Source: TechCrunch
January 25, 2016
OpenGov's Zac Bookman Doing "About the Hardest Thing": Trying To Transform U.S. Governments
You may have heard about it already. Four-year-old OpenGov is a nearly four-year-old, cloud-based platform that state and local governments — as well as cities, counties, and school districts — are beginning to use for financial and performance intelligence. OpenGov's big idea: to enable these public administrators to see what's going on internally and to… Read More
Time to Uproot the Bushes for Good?
(Steven Hayward) The most infuriating thing I've read all week is Steve Hayes's story in the Weekly Standard about how Jeb Bush's super PAC, Right to Rise, has held its fire on Trump, instead directing its fire on the one candidate who is best positioned to win in November: Marco Rubio: In the "fight" between Donald Trump and conservatism, Trump has had few better allies than Right to Rise, the super PAC
Source: Power Line
Donald Trump: Time for Ted Cruz to settle eligibility question or exit race
Donald Trump said Monday that Sen. Ted Cruz should either figure out whether he is eligible to be president or leave the GOP presidential race.
"It's time for Ted Cruz to either settle his problem with the FACT that he was born in Canada and was a citizen of Canada, ...
Obama: 'I Don't Think Dems Are Going To Vote For Hillary Just Because She's A Woman' [AUDIO]
'You judge people on what they bring to the table and not what they look like... or their last name.'
Via: The Daily Caller
Bronx Man Charged With Murder in Seemingly Unprovoked Machete Attack
The NYPD arrested a man Sunday on charges of killing his next-door neighbor with a machete.
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Video Purports to Show First-Ever 'Christian Patrol' in 'Islamist Hotspot' in Britain — Watch What Happens
"The Muslims will take over! Watch!"
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Workato Chat Bot Brings Enterprise Workflow Into Slack
As we head into 2016, enterprise chat applications like Slack are suddenly a hot commodity, and if you're inside chat a good portion of the day the argument goes, you should be able to access other work without leaving the chat client. This is exactly what Workato's newly announced chat bot, Workbot, is designed to do. Chat bots are small programs that integrate with a chat… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
New Mexico governor gets 'anti-immigrant' label over REAL ID
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The nation's only Latina governor continues to face accusations by advocates of pushing an "anti-immigrant" agenda over her push to revise New Mexico's immigrant driver's license law.
Those charges come even though New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has been one of the few elected Republicans ...
Gun Test: Taurus PT-111 Millennium G2
This Taurus is reliable and has a street price of about $250 - nice entry level concealed carry gun
Via: The Daily Caller
Report: High School Ignored Obvious Warning Signs Before Shooting
The shooting might have been prevented if school staff had kept detailed and more widely accessible records documenting concerns…
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
What Busloads of March For Life Participants Did After Getting Stranded on a Turnpike During Brutal Blizzard Is Getting Some Attention
"Once in a lifetime experience."
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Microsoft Moves Its CNTK Machine Learning Toolkit To GitHub And MIT License
Microsoft today announced that it is making it easier for developers to use its Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) to build their own deep learning applications. The company first open sourced this toolkit in April 2015, but at the time, it was hosted on Microsoft's own CodePlex site and was only available under a restrictive academic license. Now, the team is moving the project… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Clinton and Sanders race to the finish line in Iowa
The Democrats are mapping out divergent paths toward winning the first votes of the nomination process.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Donald Trump overtakes Ted Cruz in Iowa, leads in New Hampshire: polls
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has overtaken Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in Iowa and maintains a sizable lead in New Hampshire, according to a pair of new polls on the 2016 GOP nominating contest.
Mr. Trump was at 34 percent in the Fox News poll released this week, ...
Franklin Graham Responds to Hijab-Wearing Christian College Professor's Claim That Muslims and Christians Worship the 'Same God'
"Islam denies that God has a Son."
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Nigeria-based Online Entertainment Platform iROKO Will Finance "Nollywood" Films After Raising $19M
iROKO, an online entertainment platform that targets audiences in Sub-Saharan African countries, plans to strike more deals in Nigeria's booming movie industry after securing $19 million in funding from French premium cable company Canal+ and Kinnevik, a returning investor. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Obama Says Clinton's Strengths Are Also Weaknesses as Sanders Surges
President Barack Obama said that while Hillary Clinton has the most experience among candidates vying to succeed him, her strengths can sometimes be her weaknesses, allowing Bernie Sanders to appeal to the main concerns of the Democratic Party's core voters.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Full of Schiff
(Scott Johnson) Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff is a smart fellow and a perfect spokesman for Hillary Clinton's interests. Slippery and willing to say anything, he can add a vague threat of harm when he thinks the occasion calls for it. Yesterday Schiff appeared on FOX News Sunday for a segment with Senator James Lankford to discuss last week's revelations about the information found on Hillary's Clinton's unsecured private server for her official
Source: Power Line
DataXu Gets $10M From Sky As Pay TV Giant Buys Into Programmatic Ad Tech
DataXu, a Boston-based startup that provides analytics and other tools for running programmatic ads, has picked up another round of funding. Sky, the UK-based pay-TV provider part-owned by 21st Century Fox, has made a $10 million investment in the company. It's a strategic stake: Sky plans to use DataXu's demand-side buying ad tech in its current services as well as work together… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Rick Perry Endorses Ted Cruz for President
Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz for president, according to an interview Sunday night with Politico (http://politi.co/1JxbXr3). Perry says he sees GOP race between Cruz and Donald Trump ''Of those individuals who have a chance to win the Republican primary, at this juncture, from my perspective, Ted Cruz is by far the most consistent conservative in that crowd,'' Perry said. NOTE: Perry, former governor of Cruz's home state, Texas, sought nomination in 2012 and 2016 races
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Romania probes hundreds of books written by prisoners
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romania's crackdown on corruption and fraud in recent years has created a sudden and unexpected literary boom, as prisoners publish hundreds of non-fiction books on subjects as varied as soccer, real estate, God and gemstones.
It's quite a feat for inmates with no access to books ...
Clinton and Sanders Race to the Finish Line in Iowa
With the Iowa caucuses now just a week away, the Democratic presidential race is too close to call.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Harvard Dean Crusades Against All-Male Clubs
Harvard University's undergraduate dean is angering alumni by attempting to force the school's all-male final clubs to accept women, a move that some say threatens freedom of association and diversity at one of the nation's most elite colleges.
The post Harvard Dean Crusades Against All-Male Clubs appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Aircall Grabs $2.75 Million For Its Powerful Phone Customer Support Service For Teams
French startup Aircall just raised a $2.75 million round led by Balderton Capital, with FundersClub and business angels also participating. As a reminder, Aircall was part of our Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF 2015, started at eFounders and attended 500 Startups' acceleration program. It plans to reinvent how phone customer support works. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
139 public authorities in NY are behind on annual reports
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Nearly 140 water boards, community development agencies and other types of state and local authorities in New York have failed to file financial reports with the state as required by law.
The state's Authorities Budget Office released the list of 139 non-compliant authorities on Thursday as ...
New Mexico weighs anti-crime laws as other states ditch them
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Criminal justice reform has become a hot topic around the nation amid a conversation about easing three-strikes sentencing laws, scaling back mandatory sentencing laws and focusing on rehabilitation.
That's not the case in New Mexico, where lawmakers assembled last week for a new legislative session.
...AP INVESTIGATION: Feds' failures imperil migrant children
LOS ANGELES (AP) - As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.S. officials weakened child protection policies, placing some young migrants in homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no ...
NBA Legend Shocks Kids by Showing Up for Street Basketball Game. But What He Tells Them Afterward — and How They Respond — Is the Best Part.
"Stay out of trouble, listen to your parents, respect your elders."
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Mindless responses to National Review's "Against Trump" essays
(Paul Mirengoff) Fox News is a large outfit with plenty of on-air personalities. So it's natural that some of them are pro-Donald Trump, or at least anti-anti-Trump, and that therefore some reacted negatively to National Reviews "Against Trump" issue. The problem is the mindlessness of some of the negative reactions. John Daly documents them at NRO's Corner. Take Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro. She said on Twitter: "The National Review needs
Source: Power Line
Forget Your IRA or 401k – Here's the IRS "Cheat Code" to Move to Gold
Think you can only put your retirement in stocks? Here's how to move to gold...
Via: The Daily Caller
Jack Confirms Departures Of Several Twitter Execs
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed the departures of Twitter execs, who oversaw the product, engineering, media and HR teams. Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later this week, but want to set the record straight now: pic.twitter.com/PcpRyTzOlW — Jack (@jack) January 25, 2016 In a statement, posted to Twitter on Sunday, Dorsey wrote: "I'm sad… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
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