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Timothy Sandefur wrote an extraordinary blog post about his brother Daniel, who was murdered in the San Bernardino terrorist attack. This is a must-read.
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When Ted Cruz announced his campaign for president, he favored increasing the number of H–1B visas issued each year by a factor of five. Today Cruz and Jeff Sessions introduced a bill that significantly reforms the H–1B visa program. The bill requires companies to recruit Americans first, it requires companies to pay competitive salaries, it bans hiring people on H–1B visas for a time after a company lays off people with the same occupation, it protects whistleblowers, and the it kills the Optional Practical Training program, which was an executive-order-by-memo expansion of the student F–1 visa into a H–1B visa look-alike that lacked minimum wage requirements. The companies that rely on H–1B visa holders as cheap labor are going to scream about this bill.
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The State Department can’t locate the emails of the IT guy who set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server, Bryan Pagliano. The FBI took possession of Pagliano’s computer so they can search it.
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Sabo solved the jihadist terrorism problem in California by adopting progressive tactics — he put up street art signs declaring an area to be a “Jihad Free Zone.” That’s the ticket.
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Glenn Beck’s Mercury One charity resettled 149 Christian refugees from Iraqi Kurdistan to Slovakia. Mercury One handled screening the refugees and is paying for language training and other social services to help them integrate into Slovakian society.
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Dow Chemical and DuPont are merging in a $130 billion all stock deal. The merged company plans to split into three independent companies 18 to 24 months after the merger.
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Vladimir Putin said Russia is providing arms, ammunition, and air support to the Free Syrian Army, which is odd since they’re one of the groups fighting Russia’s client in Syria, Bashar al-Assad.
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ISIS used three truck bombs to kill more than 50 people in the Syrian town of Tel Tamer, which is controlled by the Kurdish YPG.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he won’t withdraw Turkish troops from the area around Mosul, Iraq, so the Iraqi government appealed to the U.N. Security Council for help.
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China conducted another flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile with multiple independently-targetable warheads that can reach all of the U.S.
