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US pays $1.3mn to family of Italian hostage killed by drone strike

Of course, an Italian civilian is worth more than an Arab civilian… </sarcasm> The US has given a “donation” of $1.32 million to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, the Italian aid worker killed in January 2015 by a US drone strike. Documents detailing the condolence payment also confirmed the attack took place in Pakistan.  […]

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‘American people deserve better’: Snowden refutes House report through Twitter outburst

The gov’t has an incentive to lie about Snowden, especially since public opinion (and the latest movie “Snowden”) have Americans sympathetic to his cause.  Edward Snowden addressed specific claims of the report by the House Intel Committee, which accused him of lying about his record, cheating on his exams, and becoming a whistleblower due to

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Sanders the top pick for Dems if Clinton forced to drop out of White House race – poll

No real surprise here.  But since Sanders’ name isn’t on any of the state ballots, it would have to be via write-in.  Should Hillary Clinton leave the presidential race for health or other reasons, Democrats favor leftwing US Senator Bernie Sanders over Clinton’s vice presidential nominee to take her place, according to a new poll. 

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US erred in granting citizenship to 850 ‘potentially ineligible’ immigrants – DHS audit

This goes back to the liberal claim that the gov’t can vet all of the immigrant applications from terrorist countries. At least 858 individuals “from special interest countries who had been ordered deported or removed under another name” were granted citizenship based on a lag in digital fingerprint data in government databases, a new audit

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Clinton says she’s qualified to fight terrorists, accuses Trump of coddling them

She’s trying to out-Trump Trump. Wow.  Well, her actions didn’t work out so well for US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.  Hillary Clinton has accused GOP candidate Donald Trump of giving “aid and comfort to Islamic terrorists in his use of anti-Muslim rhetoric.” She says that Trump helps recruit new fighters, and claims she is the “only

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34% have $0 in savings: Americans’ money habits go ‘from bad to worse’, report finds

And here will be the liberal solution: those who skimp and save for their retirement, they should have their savings taken and given to those who didn’t save.  Think that’s not the case? They are suggesting means-testing Social Security. Those who put away extra savings for retirement should lose the Social Security that they paid

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CBS: Cow fart regulation passed into California law

Only Calif. would attempt to regulate cow flatulence. Via CBS News:  SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that regulates emissions from dairy cows and landfills for the first time as California broadens its efforts to fight climate change beyond carbon-based greenhouse gases. Brown’s move Monday targets a category of gases known as

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Bush 41 to vote for Hillary

  Former President George H.W. Bush said Monday that he will vote for Hillary Clinton in November, according to sources close to the 41st President — an extraordinary rebuke of his own party’s nominee. The sources said this was not the first time Bush had disclosed his intention to vote for Clinton. The comments came

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SEL now the 15th largest employee owned company in the US

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in Pullman is now the 15th largest fully employee owned company in the country.  The annual list from the National Center for Employee Ownership ranks companies that are at least majority owned by its workers.  SEL is 29th on the overall list up from 37th last year.  The Pullman based company has over 43 hundred

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US News: Hillary Clinton email operator may have asked Reddit for help

This just keeps getting better. The social posts lend support to claims he violated government data retention rules. When you’re involved with a highly sensitive (and possibly illegal) IT operation, it’s generally a bad idea to post on social networks about it… and one man is learning that the hard way. Reddit users on a

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