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By: Nina Godlewski – ibtimes.com – December 18, 2017 If you take at least three photos of yourself a day and post them to social media, you might have an acute case of selfitis, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. The study was conducted to try and verify a hoax story…

By: Peter Hasson – dailycaller.com – December 18, 2017 President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is set to be released on Monday. A copy of the document obtained by The Daily Caller reveals a stark contrast between President Trump’s America First National Security Strategy and former President Barack Obama’s most recent national security strategy in 2015. Renewed Focus On…

By Christopher Carbone – foxnews.com – December 18, 2017 Twitter has begun enforcing new rules to combat hateful and abusive content today and a number of well-known far-right organizations and users were suspended. Kurt the ‘CyberGuy’ comments on new services and apps that do. Twitter began enforcing new rules to combat hateful and abusive content Monday and a number of…

By: Yuval Levin – nationalreview.com – December 18, 2017 The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in official documents being prepared for next year’s budget. The story goes on to complicate this claim a little bit, noting, for instance,…

  By: Leah Barkoukis – townhall.com – December 18, 2017 Democrats are trying to take out their own in the race for Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District…all because he’s not progressive enough by the party’s standards. According to a report in Politico, Lipinski is up for one of the toughest political fights of his life against the much more leftist candidate…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – December 15, 2017 Late last night, while reading a stream of apocalyptic rhetoric about the repeal of net neutrality and the “end of the internet as we know it,” I reached the shattering conclusion that one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies was wrong. The movie is the 2004 Brad…

By: Tiffany Stanley – politico.com Jen Hatmaker is one of the most popular religious figures in America—and she is paying a steep price for speaking out for what she believes. Last fall, Jen Hatmaker, a popular evangelical author and speaker, started getting death threats. Readers mailed back her books to her home address, but not before some burned the pages…

By: Deborah Barfield Berry – usatoday.com December 17, 2017 Republicans were touting plans Sunday to vote on a measure this week that would overhaul the nation’s tax system and give them a much-needed legislative victory as Congress wraps up the year. Sen. John Cornyn, one of the Senate Republican leaders, said he’s confident the Senate will approve the tax bill and vote on…

From: economist.com – December 7, 2017 The evidence is mixed; it seems clear, however, that they are making us unhappier FOR many it is a reflex as unconscious as breathing. Hit a stumbling-block during an important task (like, say, writing a column)? The hand reaches for the phone and opens the social network of choice. A blur of time passes,…

By: Nancy Gondo – investors.com – November 20, 2017 Many investors are asking: Should I buy Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies? And if not, why? Bitcoin, the leading digital money, surged to a new record high above $17,000 Dec. 7 and was recently trading around $15,000. It’s now risen nearly 1,550% this year and is up 6,540% since a low in January 2015. Nearly every…

By: Alexander Bolton, Naomi Jagoda and Scott Wong – thehill.com – December 14, 2017 Obstacles emerge as GOP races to tax finish A revolt from two Republican senators concerned about the child tax credit and the absence of two more Republican senators because of illness has injected fresh uncertainty into the GOP’s tax bill push. The Senate was expected to…