"… I looked at my wife and she was nervous and we just decided we have to get out of here."
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June 28, 2015
JOSEPH CURL: GOP presidential candidates response to same-sex marriage embarrassing
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Republicans running for president in 2016 took a giant step backward last week as the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is legal and must be allowed by all 50 states.
First, let's do one simple exercise: substitute "interracial" for "same-sex." Argument over. States can no more outlaw same-sex ...
Conservative Churches Confront New Reality After Gay Marriage Ruling
"But we are not discouraged. We are not going to be silenced."
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SpaceX's Failed CRS-7 Mission Had Something To Do With An "Overpressure Event"
It's not entirely clear what happened during the launch of SpaceX's Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS-7) mission Sunday morning. A SpaceX cargo ship set out to deliver samples and supplies to the astronauts onboard the International Space Station for its seventh resupply mission this morning. Sadly, that rocket and all supplies exploded mid-air, shortly after blast-off at 10:22… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Aging and sentimentality in judges
(Paul Mirengoff) Before I head to Europe, let me expand, using thoughts Bill Otis presented to me, on why I think older judges are more likely than younger ones to decide cases based on sentiment. Resisting sentimentality requires discipline and energy. Discipline can subside with the onset of old age. As Bill puts it: By the time they get to their sixties, most talented lawyers have essentially made it in life, and
Source: Power Line
Report: Second Escaped New York Prisoner Arrested
It appears the manhunt for the second escaped killer is finally over. Multiple sources say the second escaped New York prisoner, David Sweat, has been shot by police and is alive in their custody, reports The New York Times. A state police sergeant reportedly saw Sweat walking down the road near Constable, N.Y. and ordered him to stop. […]
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Facebook's Snapchatty New Photo Uploader Lets You Overlay Text And More
Face it. Your photos aren't all that interesting. But Facebook's going to help you jazz them up with its shiny new photo uploader, which just began testing on iOS. It lets you add overlaid text in any color, instantly preview filters that you swipe across your photos, or paste Facebook's stickers on top. Facebook offered more standard filters before and had tested photo… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Off to Europe
(Paul Mirengoff) I will be in Europe for the next two weeks. In Paris, where I'll be for a large portion of the trip, the Eiffel Tower will be illuminated, but presumably not in rainbow colors to celebrate gay marriage. Sad to say, the governments of the countries I'll be visiting all have a better understanding of Iran, and world as a whole, than President Obama does. What a sad commentary. If,
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Volunteers help to ID immigrant remains buried in Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Forensic specialists in Texas are receiving volunteer help from other states as they work to identify the remains of 90 people discovered buried in a South Texas cemetery last year.
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times (http://bit.ly/1edcpf3 ) reports that anthropologist Kate Spradley directs a project aimed ...
Second N.Y. Prison Escapee Is Shot, Paper Reports
No law enforcement officers were injured.
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Greek Banks to Remain Shut, Capital Controls Imposed
"… this decision has no other aim than to blackmail the will of the Greek people …"
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Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina top Western Conservative Summit's GOP presidential straw poll
DENVER | Ben Carson won the Western Conservative Summit's GOP presidential straw poll for the second year in a row, but the bigger surprise may have been the poll's runner-up.
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina came in second in the vote of 871 conference attendees, edging out Wisconsin Gov. ...
Dem. Gov. Uses Phony Southern Accent, Charleston To Stump For Hillary [VIDEO]
'Chaaahhhhleston, South Caroline-uhhh'
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Donald Trump Responds to Hypothetical Gay Person Questioning His Three Marriages
"They have a very good point," he says.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Trey Gowdy Says He May Call On 'Recalcitrant' John Kerry To Testify About Hillary's Emails [VIDEO]
Kerry is stonewalling, Gowdy claims
Via: The Daily Caller
They're All P2P Employment Agencies
Instagram is big. But Upwork and YouTube are bigger. Twitter is big. But Uber and Airbnb are bigger. Your startup idea is big. But your startup idea that pays people is bigger. What do YouTube, Airbnb, Uber and Upwork have in common? You can get paid using them. And thousands of people are getting an income from them right now. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
The Wages of Bork
(Steven Hayward) Increasingly it appears that the failure of the Supreme Court's nomination of Robert Bork in 1987 was a watershed moment for the history of jurisprudence over the last generation, as Anthony Kennedy has been so central to so many bad rulings (and, fairness demands, a handful of good ones, like Citizens United). While Chief Justice Roberts's jurisprudence may remain inscrutable, nothing about Kennedy should surprise us, though. It was known
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Paul Ryan, Ways and Means chairman, hits Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare subsidies
Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, said Sunday the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Obamacare's subsidies in all the states is a "grave injustice" to the rule of law that upends Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s vow to call "balls and strikes" as ...
Hundreds of Cab Drivers Slapped with Parking Tickets
"I can't help but to think they are being prejudiced."
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Trump On Iran: 'Obama Is Making US Look Like BEGGARS' [AUDIO]
'It's a very sad time for the country as far as I'm concerned'
Via: The Daily Caller
The quest for ideological purity in Supreme Court Justices
(Paul Mirengoff) In our podcast last week, we tried to explain why Democratic-appointed Supreme Court Justices march in lockstep in the big, closely divided Supreme Court cases, while one Republican-appointed Justices (Anthony Kennedy) cannot be counted on at all to vote with his more reliably conservative brethren and a second (John Roberts) has parted company in two of most important cases decided in his tenure. I offered one possible explanation. Liberalism, I
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The Audacity of Obama
The president returns to a Biblical touchstone as he heads into the home stretch of his second term.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Turkish Police Use Tear Gas, Water Cannons to Disperse Pride Parade
"Seems Turkey doesn't like when #LoveWins."
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Post-Obergefell Civil Rights: A Tangle or a Knot?
(Steven Hayward) Remember the Hobby Lobby decision last year, where the Supreme Court sided with employers whose religious faith led them to object to the Obamacare mandate that all health insurance policies must offer contraceptive coverage? The authoritarian and conformist left howled with indignation. Get ready for a lot of sequels in the aftermath of Obergefell. On Friday the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations in America issued a very gracious statement about
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Lindsey Graham, South Carolina senator, calls for Confederate flag's removal from Statehouse
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday the Confederate flag has become a "roadblock to the future of my state" and needs to come down from outside the Statehouse in Columbia.
Speaking to NBC's "Meet the Press," the Republican presidential candidate said the grace displayed by people who lost loved ...
Graham On Gay Marriage: Accept SCOTUS Ruling But Fight For Religious Rights [VIDEO]
'If I'm President ... you will not lose your tax-exempt status'
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North Carolina Teen Died in 'Not a Random' Hit-and-Run
"He said not to call the police…"
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Mike Huckabee Says His White House Would Have a Nativity Scene
And he doesn't want to hear any whining about it.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Why Your Next Package Will Be Delivered By An Uber
Geographic saturation is the key to network effects and profitability in the ridesharing business. The more drivers Uber or Lyft have in a given region, the faster the pick-up times, the better the customer experience, and the more rider demand — which in turn allows drivers to earn more money, and attracts more drivers to the network. Read More 
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Donald Trump, GOP presidential candidate, gives in-depth CNN interview
Real estate mogul Donald Trump played the role of the Solomonic candidate Sunday, trying to have it both ways amid a range of social, economic and political issues as he chalks up better-than-expected poll numbers ahead of the GOP's 2016 presidential primary contests.
Mr. Trump, whose been cast as a ...
CNN Contributor Van Jones: 'The Republican Party Has A Big Problem' [VIDEO]
'They seem to be a party out of touch with HUMANITY'
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A Former Obama Aide Describes What It Was Like to Come Out to His Boss
It almost went smoothly.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Will Dems apologize?
(Scott Johnson) In an open letter to DNC Chairman Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, Jeffrey Lord provides a readout of the tangled history of the Democratic Party with slavery, segregation, lynching, and the Ku Klux Klan. Lord draws on the Democratic Party platforms of 1840, 1844, 1856 and 1860. He adds that, as the Civil War drew to a close, the Democrats opposed the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment (ending slavery), and proceeded afterwards
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Former CIA Chief Michael Hayden: We Have To 'Disrupt the ISIS Narrative'
'We need to inflict battlefield defeats on them in their homeland'
Via: The Daily Caller
Netanyahu Accuses World Leaders of Retreating from Their Own Red Lines in Iran Nuclear Talks
"It is still not too late to go back and stick to the demands that will actually prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons…"
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Watch SpaceX Launch CRS-7 And Attempt Rocket Recovery Via Drone Live Now
Above, the feed for SpaceX's CRS-7 resupply mission for the International Space Station is live. The streaming begins at 10 AM ET, with a liftoff targeted for 10:21 AM ET. The mission also includes another attempt by SpaceX to recover its Falcon 9 reusable rocket stage, via an ocean-borne automated drone barge that doubles as a landing platform. SpaceX ">almost nailed the… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Taxpayer-Funded Texas University Pays Diversity Bureaucrat More Than ANY State's Governor
299 percent more than an entire family living in the same city
Via: The Daily Caller
Number of Injured After Taiwan Explosion Climbs
Taiwan Premier Mao Chih-kuo banned public activities that use the colored powder.
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The need to get our minds right
(Scott Johnson) National Review has posted a symposium contemplating what the Supreme Court has wrought in its gay marriage decision of this past Friday. The decision represents itself as the culmination of a long line of cases and related social developments. In the first contribution to the symposium, however, Notre Dame's Professor Gerard Bradley asserts that it is only the end of the beginning. Concluding with an allusion to the prison warden's
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Sunday morning coming down
(Scott Johnson) After much thought and deliberation, I'm moving Hall & Oates out of the category of guilty pleasures. Among other things, their best work honestly draws on their background in Philly soul. Moreover, in the spirit of the Supreme Court's gay marriage diktat, who's to judge? All music seeks to comfort the lonely heart. All music must be accorded equal respect. In the video below, Hall & Oates perform an audacious
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A Chilling Message Was Sent to Christians from the 'Islamic State in Palestine'
"Revenge" on "heretics."
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Tunisia Terrorist Was 'Laughing and Joking Around' During Attack
"Soldier of the caliphate."
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The Day the Moon Exploded
The typical science fiction writer will take a concept he finds interesting—say, nanotechnology—explore and build an architecture of plot around the theme and if it all goes well something entertaining will be the end product. Not so with Neal Stephenson. Everything he has written is a heady mix of half a dozen complex ideas: cryptography, currency, philosophy, the history of science, memetics, computer viruses, and so on. (Stephenson brought our present meaning for the word "avatar" into common usage.) If he weren't often seen in public, it would be possible to argue that Stephenson was some sort of composite, a synthesis of assorted futurists, historians, philosophers, and fiction writers, all writing as a team.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Candidates jumping early into Nebraska legislative races
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The general election is nearly a year and a half away, but some candidates for Nebraska Legislature are already jumping into the 2016 race to replace senators who are slated to leave office.
The Nebraska secretary of state's office says it's receiving "a handful of calls ...
This day in baseball history: Twins win twice, cling to first place
(Paul Mirengoff) 1965 was only the third year since 1948 that the New York Yankees did not win the American League pennant. Unlike the previous two instances — 1954 (when they won 103 games) and 1959 (when they were only 4 games back in early July) — the '65 Yankees were never in contention. On this day 50 years ago, they were in sixth place, 10 games off the pace. That pace
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Dad Brings Teen Daughter to Fight Another Girl — but He's Not in the Mood to Just Sit Back and Watch
All 6-plus feet and nearly 300 pounds of him …
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