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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
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Zhores Medvedev's Life: A Chilling Reminder of How the Soviets Weaponized Psychiatry against Dissidents
The New York Times obituary opened with a simple recitation of facts: “Zhores A. Medvedev, the Soviet biologist, writer and dissident who was declared insane, confined to a mental institution and stripped of his citizenship in the 1970s after attacking a Stalinist pseudoscience, died … in London.” Zhores Medvedev, his twin brother Roy (still alive at 93), the physicist Andrei Sakharov, and the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were leading dissidents. They courageously put their lives on the line to smuggle manuscripts out of the Soviet Union. They wanted the wider world to learn the truth about the “the workers’ paradise” that so many Western intellectuals (some deluded, others having gone over to the dark side) praised. A generation of Americans has been born since the Soviet Union, the USSR that President Ronald Reagan boldly labeled “the evil empire,” ceased to exist. They have little to no concept of how ferociously the USSR’s communist tyranny suppressed dissent. As the Times obituary of Dr. Medvedev illustrates, one Soviet technique of oppression was to declare that political dissidents were insane. They were then incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals where they were tormented and tortured.
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" Shows Why Central Planning Goes Awry
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Tim Burton's stop-motion musical, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Few movies—and even fewer holiday movies—teach so well how even well-intentioned meddling can derail. It’s fundamentally a film about the dispersed nature of knowledge and the dangers of centralization.
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from Idaho Press
Newspaper in Nampa, Idaho
Rick Just: What do you look forward to at Christmas? Do you celebrate with friends and family, exchange gifts, attend parties? In Idaho Territory, it was much the same, though the details were a bit different.
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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)
Cassano's set to close Christmas Eve, Family Promise will use space for new shelter
Monday will mark the end of an era for one historic Spokane business. Cassano's Grocery will close its doors on Mission on Christmas Eve to make way for homeless families to move in. Cassano's has been serving families in Spokane for nearly 100 years. For the last ten, owner Carl Naccarato has welcomed them to his relatively new store on Mission. But for the last three years, he's been looking to sell. That search came to an end this year, when Family Promise executive director Steve Allen stopped by.
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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.‘Very Possible Shutdown Will Go Beyond the 28th, into the New Congress’
The partial government shutdown that officially began at midnight on Friday could carry on into the New Year, Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the current acting White House chief of staff, told host Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s very possible this shutdown will go beyond the 28th [of December] and into the new Congress,” said Mulvaney on Sunday morning.
Referee Charged with Racism After Forcing a Student Athlete to Have His Hair Cut
A New Jersey high school referee has been suspended after a video recently went viral that appears to show him ordering a student to cut his hair in order to participate in a wrestling match. After the orders, the student, a young black man named Andrew Johnson, had his dreadlock-style hair cut by a school official — and then proceeded to win the wrestling match.
Paul Gives Spirited Defense of Trump’s Decision to Pull Troops Out of Syria, Afghanistan
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) strongly backed President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this week to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and Afghanistan, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday morning’s “State of the Union” that American policing of Muslim lands “engenders more terrorism.” “I’m very proud of the president. This is exactly what he promised, and I think the people agree with him,” said Paul. “I think the people actually are with [President Trump]. Washington’s against him, but this wouldn’t be the first time Washington doesn’t represent the people very well.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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