June 4, 2015

Lincoln Chafee's metric system endorsement thrills fans

For a movement whose forward progress seems to be measured in centimeters these days, Donald Hillger is happy to welcome any champion he can get.

The Colorado State University meteorologist and newly-elected president of the United States Metric Association said Thursday he was surprised and "very pleased" by the full-throated ...

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Have The Glasses Changed Rick Perry's Stance On Amnesty?

This could be a problem for the former governor

Via: The Daily Caller

The First U.S. Territory to Recognize Gay Marriage Is…

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood issued the decision after a hearing Friday morning.

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The Reason Glenn Beck 'Cried All Day' After Receiving This Incredible Historical Document

"He would stand in front of trains en route to death camps…"

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The Reason Glenn Beck 'Cried All Day' After Receiving This Incredible Historical Document

"He would stand in front of trains en route to death camps…"

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Clinton Calls For Automatic Voter Registration at 18, Rips GOP Candidates

Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for federal legislation that would automatically register Americans to vote when they turn 18 and mandate at least 20 days of early voting across the country. "Every young man or young women should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18 unless they actively choose to opt-out," Clinton said ...More

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Jake Tapper's Stinging Response to Viewer Angry That He Interviewed 'Vile, Hate-Spewing Bigot' Pamela Geller

"Disappointed."

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Jake Tapper's Stinging Response to Viewer Angry That He Interviewed 'Vile, Hate-Spewing Bigot' Pamela Geller

"Disappointed."

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Columbia's Mattress Girl Has Made An 'Artistic' Sex Tape

That didn't take long

Via: The Daily Caller

Marcus Luttrell? Whodat???

(Scott Johnson) John Updike's numerous stories about his fictional alter ego Henry Bech are my favorites among Updike's body of work. When Bech wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in the story "Bech and the Bounty of Sweden," Updike posits the headline reporting the news in the New York Daily News: "BECH? WHODAT???" (The thought was at the same time self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing. Updike was foremost among those who deserved the Nobel

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This Facebook Page Is Pretty Much The Only Way To Mock The Dictator Of Egypt

Three times as popular as Egypt's biggest newspaper

Via: The Daily Caller

Rescue Workers Right Capsized Cruise Ship on China's Yangtze River in Ongoing Search for Survivors

Nearly 80 bodies were recovered before the ship was righted.

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Massive Government Data Breach Exposes Information on Four Million Americans

(John Hinderaker) Chinese hackers have invaded computers at the federal Office of Personnel Management, accessing personal information relating to at least four million current and former government employees. The New York Times reports: The Obama administration on Thursday announced what appeared to be one of the largest breaches of federal employees' data, involving at least four million current and former government workers in an intrusion that officials said apparently originated in China.

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Inside the Beltway: Voters want to see Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina debate

Though Election Day is well over 500 days away, voters are already primed to encounter political theater of the presidential kind — Republican vs. Democrat, weaponized sound bites flying and fact-checking in progress. Two-thirds of the nation would like to see a debate between Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and ...

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Man's Post About Caitlyn Jenner and 'True Bravery' Goes Viral — Then He Learned of 'Ironic Twist'

"God heals all."

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Chris Christie Wins Benefit Baseball Game for Slain NYPD Cops, Named MVP

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was named MVP at the "True Blue" star-studded charity softball game on Wednesday night. The governor, who is expected to announce a presidential campaign later this summer, bravely donned a baseball uniform and joined roughly 20,000 fans and a team of celebrities at Yankee Stadium to memorialize three New York City ...More

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Alleged Extra-Credit Assignment Involving Sex Toys and Selfies Has Parents Demanding HS Teacher's Termination

"We don't feel comfortable with our children in his presence."

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WESLEY PRUDEN: Supreme Court gay marriage decision

ANALYSIS/OPINION: 

The U.S. Supreme Court will dispense its ruling on marriage — who can do it, why, when, where and how — any day now, perhaps as early as Friday — and if the court trashes centuries of law and tradition in its haste to ratify universal conjugal bliss, the ...

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John Biggs raising venture capital for tech startup. Next to leave TechCrunch?

After AOL's acquisition by Verizon, writers at the company's tech blog, TechCrunch, were assured that nothing would change. Yes, Verizon recently shuttered its own tech blog after previously banning it from criticising the company's net neutrality stance.  And, yes, TechCrunch has previously covered Verizon's involvement in US government spying. But AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told TechCrunch writers that their jobs were safe under Verizon and TechCrunch passed that assurance along to readers. What then are we […]






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Despite A Surge, Rubio's Path To The Nomination Remains Perilous

A late-primary strategy could be disastrous

Via: The Daily Caller

China Suspected in Massive Breach of Federal Personnel Data

"This is an attack against the nation."

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Oregon Senate votes to double time for sex crimes charges

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Senate approved a bill Thursday doubling the amount of time rape or sexual assault victims would have to press charges against their abusers, despite requests from sexual assault victims to expand it even further or get rid of it completely.

The measure would set ...

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Iran's Supreme Leader Compares American Cops to the Islamic State

"[T]hey're all the same."

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No. 23 Seed Plays First Ever Semi-Final Match In French Open

'You don't get to be playing a semifinal of a Grand Slam every day'

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There's a Wild Rumor About John Kerry's Bike Accident

The conspiratorial plot twists connected Switzerland, France, Russia and a U.S.-trained Islamic State loyalist from Tajikistan.

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Amanpour: U.S. Fight Against Islamic State 'Not Going Well Right Now'

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Is America In Moral Decline?

The moral acceptability of divorce increased from 59 percent to 71 percent…

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Is America In Moral Decline?

The moral acceptability of divorce increased from 59 percent to 71 percent…

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Jeb Bush to announce presidential decision on June 15

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is announcing his 2016 decision on June 15 in Miami.

The former governor tweeted out "Coming soon ..." with a link to the jebannouncement.com Thursday morning.

The event will take place at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus.

Mr. Bush announced in December ...

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Jeb Bush to Announce Presidential Campaign Plans June 15, Report Says

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Snoop Dogg Agitates The Left With Post About 'Science Project' Bruce Jenner

Most in the media and Hollywood are praising Bruce Jenner's transition to Caitlyn Jenner. Not Rapper Snoop Dogg. Snoop posted a meme on Instagram Wednesday referring to Caitlyn Jenner as "that science project" and slamming Jenner as not deserving the media attention for his Vanity Fair cover while Akon's plan to provide solar power to hundreds of millions of impoverished Africans has ...More

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South African police investigating World Cup bribes

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's organized and serious crime unit said Thursday it was conducting a "preliminary" investigation into bribery allegations surrounding the 2010 World Cup bid.

The unit's spokesman, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, told The Associated Press that a file had been opened and the unit would ...

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UK Student Union Backs Israel Boycott, After Rejecting Islamic State Condemnation

The executive board for the largest student union in the United Kingdom is under fire for joining the boycott campaign against Israel, after the council voted down a previous measure to condemn the Islamic State late last year.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

The Latest: SAfrican police investigating World Cup bribes

The latest on the FIFA corruption investigation:

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South Africa's organized crime unit is conducting a preliminary investigation into bribery allegations surrounding the 2010 World Cup bid after being provided with documents by an opposition political party.

The unit's spokesman, Hangwani Mulaudzi, says a file ...

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Press Told There Will Be 'NO Opportunities to Interview Hillary Clinton'

A press release from Texas Southern University warned reporters attending Clinton's speech at the university on Thursday that they will have no chance to interview the Democratic presidential nominee. A Bloomberg correspondent posted the university confirmation note from TSU to Twitter on Wednesday, which stated with big, bold red letters stating that Clinton would not be answering questions ...More

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41 to become US citizens at Buffalo History Museum

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A federal judge is set to administer the Oath of Allegiance to a new group of U.S. citizens at the Buffalo History Museum.

The 41 men and women will be naturalized at a ceremony Thursday.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says the newest citizens are from ...

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FIFA: Blatter resignation won't lead many to quit

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A consistent ally of Sepp Blatter, Danny Jordaan already has a new job.

Jordaan, the head of the South African Football Association, was credited with bringing the 2010 World Cup to South Africa. He is also being investigated for $10 million in bribes paid to ...

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New dimensions to the Hillary email server story?

(Paul Mirengoff) Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reports that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has obtained information that could deepen the Hillary Clinton private email server scandal. The information is contained in notes of a meeting between two State Department whistleblowers and Oversight Committee staff. During the meeting, the whistleblowers said that a State Department inspector told them he discovered Hillary's private email server while investigating the work

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Pinners' Delight: Buyable pins are coming to Pinterest (But no sex toys allowed)

There was a time in San Francisco when "pinner" used to be a racial epithet and a word denoting slender, single-serving marijuana cigarettes. That was the old San Francisco. In the new San Francisco, Pinterest has finally confirmed to its pinners what so many outsiders had assumed all along: that it is an ecommerce company. To hear CEO Ben Silbermann say it on stage at yesterday at the announcement of […]






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The Latest: Warner makes televised address in Trinidad

0040 GMT (8:40 p.m. EDT)

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner made a televised address in Trinidad on Wednesday night, saying he will prove a link between soccer's governing body and his nation's elections in 2010.

"I will no longer keep secrets for them who actively seek to destroy the ...

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Duggar Parents: We Face Bigger Backlash Because We're Christians [VIDEO]

'All of us as Christians, we struggle every day.'

Via: The Daily Caller

Latest Clinton cash scandal carries national security implications

(Paul Mirengoff) Ever since his days in Arkansas, Bill Clinton has had an unerring ability to sniff out corruption and get in bed with it. Or, in the case of Jim McDougal, to sit sweating in its chair. With the Clinton Foundation, Slick Willy has raised this skill to an art form. If there is a corrupt government with which to engage in mutual backscratching, Bill Clinton will find it. Before long,

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CNN Experts: Conservatives Don't See LGBT As 'Human Beings'

A panel of CNN experts blasted former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on Tuesday for his "insensitive" comments on transgenderism and gender-neutral bathrooms. Huckabee said that there is a time he wishes he could've been transgender: When it was time to hit the high school showers. The governor's comments came in February at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters ...More

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The Puritans Behind Jennerpalooza

Not all Puritans live in 17th century Salem

Via: The Daily Caller

'Really, Erin?': CNN Host's Strange Question for Conservative Activist Reportedly Targeted for Beheading

Wow.

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'Really, Erin?': CNN Host's Strange Question for Conservative Activist Reportedly Targeted for Beheading

Wow.

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