I’m guessing here, but I bet the FBI knew that the news of the emails was going to leak, and they wanted to get in front of it rather than being accused of covering for Hillary. The FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server knew early this month that messages recovered […]

Good thing we have the government to protect us from bad haircuts!  Arizona is cracking down on unlicensed barbering and start fining barbers $1,500 for cutting hair without a license. Via The Buzz:  “We can no longer tolerate this infraction.… We will no longer tolerate this behavior!!” A government-sponsored board in Arizona has posted this message on

NATO is preparing to station 4,000 troops In East Europe. This will be the largest number of troops near the Russian border since the cold war. It comes as Spain faces criticism from allies for agreeing to refuel a Russian fleet. Via the UK’s Independent:  Nato is preparing to station some 4,000 troops on the Russian

US taxpayers were hit with a $3.6 million bill for Barack Obama to play golf with Tiger Woods.   Tiger Woods and President Barack Obama played golf together in a February 2013 mini-jaunt, and that trip turned out to cost the U.S. taxpayer a lot of money.   Filings from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Senator Ron Wyden leads a bipartisan effort to have the Department of Justice reveal how they plan to use new hacking powers. Via Sen. Ron Wyden:  Thursday, October 27, 2016 Washington, D.C. –A bipartisan coalition of Senate and House lawmakers today asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch to provide Congress with more information about a proposed expansion of government

An email released by Wikileaks shows Bill Clinton personally profited through Clinton Foundation resources. Via USA Today:  In a 2011 memo, an aide to Bill Clinton laid out the messy relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the former president’s personal interests, detailing how some foundation donors also paid Clinton to speak and provide consulting services. The memo was

This will be a game changer in the transportation industry. Via The Verge:  In the early morning hours of October 20th, an 18-wheeler tractor trailer pulled into Colorado Springs, Colorado, bearing 50,000 frosty cans of Budweiser beer. Normally, this would not be a noteworthy occurrence, but this truck was driving itself, marking the first time

Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department spend $5.6 million on crystal stemware. Via The Washington Free Beacon:    The Republican National Committee revealed Thursday in a 21-page memo that Hillary Clinton’s State Department spent millions of dollars on lavish goods and initiatives on the taxpayers’ dime.   The State Department spent $5.4 million on a “no-bid contract for

A tape from 2006 surfaces that has Hillary Clinton advocating for a rigged election in Palestine. Anyone wondering what “democracy promotion” will look like in a Hillary Clinton administration may get a taste from a new audiotape released today of Hillary addressing the editorial board of the Jewish Press back in 2006. In the tape Hillary

This won’t help the community organizers. Via Gallup:  Three in four Americans (76%) say they have “a great deal” of respect for the police in their area, up 12 percentage points from last year. In addition to the large majority of Americans expressing “a great deal” of respect for their local police, 17% say they

Postgraduate degree holders in the U.S. who took at least half of their graduate classes online earned their degrees under different circumstances than did those who took most of their courses on campus. And their experiences as graduate students were different. However, a new Gallup study shows those who complete at least half of their

Via Gallup:  The fewest Americans in 20 years favor making it illegal to manufacture, sell or possess semi-automatic guns known as assault rifles. Thirty-six percent now want an assault weapons ban, down from 44% in 2012 and 57% when Gallup first asked the question in 1996. Assault rifles have been a contentious issue in American

Facebook’s features let advertisers limit which users see their material, ideally those who will be more interested in their products. But currently included in the “demographics” section of their ad-targeting tool is the ability to select which users see material based on their “ethnic affinity,” which the social titan began offering two years ago to

Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, writes the following:  I finally got my hands on the script for Captain Fantastic, and can now share my favorite scene.  Subtle it’s not, but for me, awesome always beats subtle.  The stage: Homeschooling dad Captain Fantastic and his six kids are visiting his mundane sister and her two

So how is our cutting back on coal going to offset India’s increases? And who is it hurting / helping?  Good news. India plans to add more fertilizer to the global air which will help feed the world. There is no charge. India will become the world’s number 2 miner of coal by 2020, overtaking the

  Lack of data fuels idea that ‘biased US police are killing black men at epidemic rates’ – FBI chief  Read Full Article

From Larry Kummer at the Fabius Maximus website Memorandum: “Climate: A unifying theory to the case“,Emailed from John Podesta to Chris Lehane, 28 January 2014. This memo was emailed to Podesta (a senior White House official) from Lehane (partner in the strategic communications firm Fabiani & Lehane, dissolved in Nov 2015). We have it courtesy of Wikileaks —

I’m not sure why. There’s never been any indication of voter fraud by Democrats… </sarcasm> The presidential election next month could be “stolen” from Republican candidate Donald Trump due to voter fraud, according to 41 percent of registered voters surveyed in a new poll.  Read Full Article