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• I Don't Care Who Killed JFK

  26-05-2017 23:50
  
  The question of who killed JFK will never be resolved. Next week, as Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s birth (May 29, 1917), much of the public conversation will be about his death. The controversy over who killed JFK in 1963 has now raged for over half a century. It is a diversion and a waste of time.It is more important to learn from the successes and mistakes of Kennedy’s presidency, to reflect on the changes that have occurred since his death, and to
  
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• Boehner: Trump’s presidency ‘has been a complete disaster’

  26-05-2017 23:21
  
  Former House Speaker John Boehner spoke at an energy conference Wednesday and offered a withering assessment of President Trump’s first 100 days in office. From Rigzone, an energy news site that covered Boehner’s appearance at the conference:
  When asked what he thinks Trump’s done well in his first 100 days in office, Boehner said he’s done well with international affairs and foreign policy. In regard to national security, international leaders are thrilled to death that
  
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• CA single-payer bill passes out of committee … without any explanation of funding it

  26-05-2017 22:41
  
  The California state senate has passed a bill creating a single-payer health care system to the full legisature, only without an important component — any idea how to pay for it. An analysis by the chamber determined that such a system would cost more than twice the annual budget for the state, and even with a full guarantee of current federal funding, the shortfall would exceed the entire $180 billion budget for FY2018. Where will California get the money? Democrats apparently don’t
  
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• CNN: Comey knew document accusing Lynch of protecting Clinton was a fake before last July’s Emailgate press conference

  26-05-2017 22:01
  
  The latest in a story that’s been built brick by brick for a month. The NYT laid the foundation in late April with a long piece on why Comey took such a visible role in the Emailgate investigation last year, culminating in the presser he gave last July when he accused Hillary of having been “extremely careless” in handling classified info. One key influence in his thinking, per the Times, was a hacked document the FBI had obtained early in 2016 which contained a political bombs
  
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• How Finland Created One of the Best Educational Systems in the World (by Doing the Opposite of U.S.)

  26-05-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Every conversation about education in the U.S. takes place in a minefield. Unless you’re a billionaire who bought the job of Secretary of Education, you’d better be prepared to answer questions about racial and economic equity, disability issues, protections for LGBTQ students, teacher pay and unions, religious charter schools, and many other pressing concerns. These issues are not mutually exclusive, nor are they distinct from questions of curriculum, testing, or achievement.
  
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• Massachusetts Charter School Backs off Exclusionary Hair Policies —for Now

  26-05-2017 21:59
  
  Public outrage plus scrutiny from civil rights groups and the state attorney general draws attention to penalties imposed on black students. The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, a suburban Boston charter in Malden, Massachusetts, is under fire for its dress-code policy prohibiting hair extensions and afros, rules that critics say are racially discriminatory.Despite protests from civil rights groups, the state’s charter school association, and even the Bay State’s
  
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• A Protester Injured in 'Brutal Attack' by Turkish President's Guards Speaks Out

  26-05-2017 21:24
  
  A human rights activist talks about the attack she endured — as well as her larger fight for ethnic minorities — while peacefully protesting Turkish President Recep Erdogan's visit to the White House last week.In an alarming episode last week, armed security officers traveling with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked protesters gathered outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC. The protesters objected to Erdogan’s visit to the White House e
  
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• Yale gives ‘race relations’ award to two students who confronted professor

  26-05-2017 21:21
  
  Yale awarded a prize to two students who were part of a confrontation with a professor last year over racial sensitivity on campus. Professor Nicholas Christakis attempted to have a discussion with a large group of students who were upset about an email Christakis’ wife had written. One student got in the professor’s face and told him their common humanity was not significant. Another student suggested he had created space for violence. Those two students were singled at gr
  
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• “Markedly improving”? Q1 GDP estimate upgraded … to 1.2%

  26-05-2017 20:41
  
  Improved, yes, but does today’s data suggest that the economy is “markedly improving,” as one-time Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder argues? The second iteration of the first quarter’s annualized GDP growth rate doesn’t exactly paint a rosy picture. While the new estimate improves on the advance report of 0.7% annualized GDP growth, today’s interim report only boosts it to 1.2%. That’s not exactly a strong endorsement of rapid growth, and the revision
  
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• Life is Getting Much Worse for the Poor: Housing, Food and Essentials Eat Up the Meager Incomes

  26-05-2017 20:24
  
  Click here for reuse options!The Trump budget could be catastrophic for poor Americans who are already struggling to make ends meet.This week, the Trump administration released a budget so severe it almost makes the House Republicans’ American Health Care Act (AHCA) appear kind. Decades of conservative hostility to the poor have been codified in this budget. It promises to “reform the welfare system” and supplant “dependency with dignity of work,” ignoring the fact
  
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• Hillary at Wellesley: When I was your age, we also had a president who’d be impeached for obstruction of justice

  26-05-2017 20:01
  
  I have consulted the orb and bring you glad tidings. It hath been ordained that she shall run again in 2020.
  You know why? Because the orb hates Democrats, that’s why.
  Speechwriting 101: When you’re addressing a crowd, your first job is to know your audience. Whoever wrote this knew exactly what to say to a crowd of college-aged Massachusetts liberals to get them on their feet. You would think, though, that Clinton would want to pay less attention to Trump rhetorically now that her p
  
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• Trump's White Christian Voter Base Is Shrinking, But What Will Replace It?

  26-05-2017 19:43
  
  Most working-class whites voted for Trump out of desperation. Robert P. Jones is the founding CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Jones has earned a reputation as a sterling pollster of religious trends in America and how they affect politics, elections and the social fabric. In 2016, his latest book, The End of White Christian America, was praised for its insights into the fears of white Christians and they flocked to Donald Trump. Alternet’
  
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• Global Cell Culture Media Market 2017 – Corning, GE Healthcare - MilTech

  26-05-2017 19:28 via military-technologies.net
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• Students demand firing of professor who objected to asking whites to leave campus (Update)

  26-05-2017 19:21
  
  Bret Weinstein, a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was surrounded by a group of student protesters Wednesday after he wrote an email objecting to plans for a Day of Absence.
  In the past, the Day of Absence has been a day where black and Latino students leave campus to highlight their significance on campus. This year students wanted to change the format. Instead of leaving campus themselves, they wanted white students and professors to leave campus, thereby cr
  
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• Timelapse Animation Lets You See the Rise of Cities Across the Globe, from 3700 BC to 2000 AD

  26-05-2017 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year, a Yale-led research project produced an innovative dataset that mapped the history of urban settlements. Covering a 6,000 year period, the project traced the location and size of cities across the world, starting in 3700 BC (when the first known urban dwellings emerged in Sumer) and continuing through 2000 AD. According to Yale’s Meredith Reba, if we understand “how cities have grown and changed over time, throughout history, it might tell us somet
  
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• An Inside Look at the Horsemen of Our Apocalypse

  26-05-2017 18:59
  
  Dick Russell's new book profiles the "dark lords of the energy underworld." The prolific author Dick Russell is perhaps best known as co-author of four books by wrestler/governor/TV star Jesse Ventura. But he has also written a family memoir about his schizophrenic son, a book about African-American leaders, an investigation of the JFK assassination, and two books about large fish.His latest is Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth—And What It Means for Our C
  
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• ABC: FBI summoned Trump sons on cyberhack attempt against Trump Org — the day before Comey firing

  26-05-2017 18:41
  
  Did a foreign intelligence service attempt to hack into the Trump Organization? Perhaps, according to this ABC News report, although that may be less interesting than the timing of the FBI’s actions as a result of the threat. When the FBI and CIA identified a potential attack aiming at the businesses of President Donald Trump, they summoned the two men in charge of the family company — Donald Jr and Eric. And that meeting took place the day before their father cashiered the head of t
  
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• CMP, Daleiden face contempt charge over video release

  26-05-2017 18:01
  
  A few hours after I posted the latest video from the Center for Medical Progress yesterday, Hot Air readers discovered that it had mysteriously disappeared. The cause of its elimination turns out to be not all that mysterious, and could land David Daleiden and his attorneys a contempt charge At issue is a prior gag order that Daleiden’s attorneys argued yesterday was overbroad:
  A federal judge said Thursday he will consider holding the leader of an anti-abortion group in con
  
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• Mike Huckabee and Israel’s Apocalyptic Temple Movement Set the Stage for a Summer of Holy War

  26-05-2017 17:25
  
  Was a provocative West Bank march led by Christian Zionist honcho Mike Huckabee a sign of trouble to come?Hours before the sun rose Monday morning, the former governor of Arkansas, presidential candidate and proud father of President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Mike Huckabee, set out on a politically provocative journey. Joined by 5,000 messianic Israeli settlers, Huckabee led an incursion under the armed guard of the Israeli army into the occupied West Bank city of Nablus to perform r
  
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• FBI illegally shared surveillance data on Americans with unauthorized third parties and federal contractors

  26-05-2017 17:21
  
  As a legal matter, this seems straightforward. The FBI’s gotten too loose with sharing Americans’ data in violation of its own “minimization” rules and you’d better believe Jim Comey will be asked about it the next time he testifies before Congress. If he testifies before Congress.
  As a political matter, it’s more complicated. Why did agents access the info and, in some cases, share it with people who weren’t supposed to see it? Were they spying on Ameri
  
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• The Story of Habitat, the Very First Large-Scale Online Role-Playing Game (1986)

  26-05-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Long before World of Warcraft, before Everquest and Second Life, and even before Ultima Online, computer-gamers of the 1980s looking for an online world to explore with others of their kind could fire up their Commodore 64s, switch on their dial-up modems, and log into Habitat. Brought out for the Commodore online service Quantum Link by Lucasfilm Games (later known as the developer of such classic point-and-click adventure games as Maniac M
  
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• Must-read from NYT: Breakdown of Turkish delegation assault on protesters

  26-05-2017 16:41
  
  Perhaps it’s better to call this must-see from the New York Times. The riot in front of the Turkish embassy last week created charges and countercharges between the US and Turkey on responsibility for the fight, which got caught on video from a number of sources. The NYT’s team puts together the videos and tracks the actions of 24 men, including some from the official security detail of the Turkish president, to establish exactly who did what.
  It’s impossible to do justice
  
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• Christian conundrum: Should a pregnant teen be publicly humiliated by her school?

  26-05-2017 16:01
  
  When Maddi Runkles enrolled at Heritage Academy in Hagerstown, Maryland, she and her parents signed an agreement to follow a moral code. When the straight-A student became pregnant earlier this year, the school saw it as rather incontrovertible evidence that Runkles had violated the rules and suspended her — at first for the rest of her senior year, but then on appeal for a short time. However, they also required her to conduct a public confession to the entire school and the parents of th
  
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• Watch a Mesmerizing Hourglass Filled with 1,250,000 “Nanoballs” (Created by the Designer of the Apple Watch)

  26-05-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Apple Watch designer Marc Newson has created an hourglass that stands about 6 inches tall, measures 5 inches wide, and features 1,249,996 tiny spheres called “nanoballs,” each made of stainless steel and covered with a fine copper coating. It takes 10 minutes for the nanoballs to pour through the glass, from first to last. The action looks pretty mesmerizing, to say the least.
  You can pick up your very own hand-made hourglass for $12,000. But if your pockets
  
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• Gianforte: “I’m sorry, Mr. Ben Jacobs”

  26-05-2017 15:21
  
  After thumping Rob Quist in Montana’s special election last night, the newly elected Congressman turned to a more literal beating. “When you make a mistake,” Greg Gianforte said last night during his victory speech, “you have to own up to it.” Gianforte then apologized to the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs and the Fox News team that witnessed his assault, and to the voters as well:Greg Gianforte wins Montana special election, apologizes to reporter one day after b
  
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• Copts massacred by gunmen in Egypt; at least 24 dead; Update: 28 dead

  26-05-2017 14:41
  
  Egypt’s Coptic community continues to come under fire from terrorists — this time literally. A group of men dressed in military uniforms opened fire on a bus taking Coptic Christians to a religious site in a bloody massacre that killed at least 24 people, including children:
  Children are among at least 24 people massacred in Egypt and dozens more injured after gunmen opened fire on buses carrying Coptic Christians.
  The health ministry said the victims had been on their
  
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• Fear and loathing in Montana

  26-05-2017 14:01
  
  That race in Montana was over quickly enough that most of you probably caught wind of it before going to bed last night, even if you weren’t following Allahpundit’s coverage of it. But the other thing which was “over” before the tears of Rob Quist’s supporters had even begun to dry was any semblance of Democratic unity in what was supposed to be The Year of the Resistance.On the left, naysayers were quick to jump on the bandwagon and lambast the DNC for failing to d
  
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• Learn details of the global cell culture media capacity - WhaTech

  26-05-2017 12:03 via whatech.com
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• An Animated History of Tea

  26-05-2017 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Self proclaimed tea geek, Shunan Teng’s knowledge of her chosen subject extends well beyond the proper way to serve and prepare her best-loved beverage.
  Her recent TED-Ed lesson on the History of Tea, above, hints at centuries of bloodshed and mercenary trade practices, discreetly masked by Steff Lee’s benign animation.
  Addiction, war, and child labor—the last, a grim ongoing reality…. Meditate on that the next time you’re enjoying a nice cup of Darjeeling, or bett
  
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• Obama: “Despite our best efforts,” Syria turned into a pretty vicious war

  26-05-2017 04:41
  
  “Despite our best efforts”? So ineffectual was this guy’s Syria policy that alumni of his administration felt obliged to praise Trump publicly after his symbolic strike on one of Assad’s airfields last month. Remember?
  “Great move.” “Brilliant.” “Finally!” were some of the comments I heard from veteran foreign policy hands in both parties Friday morning…
  “Our administration never would have gotten this done in 48 hours,&rdq
  
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• NBC News: Jared Kushner ‘under FBI scrutiny’

  26-05-2017 04:01
  
  NBC News reported Thursday that Jared Kusher is now under FBI scrutiny.
  Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.
  Investigators believe Kushner has significant information relevant to their inquiry, officials said. That does not mean they suspect him of a crime or intend to charge him…
  The officials said Kushner is in a different category from former T
  
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• Montana special election: Will Gianforte give Democrats a beating?

  26-05-2017 03:21
  
  There’s no upside to having your party’s nominee for a House seat charged with assault literally on the eve of an election, but if you’re straining to find a silver lining for the GOP, here you go. If Gianforte craps the bed tonight and loses one of the safest Republican House seats in the country, the party now has a handy talking point for why it’s not a harbinger of a blue wave in next year’s midterms. It was a freak thing! Gianforte had the race won, he lost his
  
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• No, Sean Hannity hasn’t done his last show at Fox News

  26-05-2017 02:41
  
  C’mon. Simple logic should tell you that there’s nothing to “the rumors,” even though Fox brass reportedly did lean on him to dial it down on the Seth Rich stuff.
  In a rare interview with Huffington Post, Hannity accused liberal watchdog groups like Media Matters For America of trying “to take me out” by encouraging advertisers to jump ship. “This is a kill shot,” he said.
  Hannity also said that he decided to stop pushing the conspiracy theory out
  
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• Rep. Chaffetz responds to FBI’s refusal to turn over Comey memos

  26-05-2017 02:01
  
  The FBI sent a letter to House Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz Thursday saying it would not be turning over memos written by former FBI Director James Comey. From Politico:
  In a letter to Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the FBI’s assistant director for congressional affairs, Gregory Brower, said the bureau can’t provide the memo until it consults with Robert Mueller, the new special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
  In
  
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• CNN: House GOP, Pence clash over tax-reform plan?

  26-05-2017 01:21
  
  Haven’t we seen this movie before? Take out the words “tax reform” and put in “ObamaCare repeal” from this CNN report, and we have a rerun from March. It appears that the White House and the conservative bloc in the House Republican caucus have come to loggerheads on the next major piece of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, but this might be more about tone and timing than content:
  Vice President Mike Pence’s attempt to peel away House Republicans to su
  
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• Rush caller: If every Republican slammed a reporter to the ground, I’d donate until I was bankrupt

  26-05-2017 00:41
  
  Noteworthy not because this sentiment is widespread but because Rush, who usually works very, very hard to stay on the right side of his audience, is obviously uncomfortable.
  I don’t know, though. Maybe it is widespread. If you want to attack Republicans with a “climate of hate” talking point, you’re better off polling their voters on what Gianforte did than trying to half-ass a path of direct causation from Trump’s rhetoric to Gianforte’s brain.Gianforte vote
  
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• Senate Republicans consider pushing Obamacare repeal back to 2020

  26-05-2017 00:01
  
  We’ve gone from repeal and replace to repeal and delay and now it seems like we may be embracing delay and repeal. Bloomberg reports Senate Republicans are now considering a plan that would delay Obamacare repeal until 2020:
  Senate Republicans are weighing a two-step process to replace Obamacare that would postpone a repeal until 2020, as they seek to draft a more modest version than a House plan that nonpartisan analysts said would undermine some insurance markets.
  Republicans — in
  
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