Wednesday, September 14, 2016

In the news, Friday, August 26, 2016


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from Breitbart
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from Coeur d'Alene Press

Canadian lumberjacks energize fair
The West Coast Lumberjack Show will continue throughout the duration of the fair. The shows begin at noon, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Idaho hero’s fate uncovered — in the Netherlands
Air Force pilot Breeden was shot down over Eygelshoven during WWII


Billy L. Joslin, Jr., 38, a Post Falls man with 19 prior bookings into Kootenai County Jail was arrested Thursday on suspicion of committing rape, attempted strangulation, burglary, kidnapping and robbery.

Gary Dixon was visibly shaking and in tears after a jury announced Thursday he is not guilty of one misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter. Dixon, 43, was charged with the misdemeanor in connection to a May 31, 2015, incident where he admitted to running a red light, which resulted in a collision that claimed the life of 37-year-old Coeur d'Alene resident Jeffrey Kirk.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)

Hillary Clinton: A Portrait of Power and Corruption
Joey Clark: Hillary Clinton strikes me at once as a Faustian figure, but rather than making a deal with the devil for eternal youth or unlimited knowledge, she has asked for state power. Spurred by her idealism to serve the poor and underprivileged, this victim of her own privilege has engaged in a bargain time immemorial: give me the power of the state to kill and steal and coerce other people with impunity, and I will use this power to bring social justice to the land. Like most before her who have made this pact, the  promise of power consumes and corrupts her noble goals.

Sleepless Nights and Public Service: The Real Lives of Entrepreneurs
All too often, we see "the nirvana fallacy" crop up among those in the political arena. Rather than permit creative destruction in the marketplace, some try to concoct an unattainable, idealized market harmony that ends up stifling everyone.

A Very Brief History of Private Disaster Relief in America

Five Differences Between the Alt-Right and Libertarianism
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from Financial Times

Yuval Noah Harari on big data, Google and the end of free will
Forget about listening to ourselves. In the age of data, algorithms have the answer, writes the historian Yuval Noah Harari

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from Forbes

France's Now Ended Burkini Ban Shows Where France Gets Assimilation Wrong
It may seem counter-intuitive, but France has been giving assimilation a bad name by having gendarmes force women to remove garments at the beach in order to “defend French culture.”

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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Publisher hunts for forgotten detective novelist Clifton Robbins
Abandoned Bookshop is seeking the family of a mystery author first published during the 1930s, in order to give them the royalties from new editions

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from The Heritage Foundation
from Independent Journal Review

76-Year-Old Veteran Takes His Own Life in Hospital Parking Lot After VA Turns Him Away

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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
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from KIRO 7 Eyewitness News (CBS Seattle)
from The Living Church

An appeal to those considering departure from the Anglican Church of Canada

Adoption, generosity, and the kingdom
Mutual restraint and generosity enabled this event to be plainly and obviously one of God’s own kingdom, where adoption is a dream for God’s people (Romans 8:23).

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from National Geographic

A 583,000-square-mile "no-take" zone: President Obama just quadrupled the size of a national marine monument off northwestern Hawaii.

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from New York Times

Painted as EpiPen Villain, Mylan’s Chief Says She’s No Such Thing
Heather Bresch, defending her company against criticism for sharply increasing the price of the life-saving device, is unapologetic. “I am running a business,” she says.

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from Republican National Committee (GOP)

U.S. Economy Even Worse Than Initially Reported
Today We Learned, The U.S. Economy Only Grew By 1.1 Percent In The Second Quarter, Revised Down From Previous Estimates

White House Won't Say Clinton's Use Of BleachBit To Delete Emails Inappropriate
Asked Directly About Clinton's Use Of BleachBit To Delete Emails Off Her Private Server, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest Dodged.

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from Tribal Tribune (Nespelem, WA)

xsmrimstin Summer Research Academy concludes with first Colville research conference

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from The Wall Street Journal

Burden of Health-Care Costs Moves to the Middle Class
Rising out-of-pocket health care costs ‘means less money for other things’

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from The Washington Post

Obama creates the largest protected place on the planet, in Hawaii
President Obama on Friday created the largest ecologically protected area on the planet when he expanded a national marine monument in his native Hawaii to encompass more than half a million square miles.

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)  [Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Fierce Rivalry Between Kelly And O’Reilly Makes Future At Fox Uncertain
Megyn Kelly is reportedly weighing whether she will stay on at Fox News when her contract ends, and if she stays, Bill O’Reilly may be out the door. According to Vanity Fair, a fierce rivalry exists between Kelly and O’Reilly, though neither news personality has confirmed that is the case.

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from YES! Magazine

Why We Need Tiny Colleges
Could smaller—and cheaper—schools produce more thoughtful, engaged, and compassionate human beings?

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from Zero Hedge
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

How Obamacare Destroyed The Middle Class In One Chart

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