Source: Bloomberg.com news
October 20, 2015
Mike Murphy of Right to Rise Explains His Theory That Jeb Bush Is Still the Candidate to Beat
Donald Trump, he says, is a "Zombie frontrunner." And the punditocracy pays much too much attention to polls. Part 1 of a frank q&a with the man who runs Jeb's superpac.
Group Sues State Department to Release Clinton Schedule
A conservative nonprofit group is suing the Department of State to release details about Hillary Clinton's schedule during her tenure there, according to court documents filed on Monday.
The post Group Sues State Department to Release Clinton Schedule appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Illinois gun-rights group to game Chicago gun buyback effort
CHICAGO (AP) - An Illinois gun-rights advocate says he will take advantage of an effort by Rahm Emanuel to implement a $250,000 gun buyback program the Chicago mayor says is designed to get illegal guns off the city's streets.
Champaign-based Guns Save Life executive director John Boch says he and ...
Yidao Yongche, A Lesser Rival To Uber In China, Raises $700M At A $1B Valuation
There's major investment news for taxi-hailing apps in China, but for once it doesn't concern Uber or the U.S. company's well-backed Chinese rival Didi Kuaidi. Yidao Yongche, a three-year-old private car service, has received an investment that values its business at the magic $1 billion mark. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Jindal's latest book released as his 2016 campaign struggles
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Republican presidential contender Bobby Jindal offers history from a conservative viewpoint in a new book illustrating the "folly of looking to the government for the solution to all of our problems."
Tracing an arc from the Bill of Rights to President Barack Obama's health care ...
Work Applications, One Of Japan's Largest Enterprise Software Makers, Launches In The U.S.
Work Applications is one of Japan's largest enterprise software companies, but it's still unknown in the United States. The Tokyo-based company is hoping to change that with the launch of AI Works, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that uses artificial intelligence to make data entry less tedious, faster, and more accurate. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
China's Public Cloud Market Will More Than Double To $3.8B By 2020, Says Forrester
The size of China's public cloud market grow rapidly in the next five years, more than doubling to $3.8 billion in 2020 from $1.8 billion this year, says a new report from Forrester. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Trudeau's Team: Meet the Top Contenders for Canadian Cabinet
In selecting Canada's next finance minister, Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau can pick between an old hand, a Toronto business executive and the head of his economic advisory group whose stimulus advice helped carry the Liberal Party to power in Monday's election.
Source: Bloomberg.com news
Don't discount Trump, the "establishment" isn't
(Paul Mirengoff) Eliana Johnson reports that the Republican establishment is beginning to believe Donald Trump might well win the Republican presidential nomination. Eliana is right. So is the Republican establishment. The best evidence of the establishment's view of the matter is the fact that Alex Castellanos, the quintessential GOP insider, believes Trump might well win. Byron York reports: Castellanos, who once said flatly that "Trump is not going to be the nominee,"
Source: Power Line
Criminal Justice Reform Is Bipartisanship At Its Worst
Republicans are once again getting conned into supporting bad policy
Via: The Daily Caller
The New Apple TV Is Coming Next Week
Pre-orders for the new Apple TVs are set to begin next Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said onstage at the WSJD Live conference, with shipments likely to be sent out by the end of next week. Apple had previously said that they were hoping to send out devices "sometime in October," so this reveal fits the device's ship date snugly at the end of that time table. The new Apple… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Here's The New Star Wars Trailer, Scene-By-Scene, As GIFs For You To Study
If you're like me (and a billion other geeks), you're probably watching the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer on endless repeat, trying to scrape out any little detail you can from the fleeting glimpses it provides. To make my own life easier, I broke the whole thing down into GIFs — one GIF per scene/clip. Care to dig through them with me? Here's the whole set.… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Ed Meese denounces the rush to pass sentencing reform
(Paul Mirengoff) Ed Meese was Attorney General of the United States when the nation finally said "enough" to crime and to the lenient sentencing by federal judges that was helping to fuel it. This was the beginning of reforms, most notably in the form of mandatory minimum sentencing, that led to a 50 percent reduction in crime. Naturally, then, Meese is concerned about the attempt of a "gang" of bipartisan Senators to
Source: Power Line
October 19, 2015
Justin Trudeau leads Liberal Party's remarkable rebound in Canada
He bears one of the most famous surnames in Canadian politics, but he was something of an unknown quantity in his first run for the nation's top job.
But now Justin Trudeau, the 43-year-old eldest son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and his center-left Liberal Party have emerged as ...
George W. Bush Reportedly Tells Donors a Secret: Of All GOP Candidates, There's One He Can't Stand
"I was like, 'Holy s**t, did he just say that?'"
Source: TheBlaze.com - Stories
Google Goes After Microsoft & IBM By Making Google Apps For Work Free While Customers Still Under Competitor's Contract
In an effort to acquire more Google Apps for Work customers, Google just announced a new promotion that's a huge shot across Microsoft's bow. The company says that it will give interested customers access to Google Apps for Work for free, while they're still under an enterprise agreement (EA) with another provider. While Google didn't call out Microsoft or IBM by… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Biden Planning to Run for President, Representative Brendan Boyle Says
VP Joe Biden will run for President, U.S. Representative Brendan Boyle says in Twitter post, citing a person close to Joe Biden (http://bit.ly/1PtKAiV). Twitter post: "I have a very good source close to Joe that tells me VP Biden will run for Prez" NOTE: Boyle, a Democrat, represents a Philadelphia-area district of Pa.
Source: Bloomberg.com news
This Might Really Suck the Air Out of the Room
(Steven Hayward) Assume for the purposes of discussion that catastrophic global warming from human CO2 emissions can be reliably predicted. Here's a thought: since we know trees sequester carbon (but couldn't be planted on a scale large enough to mitigate 30 billion tons of annual CO2 emissions), why not go one step further and investigate whether there might be technologies that would remove carbon dioxide from the air? The idea is called
Source: Power Line
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