Sunday, March 1, 2020

In the news, Friday, February 21, 2020


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from Forbes

IT'S EASY TO BELIEVE AOC HAS AN ECONOMICS DEGREE
Many people seem to be under the wrong impression that getting an economics degree nowadays leads one to have reverence for private markets and entrepreneurs. That's not what economics departments teach.

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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)

Efforts to expel controversial lawmaker Matt Shea have ended
 Efforts to expel a controversial state representative from the Washington Legislature are likely over after no Republicans would sign a letter calling for state Rep. Matt Shea's expulsion. The Spokesman-Review reports that all 98 members of the state House of Representatives were asked Thursday to sign a letter calling for the expulsion of Spokane Valley Republican. All 56 Democrats signed the letter, but no Republicans did. Democratic Rep. Tana Senn, one of the authors of the letter, says it likely signals the end of any effort to remove Shea from his seat.

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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED


Blago Is Free
On Tuesday, February 18, President Trump with excellent judgment commuted the fourteen-year prison sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, a.k.a. “Blago.” “We have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich,” Trump said. “He’ll be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence in my opinion. And in the opinion of many others.”

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Spokane Tribe celebrates federal compensation for damage caused by Grand Coulee Dam
On Thursday, during a ceremony in Wellpinit mixed with joy and sadness, the Spokane Tribe of Indians marked the adoption of federal legislation that will compensate the tribe for 2,500 acres of land lost to the reservoir created by the dam. Harnessing the power of the Columbia River, the Grand Coulee Dam brought low-cost electricity to thousands of people in the Northwest when it became operational in 1941. But its construction flooded lands traditionally held by the Spokane Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. The dam wiped away the salmon population that had sustained the Spokane people as well as the traditional spiritual and cultural customs that had revolved around it. Water encroached on and flooded gravesites, orchards, gardens and homes, forcing many with deep ties to the land to pack up and relocate.

Jay Ambrose: Barr was right; the left was wrong
It is a sign of our times that Attorney General William Barr tried to do something right and some illiberal liberals, including not a few in the media, decided that it was wrong on the basis of mindless presidential squawks, factual ignorance and in some cases political opportunity. What it adds up to is that the illiberal liberals are doing what they accuse Barr of doing, namely going to war with justice and other basic democratic principles, but at least Judge Amy Berman Jackson saw the light.

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