Daily Archives: June 24, 2013

Putin Is Cleaning Obama’s Clock

Barack Obama’s “reset” with Russia is really going well, don’t you think? via Putin Is Cleaning Obama’s Clock « Commentary Magazine.

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Metro threatens Phantom Planter with arrest

Metro threatens Phantom Planter with arrest if he tends his DuPont Circle station flowers – The Washington Post. Quirky garden artist Henry Docter has been surreptitiously planting flowers in public places on four continents since 1979. His unauthorized beautification efforts … Continue reading

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IRS say it ain’t so…

Really – IRS chief: Inappropriate screening was broad. “There was a wide-ranging set of categories and cases that spanned a broad spectrum” on the lists, Werfel said. He added that his aides found those lists contained “inappropriate criteria that was … Continue reading

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Facebook’s Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA

Facebook’s Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA – Rebecca Greenfield – The Atlantic Wire. About a year after Facebook reportedly joined PRISM, Max Kelly, the social network’s chief security officer left for a job at the National Security … Continue reading

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Glenn Reynolds: “Which is why abuse of power is itself a kind of treason…”

Instapundit sums up the effects of government’s abuse of power and the lack of trust spawned by the many ongoing scandals… The problem is, it’s hard to trust the people who are supposed to use that data to protect us … Continue reading

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Gang of 8 immigration

Not OK: Loophole in Gang of 8 bill gives Napolitano wide discretion to allow almost anyone to stay in U.S.. The section goes on to take discretion away from the Secretary for aliens who have committed certain specified crimes, but … Continue reading

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Artificial pancreas for type 1 diabetics

Doctors Reporting Major Step Toward ‘Artificial Pancreas’ « CBS DC. “As a first step, I think we should all be very excited that it works,” an independent expert, Dr. Irl Hirsch of the University of Washington in Seattle, said of … Continue reading

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Now that IS low…

Airlines rank lower in customer satisfaction than the post office – latimes.com.

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John Hinderaker: “Global warming alarmism is, in my opinion, the worst scientific fraud in world history.”

Global Warming in a Few Slides | Power Line. More graphs at the link. Nothing to see here, move along.    

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