September 4, 2016

Another Good Reason To Be a Conservative

(John Hinderaker) A survey of more than 19,000 Europeans from the UK, Germany, France, Denmark and Sweden finds that those who describe themselves as "very right wing" are happiest with their sex lives: The survey … found in most countries sexual satisfaction increased the further right you went along the political spectrum. In the UK, people with left wing politics were least likely to describe their sex lives as satisfying (with 66%

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Clinton Aides Told FBI They Didn't Know About Server, But Emails Suggest Otherwise

Did Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin lie?

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The emerging Darwinian approach to analytics and augmented intelligence

6806986456_6b488d14bc_k Much has been made about the business implications of recent, rapid advancements in cognitive computing — that is, the possibility of advanced analytics tools to help human knowledge workers glean actionable insight from vast and deep lakes of historical, transactional and machine-generated information. Read More

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Obama seeks to curb China's expanding clout, move beyond past on Laos visit

BANGKOK — When President Obama becomes the first American president to visit communist Laos this week, he will arrive in what is the most heavily bombed country on earth, a country where people still face a daily danger from U.S. explosives dropped during the Vietnam War more than 40 years ...

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Obama Pledges To Help Turkey Find And Capture Coup Plotters

'We will make sure that those who carried out these activities are brought to justice'

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Clinton Campaign Said to Use Encryption App Signal: FT (Yday)

Hillary Clinton's campaign team has adopted Signal, an encryption app created by Open Whisper Systems, the Financial Times says without specifying where it got info.

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Kelly Ayotte's 'crossover appeal' tested against headwinds of Donald Trump's campaign

For years, Sen. Kelly Ayotte cast herself as a free-thinking voice for New Hampshire, chastising Republican firebrands who hurtled into the 2013 government shutdown without a clear escape plan while supporting conservative bids to defund Planned Parenthood over its abortion practice.

She served as New Hampshire's appointed attorney general under ...

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Obama, Former Chief Health Official Already Floating Public Option To Replace Failing Obamacare

'Introducing a public plan option in areas lacking individual market competition'

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General Catalyst's Niko Bonatsos on why timing and empathy are key to founder success

Niko Bonatsos of General Catalyst Partners Q: If you were to pick one and only one single biggest factor that determines a startup's success, what would it be? Why? Some say it is product-market fit (Marc Andreesen), others hold that it's timing (Bill Gross) and yet more believe it is the team. Asked another way, what do you think is essentially different about successful startups? If I had to pick one, I'd pick timing. Read More

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The Irrelevance of Deportation

(John Hinderaker) Donald Trump has gone back and forth on the issue of deporting illegal immigrants, and Democrats are accusing him of inconsistency. The Washington Post, for example, headlines: "Trump advisers and allies struggle with deportation specifics." Several of Donald Trump's top campaign advisers and allies on Sunday struggled to explain the Republican presidential nominee's stance on mass deportation — insisting that he will prioritize undocumented criminals for deportation, but falling short

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EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Manziel Returns To Texas A&M [PHOTOS]

He's returning to where it all began

Via: The Daily Caller

Technology is finally changing the apartment rental experience

Midcentury living room in Manhattan The real estate rental market is a highly localized, relationship-based industry driven largely by individuals living and working in their own cities, causing many to acknowledge the longstanding difficulty of streamlining disruption to this market. In recent years, however, that hasn't stopped a multitude of innovators from seeking novel ways to improve the process's efficiency. Read More

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Indicted, fired, reinstated cop sues Lake Charles officials

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - The Lake Charles mayor and three police officials have been sued by a deputy chief who was indicted and fired but then was reinstated by court order.

The American Press (http://bit.ly/2c09q9C ) reports that the suit alleges the four lied to the grand jury that ...

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Tim Kaine says Hillary Clinton has held one press conference in 274 days, not none

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has come under fire for going 274 days without a press conference, but her running mate insists that's not true: She's done one.

Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said Sunday that he wanted to "push back on the notion that she hasn't done a ...

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Officials Are Saying China Deliberately Snubbed Obama At A Major Summit

Possibly just a misunderstanding

Via: The Daily Caller

France Deploys Army After Migrants Cause Car Crashes Trying To Hijack Rides Britain

'It is very dangerous'

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Understanding the economy of the crowd

crowd illustration When you think about crowdsourced work, you probably think about Mechanical Turk and, maybe, Uber. On the one hand, an anonymous platform where people feel like mechanical parts. On the other hand, a face-to-face platform where people are rapidly obsolescing and doomed to be replaced by robots. Read More

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With All Due Respect: Best of the Week (09/04/16)

Bloomberg Politics' John Heilemann presents some of the biggest moments from the political week that was on "With All Due Respect."

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Lies of Obamacare, part MMMMCCXXXII

(Scott Johnson) Stuart Varney demanded an apology from Obamacare architect and propagandist Ezekiel Emanuel last week on FOX News. The lies of Obamacare resume whenever Emanuel moves his lips, but there is therapetic value in Varney's beatdown on Emanuel. Emanuel retorts: "Your memory is just so poor about how bad the system was before." This isn't good for my anger management therapy, but it is a healthy reminder, so to speak, of

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Bernie Sanders calls on Hillary Clinton to 'cease all contact' with family foundation if elected

Sen. Bernard Sanders on Sunday said that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton should cut ties with the Clinton Foundation if elected in November.

"Well, I would certainly suggest that, as president of the United States, she should cease all operations, all contact with the Clinton Foundation," the Vermont senator said ...

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Much Of Bush World Is Lined Up Against Trump — And Many Are Supporting Clinton

Officials and donors

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The thing that makes IFA a hard show to cover is also its best feature

P9030773 Today concludes my fourth IFA. Or maybe my fifth. These tech conferences tend to blend together after a while. The first time I attended the show, I hadn't really heard of the thing, to be honest. Even this year, a number of my colleagues still hadn't. In the U.S., IFA hasn't risen to the ranks of a CES or even an MWC, somehow. It has, however, become of show of… Read More

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Family: 18-year-old killed by Kansas deputy troubled

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The family of an 18-year-old killed last week by a sheriff's deputy after pointing a gun at the law enforcer during a traffic stop says the driver's own actions "ended his life too soon."

Caleb Douglas' family said in a statement Saturday that Douglas was "a ...

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UFC Star Arianny Celeste Posts Topless Photo On Instagram [PHOTO]

Scandalous...

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A wristband and your finger can replace your phone, but you still need a phone to use it

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The most exciting part of Samsung's IFA booth is also its most understated. Somewhere toward the middle of the huge, brightly lit hall are a series of tables, showing off non-Samsung products, a perfect microcosm of the ways in which large electronics corporations are reaching beyond their own walls for inspiration. Not that these companies don't have any connection to the… Read More

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Pence Says Trump Would Stop Accepting Syrian Refugees Into U.S.

Donald Trump would suspend the U.S. program that offers safe haven to Syrian refugees fleeing violence and conflict in their country, his vice-presidential running mate said.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

CBS: Clinton's Historic Unfavorability Introducing Uncertainty Into Race

The post CBS: Clinton's Historic Unfavorability Introducing Uncertainty Into Race appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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Rarely used adultery charge still a felony in Idaho

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - When allegations erupted this summer that two Idaho lawmakers were caught in an extramarital affair, many supporters were quick to say their actions were a mistake, not a crime.

However, in Idaho, adultery has been considered a felony since 1972. The crime is rarely prosecuted, but ...

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Clinton Lead Evaporates In Latest Poll

Trump maintained support among this key demographic

Via: The Daily Caller

Clinton Leads Trump by 8 Points in Pennsylvania in CBS News Poll

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump with 45% in Pennsylvania to 37% for the GOP candidate, CBS News says in a new "Battleground Tracker" poll released today.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Was it something he said?

(Scott Johnson) The Chinese government found a new way to express its contempt for Barack Obama and the United States yesterday. The authorities snubbed Obama upon his arrival in Hangzhou before the start of the G20 conference. According to the Guardian: "[Obama] was forced to disembark from Air Force One through a little-used exit in the plane's belly after no rolling staircase was provided when he landed in the eastern Chinese city

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CNN panel Slams Clinton's 'Unacceptable' Email Conduct in FBI Report

The post CNN panel Slams Clinton's 'Unacceptable' Email Conduct in FBI Report appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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Tim Kaine defends Colin Kaepernick protest, while QB says Hillary Clinton should be in jail

The Clinton camp says San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick deserves "respect," but the feeling may not be mutual.

Sen. Tim Kaine, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, defended the NFL player's refusal to stand for the national anthem just a few days after Mr. Kaepernick said ...

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Pro-Gun Members Of Congress Respond To State Department's Disastrous Manufacturing "Guidance"

The goal of this back door gun control is to go after gunsmiths using State Department regulations

Via: The Daily Caller

What cities need to know about drones

A drone is pictured in flight in Lille, northern France, on April 10, 2015. (Photo: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images) As drones increasingly fly through our cities in the coming years — delivering our latest order from Amazon or other on-demand retailers — the regulation of our airspace and the environment in which we co-exist with flying robots becomes more and more present and real. Read More

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