Saturday, February 22, 2020

In the news, Saturday, February 8, 2020


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from BBC News (UK)

Doctor wanted for remote isle ... fainthearted need not apply
Colonsay, jewel of the Inner Hebrides, is looking for a new GP. The successful candidate will need a taste for adventure.

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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization

Financial counselors have long stressed that the “miracle of compounding” becomes increasingly powerful the longer any funds are held. By delaying investing because of student loan debt, young people lose more than many realize.

In 1979, the Iron Lady assumed the premiership of a country riven with labor strife, racked by stagflation and run down by decades of nanny government. Britain struggled on all fronts as the sick man of Europe. For the most part, Thatcher didn’t propose to fix big problems through small tweaks as other cowardly or unprincipled politicians were suggesting. She set about, in her words, to “roll back the frontiers of the state.” She wanted to reinvigorate the country by restoring a culture of entrepreneurship and respect for private property.

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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

After years of skyrocketing costs, lawmakers across the US push for caps on life-saving insulin payments

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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED


Socialism Always Fails
Socialists tell us that if the rest of us will give them total power over our lives, this time they will provide prosperity, and unlike previous socialist regimes, they won’t strip us of our liberties. We should have as much confidence in their words as the loved ones of Laura Hillier had in the empty promises of Canadian medical officials.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Sue Lani Madsen: Farmers have to balance their interests with those of urban landowners
Farmers have always faced the risk of weather. Trade wars are not new, and farmers who spoke off the record said standing up to China has been a long time coming. They’ll wait it out like an untimely summer thunderstorm at harvest. Explaining farming to a software engineer in San Francisco or an investment trust out of New York is a new kind of risk in a country increasingly divided between urban and rural culture.

Joe Walsh: My party has become a cult
When I announced my primary challenge to President Donald Trump last year, I knew running against him for the GOP nomination was the ultimate long shot. Even now, after impeachment, after three years of vulgarities, inanities, betrayals and racist screeds, he has a 94% approval rating among Republicans in the latest Gallup poll. My chances are slim – don’t worry, I know.

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