- Rick Perry announced that he’s running for president. Liberal media figures failed to recognize the people standing on either side of Perry as Marcus and Morgan Luttrell, twin brothers and U.S. Navy SEALs.
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James O’Keefe caught a Department of Veterans Affairs official stating that the VA is overprescribing drugs for veterans, turning them into addicts and contributing to their high suicide rate:
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Chinese hackers compromised computers in the Office of Personnel Management, which is the federal government’s HR department. The hackers obtained information on about four million current and former federal employees, including their Social Security numbers.
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Documents supplied by Edward Snowden show that in 2012 President Obama expanded the NSA’s remit to include searching for computer intrusions originating overseas, which effectively permitted the NSA to search Internet traffic within the U.S. As far as we know, the NSA didn’t detect the Chinese incursion into the Office of Personnel Management.
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President Obama nominated Mary Kendall as inspector general for the Department of the Interior. This IG position has been vacant for nearly all of Obama’s presidency.
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Hillary Clinton is campaigning for mandatory, automatic voter registration. She also wants nationwide 20 day early voting periods. And if I didn’t know any better, I’d say she has a sincere interest in cheating at the polls.
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Reporters from The New York Times asked Paul Ehrlich how he got his population bomb prediction so utterly wrong:
Most remarkable, however, is Ehrlich’s answer. Yes, he’s still around, the Times interviewed him, and they asked him that question. I got the impression it may have been the first time someone prominent has asked Ehrlich to answer this directly, and his guard seems to have been down, probably because he remembers all the puffball coverage he’s gotten from the New York Times over the years. So he answered it, and it has to be heard to be believed. He said: “One of the things that people don’t understand is that timing, to an ecologist, is very, very different from timing to an average person.” I wonder, is BS still the same for an ecologist as it is for an average person?
The Times captured in one line the sudden realization that Paul Ehrlich is a charlatan.
- Many U.S. high schools are doing a poor job preparing students for college, so naturally the federal government will fix this by creating a new program that spends more money to reinvent something that already exists and arguably doesn’t work very well:
Well, federal legislators are at it again, this time with a bipartisan bill called the “Go to High School, Go to College Act.” It would allow Pell Grants to fund college coursework in low-income high schools. Theoretically, such courses would provide students transferable credits to college, “if and when they do attend.”
Sen. Rob Portman, a bill cosponsor, said “This, in our view, is one way not just to get kids college-bound but to keep them in high school.” Does helicopter-dropping college-track programs into poor, struggling schools sound familiar? Does it sound an awful lot like Advanced Placement (AP), but with a different source of funding? Yes. Yes, it does.
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A Qatari military officer who is in the U.S. for training was indicted on forced labor charges – he and his wife brought their Indonesian housemaid and Bangladeshi servant with them, then got caught abusing them.
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Israel and Saudi Arabia have been holding direct diplomatic talks about their common enemy, Iran.
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ISIS is anxious to mix it up with the Taliban in Afghanistan despite being outnumbered.
