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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
A closer look at solar panels opens a wide array of questions that need answers.
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LEFT BIAS
Vexed and Troubled Englishmen
How should we remember the Puritans?
“Every generation imagines its own version of the Puritans’ errand.” Andrew Delbanco reviews Daniel T. Roders’s recent work “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon,” and discusses how historically we’ve misappropriated the Puritans for our own uses."
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from Rasmussen Reports
Impeachment Hearings Haven’t Swayed Voters; Many Ask, ‘Where’s Biden?’
The House impeachment hearings haven’t moved voters so far, with a plurality still expecting President Trump to be reelected next November. The number who thinks the president’s impeachment is likely hasn’t changed, but there’s sizable support for expanding the hearings to include the activities of Joe Biden and his son. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 18% of Likely U.S. Voters think Trump will be impeached before serving his full term in office. Seventeen percent (17%) felt that way in September, down from a high of 29% when Rasmussen Reports first asked this question in late December 2017. Forty-five percent (45%) still believe the president will be reelected in 2020, basically unchanged in surveys over the past year. Twenty-six percent (26%) say he will be defeated by the Democratic nominee, but this finding has been trending down from 33% in late July to 28% two months ago. Meanwhile, 46% of voters think the House hearing should be expanded to look at the involvement of Biden and his son Hunter in Ukrainian political affairs. Forty-three percent (43%) disagree, while 11% are undecided.
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from la Republica
A massive scandal: how Assange, his doctors, lawyers and visitors were all spied on for the U.S.
It sounds like a James Bond movie, but it really happened. Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks journalists and every single lawyer, reporter, politician, artist and physician who visited the founder of WikiLeaks at the Ecuadorian embassy over the last seven years was subjected to systematic espionage. Meetings and conversations were recorded and filmed, and all the information was sent to US intelligence. Sometimes the espionage operations were truly off the wall: at one point spies even planned to steal the diaper of a baby brought to visit Assange inside the embassy. The purpose? To gather the baby's feces and perform a DNA test to establish whether the newborn was a secret son of Julian Assange.
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Getting There: Wellesley closure just another chapter in avenue’s history tied to growth of Spokane
This Wednesday, Wellesley Avenue between Market and Freya streets will close for three years as crews with the state transportation department begin building an interchange for the north-south freeway. When complete, the North Spokane Corridor still won’t be finished, but the long curve of the ramp will, and it will avoid the dreaded, heavily polluted black tank property, where a 50-foot wide black tank stored petroleum products from 1910 to 1988. Officials from the city, state and BNSF Railways will surely celebrate the construction – it took years of negotiations to work around the black tank site, not to mention decades of lobbying to build the $1.5 billion freeway. But they should all breathe a sigh of relief that Grace McDonald isn’t around anymore, especially if they aren’t Spokanites, born and raised.
Historic building advocates fear Chancery building will be demolished
Spokane Preservation Advocates is warning that a building that housed the Catholic Diocese of Spokane for 53 years “may fall to the wrecker’s ball despite its historic significance.” Betsy Cowles, chairman of the Cowles Co., told the group last month that it would be “extremely challenging” to save the Chancery building in downtown Spokane. Cowles, who runs a company that owns the Chancery and a multitude of other buildings downtown, suggested the 109-year-old building on the corner of Riverside Avenue and Madison Street was not part of a major redevelopment planned for the block.
No reported damage from 3.5 magnitude earthquake near Coulee City
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.5 magnitude earthquake near Coulee City at 8:48 a.m. Monday. The earthquake was 2.6 miles deep.
Then and Now: Latah Creek Bridge
In 1911, less than a year after the city completed the Monroe Street Bridge, work began on the Sunset Boulevard Bridge, now better known as the Latah Creek Bridge, in West Spokane. Part of the impetus for the new structure was the importance of wheat farming in central Washington and growing traffic of a new form of transportation, automobiles, on the roadways that would eventually stretch to Seattle. The bridge originally was fitted with rails for interurban trains.
Russia returns 3 seized ships to Ukraine, talks about summit
Three Ukrainian naval ships that were seized by Russia nearly a year ago have been returned, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. The two gunboats and a tug were taken by the Russian coast guard on Nov. 25, 2018, as they maneuvered near the Kerch Strait that connects the Black Sea with the Azov Sea. The Kerch Strait runs between mainland Russia and Russia-annexed Crimea.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Barriers zigzag across America like a scar
A few words about walls. Unsurprisingly, the one Donald Trump is trying to build on the southern border – the one he swore Mexico would pay for – has proven, like most things he touches, an embarrassing failure. ... In the meantime, and with much less fanfare, construction continues on a wall of much further-reaching consequences. You see, while the wall on the border is supposed to repel immigrants and smugglers, this one repels something many of us find even more threatening: contradictory opinions.
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Getting There: Wellesley closure just another chapter in avenue’s history tied to growth of Spokane
This Wednesday, Wellesley Avenue between Market and Freya streets will close for three years as crews with the state transportation department begin building an interchange for the north-south freeway. When complete, the North Spokane Corridor still won’t be finished, but the long curve of the ramp will, and it will avoid the dreaded, heavily polluted black tank property, where a 50-foot wide black tank stored petroleum products from 1910 to 1988. Officials from the city, state and BNSF Railways will surely celebrate the construction – it took years of negotiations to work around the black tank site, not to mention decades of lobbying to build the $1.5 billion freeway. But they should all breathe a sigh of relief that Grace McDonald isn’t around anymore, especially if they aren’t Spokanites, born and raised.
Historic building advocates fear Chancery building will be demolished
Spokane Preservation Advocates is warning that a building that housed the Catholic Diocese of Spokane for 53 years “may fall to the wrecker’s ball despite its historic significance.” Betsy Cowles, chairman of the Cowles Co., told the group last month that it would be “extremely challenging” to save the Chancery building in downtown Spokane. Cowles, who runs a company that owns the Chancery and a multitude of other buildings downtown, suggested the 109-year-old building on the corner of Riverside Avenue and Madison Street was not part of a major redevelopment planned for the block.
No reported damage from 3.5 magnitude earthquake near Coulee City
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.5 magnitude earthquake near Coulee City at 8:48 a.m. Monday. The earthquake was 2.6 miles deep.
Then and Now: Latah Creek Bridge
In 1911, less than a year after the city completed the Monroe Street Bridge, work began on the Sunset Boulevard Bridge, now better known as the Latah Creek Bridge, in West Spokane. Part of the impetus for the new structure was the importance of wheat farming in central Washington and growing traffic of a new form of transportation, automobiles, on the roadways that would eventually stretch to Seattle. The bridge originally was fitted with rails for interurban trains.
Russia returns 3 seized ships to Ukraine, talks about summit
Three Ukrainian naval ships that were seized by Russia nearly a year ago have been returned, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. The two gunboats and a tug were taken by the Russian coast guard on Nov. 25, 2018, as they maneuvered near the Kerch Strait that connects the Black Sea with the Azov Sea. The Kerch Strait runs between mainland Russia and Russia-annexed Crimea.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Barriers zigzag across America like a scar
A few words about walls. Unsurprisingly, the one Donald Trump is trying to build on the southern border – the one he swore Mexico would pay for – has proven, like most things he touches, an embarrassing failure. ... In the meantime, and with much less fanfare, construction continues on a wall of much further-reaching consequences. You see, while the wall on the border is supposed to repel immigrants and smugglers, this one repels something many of us find even more threatening: contradictory opinions.
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from US National Archives
Historian Examines How 13 Documents Defined ‘America’s Exceptional Idea’
Liberty is a concept that requires constant care and maintenance to persist, according to Richard Brookhiser, award-winning historian and author of Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea. More than 243 years after the signing of foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the application of the idea of liberty has changed to address specific human struggles across generations, Brookhiser noted during a November 12 presentation in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Brookhiser explored the evolution of the idea of liberty in the United States by highlighting the 13 documents he examined in his book. The collection comprises works that are both little known and world renowned, authored by ordinary men and women and celebrated heads of state. Brookhiser’s chronological examination begins with the minutes of the first meeting of the General Assembly of Jamestown in 1619 and concluded with Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech at the Berlin Wall in 1987.
Historian Examines How 13 Documents Defined ‘America’s Exceptional Idea’
Liberty is a concept that requires constant care and maintenance to persist, according to Richard Brookhiser, award-winning historian and author of Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea. More than 243 years after the signing of foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, the application of the idea of liberty has changed to address specific human struggles across generations, Brookhiser noted during a November 12 presentation in the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. Brookhiser explored the evolution of the idea of liberty in the United States by highlighting the 13 documents he examined in his book. The collection comprises works that are both little known and world renowned, authored by ordinary men and women and celebrated heads of state. Brookhiser’s chronological examination begins with the minutes of the first meeting of the General Assembly of Jamestown in 1619 and concluded with Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech at the Berlin Wall in 1987.
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