law review article by a lawyer in Indiana." 
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Mexican Journalist Seeking Asylum for Facing Death Threats Detained at US Border for 60 Days 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Martin Mendez Pineda is seeking political asylum over death threats in one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists." 
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Keep It Public: Resisting the Privatization of Public Lands 
Ethan Linck, Jacobin 
Linck writes: "Public lands place the common good over the profitable. We should fight any attempt to privatize them." 
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