| In Wisconsin, will Walker's reelection bid serve as conservatism's next test? Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:52 PM PST ![In Wisconsin, will Walker's reelection bid serve as conservatism's next test?]( "In Wisconsin, will Walker's reelection bid serve as conservatism's next test?") Of all the states Hillary Clinton lost, perhaps none was as shocking as Wisconsin, with its long history of progressive politics. While Democrats still outnumber Republicans here overall, that's not the case among elected officials. Scott Walker won the governorship here as part of a nationwide Republican wave in 2010, and immediately set about turning the state's finances around, eliminating a projected $3.6 billion deficit without raising taxes, by cutting funding for everything from schools to environmental research.
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| A sweet note of religious harmony in Indonesia Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:15 PM PST ![A sweet note of religious harmony in Indonesia]( "A sweet note of religious harmony in Indonesia") In Myanmar (Burma), the Muslim minority is on the run from extremists in the Buddhist majority. In nearby Malaysia, some in the Muslim majority refuse to do business with the Hindu minority. Amid such religious tensions in Southeast Asia, it is worth noting that the Constitutional Court of Indonesia issued a ruling Nov. 7 that upholds religious freedom.
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| Why both sides of debate say Devin Kelley should not have owned a gun Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:08 PM PST ![Why both sides of debate say Devin Kelley should not have owned a gun]( "Why both sides of debate say Devin Kelley should not have owned a gun") Just down the street from the First Baptist Church, where a gunman killed 26 parishioners on Sunday, convenience store clerk Chris Speer is still trying to sort through his feelings about how a man who the federal government and state of Texas said could not legally own a gun, could walk into a store and buy a Ruger assault-style rifle. Devin Kelley was court-martialed and spent time in a military brig for assaulting his baby stepson and once smuggled weapons onto an Air Force Base in New Mexico after making death threats against commanders.
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