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October 11, 2015
The NY Times Complains About the Competition
(John Hinderaker) Today's New York Times featured a story titled "The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election." The article reported on an investigation by Times reporters into public filings disclosing individual and superpac support for presidential candidates. This is the supposedly explosive finding: Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House. The Times tries to fit the data into a "big money
House Speaker Paul Ryan Would Only Escalate The GOP's Civil War
He's not the dream candidate the establishment makes him out to be
Via: The Daily Caller
NY Times Angers Historians, Archaeologists Over Article Questioning Jewish Link to Temple Mount
A "masterpiece of obfuscation and falsehood."
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Erdogan power grab backfires in Turkey as crackdowns on PKK, media prove unpopular
ISTANBUL — For the second time this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's quest to consolidate power might be backfiring.
After voters failed this summer to give the majority to any political bloc in parliament, the Islamist president has been working hard to make sure his allies in the Justice ...
L.A. Dodgers Chase Utley Suspended for Two Playoff Games After 'Illegal' Slide Broke Leg of Mets SS Ruben Tejada
There was no immediate word on whether Utley would appeal.
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Obama Doesn't Hesitate When Asked If He Could Win a Third Term — and Levels a Few Insults at Donald Trump to Boot
"He's tapped into something that exists in the Republican Party that's real."
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Bill De Blasio Group to Hold Presidential Forum in Iowa in December
The mayor of New York will attend the Dec. 6 forum, but will not act as its host.
Source: Bloomberg.com news
Donald Trump and the decline of America's moral ecology
(Paul Mirengoff) Peter Wehner writes about the "cultural and moral context that allows someone like [Donald] Trump – narcissistic, crude, obsessed with wealth and fame, and who has never felt the need to ask God for forgiveness – to emerge." Pete believes that "it is hardly a coincidence that Donald Trump shot to the top of the polls in a nation that celebrates the Kardashians." I agree. Pete ties his discussion of
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Inside the Beltway: Ben Carson: America 'closer' to biblical end of days
Interesting questions, interesting answers. Sharyl Attkisson — host of "Full Measure," a new investigative political talk show that debuted last week — has offered some fact-driven verve and refreshing originality. She interviewed Republican front-runner Donald Trump on the first program. It was Ben Carson's turn on Sunday.
"What's your view ...
Obama Says Hillary's Email Use Was A 'Mistake' [VIDEO]
Says officials should be "more sensitive" in handling government info
Via: The Daily Caller
The Other Ag Sector Problem That Big Data Can Solve
The average city-poke thinks about farm labor as the last of a dying breed of worker — replaced by $700,000 combines and all sorts of fancy technology that enables a farmer to do more than granddad imagined, and with little dust or manure involved. Things have changed. What has not changed is the need for farm worker management and safety. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Two Experts Determine That Shooting Of Tamir Rice Was Justified
'Objectively reasonable'
Via: The Daily Caller
Boko Haram Used Girls, Women to Carry Out Latest Suicide Bombings, Officials Say
Two girls between the ages of 13 and 17 carried out suicide bombings in the northern Cameroon village of Kangeleri near Mora town on Sunday.
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Trey Gowdy: Fired Benghazi Staffer Mishandled Classified Information
Podliska says Gowdy's committee was engaged in a partisan investigation.
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Who You Callin' 'Extreme'?
(Steven Hayward) The conventional wisdom of Certified Smart People, and their media sycophants, is that the trouble with Washington is that Republicans have become extreme. I always like to say, "As if!", and say the trouble is that they are not extreme enough (though extremity of opinion is not the same thing as political prudence or cleverness over how to win political fights—this is what seems in especially short supply at the
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Trey Gowdy Responds To Fired Benghazi Committee Staffer's Claims That Investigation Is 'Partisan'
Slams CNN for airing "unsubstantiated" claims
Via: The Daily Caller
Watch the Adorable Reunion Between a Soldier and His Two-Year-Old Daughter
"She couldn't contain herself."
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The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are
In the early 1960s, Scottish engineer James Goodfellow was given a problem to solve. A colleague had invented a way to insert a card into a machine and get money out. Goodfellow's task was to figure out a way to ensure that only the card's legitimate owner could use these new "ATM" machines to obtain cash. So he created the personal identification number, what we call… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Trey Gowdy denies ex-staffer's allegations of Benghazi committee bias
Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Sunday that a former staffer accusing the panel of bias against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton never mentioned her before being fired "deficient performance," including mishandling classified information.
Ex-staffer Bradley Podliska, a major in the Air Force ...
Officials: Number of Child Abuse Cases Involving Witchcraft, Exorcisms on the Rise
Police said a specialist unit received 46 such cases in 2014.
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College Students Plan to Carry Sex Toys Around School to Protest Campus Carry
"Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play."
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A Date With Chef Watson
Watson, IBM's supercomputer best known for winning Jeopardy in 2011, is now a chef, too. IBM pinged a bunch of the world's top chefs, then added a dash of their knowledge and a large clump of all the cooking, food and chemical compound data they could pull from the ether to make Chef Watson, a supercomputer program that aims to give us weird and wonderful recipes beyond what… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Donald Trump Says Germany's Commitment on Syrian Refugees Is 'Insane'
Trump said he's for a no-fly zone, but against taking in refugees from the war-torn country.
Source: Bloomberg.com news
Who Will Be Bernie's Running Mate? Not Chuck Todd [VIDEO]
'Before I start worrying about who my vice president will be, let me win this one'
Via: The Daily Caller
'SNL' Ridicules Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jason Chaffetz in 'Fox & Friends' Parody
"Have you considered what might happen when you mess with millions of women?"
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Microsoft's Hardware Push And The Falling PC Market
The PC industry had a big week. Microsoft debuted several news devices built to run its new Windows 10 operating system, garnering a more-positive press cycle than I anticipated. The software giant also announced that 110 million devices now ran the new operating system, a number that it seems proud of. The glow stemming from all of that was tempered a few days later by the release of new… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Annals of Social Science, or Annulment of Social Science?
(Steven Hayward) Don't miss Andrew Ferguson's cover feature "Making It All Up" in the latest edition of the Weekly Standard on the various scandals besetting behavioral science (though as we've observed here several times, the problem of scientific fraud isn't limited to the social sciences by any means). This won't come as news to our regular readers, but still: Two economists recently wrote a little book called The Cult of Statistical Significance,
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Emails on private devices, FOIA issue goes back to court
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Freedom of Information Act is clear that government officials' emails about work are public records.
Public information advocates argue that emails sent from personal accounts or cellphones should be treated the same way.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says no, but the Chicago Tribune claims ...
Trump 'Sometimes' Carries: 'I Like To Have Myself Protected' [VIDEO]
'I'm a big second amendment guy.'
Via: The Daily Caller
Israeli Man Puts What He Claims to Be Raw Pork on Terrorist's Body
"He should enjoy his virgins with the pork."
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Here's Bernie Sanders Response When 'Meet the Press' Host Asks If He's a Capitalist
"But what I mean is…"
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Martin O'Malley at Odds With Hillary Clinton on Syria No-Fly Zone
One accident with Russia could lead to "an escalation of Cold War proportions," he said.
Source: Bloomberg.com news
DNC Chair Won't Say if Bernie Sanders is Electable
The post DNC Chair Won't Say if Bernie Sanders is Electable appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Immigrants seeking in-state tuition want court to hear case
ATLANTA (AP) - A group of young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children is asking the Georgia's highest court to overturn the dismissal of a lawsuit they filed seeking access to in-state tuition at the state's colleges and universities.
The young people, who have temporary permission to stay ...
Charlie Dent: The Freedom Caucus 'Doesn't Want To Govern' [VIDEO]
Watch the exchange between Reps Dave Brat and Charlie Dent
Via: The Daily Caller
Amy Schumer Mocks Pro-Gun Americans in 'SNL' Sketch: 'Guns, We're Here to Stay'
"From first loves to new beginnings."
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You're Not In The Valley Anymore
My friend and fellow investor Jon Lehr of Work-Bench recently wrote a piece entitled "7 Lessons Learned in My First 2 Years as a VC." Jon and I have known each other since before either of us were VCs, and I've tried to carry a bit of his legacy to Chicago in launching the Chicago Enterprise Tech Meetup (Jon launched the NY version several years back and it has become a… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
"Truth," according to the Times
(Scott Johnson) This past Thursday the New York Times hosted a TimesTalks conversation moderated by New York Times Magazine staff writer Susan Dominus and featuring Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett, Dan Rather, and Mary Mapes. "The full catastrophe," as Zorba puts it. They discuss the film Truth, which opens commercially in New York this coming Friday, before a large and enthusiastic audience. I have posted the video below (about 90 minutes long); the
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Bernie Sanders, Vermont senator, shows strength with big crowds as first Democratic debate looms
BOULDER, Colo. | Days before the first Democratic presidential candidates debate, Sen. Bernard Sanders sent a signal to his competition by drawing hefty crowds at weekend rallies.
An estimated 9,000 supporters converged Saturday at Potts Field at the University of Colorado Boulder for the Vermont senator's campaign appearance, a day ...
DNC Chair: Republicans Are Saying 'Yeah, Let's Kick Women … Out Of This Country' [VIDEO]
'Trying to out-Trump Donald Trump'
Via: The Daily Caller
Why the Lawyer Representing the Families of Those Killed in Alps Plane Crash Wants to Sue in the U.S.
Prosecutors believe the Airbus A320 was intentionally crashed by its co-pilot.
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Sanders Says He's Long Held Stands That Clinton's Now Adopting
The Vermont senator, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, said Sunday that voters should "contrast his consistency" with Hillary Clinton's.
Source: Bloomberg.com news
Sanders Distances Himself From Obama's Unemployment Figures
'Real unemployment in this country is not 5.1 percent, it is 10 percent'
Via: The Daily Caller
Against The Singularity
Ray Kurzweil's predictions of the Singularity annoy me sufficiently that I once sat down to write a TechCrunch column attacking them. A brief primer: Singularity theory argues that our exponential technological growth will, several decades hence, culminate in an unimaginable transcendence that redefines humanity, sentience, and/or reality. It is also known as the Rapture of the Nerds Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Rand Paul Takes Jab at Ted Cruz After Winning 'Liberty Voters' Straw Poll
"Liberty unites people."
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Things Got a Little Heated Between Players Before Florida State's Football Game Even Began
"That altercation really got the adrenaline going."
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Listen To Nic Brisbourne Talk Future Of VC, European Tech Scene, And Ubergeddon
Earlier this week I got on a call with to Nic Brisbourne, Managing Partner at London-based Forward Partners, which helps build and backs startups largely in the e-commerce space. Before that Nic spent 9 years at leading European VC firm DFJ Esprit. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
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