May 22, 2016

How will marketplace lending become a mainstream investment asset class?

moneyhands A friend who recently started his own business couldn't obtain a mortgage from three banks. I suggested he try marketplace lending platforms like SoFi to take advantage of the ongoing innovation in fintech. However, SoFi turned him down, as well, because it abides by the same underwriting rules as traditional banks. Like the banks, SoFi sells their mortgage loans to Fannie Mae. Read More

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Her Body Was Found in Home She Shared With Deputy Boyfriend and Ruled Suicide — but New Independent Autopsy Reportedly Reveals Major Bombshell

Does the case need to be reopened?

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Hillary Clinton antipathy unifies Republicans behind Donald Trump

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — His new list of potential Supreme Court picks soothed conservatives' fears, and his embrace by the National Rifle Association guaranteed him the backing of the most committed activists on the right, as likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continued to build unity within the GOP.

In both ...

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Ludacris Just Mocked The Oscars' 'Diversity Problem'

'You hear what I'm saying'

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With Twitter's NFL deal, social networks can take on traditional broadcasters at last

Aug 15, 2015; Houston, TX, USA; General view of golden NFL shield logo in the end zone to commemorate Super Bowl 50 during the preseason NFL game between San Francisco 49ers and the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports For years, the media industry has speculated, somewhat worriedly, that big tech companies wanted to branch out, to take on the TV companies – to acquire rights to premium content. By and large, Silicon Valley firms' coy response has typically been a demure: "We are a platform company, not a content company." Now that the dust has settled around the deal it's… Read More

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Furious Sheriff Joe Arpaio Says Latest Shooting Is Second 'Ambush' Against One of His Deputies in Two Weeks

"There is a war on cops."

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ISIS Testing Chemical Weapons In Iraq

(John Hinderaker) From today's Telegraph: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) is reported to have set up laboratories in built-up neighbourhoods in the heart of its so-called caliphate to avoid being targeted by coalition air strikes. Learning from the Palestinians. The terror group is known to harbour chemical and nuclear ambitions, and is trying to manufacture weapons not only for attacks within Iraq and Syria but also the West.

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Inside the Beltway: Bernie Sanders polishes his revolution culture

The enthusiastic campaign culture of Sen. Bernie Sanders has fixated many a voter. The Democratic hopeful has won some significant polls and continues to draw huge crowds to his signature "Future to Believe In" rallies. In the next 48 hours, there are five of them in the Los Angeles area ...

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West Point Cadet Caught Red-Handed Playing With Her Smartphone Mid-Graduation March

'Is this the best and brightest future leadership of our military?'

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INNOVATE2016: Freada Kapor Klein on fixing tech's gender problem

Freada Kapor Klein Companies that focus on diversity will succeed, because hiring women and minorities makes business sense. But it's not easy. Scientific research is showing that our brains are hardwired to be biased. Read More

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Verdict Expected Monday in Freddie Gray-officer Trial

Baltimore (AP) -- A judge is expected Monday to hand down his verdict in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the arrest and subsequent death of Freddie Gray.

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Bernie Sanders not stepping aside as Hillary Clinton did in 2008

At the party nominating convention in 2008, Hillary Clinton thought she had set a gracious example for future Democrats — but eight years later, there's no sign that Sen. Bernard Sanders will follow the same playbook and step aside without a fight.

Mrs. Clinton is gently trying to nudge Mr. ...

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Buffett, Green Groups Set To Battle It Out Over Solution To California's Impending Blackouts

Sierra Club demands California suffer blackouts.

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Political Pilgrims, 21st Century Style

(Steven Hayward) Back in the late 1970s the political scientist Paul Hollander performed a great public service with his book Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society (still in print), in which he catalogued and eviscerated the naïve and mendacious leftists who always tromped off to the latest "people's utopia" (Soviet Union, Cuba, Mao's China, Albania, North Vietnam, even North Korea for a time, etc.) and came back proclaiming

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To claw or not to claw? NY cat proposal sparks frisky debate

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - For many decades, declawing cats has been a routine veterinary procedure, but this is no simple pedicure. There's anesthesia, pain medication and the amputation of the cat's toes back to the first knuckle.

New York's first-in-the-nation legislative proposal to ban the declawing of cats has sparked ...

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Police Union President Thinks Obama's America Needs Re-Educating

'That's coming from somebody who has never been on the ground getting the crap beat out of them'

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Parents Find Horrific Injuries on 1-Year-Old Son — And They're Stunned When They Learn Why Charges Are Being Dropped

"My trust with so many people is shot."

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Hillary Clinton: 'Stronger Together' Is My Campaign Slogan

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Model That Correctly Predicted Every Election Since 1980 Gives 2016 Verdict

PLUS: What the loser needs to do to win

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Obama Faces Pressure to Inquire About 'Missing' U.S. Prisoners During Historic Vietnam Visit

Many have made efforts to ensure that history is not lost in the president's push for progress.

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Clinton Laughs Off Sanders' Better Polling Against Trump: These Polls 'Mean Nothing to Me'

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Bernie Sanders backs DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's primary opponent

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernard Sanders on Sunday endorsed the primary opponent of Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who also represents Florida's 23rd Congressional District.

Mr. Sanders said the views of Tim Canova, a Florida lawyer who has challenged the chairwoman for her House seat in an Aug. 30 ...

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Washington Post Poll Puts Trump Up 2 Points On Hillary

Trump leads on RCP rolling average for the first time

Via: The Daily Caller

Africa is becoming a testbed for commercial drone services

Zipline - Delivery UPS recently entered into a partnership with Zipline, a medical drone delivery startup, to begin aerial transport of healthcare supplies in Rwanda. Read More

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Two Climbers Missing on Mount Everest After Two Died

They were last seen near the Everest summit.

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Presidential Race in Florida, Ohio Tight, CBS News Poll Finds

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton leads presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump 43%–42% among likely voters in Florida and 44%–39% in Ohio, both of which fall within the margins of error, in CBS News polls released Sunday. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders beats Trump 48%–39% in Ohio but the two are tied at 44% apiece in Florida: CBS Margin of error in Ohio: +/- 3.7 ppts; in Florida, +/- 4 ppts More than 80% of Republicans have gotten behind Trump and 80% of Democrats behind Clinton, but

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Barack Obama: The Unspoken Issue In This Year's Campaign

(John Hinderaker) At InstaPundit, Richard Benedetto makes an interesting point: Usually when an incumbent president is leaving office and a slew of candidates are battling for his job, that departing chief executive's record is a major campaign issue. But not this year, even though two of three Americans say the country is on the wrong track, job creation is sluggish, income inequality continues to rise and Mr. Obama's job approval barely tops

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Sanders Endorses DNC Chair's Primary Opponent

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Bernie Sanders: Hillary Clinton 'jumping the gun' with victory declarations

Citing a slew of recent primary wins, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernard Sanders accused rival Hillary Clinton of "jumping the gun" with premature victory proclamations.

"Well, I think she might want to talk to the people of Indiana, West Virginia and Oregon, who voted very strongly for me in the last ...

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'Trump Train' — Total Bro Parks Donald-Themed Lambo Outside White House [VIDEO]

Make Aventadors GR8 Again

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Why Google beat Yahoo in the war for the Internet

mesh facade As we witness what may be the final days of Yahoo as an independent business, consider how just a decade ago it was running neck-and-neck with Google, now one of the world's largest companies by market value. It would be silly for anyone to claim they could have predicted how these two businesses would compare today, but we can still learn something from examining what sent their fortunes… Read More

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Gunman Fires Into Crowd at Concert in Austria, Killing Two

A burst of up to 40 shots was fired.

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Sanders Acknowledges Presidential Race is a 'Very, Very Uphill Fight,' But Makes It Clear That He's Not Backing Down

Sanders said he believes Clinton is "jumping the gun a little bit" by claiming she will be the Democratic Party's nominee.

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Clinton Says Sanders Has 'Every Right' to Continue Campaign

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said her challenger, Senator Bernie Sanders, has "every right" to finish his campaign how he chooses, even though her extended 2008 contest for the nomination with Barack Obama was much closer in votes than this year's battle.

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Donald Trump takes 2 point lead over Hillary Clinton in new national poll

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leads Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton by 2 percentage points in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a new poll.

The Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday shows Mr. Trump with 46 percent support among registered voters, compared to Mrs. Clinton's 44 percent support, ...

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Hillary's Latest Campaign Slogan: 'We Are Stronger Together' [VIDEO]

That's her 'big idea'

Via: The Daily Caller

Gillmor Gang: Rubber Room

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 20, 2016. Google provides notifications catnip via Firebase, I spend the weekend struggling with 4:3, and oh, thanks a lot for bricking my iPad Pro, 9.3.2. Back to the Mac, my asp. @stevegillmor, @kevinmarks, @scobleizer, @kteare Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor Read More

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'Really, Hershey?' Visitors Have Mixed Reactions After Hershey Park Announces It Will Allow Guests to Use Bathrooms According to Gender Identity

"No matter what you do you can't get rid of that Y chromosome."

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Clinton's Lead Over Trump Only 3 Points: NBC News/WSJ Poll

Hilliary Clinton leads 46% vs. Donald Trump at 43% among registered voters, NBC/WSJ poll shows. In April, Clinton held an 11-point advantage over Trump, 50% to 39% Margin of error +/- 3.1 ppts Poll conducted May 15-19 of 1,000 registered voters, including 450 cell phone-only respondents and another 46 reached on a cell but who also have a landline NOTE: Earlier, Clinton, Trump Viewed Unfavorably by Voters: WaPo-ABC News Poll NOTE: April 17, Clinton, Trump Disapproval Ratings Increase: WSJ/NBC Po

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Trial begins for Alabama House speaker

OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) - Shrewd, intelligent and disciplined, House Speaker Mike Hubbard was the general of the GOP offensive in 2010 to win Republican control of the Alabama Legislature, a legislative body that had been under the direction of Democrats since Reconstruction.

The 2010 campaigns were bolstered by a series ...

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Guns & Politics: The Legacy Of Wilberforce

One man's fight for equality

Via: The Daily Caller

All the cool kids are doing Ethereum now

heathers In the beginning the Prophet Satoshi brought us Bitcoin. And the cryptogeeks and libertarians looked upon it, and said lo, we smile upon this, for it is good, and decentralized, and solves the Byzantine Generals Problem. For a time all was well. But then came wailing and gnashing of teeth and wearing of sackcloth. And then came the Prophet Vitalik, bearing Ethereum; and lo, it was even… Read More

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Taliban's Leader Killed in U.S. Drone Strike

Mansour was "the main figure preventing the Taliban joining the peace process."

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'SNL' Ends Season With a Happy Ending for Embattled Democratic Candidates

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Pulling a Breira

Dov Waxman, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, says he has written Trouble in the Tribe to investigate the "internecine battle" waged over Israel in the American Jewish community. What emerges instead is an apologia for radical anti-Israel Jewish organizations and a distorted image of organized American Jewry as intolerant, elitist, and intent on silencing those who dare criticize Israel.

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Trump Suggests Mass Deportations, Muslim Ban Negotiable

Donald Trump says his proposals to ban Muslims from entering the United States and deport all illegal immigrants are negotiable. In an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier that aired Saturday night, Trump conceded that some of the provocative policy proposals he has emphasized on the campaign trail could be altered in a deal with Congress. Asked specifically […]

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Sanders' Feud With DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Reaches Next Level

Shots fired.

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Michigan bill requires equal health coverage of cancer drugs

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Cancer patients and survivors are lobbying lawmakers to make Michigan the latest in a long line of states to require equal insurance coverage of chemotherapy regardless of whether the drugs are given by needle or taken orally.

The push addresses the tendency for chemo pills to ...

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Gary Johnson VP Pick Continues Longstanding Debate Over Libertarian Orthodoxy

'The Libertarian Party is as freewheeling as it can be.'

Via: The Daily Caller

LeBron James Catches Part of Inadvertent Elbow During Game 3 — but It's His Substantial Reaction That Goes Viral

"Lmao LeBron"

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Clinton Calls Trump's Pro-Gun Policies 'Not Just Way Out There,' but 'Dangerous'

"We have a moral obligation…"

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