October 3, 2015

Bon Jovi to Waters: Drop Dead!

(John Hinderaker) Some years ago, I was in the office of a straight-laced, middle-aged lady who was in charge of my law firm's support staff. I noticed a photograph on her desk of herself with a long-haired guy who looked like a rock musician. It seemed incongruous, so I asked about the picture, and she told me this story. She and her husband had a boat in a marina on the St.

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One Dead After Brooklyn Apartment Explosion

The woman who died was a tenant in the apartment building. 

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The Blockchain Might Be The Next Disruptive Technology

blockchain-2048 To process a transaction, you need first to make sure the sender owns the asset he wants to transfer, and make sure he will not trade it twice. In the blockchain, information is stored in blocks that record all transactions ever done through the network. Hence, it allows validating both the existence of assets to be traded and ownership. Read More

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Putin kicks Obama, he pretends not to feel a thing

(Paul Mirengoff) President Obama responded to his latest humiliation at the hands of Vladimir Putin by stating that "Mr. Putin had to go into Syria not out of strength but out of weakness, because his client, Mr. Assad, was crumbling." This statement — pulled from the same notebook as the president's pathetic speech to the U.N. — is true, but it fails to paper over the failure of Obama's approach to Syria

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Tulane Long Snapper Becomes First Blind Person To Play In Major College Football Game [VIDEO]

'He just works as hard as he can ... and you reward that hard work.'

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Obama Says U.S. Will 'Work Closely' with Afghan Government in Doctors Without Borders Attack

"I expect a full accounting of the facts and circumstances."

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An Instance of Warmist Corruption

(John Hinderaker) We have often written about the fact that the world's governments pour billions of dollars annually into the global warming project, the object of which is to increase the powers of government. And yet governments, the main parties that stand to benefit from the warmists' campaign, pretend that their money is somehow innocent, while any private entity that supports climate research is suspect. Alarmist scientists have gone so far as

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Dozens Injured After Canopy Collapses at High School During Band Competition

The high school was also holding the SAT Satuday. 

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Man Who Filmed Eric Garner Video Has Sickening Allegation Against Prison Officers

He "sustained severe personal injuries…"

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Trump defends 2nd Amendment following Oregon shootings

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday channeled 1970s action star Charles Bronson in defending Second Amendment rights in the aftermath of the shooting at an Oregon community college that left nine dead.

Trump said in a rally in suburban Nashville that he has a handgun ...

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Dumb College Football Player Makes Embarrassing Mistake On Social Media DURING Halftime

Player retweets a tweet from a rival fan telling him to transfer

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Oregon Shooter's Father Says What Could Have Prevented His Shooting Rampage: 'What Right Do You Have…'

"He will always be remembered for what he did on Thursday."

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Fear Of Failure May Ensure It

shutterstock_110894420 At the dawn of the web I launched one of the first e-commerce sites. I spent six months on research, perfecting the site, striving to get everything right. After six hours live I'd learned more from people's actions and reactions than in those six months — and felt a bitter regret for the half year wasted. Now, as an investor, I occasionally see the same behavior, and… Read More

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Obama Knocks Jeb Bush Over 'Stuff Happens' Assessment of Oregon Shooting

The former Florida governor accused his critics of distorting his words regarding the Umpqua Community College shooting.

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A word from Stephen Knott

(Scott Johnson) Stephen Knott is professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College and the coauthor of a new book on the relationship between George Washington, the indispensable man, and Alexander Hamilton, an indomitable genius among the founders. We invited Professor Knott to write something that would allow us to bring the book to the attention of Power Line readers. Professor Knott has graciously responded with this message: Washington and

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Supreme Court: A look at some noteworthy cases in new term

Some noteworthy cases the Supreme Court will hear in its new term that begins Monday:

-Affirmative action: In a case being heard for the second time, a white Texan who was rejected by the University of Texas is challenging the school's use of race among a range of factors in ...

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Home Intruder Likely Figured He Held Upper Hand in Attack of Sisters, 75 and 64. Then One of Them Pulled Out a Lethal Surprise.

Police found blood in the house, on the front porch and in the yard.

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Politicize this

(Scott Johnson) Early Thursday evening, before the dead had been counted, before their bodies were cold, before the relevant facts were known, President Obama chose to make a characteristically obnoxious statement on the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon (video below, text here. Obama's remarks are deserving of the derision that John heaped on them in "Obama: Never let a mass shooting go to waste." Why would Obama speak before

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New Jersey's Gun Control Trap [VIDEO]

You won't believe this violation of 2nd Amendment rights - And the NJ Gov wants to be President?

Via: The Daily Caller

Conservative Actor James Woods Asks Scathing Question About Obama's Response to Oregon Shooting

"#LiberalLaryngitis"

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I Do Not Want Your Stupid App

crap I do not want your stupid app I will not use this siloed crap. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. I do not want this mobile spam! Read More

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The Weak in Pictures: Putin Clocks Obama Edition

(Steven Hayward) There are times when President Obama looks weak, and then there are times when President Obama looks like he's on the other side. Has a president ever been so humiliated by the actions of an adversary? Putin must wonder how pathetic Obama and his team really are. I expect he'll send along a "reset" button some day. He's already resetting the Soviet-era hegemony over parts of Eastern Europe and the

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Lanny Davis sent Hillary Clinton fawning, cringe-worthy emails seeking favors

Longtime Clinton family supporter and council Lanny Davis sent Hillary Clinton a variety of cringe-worthy emails to her personal account while she served as Secretary of State, saying it was a "great privilege" to be able to send her emails and that she filled his heart with "gratitude and admiration."

...

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Vatican Fires Gay Priest on Eve of Meeting of World's Bishops to Discuss Outreach to Gays, Others

"serious and irresponsible"

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Obama Warns Putin Risks a Quagmire in Propping Up Assad

U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia will get "stuck in a quagmire" if it persists in using military force to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and urged efforts toward a political transition.

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Former detective gets probation for misuse of public funds

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A former Unified Police detective has been sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay restitution in connection to $8,500 he could not account for.

The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/1Vu1fXn ) that 49-year-old Kenneth Callahan pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge ...

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Gay Gala Offers Pulpits for Two Favorites in Biden and Clinton

As Joe Biden nears a decision on whether to seek the White House in 2016, gay rights advocates will get a side-by-side measure on Saturday of the would-be candidate and the front-runner in the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton.

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Wallace Stevens Wrote a Handful of Beautiful Poems and a Lot of Tosh

In 1954, at the behest of Alfred A. Knopf, Wallace Stevens gathered his seven books of poetry into a single volume. The Collected Poems was full of typos, chance misprints, and inconsistencies of spelling and punctuation, and has remained that way in half a century's worth of subsequent printings. Vintage Books has now published a corrected edition, albeit only in paperback. The editors, John N. Seriro and Chris Beyers, have done exemplary work, drawing upon manuscripts, Stevens's amended galleys, correspondence, and common sense. Missing section numbers are supplied, misspellings ("scrurry") are emended; occasionally words are replaced or inserted.

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1965 Immigration Act, presented as symbolic, changed nation

NEW YORK (AP) - It was considered a symbolic move - President Lyndon Johnson going to the Statue of Liberty and signing an immigration bill that gave people from every country in the world an equal chance to come to America.

The president himself described the legislation as less than ...

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Maher, Dawkins Excoriate 'Regressive Leftists' for Political Correctness, Giving 'Free Pass' to Islam

"If you say something about a woman who is forced to wear a beekeeper suit in the hot sun all day—"

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Bipartisan sentencing reform proposal would free gun-carrying felons

(Paul Mirengoff) As John noted, President Obama barely waited for the blood to dry in Oregon before seizing on the mass shooting at a community college to call for "common sense gun safety laws." Ironically, at just about the same time a bipartisan group of Senators was introducing criminal sentencing reform legislation that would cause the release from jail of criminals who carried guns while committing drug felonies. As Bill Otis explains,

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Colleges offer scholarships to students not in US legally

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - As Juan Constantino approached graduation from St. Joseph High School in 2012, he wasn't sure what his future would hold.

He longed to attend college. But as a youth not in the country legally who moved to South Bend with his parents at age 5, ...

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These War Movies Will Make Any Red-Blooded American Feel Patriotic [SLIDESHOW]

You either love these movies or you're a communist

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U.S. Military: Airstrike 'May Have' Accidentally Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan

"This incident is under investigation."

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Power Line Visits Grand Rapids, Celebrates Gerald Ford

(Steven Hayward) I'm just back from a whirlwind day and a half in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where I took in the annual meeting of the State Policy Network and delivered a few brief remarks at the Roe Award dinner Thursday night. I was present at one of the early meetings of SPN in the late 1980s with the late Tom Roe of South Carolina. He had a vision to spread a network

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Limbaugh On Obama's Call For Gun Control: He 'Just Cleared The Decks For Iran To Get A Freaking Nuclear Weapon'[VIDEO]

'So what's so magic about gun control?'

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An Impassioned Sheriff Clarke Proposes Law That 'Can Be Changed' to Reduce Deaths From Gun Violence

"I'll answer your question on what law can be changed."

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