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GENERAL INTEREST
Girls who aren’t ‘girly’ find a fit in more rigorous activities of Boy Scouts
https://whyy.org/articles/girls-who-arent-girly-find-a-fit-in-more-rigorous-activities-of-boy-scouts/

Free money' trial in Finland finds unemployed workers are not more motivated to get a job if they receive guaranteed basic income
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6682477/Free-money-trial-Finland-finds-unemployed-workers-not-motivated-job.html

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (9 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/08/briefing/08weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190208&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408ion%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1

The Only Foolproof Shortcut for Sourdough Starter 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/food_wine-the_only_foolproof_shortcut_for_sourdough_starter-rtime

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Rats! Employees at LA City Hall chase down rodents in the midst of typhus outbreak as the deadly infection sickens the homeless sleeping near the 90-year-old building
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6680695/LA-City-Hall-considers-removing-rugs-rat-fleas.html

Not cool! EIGHT people aged three to 53 end up in Chicago hospital burns ward after trying the 'boiling water challenge' during polar vortex
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6679947/At-EIGHT-people-end-Chicago-hospital-trying-boiling-water-challenge.html

MENTAL HEALTH
Is Self-Reliance a Mental Illness?
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

PROGRESSIVES RUNNING AMOK
The Bonfire of the Democrats 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/democrat-presidential-candidates-2020-first-woke-primary/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-08&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

BUSINESS
Work Requirements Are Working in Arkansas
https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholashorton/2019/02/08/work-requirements-are-working-in-arkansas-n2541025?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/08/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

SPORTS
Football in a Funny Place
https://townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/2019/02/08/football-in-a-funny-place-n2541033?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=02/08/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

WEATHER
Melting Ice in Greenland, Antarctica Could Mean More Extreme Weather
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/melting-ice-in-greenland-antarctica-could-mean-more-extreme-weather?pl=pl-the-latest

CLIMATE CHANGE
Lower Sea Level Rise but More ‘Climate Chaos’? Two New Studies Predict Polar Ice Melt Consequences 
https://www.ecowatch.com/polar-ice-melt-predictions-climate-2628259167.html

Carbon Taxes: A Letter from Canada
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/carbon-taxes-lessons-from-canada/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-02-08&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

FOREIGN POLICY
Nine Months Later, Trump’s Iran-Deal Withdrawal Is a Clear Success 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/donald-trumps-iran-deal-withdrawal-is-clear-success/

BIG BROTHER
The phone that can identify you from the way you WALK: All-knowing smartphones that monitor EVERY movement is developed for the Pentagon
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6682425/How-bosses-soon-monitoring-employees-spare-time.html

POLITICS
The Socialist That Could
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.
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which you can never afford to Lose – with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
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Is Self-Reliance a Mental Illness?

Today’s psychologists regard Emerson’s values as obsolete and pathological.

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By

Crispin Sartwell

Feb. 7, 2019 6:54 p.m. ET

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay “Self-Reliance” is a statement of American values. “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.” “The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.”

The Socialist That Could

Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the secret Republican weapon for 2020.

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By

Kimberley A. Strassel

Feb. 7, 2019 6:55 p.m. ET

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a press conference in Washington, Feb. 7. Photo: saul loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

The Republican Party has a secret weapon for 2020. It’s especially effective because it’s stealthy: The Democrats seem oblivious to its power. And the GOP needn’t lift a finger for it to work. All Republicans have to do is sit back and watch 29-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez . . . exist.