July 1, 2015

Islamic State Weaves Web of Support in Gulf Arab States

KUWAIT/DUBAI (Reuters) - When a Saudi Arabian man flew to Kuwait in the early hours of Friday to carry out the country's worst militant attack, a bomb vest, Kuwaiti-style Arab robes, a place to prepare, and a car and driver to take him to his target were all lined up for him.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

WATCH: Obama and Hillary Same Sex Marriage HYPOCRISY in 30 Seconds

Politicians flipflop all the time. Sure. But liberals in and outside of the media bubble should really stop celebrating Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as if they have long lead the charge for "marriage equality." It was Hillary Clinton's husband, Bill, who signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law. Hillary sat by, said, and ...More

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Donald Trump: NBC didn't fire me -- I quit

Donald Trump on Wednesday downplayed his recent split with NBC over comments he made about Mexican immigrants, saying he is focusing his attention on his presidential campaign.

During an appearance on Fox Business Network, Mr. Trump said that it was his decision to leave NBC.

"First of all, I told ...

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Bon Jovi, A Clinton Supporter, Let Christie Use His Music For A Good Reason

Other Republicans should take notice

Via: The Daily Caller

Christopher Columbus Statue Tagged With 'Black Lives Matter!' Graffiti

"It's pretty sad."

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The Last Seconds of an Ultramarathon Were Among the Most Exciting — Watch This Video to See Why

"Let's move it!"

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Perry and Fiorina Also Want to Scrap Filibuster to Repeal Obamacare

An internal divide is sharpening among Republican presidential candidates.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

MSNBC Guest: Normalizing Cuban Relations Will 'Be A Very Big Problem' For Obama [VIDEO]

'Talking for the sake of talking only serves as a distraction for these types of regimes.'

Via: The Daily Caller

Texas County Clerk Won't Be Issuing Gay Marriage Licenses — and Here's the Pro-Gay Marriage Supreme Court Justice She Quoted to Back Her Stance

"I am grateful that the First Amendment continues to protect … sincerely held religious beliefs."

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Splacer, With $1.4M In New Funding, Is Airbnb For Event Spaces

e3F7nidKuMhyPzdchfvsZIY3LHNj2dlvge0onYMHmYo Splacer, the Tel Aviv-based marketplace for listing and renting out creative event space, today announced that it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding led by Carmel Ventures. A number of angel investors, including Shlomo Kramer, Sam Ben Avraham, and Eyal Shaked, also participated in the round, Alongside the funding announcement, Splacer is also going live with a beta product in New York City. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Cuomo Takes Shot at Clinton Dodging The Media

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Sept. hearing set on ethics charges against Marmet mayor

MARMET, W.Va. (AP) - The West Virginia Ethics Commission has scheduled a Sept. 29 hearing on ethics charges against the mayor of Marmet.

A commission review board found probable cause that Mayor Bill Pauley used his office for private gain.

Pauley tells the Charleston Daily Mail (http://bit.ly/1dxeaDh) that he didn't ...

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Huh? Kindergarten Application Asks If Child Had 'Vaginal' Birth

Are there more intrusive questions? Yes!

Via: The Daily Caller

Guess Which Major TV Network Did a Segment Promoting Young Gun Lovers

"This new generation of gun owners, we're passionate, we're welcoming, and you're welcome to come to the range with us and just shoot."

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Yahoo! Anchor: Hillary Clinton Not Anticipating Email Fallout is 'So Amateur Hour'

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Hillary Wondered Why Obama Would Not See Her As Often As Nixon Saw Kissinger

'Do you see this as a problem?'

Via: The Daily Caller

Law Enforcement Says South Carolina Church Fire Was Not Arson

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Law Enforcement Says South Carolina Church Fire Was Not Arson

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Minute Is a Video Watching App For The ADD Generation

Viral video has become a bug business. Companies like Vodio and 5by have come into to serve this space, 'viralising' short form video, especially for mobile. Now Minute, a new startup, has developed a new Android and web application that draws on big data and crowd data to determine the most viral part of an online video. It then turns these moments into short Vine-like clips.… Read More

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Hillary's high anxiety

(Scott Johnson) The Daily Mail's David Martosko takes a bemused look at the subset of surviving Hillary Clinton emails released yesterday. Martosko hits all the highlights. Martosko notes, for example: "Despite the collective shock inside the D.C. beltway when news surfaced that Clinton had a secret email account, many of Washington's most influential Democrats were already in on it. Political operative David Axelrod had her email address almost from the start, but

Source: Power Line

'Morning Joe' Rips De Blasio's 'Strange, Strange' Behavior Toward Cuomo: It Won't Work for New York

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Jeb Bush, Donald Trump lead GOP candidates, still trail behind Hillary Clinton: poll

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and real estate mogul Donald Trump lead the GOP presidential candidates in a new CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday, but the poll shows they both still lag behind former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat.

The national poll finds Mr. Bush at ...

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11 Juicy Nuggets From The Latest Batch Of Hillary Clinton Emails

A bold-faced political hatchet job, a mysterious memo, a bad pun and a predictable dig at Fox News. Those are just some of the enlightening tidbits contained in the 3,000 pages of Hillary Clinton emails released late Tuesday. The exchanges, which span the period between March 2009 and December 2009, show that Clinton maintained a […]

Via: The Daily Caller

For the 11th Time Within a Year, a Fiber-Optic Cable Has Been Intentionally Cut in California

"Disturbing"

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For the 11th Time Within a Year, a Fiber-Optic Cable Has Been Intentionally Cut in California

"Disturbing"

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Islamic State Threatens to Take Over Gaza Because Hamas Isn't Ruling by Shariah Law

"The rule of Shariah will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you."

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'This Is An Insult': Ann Coulter and Geraldo Rivera Clash Over Illegal Immigration and Crime

"Everything Geraldo said is false."

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Sweetgreen Harvests $35 Million To Satisfy Millennial Salad Cravings

sweetgreen Trendy farm-to-table salad shop sweetgreen has raised $35 million in additional venture funding to scale its healthy and affordable restaurant chain nationwide. The most recent cash infusion, led by T. Rowe Price with participation from prior investor Revolution Growth, brings sweetgreen's total venture funding to $95 million. Headquartered in D.C., sweetgreen was launched eight years… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Wisconsin's shame, cont'd

(Scott Johnson) We used to laugh along with Tom Wolfe when he mocked the left's routine invocation of fascism in America. Quoting Jean-Francois Revel, Wolfe observed that the "dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe" (more here). We're not laughing now. Now it's not so funny. Now we're a little worried. In part, we have Jonah Goldberg to thank for that. In

Source: Power Line

MSNBC: Emails Show Blumenthal Played Larger Role Than Originally Believed as Clinton Adviser

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Events leading to government probe of big-rig hitches

March 1, 2011: Fontaine Fifth Wheel sends service bulletin to customers telling them that the Ultra LT hitch used on semis may not lock properly and trailers can detach from tractors on the road. The bulletin also is sent to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

April 15, 2011: NHTSA ...

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45 Seconds Into This Video, Nature Throws Two Dirt Bikers Way Off Course

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Scott Walker Sees Iowa Lead Shrink in Latest Quinnipiac Poll

Donald Trump and Jeb Bush top the "no way" list, with about a quarter of participants saying they definitely can't support them.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

NYT Reporter: State Dept. Redacted Two-Dozen Clinton Emails Despite Her Saying There Was No Classified Information On Them

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Why You Should Advertise Your App On Television

tvapps From ad networks and exchanges to demand-side platforms and other app publishers, app marketers have left no stone unturned when it comes to finding new mobile channels on which to advertise their apps. And yet, as the market matures and evolves, most developers are finding mobile as a channel to be saturated, competitive and increasingly expensive. Read More

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Trump Slams 'Total Disaster' MSNBC, 'Sleepy-Eyes Chuck Todd' Is Failing

Donald Trump discussed his lawsuit against Univision and slammed NBC for being incredibly biased NBC during his Tuesday night appearance on the O'Reilly Factor. Trump is suing Univision to the tune $500 million for dropping out of airing Miss USA, due to his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrant rapists. Trump insisted that his remarks about Mexico were "totally accurate," and while ...More

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Hillary Clinton emails show top officials aware of her private address

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Obama administration officials, including the White House chief of staff, knew as early as 2009 that Hillary Rodham Clinton was using a private email address for her government correspondence, according to some 3,000 pages of correspondence released by the State Department late Tuesday night.

The chief ...

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Cause of Death Determined for Toddler Discovered Lifeless in Park Swing, His Mother Still Pushing Him Two Days Later

"Unusually long period of time."

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Setback For European Facebook Privacy Class Action, As Austrian Court Rules Lawsuit Inadmissible

class_action_app_english An ongoing Facebook class action suit in Europe over alleged privacy violations took a significant step back today. A regional court in Austria, where the suit was originally filed, ruled the it inadmissible, with the court saying it has "no jurisdiction" over the matter. The case, originally filed in August 2014 by Europe v Facebook, currently has 25,000 claimants signed up,… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Feds Spend $676,417 on Anti-Tanning Bed Social Media Campaign for Moms

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending more than a half a million dollars to create a social media campaign that persuades mothers to tell their daughters not to go to the tanning salon.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Rocket Internet's Global Fashion Group Raises $167M More At A $3.45B Valuation

Screenshot 2015-07-01 13.47.44 Rocket Internet's Global Fashion Group (GFG), an umbrella group that houses the German company's fashion-focused e-commerce services, is making a double announcement today after it secured €150 million ($167 million) in fresh funding and made two acquisitions in Brazil. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Former NY Sen. Smith faces 10 years in mayoral race scheme

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Federal prosecutors are asking that former Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty earlier this year in a scheme to bribe his way onto the ballot for the 2013 New York City mayoral ...

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Police: 141 Bodies Recovered From Indonesia Plane Crash

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Trump files $500 million lawsuit as pageant woes mount

NEW YORK (AP) - As fallout built over Donald Trump's remarks about immigrants from Mexico, the Republican presidential candidate answered back with legal action to match his trademark brashness, filing a $500 million lawsuit.

The suit against Univision for dropping the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants claims breach of ...

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Marijuana Legalization Comes Into Effect In Oregon On Wednesday

'Regulating marijuana works'

Via: The Daily Caller

Obamacare Co-Ops Hid Millions In Exec Pay, Consulting Fees

Non-profit execs pocket up to $1.3 million in yearly salaries

Via: The Daily Caller

Apple Music Hits The Right Note On International Availability And Pricing

42 Apple Music It's still early days for Apple Music, the newly launched streaming service, as the world chews over its user interface, initial service issues, that Beats 1 radio station and other unexpected factors. But two areas where the U.S. company has hit the right notes are international availability and pricing. Read More

Source: TechCrunch