November 22, 2016

South Korea president's office explains Viagra purchase

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - An increasingly strange political scandal surrounding South Korean President Park Geun-hye has now left her office defending the purchase of hundreds of erectile dysfunction pills.

Park's office on Wednesday confirmed revelations by an opposition lawmaker that it purchased about 360 Viagra pills and the generic ...

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Barbara Palvin Strips Down For The December Cover Of Maxim [PHOTOS]

Barbara goes bare naked

Via: The Daily Caller

Crunch Report | Tesla and SolarCity-powered Island

Tesla and SolarCity power an island in American Samoa, after skipping last year Apple holds its Black Friday sale, robots will be helping with shopping at Westfield malls in San Francisco, Michigan doubles down on autonomous cars and Munchery gets a new CEO. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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Memo to Trump: Stop Disavowing!

(John Hinderaker) Today Donald Trump held an on-the-record meeting with the New York Times. Despite the meeting being of record, no transcript has been released. Instead, we know about what transpired through tweets by various Times reporters–which, shockingly, are spun in an anti-Trump direction. The Associated Press headlines: "Trump again disavows alt-right, white supremacists." No doubt much else was discussed, but this is what millions of newspaper readers will see: an association

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Donald Trump won't pursue Hillary Clinton investigations as president

President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team signaled Tuesday that his administration will not pursue further investigations of Hillary Clinton, backing off a vow on the campaign trail to appoint a special counsel to probe his Democratic rival's secret email setup as secretary of state and suspected pay-to-play deals involving ...

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Dakota Tribe's New Water System May End Concerns Over Oil Leaks

'The new intake really does effectively reduce the concerns that this oil pipeline'

Via: The Daily Caller

Prepare For Thanksgiving With These Smoke Show Indians [SLIDESHOW]

They don't really like wearing clothing...

Via: The Daily Caller

Shopify's experimental product shop launches flash sales app Frenzy

frenzy-kith Shopify's Garage group is a product skunkworks of sorts, and it's launching a new app called Frenzy today, focused on flash sales, just in time for that most consumerist of holidays — Thanksgiving. Limited-release sales are big again, with Yeezy raffles all over the place and Snapchat just dotting the map with expiring Snapbot vending machines for Spectacles. So Frenzy enters… Read More

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Obama White-Collar Overtime Pay Expansion Blocked by Judge

An Obama administration policy that would have given more white-collar workers overtime starting Dec. 1 was blocked nationwide by a federal judge in Texas.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Inside the Beltway: The final turkey pardon arrives

As his days in the White House wane, President Obama is facing a series of final ceremonial acts of his office. Pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey is one of them, and Mr. Obama will do just that on Wednesday. Enter Tater and Tot, two splendid birds who hail from Storm Lake, ...

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Google's AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language

Image (5) terminat-visio2-620x340.jpg for post 215587 All right, don't panic, but computers have created their own secret language and are probably talking about us right now. Well, that's kind of an oversimplification, and the last part is just plain untrue. But there is a fascinating and existentially challenging development that Google's AI researchers recently happened across. Read More

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Trump Adopts Nixon Standard on Conflicts of Interest

On "With All Due Respect," John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary, and David Frum, senior editor of The Atlantic, discuss President-Elect Donald Trump's potential business conflicts and how a Republican Congress might deal with them. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Civil War on the Left, Part 32

(Steven Hayward) The Trump Era is going to be great for watching the Civil War on the LeftTM (and hence this investment advice: buy long popcorn futures). Today's exhibit is the reaction to Mark Lilla's New York Times article from last weekend, "The End of Identity Liberalism," in which Lilla, a professor of the humanities at Columbia University and a self-identified liberal, actually says some sensible things: But how should this diversity shape

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Obama overtime pay rule blocked by federal judge

A federal judge has blocked a Department of Labor rule on overtime pay that made more than 4 million private-sector workers eligible for mandatory extra pay or time off.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District ...

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Donald Trump Reportedly Offers Ben Carson HUD Secretary

Full circle in just a week

Via: The Daily Caller

Starbucks starts selling Ember mugs, which keep your drink at a steady temp for hours

The Ember temperature control mug. Last year, Ember Technologies Inc. ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to build a mug that keeps hot drinks at the perfect sipping temperature. By now, it's sold 4,000 of these devices. And in something of a coup for the startup, Starbucks Corp. has begun selling Ember Temperature Control Mugs in its stores across most of the U.S. and online for $149.95. Whether it's coffee,… Read More

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Trump Foundation Reportedly Violates Self-Dealing Ban

On "With All Due Respect," John Heilemann and Nicolle Wallace discuss President-Elect Donald Trump's charitable foundation and whether tax filings show if it engaged in self-dealing. (Source: Bloomberg)

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DoD Establishes Procedure for Military Personnel to Carry Guns on Base

The Department of Defense released on Tuesday its official policy for how and when military personnel can be armed for their own personal protection while on military bases and other DOD property.

The post DoD Establishes Procedure for Military Personnel to Carry Guns on Base appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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Trump Should Give Us Real "Catastrophic" Health Insurance

Catastrophic health insurance is the low-hanging fruit in health reform.

Via: The Daily Caller

Patient data API pivotal to DeepMind's push into UK's NHS

DeepMind Streams DeepMind CEO and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman talks to TechCrunch about its expanded collaboration with the Royal Free NHS Trust, including a forthcoming health data API infrastructure. He also responds to concerns raised over the wide-ranging scope of the data-sharing arrangement. Read More

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Is Mitt Romney the Next U.S. Secretary of State?

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is reported to be considering 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for Secretary of State. Bloomberg's Alex Wayne has more on "What'd You Miss?" (Source: Bloomberg)

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Jimmy Kimmel Hosts a PC Thanksgiving Pageant on His Show

The post Jimmy Kimmel Hosts a PC Thanksgiving Pageant on His Show appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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Michigan House to pay $515K in suit related to sex scandal

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The Michigan House of Representatives will pay $515,000 in a settlement with two former legislative aides who alleged they were wrongfully fired and publicly humiliated after reporting two lawmakers' extramarital affair and other misconduct.

An agreement released Tuesday says Keith Allard and Benjamin Graham will be ...

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'Bathroom Bill' Gov Demands Recount In North Carolina Race

'A recount will do nothing'

Via: The Daily Caller

Platio turns sidewalks into solar collectors

screen-shot-2016-11-22-at-3-49-43-pm Platio is a new company from Hungary dedicated to putting solar panels just about everywhere. They're starting with sidewalks. Founded by a team of engineers and architects the system uses solid solar panels overlaid on plastic backing that ensures the panels won't break when stepped on or rolled over and that each panel connects with the next securely. Imre Sziszák is a… Read More

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Trump's Victory May Lead to New Curbs on Legal Immigration

The president-elect's promises to crack down on illegal immigration are better known than his plans to rein in skilled guest-worker programs

Source: Bloomberg Politics

CNN Host Loses It When Guest Utters N-Word on Her Show

The post CNN Host Loses It When Guest Utters N-Word on Her Show appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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Donna Brazile blames 'voter suppression' for election losses

Democrats have a lot to be pleased with after this month's elections, interim party Chair Donna Brazile said Tuesday, pointing to small pickups in the House and Senate and Hillary Clinton's moral victory in the popular vote as evidence things aren't as grim as some have said.

Still, she said ...

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The Trump Administration Can Relieve Embattled State Attorneys General

Republican attorneys general have been the last line of defense against federal overreach.

Via: The Daily Caller

Building jobs, not walls, in Silicon Valley

2883665318_771088057e_o One topic in this election cycle that has provoked a lot of emotion and debate is immigration. To oversimplify, it comes down to whether new immigrant groups coming to the United States is a good thing or a bad thing. I can only tell you my experience, which is that of a son of an immigrant man who left India for a shot at building a better life here in the U.S. and ultimately got his… Read More

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