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Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
California, Mired in a Housing Crisis, Rejects an Effort to Ease It - The New York Times
A lawmaker’s push for denser development near transit, overriding local zoning, was thwarted by a diverse group of legislative foes.
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
California lawmakers may trim repeat nonviolent offenders’ sentences
“This enhancement is disproportionately used against persons of color and those that are low income,” said Democratic Assemblyman Ash Kalra of San Jose, who carried the bill in the Assembly. “It is…
History | History
Subpoena fight over operation Fast and Furious documents finally settled - POLITICO
The case led the House to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt.
Science & Technology | Tech
Facebook vs the feds: The tech giant will have to pay a record fine for violating users’ privacy. But the FTC wanted more.
The settlement the FTC brokered marks the most significant privacy punishment ever levied against a tech giant. But the story behind it -- described by 10 people familiar with the matter -- illustrates the challenges facing a 105-year-old agency tasked wi
Politics | Politics
Roberts Thwarted Trump, but the Census Ruling Has a Second Purpose
The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s citizenship question, but the ruling serves a conservative counterrevolution against the administrative state.
Politics | Politics
Obama, OPM defy court order
Yet another Obama Administration anti-gay Friday news dump. Kerry Eleveld of the Advocate is reporting the Obama Administration is defying the order of the chief judge of the 9th Circuit Court of ...
Politics | Conservative Voices
Nothing Is More Expensive Than A Free Government Service
Every such promise of 'free stuff' should be greeted with instant, habitual, and empirically verified incredulity...
Politics | Op-Ed
The Electoral College Is Under Assault. Here’s Why It’s Worth Saving.
It has never been clearer that the Electoral College is under systemic assault.
Politics | Politics
The Electoral College Still Makes Sense Because We’re Not A Democracy
What appears to deprive the populace of its power to decide a president is the very mechanism that preserves its power. The Electoral College works that way because the United States isn’t a pure democracy.
Miscellaneous | Interesting
The Real Deconstruction of the Administrative State
I must see Marini!!!” My boss, Clarence Thomas, then chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, wrote that command in bold script across the first page of an essay by John Marini on how the deterioration of Congress led to the administrati
Politics | Trump Politics
A chart shows how everything has changed since Trump became president
Since Donald Trump won the presidency, he has presided over one of the most tumultuous political environments in recent memory as well as the best economy the country has seen in years.
Politics | Politics
KLAVAN: The Left Has Abandoned The American Idea
A conservative movement dedicated to the freedom of the individual must allow for disagreements. That’s what individuals do: they disagree.
News | News
This Woman 'Enrolled' In Student Loan Forgiveness -- And Then Learned This
She was depending on student loan forgiveness - and then was told this.
Health & Fitness | News Items
Alaska Over a Century: From Natural Wonders to Government Plunder
Retracing a famous environmentalist's journey almost 120 years ago, an author discovers a very different Alaska.
Politics | Politics
California bans local soda taxes
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Thursday that prevents local governments from taxing soda until 2031.
News | News
Anthony Kennedy retiring from Supreme Court
The retirement gives President Donald Trump another chance to fundamentally reshape the top of the judiciary.
News | Interesting Links
Better government services linked to less religiosity in U.S. and world, study says | Miami Herald
Better government services are linked to lower religiosity levels in states and countries, suggesting government can replace God’s role as a provider, according to research published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
News | Interesting Stories
Pentagon has admitted it ran a secret $22 million per year UFO program
'The truth is out there.'
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
Overweight, tattooed, stoned? The Pentagon may still want you
The new U.S. military wants you -- even if you're overweight, covered in tats and stoned on weed.
Miscellaneous | Local Flavor
Laws That Shaped L.A.: How Bunker Hill Lost its Victorians
How did all the grand mansions of Bunker Hill get demolished? Blame a 1949 law that pushed forward the agenda of "redevelopment."
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Is Convicted on All Counts
The state’s top prosecutor was accused of leaking secret grand jury information in an effort to discredit a political rival, then lying to cover it up.
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
How Square Watermelons Get Their Shape and Other G.M.O. Misconceptions
No, these watermelons were not genetically modified. And neither were those funny looking white strawberries. As the House prepares to vote on a bill that would require G.M.O.s to be labeled as such, we take on some misconceptions about what it means for
Science & Technology | Tech
Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPhone, says Nancy Pelosi
Technically Incorrect: The House minority leader says the US government was behind the actual invention; Jobs merely designed Apple's famous phone and put it together.
Politics | Politics
Here's Why Bernie Sanders is Wrong About Everything
Bernie Sanders has a lot of economic narratives, and they're all wrong. Here's why.
News | Interesting Links
Let Me Ask America a Question - WSJ
Republican presidential contender Donald J. Trump writes: Let me ask America a question: How has the “system” been working out for you and your family?
Politics | Obamacare
Clinton sees ObamaCare’s ‘crushing’ burden — but has no way to fix it | New York Post
The Clinton campaign is finally owning up to what most Americans learned the hard way: The Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. In fact, its costs are “crushing” people who have to buy health insurance. Hillary Clinton vows to fix the probl
Politics | Obamacare
CBO Misses Its Obamacare Projection by 24 Million People
Three years ago, on the eve of Obamacare’s implementation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that President Obama's centerpiece legislation would result in an average of 201 million people having private health insurance in any given month of 2016. Now that 2016 is here, the CBO says that just 177 million people, on average, will have private health insurance in any given month of this year—a shortfall of 24 million people.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Real-life 'X-Files'? CIA posts trove of UFO documents | Fox News
The truth is out there – the CIA is offering a peek into its ‘X-files,’ shining a spotlight on a series of once-classified UFO documents
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
10 Unexpected Duties Performed by the Secret Service | Mental Floss
Being a Secret Service agent isn't as action-packed as they make it seem in the movies. It's a lot of observation and surveillance, sure, but the President and his family have the power to ask their protection staff to do just about anything—including serving as a urinal. Yup... these 10 menial tasks are a long shot from car chases and running down would-be assassins.
Politics | Obamacare
The quiet unraveling of ObamaCare
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.
Politics | Politics
Sharyl Attkisson: Obama Will Not Read Intelligence on U.S.-Recognized Terrorist Groups
Several times in the past, we've heard President Barack Obama, and occasionally his press secretary, tell America that the nation's commander-in-chief learned about certain events the same way many of the rest of us did: by seeing them on TV or
Politics | POLITICS
Kill the Department of Ed.? It’s been done
When Washington’s education bureaucracy comes under political attack, it’s common to pin responsibility for its existence on Jimmy Carter. He signed legislation to establish the Department of Education in 1979, and critics note that this imposed a new department on a country that had gotten along quite well without one for more than 200 years.
Politics | Trump Politics
The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
After early success in the GOP presidential race, Trump must now decide if he can continue to prosper as a one-man show or needs to rely more on traditional campaign methods.
News | News
Mystery deepens into how classified emails got onto Clinton's unclassified server
The daily revelations over Hillary Clinton’s personal email system are raising a perplexing question for former government officials who dealt with sensitive information – who wonder how classified information made its way onto a non-classified State
Politics | Politics
Congress should step up to block the terrible Iran agreement - by Joe Lieberman
Sen. Charles Schumer announced his opposition to the Iran deal; others should follow his lead.
Politics | Politics
Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server turned over to FBI
A New Jersey-based private data firm says the transfer occurred Wednesday afternoon.
News | News
Tempers Flare As Huntington Park Appoints Undocumented Immigrants To City Commissions
Huntington Park is making history and not everyone is happy about it.
Politics | Politics
Hillary Received Memo Describing Benghazi As Planned Terror Attack Within Hours
By Mark Tapscott, The Daily CallerNew documents obtained by Judicial Watch and made public Monday show that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials under President Obama were
Science & Technology | Tech
NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records was illegal, court says
A federal appeals court in New York ruled that the bulk collection of Americans' phone records by the National Security Agency (NSA) is illegal.
Politics | Politics
The Maya Angelou Stamp Exemplifies Why Startups Shouldn't Sell To The Government
The US Postal Service pulled off another debacle with the Maya Angelou stamp. Their task was simple. Combine a photo of Ms. Angelou with one of her more memorable verses. Instead, the coupled her image with text written by Joan Walsh Anglund. Twice Isn&rs
News | Interesting Stories
John Podesta's top regret leaving the White House is didn't reveal the truth about UFOs
"The truth is still out there."
Politics | Politics
The White House Needs a Refresher Course on World War II History
Read into this what you will, but President Obama is building an impressive list of gaffes and protocol lapses related to Poland, World War II, and the Holocaust. During his campaign, Obama mixed up which concentration camp his uncle had liberated: it was
Politics | PC Culture
Vox Writer Wants 'Anti-Democratic' U.S. Senate Abolished
Vox writer Dylan Matthews has decided that the U.S. Senate is "anti-democratic" and wants to toss over 200 years of the Constitition and federalism down the tubes and abolish that institution.
Politics | Obamacare
Supremes to White House: What about ‘death panel?’
The Supreme Court is telling the Obama administration to present its case for Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board – the provision that critics have described as a “death panel” – even if it doesn’t want to
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
History of Veterans Day - Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day."
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Watch the U.S. military's next-generation fighter jet float in mid-air
The Pentagon's long-awaited and extremely controversial F-35 fighter jet is the most expensive defense program ever. But finally, we may be starting to find out why the Defense Department has gone through all the trouble
Politics | Politics
This is what it looks like when a voting machine changes your vote
Early voters in Maryland and Illinois this year have reported faulty or rigged voting machines that changed votes for Republicans to support Democrats instead. Now, two voters from Moline, Illinois. have captured the problem on video.
Politics | Politics
Here's How Gasoline Taxes Stack Up State By State
Gas taxes range from 12 cents to over 50 cents per gallon on the state level. What are you paying?
Politics | PC Culture
SportsCenter Host on Ray Rice: We Need To ‘Reprogram the Way We Raise Men’
ESPN writer Kate Fagan said the NFL should spend ‘millions’ on programs to encourage boys to be raised in a less ‘hyper masculine’ environment
Politics | Interesting Links
School to fingerprint students to ‘monitor their diets.' What can go wrong???
The Express & Star reports students at Redhill School in Stourbridge, England will be fingerprinted in an attempt to reduce lunch lines and “monitor pupils’ diets.”
Politics | Op-Ed
Heavy Metal: Why Ferguson has conservatives challenging military-style police
A split is emerging among conservative commentators and politicians, some of whom are troubled by the way local police departments have bulked up until they resemble military units.
Politics | Op-Ed
Government will take every penny you've earned so far this year: Examiner Editorial
As Americans celebrated this nation's birthday on July 4, most were likely unaware of a less uplifting commemoration that fell on the calendar during the same holiday weekend. That was Cost of Government Day, or July 6, 2014. The date's significance is on
News | In The News
We've Crossed The Tipping Point; Most Americans Now Receive Government Benefits
With the implementation of Obamacare, more than half of Americans are receiving some type of government benefit. That bodes ill for the future.
News | The News
Life is About to Get (Even) Easier for Federal Workers
President Barack Obama formally published a memo on Friday that calls on government agencies to promote flexible work schedules and other policies aimed at ensuring an optimal work-life balance for federal workers. The Obama administration indicated he wo
Politics | Politics
Waves of immigrant minors present crisis for Obama, Congress
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of children unaccompanied by parents or relatives are flooding across the southern U.S. border illegally, forcing the Obama administration and Congress to grapple with both a humanitarian crisis an
Politics | Politics
Russell Brand May Have Started a Revolution Last Night
The revolution itself may not be televised, but on last night's edition of the BBC's Newsnight, viewers may have witnessed the start of one.
Politics | Politics
Report: Government is responsible for housing bubble, not banks
Banks’ unfair treatment of African-Americans and Hispanics did not cause the housing bubble that crashed the economy in 2007, a new economic study found. Claims of racism are undercut because...
