June 27, 2015

Rick Perry defends Colorado's 'right to be wrong' on marijuana

DENVER — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry may not agree with Colorado's decision to legalize recreational marijuana, but he said Saturday he will defend the state's right to make a hash of things.

Speaking at the Western Conservative Summit, Mr. Perry made a vigorous defense for the states' role as ...

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Police ID Teen Who Injured A Toddler In Viral Video Attack [VIDEO]

Attack was unprovoked

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Ohio Preacher 'Tired of Living in the Shadows' Posts Humorous Response to Landmark Gay Marriage Ruling

"And since I am not a Jew, and Jesus never specifically mentioned or prohibited marrying bacon, I think I'm good."

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The Millennial Delusion

6415460111_c31a968754_o The obsession with "millennials" continues to fascinate me. Despite being the most outspoken generation in history, people – very important and powerful people – claim they don't understand us. We make no sense apparently, as if the actions and career paths of our parents make total and complete sense. There are even consulting firms that specialize in teaching… Read More

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Murderer Escapes North Carolina Prison

Police believe he scaled a fence at the Brown Creek Correctional Institution's Minimum Unit

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French Terror Suspect Took Selfie With Beheaded Victim, Sent Image to Mobile Phone Number

"We only slit the throats of sheep. You don't slit the throats of people."

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A Question For Those Who Celebrate the Gay Marriage Decision

(John Hinderaker) What would you think if the Court had decided the opposite? That is, if the Court had held that same sex marriage is unconstitutional, so that all state laws approving such unions are void, and all court decisions establishing same sex marriage are overruled. Would you then think it appropriate for "five lawyers," as Chief Justice Roberts put it, to remove this issue from the democratic process and purport to

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TV Hair Of The Day: A Real 'Dog' Of A Choice

Sometimes it's hard to choose just one insane hairdo.

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Greece's Creditors Reject Aid Extension, Worried Citizens Line Up for Hours at ATMs

"How does the Greek government think that it will survive and deal with its problems in that period?"

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Robot Writers Need Something To Say

robotwriter Robot writers are hot. No, that statement is not a call to fix their air conditioners, much less to date them. It's to acknowledge that pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI) and automated writing have gotten a lot of media attention (partly because it hits close to home; the deployments are public and noticeable and it invokes the perennial concern about job loss due to automation). Read More

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U.S. Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Likely to Impact Other Countries

 "Sometimes U.S. influence is negative, but we believe in this case it will be positive …"

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Lawsuit: Public School Suspended Kids Four Days For Pro-Hitler Tweets ON A SUNDAY

'I brought this suit because it's illegal to do that to children'

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Carly Fiorina on Obamacare: Rich getting richer, while middle-class getting squeezed

DENVER — Obamacare is fueling "crony capitalism" by driving out small providers and ensuring that only the largest insurance companies and hospitals can survive, says Republican presidential contender Carly Fiorina.

The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Ms. Fiorina said Saturday that the Affordable Care Act has made the tax and regulatory ...

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CNN Finds Its Gossip Girl In 'Backstabbing' Brian Stelter

"Wolf wasn't the first CNNer he's been obnoxious about."

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Hillary sags in early states

(Paul Mirengoff) Rich Lowry says that a "plugged-in lefty" tells him he believes that Bernie Sanders will defeat Hillary Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire. This scenario may sound far-fetched, but polling data suggests it could come to pass. A new WMUR/CNN Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center from June 18 to 24, puts Sanders within 8 points of Clinton, 43-35 (with a margin of

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Idaho new laws include official state amphibian

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Summer in Idaho brings not only plenty of outdoor cookouts and floats down the river, but also state laws ready to go into effect.

July 1 marks the start of a new fiscal year in Idaho, meaning the state will begin implementing a new budget and ...

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Police Search For 'Irresponsible Dog Owner' After Photos Emerge of Dog Terrorizing Sheep at Cliff's Edge

"It was a really shocking moment when it went over."

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Supreme Irony?

History shows presidential candidates have more success running against the court than in making it do what they want.

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Vermont health exchange critics urge state to go federal

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A recent ruling by the U.S Supreme Court has renewed calls from critics of Vermont Health Connect to move onto the federal exchange.

Vermont Public Radio reports (http://bit.ly/1Hl0jw3 ) the Supreme Court's decision in King Vs. Burwell had led some Vermont lawmakers to consider alternatives to ...

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Stunning Video Captures Explosion During Festival That Injured Hundreds of People

We are very sorry about what happened and we will investigate the cause to find out who is responsible."

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Photo: White House Heralds Supreme Court's Same-Sex Marriage Decision

The White House stands illuminated in rainbow-colored light at dusk in Washington on Friday. The Supreme Court's ruling that gay marriage is legal nationwide is a "victory for America," President Barack Obama said, declaring that justice had arrived for same-sex couples with "a thunderbolt."

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As World Reacts to 'Love Wins,' ISIS Punishes Gay Men in Gruesome Way

Hundreds of people reportedly gathered to watch the executions.

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YC-Backed Cymmetria Uses Virtual Machines To Decoy And Detect Hackers

Cymmetria YC-backed Cymmetria, which is uncloaking from stealth now after around a year working its cyber security startup business, wants to tilt the traditional security odds so it's hackers who are left feeling vulnerable and on their guard — by giving the businesses whose systems are under attack a 'home advantage'. Read More

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Should Conservatives Give Up On the Supreme Court As a Court?

(John Hinderaker) This morning Andy McCarthy takes up a topic that we discussed on our podcast yesterday: the fact that in major, publicly-important cases, the liberal justices always–and I mean always–vote as a political bloc: Already, an ocean of ink has been spilled analyzing, lauding, and bemoaning the Supreme Court's work this week: a second life line tossed to SCOTUScare in just three years; the location of a heretofore unknown constitutional right

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Once unheard of, US-Iran talks become the new normal

VIENNA (AP) - The top American and Iranian diplomats faced each other across a square table in a 19th century Viennese palace, the room austerely decorated and the atmosphere calm as they started the final push for a generation-defining nuclear agreement on Saturday.

Running up against a Tuesday deadline for ...

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Serious Anti-Gunners Show What Compromise On Gun Control Would Mean

Both parties make a claim for gun control - Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) lead the effort

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Chris Christie Unveils Presidential Campaign Website

After an announcement Tuesday Christie plans to travel to New Hampshire, his campaign says.

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The SaaSing Of The Music Business

micandsoftware The music business is about to undergo another seismic shift. And Apple's streaming service is the tsunami that will force the industry to rebuild. Again. It was around 2005 when I joined Warner Bros. Records as their new head of technology. I was the 20-something-year-old kid who was supposed to have every answer about all things digital. Read More

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Rick Santorum blasts Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling as 'based on a lie'

DENVER — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Friday that the Supreme Court's decision in favor of same-sex marriage is "based on a lie," namely that the only argument against such unions is a hatred of gays.

The court's Friday decision said in effect that "the only reason you could ...

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Series of Bomb Blasts Kill At Least 12 in Iraq

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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Chris Christie Unveils Presidential Campaign Website, Slogan

'Telling it like it is'

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You Won't Believe What Attacked Two Oregon Men as They Were Hiking

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In praise of Lesley Goodman

(Scott Johnson) In his elegy of William Butler Yeats, W.H. Auden concludes with this couplet offering advice addressed to an unnamed poet: "In the prison of his days/Teach the free man how to praise." This morning I want to take a brief timeout to praise Lesley Goodman. Professor Goodman has a Ph.D. in English from Harvard. She is a voracious and learned reader at the beginning of what should be a great

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Virginia Governor Says Hillary Clinton's Leadership is 'Fitting of the People Who Lost Their Lives' in Charleston Massacre

"Folks, this is the type of leadership that we need."

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Gawker Wins Gay Marriage With Grace: 'F**k You.' 'You Are All A**holes'

F-you, F-you and more F-you's

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The Future Is Here, It's Just Unevenly Distributed Systems

cable-confusion Hearken to me, my fellow developers. We live in complex and confusing times. Once we sought to make things ever simpler. Then we discovered that simple isn't necessarily scalable, or efficient, or resilient, and turned to favoring composition over simplicity, deconstructing our systems into multiple independent services. And now–well–now it sometimes seems we have hit upon… Read More

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The Week in Pictures: Confederacy of Dunces Edition

(Steven Hayward) So let's see where we are in the space of a week: the old confederate battle flag is coming down, to be replaced, it would seem, by the gay pride rainbow flag. The "reactionary" Supreme Court lived up to its billing, by going all-in for reactionary liberalism. It's enough to make Ignatius Reilly emigrate to Rhodesia or somewhere. Meanwhile, we're overlooking who may be the happiest folks today—divorce lawyers. And

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Obama says it's time to 'move on' with Obamacare

Fresh from a victory at the Supreme Court over his signature health-care law, President Obama said it's time for opponents to stop attacking the settled policy.

"It is time to stop refighting battles that have been settled again and again," the president said in his weekly address. "It's time to ...

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See the Dog That Was Dubbed This Year's 'World's Ugliest Dog'

"My appearance can be a little unsettling to some…"

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Activist Removes Confederate Flag From South Carolina's Capitol Grounds

Police are screaming, "Get off the pole!"

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Bill and Norman

In September 1962, Sonny Liston fought Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight title before a crowd of 19,000 in Chicago.This confrontation was preceded two days earlier by another marquee event, less kinetic but no less momentous. "The debate of the year" at Chicago's grand Medinah Temple drew a crowd of 3,000. Playboy magazine published the full transcript of the event and sold 1.5 million copies, a publication record. The debaters were Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley, Jr., rising stars of the left and right.

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Pennsylvania town's refugee community on the rise

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - The blades of grass under his cleats, a soccer ball deftly bouncing between his feet, this feeling, although different now than it was in his homeland, still makes Musa Ndagiza feel like himself more than anything else.

He can still hear the crowd cheering inside Nakivubo ...

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The Berlin Startup Ecosystem Needs An IPO In The U.S.

berlingate On the heels of Microsoft's acquisition of the Berlin startup darling 6Wunderkinder for a price between $100 and $200 million, the debate rages on about whether Berlin startups should be bolder and wait longer for an exit. The consensus in the Berlin startup ecosystem is that we are still missing one extraordinarily big success. Read More

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The Power Line Show, Episode 21: Supreme Folly, With Dana Perino

(John Hinderaker) This afternoon John, Steve and Paul got together to record Episode 21 of the Power Line show. We talked with Dana Perino about her new book, And the Good News Is…: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side, her experience as press secretary for President George W. Bush, and her starring role on Fox News's The Five. Then it was on to the news of the day, in particular the

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Obama: We Have To 'Reach Back' and Shift Religious Convictions On Gay Marriage

President Barack Obama urged supporters of same-sex marriage Friday to "help" people to overcome their religious beliefs in order to attain a progressive American view of equality. "I know that Americans of goodwill continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue," he said in a speech following the Supreme Court's ruling to constitutionally recognize same-sex marriage. He began ...More

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Western Conservative Summit: 'Not the Supreme Court appreciation party'

DENVER — The Western Conservative Summit's kick-off Friday gave attendees a golden opportunity to vent their frustrations over this week's Supreme Court decisions in favor of Obamacare and gay marriage.

As the summit's host, former Colorado Sen. Bill Armstrong, joked, "This is not the Supreme Court appreciation party. That's in ...

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8 Products To Ensure A Relaxing Summer Vacation [SLIDESHOW]

How you gon be mad on vacation?

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Al Sharpton Isn't Stopping at the Confederate Flag — He Just Revealed His Next Target

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