July 2, 2015

Immigration detention center expands in Southern California

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - Immigration authorities are expanding a Southern California detention facility to get more bed space for women with criminal records, immigrants with medical needs, recently-arrived asylum seekers and other detainees.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is getting an additional 640 detention beds at a privately-contracted facility in ...

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If Your Eyes Are This Color, You're More Likely to Abuse Alcohol, Study Says

"This suggests an intriguing possibility …"

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Trash-Focused Rubicon Global Hires Its First CTO

trash cans Rubicon Global, a startup helping customers find money-saving, environmentally-friendly ways to handle their waste and recycling, is announcing the hire of its first chief technology officer — Phil Rodoni, previously vice president of software at Esurance. Atlanta-based Rubicon doesn't haul trash itself, but instead connects businesses with waste hauling and recycling companies… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Greek Official On Europe's Bailout Terms: 'I Prefer To Cut My Arm Off'

'I will not sign another extend and pretend deal'

Via: The Daily Caller

Should Bernie Sanders' Record-Setting Crowds Worry Hillary Clinton?

"They may have the money, but we have the people."

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Why Republicans and Millennials Love the Grateful Dead All the Same

A new poll finds that the band remains one of the most beloved groups in the country, from wealthy Republicans to millennials.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

George Takei: Clarence Thomas Is a 'Clown in Blackface,' Doesn't Belong on Supreme Court

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Is Your State Ranked One of the Laziest in the Country? Find Out on This Map

"Couch potato capital"

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Read This Before Meeting VCs For Pre-Pitch "Advice"

footindoor Startups often ask VCs for pre-pitch meetings. These requests usually are positioned along the lines of, "We aren't looking for money yet, just advice." Of course, we all know this is just a nice way of getting your foot in the door for a soft pitch. And that's ok; these meetings enable both sides to get acquainted before the real ask. However, when startups come… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Women Still Short-Changed in Obama White House

Women working in President Barack Obama's White House make just 84.2 cents for each dollar earned by men, according to an American Enterprise Institute analysis of 2015 salary data released Wednesday.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Sheriff's Association Head Mocks Obama's Call For 'Soft Look' Cop Uniforms

They have 'interjected a very dangerous addition into our profession --- politics'

Via: The Daily Caller

Middle Eastern Journalists Push Muslims to Acknowledge That Terrorism Is Connected to Islam

"The time for excuses and apologies has long gone."

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'Who Is Doing the Raping?': Don Lemon Confronts Donald Trump Over Controversial Mexico Remarks

"How can you say such a thing?"

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How Freelance Diplomacy Bankrolled by Rockefellers Has Paved the Way for an Iran Deal

Advocating for an Iran truce is a loose coalition of peace groups, think tanks, and former high-ranking U.S. diplomats bound together by millions of dollars.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Merkel's office invites US envoy to discuss latest spy claim

BERLIN (AP) - A German official says Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff has asked the U.S. ambassador for a meeting to discuss the latest reports of alleged U.S. spying on Germany.

The official says chief of staff Peter Altmaier invited Ambassador John B. Emerson to the chancellery Thursday.

The ...

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President Obama Wants To End Independence Day As We Know It

Local lawmakers will have to respond to the new EPA rules by enacting municipal grilling bans and cancelling fireworks shows

Via: The Daily Caller

Scott Walker Joining Presidential Race This Month

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Apartment Ad Appears to Use Anti-Semitic Slur…Then Someone Dialed the Phone Number

"… in today's society we know what the slurs are."

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A Third Classification of Worker? Don't Count On It

uber-smile1 Of late, there's been a steady drumbeat of accusations that on-demand startups are unfairly wringing profits out of independent contractors. The concern: No one is withholding their taxable wages for them, they aren't being given health care, and they have almost none of the same protections as full-time employees. In fact, one of the only protections independent contractors… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

New books, dead authors

(Scott Johnson) Pending the arrival of Ammo Grrrll tomorrow, I need laugh now more than ever, and I do not think I'm alone. In the run-up to July 4, moreover, we have the time for it. Joe Queenan provides the opportunity for more than one laugh in his Wall Street Journal Review column "New books, dead authors" (accessible here via Google) of this past weekend. Queenan observes that Tom Clancy and other

Source: Power Line

Iran Violates Past Nuclear Promises on Eve of Deal

VIENNA—Senior Obama administration officials are defending Iranian nuclear violations in the aftermath of a bombshell report published Wednesday by the United Nations indicating that Iran has failed to live up to its nuclear-related obligations, according to sources apprised of the situation.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

U.S. Job Growth Slows In June, Labor Force Shrinks

With 432,000 people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.3 percent

Via: The Daily Caller

Episcopal Church Changes Definition of Marriage to Include Same-Sex Couples, Axing 'Man and a Woman' From Canon

 "Don't be seduced by the fashion of society."

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When The Disrupted Push Back

Riot police officers stand next to a cab with posters which reads,  We tend to think of disruption as kind of a passive activity. The determined upstart enters the market and the established business doesn't give it a second thought. Then ever so slowly before it can even react, the industry suddenly realizes it's lost control. In most cases, the incumbent tries the usual tactics, perhaps making a half-hearted effort to change strategies to be… Read More

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Biden's moment

(Scott Johnson) The postulate that nature abhors a vacuum in politics seems to apply in politics as elsewhere. There is a vacuum in the Democratic field of candidates for president. Like Gene McCarthy in 1968, Bernie Sanders is in the process of demonstrating the existence of the vacuum. Again, like McCarthy in 1968, there his utility ends. Sanders would not be a viable Democratic candidate for president. The vacuum is the space

Source: Power Line

Mika Asks Blinken: At What Point Does the U.S. Look 'Desperate' To Make Iran Deal?

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Obama Admin. BLOCKING New Redskins Stadium Because of the Name Redskins

Priorities, man. America's public debt is steadily approaching $20 trillion. The Islamic State is quickly becoming the new Third Reich as it's now bombing and raping its way to global domination far beyond Iraq and Syria. Putin is looking to erase more boarders across Eastern Europe. Iran is playing John Kerry like a fiddle as it ...More

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Obscure White Professor Informs White People They Are All Currently 'COMPLICIT IN' Slavery

'You as a white person have benefited from slavery and are complicit in it. Sorry'

Via: The Daily Caller

'It's Just a Matter of Time': Bill O'Reilly's Dire Warning for Churches and Pastors Following Gay Marriage Ruling

"It is a fact of American life that the far-left despises organized religion…"

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Scott Walker to Announce Presidential Campaign Intentions July 13

He is also expected on Thursday to file his papers of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission, an aide says.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Goodnight Vienna (2)

(Scott Johnson) As we continue the dance of death in Vienna to the new deadline of July 7, Omri Ceren (on Twitter @ceronomri) writes in two emails combined below regarding news of the latest evidence of Iran's cheating under the current JPOA of November 2013. Omni writes: Remember how we got here. The interim deal was supposed to "freeze" Iran's nuclear program, but the Iranians demanded to keep enriching uranium gas, so

Source: Power Line

Reelz comes to the rescue of homeless Miss USA pageant

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Miss USA pageant, left without a TV home following blowback against co-owner Donald Trump over his comments on Mexican immigrants, has been rescued by the Reelz channel.

In a statement Thursday, Reelz CEO Stan E. Hubbard said the cable and satellite channel acquired the rights ...

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Washington Navy Yard on Lockdown After Unconfirmed Report of Active Shooter

"Shelter in place."

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Philip Hamburger: Chevron's last days?

(Scott Johnson) Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law and the author, most recently, of Is Administrative Law Unlawful? (Editor's note: Answer: Yes.) It is easily one of the most important books published in 2014 and certainly one of the most important I have ever read. Professor Hamburger has graciously taken time out from his vacation to comment at our request on the Supreme Court's earlier this week

Source: Power Line

Prêt d'Union Grabs $34 Million For Its Online Credit Marketplace

Euro Dollar Bill French startup Prêt d'Union just raised $34 million (€31 million) from Eurazeo, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet as well as its existing investors. Prêt d'Union is a European online credit marketplace that matches lenders and borrowers without any financial institution in-between. You can call it a sort of Lending Club for Europe. Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Al Sharpton: Bernie Sanders Represents 'Popularism'

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Bernie Sanders Gains on Hillary Clinton in Iowa, Quinnipiac Poll Says

The Vermont senator has more than doubled his support since May.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Justice of the Peace disciplined for misconduct in office

PHOENIX (AP) - The judge who oversees the Superior-Kearny Justice Court has been formally censured for misconduct in office by the state's Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Justice of the Peace Larry A. Bravo failed to disclose a business relationship with a litigant who appeared before him in two hearings involving ...

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How Presidential Field Responded to Obama's Cuba Announcement

The presidential candidates with the closest ties to Cuba are the most opposed to restoring relations.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Rough Waters Capsize Ferry Carrying Close to 200 People in the Philippines

Dozens confirmed dead.

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Anki Will Ship The Second Generation Of Its Robotic Slot Cars On September 20

anki-overdrive Think of Anki Overdrive as slot cars for the smartphone age. With upgrades, achievements and characters, it's a perfect marriage of smartphones with physical toys. The system debuted two years ago and the company has steadily upgraded the system since. But today, the company revealed the ship date and price of its next generation product, Anki Overdrive. Anki debuted the Overdrive… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Feds Light Dummies on Fire to Warn About Sparklers, Fireworks

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) spent almost $20,000 on a video of dummies being blown to bits by fireworks and set on fire by sparklers.

Source: Washington Free Beacon

Harvard Reveals It Had An IT Breach In June Impacting 8 Colleges And Administrations

Harvard A seventeenth-century university has become the victim of a twenty-first-century crime. Harvard University today announced that on June 19, it discovered a breach in the IT systems of its Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Central Administration, currently impacting eight different schools and administrative organizations at the university. A copy of the memo from Anne Margulies, VP and… Read More

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