Immigration

Obama refuses to rescind illegal amnesties as ordered by judge.

Tax and Spend

Greece defaults. I guess missing a payment isn't a default.

"Greece is not technically in default, but missing the payment is yet another an unmistakable warning that the country will probably be unable to meet its other obligations in coming weeks, to its bond holders and to the European Central Bank. That may might make the European Central Bank, one of its principal creditors, less willing to continue emergency loans that have been propping up Greek banks for the past several months. "

They moving the goalposts.

Treasury has illegally frozen the debt for 15 weeks.

Police State

This plan to secure the internet of things is ridiculous. They can't secure high dollar internet tools. NSA doesn't want any of it secure.

Clayton cop killed motorcycle rider after making illegal turn.

FISA court orders NSA to resume bulk surveillance of Americans.

Environment

Taxpayer-funded NOAA study finds a spike in particulate matter in the atmosphere on July 4. Really?

"And while the EPA does not regulate fireworks, the agency does recommend that people who are considered sensitive to particle pollution try to limit their exposure by watching fireworks from upwind – or as far away as possible. People with asthma should follow their asthma action plans and be sure to have their quick relief medicine handy."

Too funny.

US, China and Brazil announce global warming agreements.

Federal Reserve

Greek banks are the canary in the coal mine for all western banks.

Plan to steal money from money market funds to cover loses in mutual funds.

Politics

Supreme Court Justices are motivated by personal and political gain like everybody else.

Ron Paul on the Court's ridiculous Obamacare ruling.

"By ruling for the government in the case of King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court once again tied itself into rhetorical and logical knots to defend Obamacare. In King, the court disregarded Obamacare’s clear language regarding eligibility for federal health care subsides, on the grounds that enforcing the statute as written would cause havoc in the marketplace. The court found that Congress could not have intended this result and that the court needed to uphold Congress’s mythical intention and ignore Obamacare’s actual language."

Twisted.

Obama's dictate about overtime shows he's a master at buying votes with other people's money.

War

Military can't find any moderate Syrian rebels to train.

Test pilot admits the trillion dollar f-35 can't dogfight. It was bested by an F-16. It wasn't designed to dogfight, but that's what they did with the F-4, and they got creamed over Vietnam.

Regulation

The Onion exposes counterproductiveness of patents.

Obama's fireworks regulations show he hates America.

"Whether it be duplicative safety rules on the fireworks themselves or requirements that truckers limit their weekly time on the road, the makers, marketers and distributors of pyrotechnics complain that Obama's regulators are "completely insane" by forcing so many standards on an industry that's as much a part of a patriotic summer as baseball and apple pie. "

He'd love to ban the celebration.

Local

Sidewalk collapses in downtown Dayton, causing man to fall into ten foot deep hole.

Health Care

Conflict of interest and corruption at the CDC.

Jerry Brown signs California vaccination tyranny.

Veteran records VA denying him care.  That's its response to delays.

Health Care

One way the internet of things will be used to control people.

Education

Michelle Obama's lunch tyranny expanded to pre-schools.

Politics

Ted Cruz says voters would be surprised.

"Texas Sen. Ted Cruz writes in his new book that conservative voters would be “astonished” if they knew what Republican senators were really doing and saying in private meetings on Capitol Hill."

I wouldn't be surprised.

In what world does it make sense to take down the Confederate flag at Fort Sumter?

When politicians claim to seek "middle ground" on firearms, they mean more government control.

Supreme Court blocks states from requiring ID to register to vote, just like the establishment wants.

Regulation

France arrests Uber executives for running an illegal taxi company.

War

NATO aggression against Russia heightens risk of nuclear war.

Tax and Spend

Puerto Rico's governor plans to default on unpayable debt.

VA extends benefits to all gays married to veterans. Here comes the payday.

Environment

Scientists studying sprites mistake cause and effect.

Supreme Court overturns some EPA energy emission regulations.

We keep hearing how the planet is running out of helium, but helium is leaking from a California fault, indicating helium is more abundant than claimed.

Giant, freshwater lake in Chad evaporated a thousand years ago, well before SUVs.

Federal Reserve

According to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), policy-makers have no more tools to combat economic collapse. The Fed and central banks all around the world have painted all of us into a corner and guaranteed the next crash will be devastating. This article pretends central banks were protectors of the economy, but what else would you expect from the central banks of central banks?

"“Rather than just reflecting the current weakness, they may in part have contributed to it by fuelling costly financial booms and busts and delaying adjustment. The result is too much debt, too little growth and too low interest rates."

We're all Austrians now.

USA Today accidentally tells the truth that countries exiting monetary unions generally suffer no economic distress.

Publicly, the Fed is unconcerned about Greece.

Economy

Prediction of a crash in Chinese markets.

Chinese markets crashing over last 17 days.

Dow falls 350 on Greek news.

Last man who made bats by hand retires from Louisville Slugger, telling wonderful tale of skilled labor.

Politics

Republicans and the courts are Obamacare's best allies.

Supreme Court's major rulings favor big business. Another shocker.

Pressure to allow transgender troops to serve openly in military.

Uber has been sucked into the political economy.

"Hales, like many mayors in America, could probably guess why Plouffe was trying to reach him. Uber’s made a name for itself by barging into cities and forcing politicians to respond."

This is actually a story about how government forces companies to engage in the political economy.

The US makes war on everything because it benefits our rulers.

Federal Reserve

ECB still says it won't bail out Greek banks any more. Bank run ramps up.

Greece shuts banks.

Regulation

The press and alarmists have dramatically exaggerated how advanced AI programs are.

Health Care

Collection of studies supporting paleo lifestyle.

Local

Lebanon to raise water rates by 14 percent.

Economy

AMD uses Intel CPU in gaming PC.

Tax and Spend

Germans and Greeks call off negotiations with no settlement.

Greek ATMs drained dry.

War

We always laughed about the Iraqi Air Force attacking the US, but the US has imported Iraqi pilots to train here, and one died.

Socialism

California orders San Francisco to stop taking drinking water from river, preferring it go to the ocean instead of keeping people healthy.

Education

More on school lunch black markets. Schools are accidentally teaching two useful things: government stinks and markets are the solution to problems.

Health Care

Vaccine medical tyranny in California.

Long list of mass murderers hooked on Big Pharma.

Police State

The corruption of red-light camera companies is no different than any other market segment. They buy favors with campaign contributions. That's what politics is. More.

Politics

Recent Supreme Court decisions show the fallacy of the argument to vote for Republican presidents so they can appoint conservative justices. As bad as Republican judges are, Democrats are worse. This is a lesser of two evils argument.

Who would have predicted that the Supreme Court tends to be liberal on the big cases. It's as if both parties are full of progressives, just I've like I've said forever.

Transgenders in the military.

Some observant person predicts transgender issues will be the next focus of LGBT.

Mississippi rejects call to remove Lee's battle flag which will surely draw ire of America's neo-Soviets.

Boehner attacks "rebels".

Misc

Why are they surprised chimpanzees know violence is bad? Did they think they had no empathy? No sense of the benefits of cooperation?

Foreign Policy

Hillary Clinton is picking and choosing which emails she gives to investigators. It's a travesty. That's why she set up her own server.

War on Drugs

Of course ISIS could use war on drugs infrastructure to attack Americans. This is a veiled call to steal more money.

Economy

Chinese savers sitting on $21 trillion. Good for them. Hopefully they'll spend some here after our economy is gone.

Regulation

After violent strikes, France rewards rioters with plans to steal Uber drivers' cars. In our barbaric society, might still makes right.

Police State

Homicides in Baltimore have almost doubled this year, almost all from black on black crime.

Former Baltimore cop tells stories of ubiquitous corruption on the squad.

War

The US is following the same old playbook in Iraq, and it won't work to do anything except expand the war.

Tax and Spend

Dumping the euro isn't a magic bullet for Greece's tax and spend problems.

Kansas Republicans pass massive tax hike.

Politics

Vandals target Confederate Monuments.

Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage 5-4.

Note to Justice Scalia: the Supreme Court has always been a threat to democracy.

Hypocrisy of the offend activists.Government offends me, but they won't get rid of it for me.

US Customs targets James O'Keefe for embarrassing the government.

Transabled, people who want to voluntarily disable themselves, insanity.

Pat Buchanan takes on Obama's cultural attack dogs. I don't have any problem telling the true history of America, but destroying that history isn't telling it.

Socialism

Hackers stole most intimate, private details of government employee records.

"A senior U.S. official has confirmed that foreign hackers compromised the intimate personal details of an untold number of government workers. Likely included in the hackers’ haul: information about workers’ sexual partners, drug and alcohol abuse, debts, gambling compulsions, marital troubles, and any criminal activity."

Why is any of that in government records?

California district cutting water pressure to save water.

Tax and Spend

Germans feel no guilt for the plight of Greeks.

Prediction the Fed will bail out Greece.

Laughing, investigators blame mistakes, not a conspiracy, for deleting thousands of emails relating to tea party oppression.

Why has it taken years for the House to consider impeaching the head of the IRS for lying about Lois Lerner and tea party oppression.

Environment

There's no such thing as a free lunch in green energy either.

Last winter's weak el Nino was outside NOAA's geographical definition, and that's why NOAA can't decide whether it belongs in the historical data. It also shows NOAA doesn't understand the climate, the same as everybody else.

Police State

While French rulers pretend to be appalled that NSA spied on French presidents, the French parliament gives spies expanded spy powers.

Two years ago people were hesitant to believe Michael Hastings was killed by car hack. Now we know hacking cars is ridiculously easy.

Obama has issued 19 secret directives.

Health Care

Study claims a diet high in sugar or fat causes cognitive decline, but they don't specify what fat they used.

After Supreme Court ignores the law and upholds Obamacare subsidies, congressman introduces bill to force Justices onto the program.  That should have happened when it first passed.

Misc

Bright spots found by Rosetta on comet 67P can only be ice and can only mean the comet is mostly ice. Ridiculous.

Socialism

Lake Mead hits record low. Lake Mead and Las Vegas.

This is government's version of cyber-security.

"A CIA-backed technology company has found logins and passwords for 47 government agencies strewn across the Web - available for hackers, spies and thieves."

What a joke.

Education

Schools teach students about black markets as students sell salt and sugar to combat Michelle Obama's terrible lunches. More. Thanks to Michelle Obama, children are learning government stinks.

Federal Reserve

With no deal for Greece, the ECB bails out Greek banks again.

Police State

How to see what Google admits to knowing about you.

Politics

After first failing Republicans passed fast-track authority for Obama's trade tyranny.

Boehner punishes Republicans who voted against Obamatrade.

"While the Speaker has lashed out at conservative rebels before, the latest intraparty purge has been particularly aggressive, this time targeting members of the new, conservative House Freedom Caucus who voted against the rule."

Good for them.

Here's how much corporations paid for Senate votes on TPP.

US falls in subjective well-being.

Amazon bans Confederate flag but continues to sell Nazi items and Che Guevara t-shirts.

Environment

UK Met Office claims solar activity is plummeting faster than since the last ice age, but they can't know that.

NOAA adds and subtracts el Ninos and la Nina's to its historical data.

Heat waves are supposedly more common.

Health Care

Dangers of proton pump inhibitors.

The world's population is living longer, but rapidly getting sicker.

Politics

Supreme Court turns left this term.

Tax and Spend

Moving data shows millions of Americans are fleeing high-tax states for low-tax states.

ECB continues flooding Greek banks with cash to feed the bank run.

The ECB is buying bonds of European countries to keep their borrowing costs down, delaying and worsening the inevitable.

"Spending cuts don't seem to be as bad for the economy as tax hikes, so that's what Europe wants Greece to do."

More evidence the Keynesians are evil, not stupid.

More evidence.

"The troika plan for the Greek economy has already failed twice, and it will fail for a third time if the economically illiterate plan being foisted on Athens is adopted. Greece requires growth and debt relief, but the proposals currently being discussed provide neither.
As usual, the International Monetary Fund, the European commission and the European Central Bank will come up with forecasts showing that the latest set of austerity measures will boost confidence, promote investment, stimulate growth and lead to lower unemployment. As usual, they will be wrong. The recession will deepen and the crisis will return."

It just Austrians who know this.

Federal Reserve

ISIS mints gold coin.

Misc

I've long thought consciousness was overrated and that it only rationalized unconscious decisions. This researcher agrees with me.

Local

Water main break shuts down North Main.

Environment

Much like Hillary Clinton, EPA officials caught scheming in private emails.

Because of better modern instruments, scientists are updating historical sunspot data. They better keep the original data.

Comparing the Pope's stance on global warming to the Church's threats against Galileo.

The mainstream media finally noticed the sun is quiet, and it's making the planet cooler. This is a sudden, major shift in policy.

War

Military spending by NATO states.

The Pentagon's space war program comes out of the closet with new space war center.

Pat Buchanan fears NATO's provoking of Russia.

Economy

Recycling is dying because it doesn't make economic sense.

Police State

NSA attacks anti-virus software, making computers less secure. And we wonder why so hacking runs rampant.

Google chromium secretly installed voice eavesdropping code on computers.

"It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission."

That's not good.

Health Care

Government wipes vaccine injury data from website.

War

We're supposed to believe Marines have to deploy on foreign ships because the US Navy has shortage of ships. Can you say profiteering?

Navy and Air Force numbers.

Pat Buchanan rightly fears a clash between Russia and NATO. That could kill us all.

Politics

The House claims Americans are under the worst threat of terrorism ever.

Tax and Spend

Suddenly Greece, which seemed to hold all the card before, is forced to accept crippling pseudo-austerity again. NATO?

Socialism

Hackers ground flights in Poland because government is incompetent.

Congress ignored information that computers were unsafe.

Misc

Astronomers discover dark galaxies formed by an invisible force like electricity.

The Daily Mail admits the Earth's magnetic field and solar activity influence weather. As far as I know, this is revolutionary. I'm not aware of any weather model that incorporates solar activity and minute-to-minute changes in Earth's magnetic field. I asked Anthony Watts to let me know if I'm wrong.

Environment

Who doesn't want to eat eco-cow beef? It sounds luxurious.

Economy

Apple to pay artists after Taylor Swift shames them. If she wasn't queen of the music business before, she is now.

John Deere leads the self-driving revolution with self-driving tractors for farmers. That's an awesome idea.

Congratulations to the Fed. Home prices reach 2006 bubble pop.

Foreign plutocrats bought $100 billion in property in the past year, feeding our housing bubble.

Local

Fifth-Third, Ohio's biggest bank and the nation's tenth largest bank, to close 100 branches and abandons plan to open thirty new ones.

Federal Reserve

Ron Paul says US aggression against Russia and China are hastening the decline of the dollar, not extending it.

Economy

Shale oil producers are drowning in debt. That was another Fed-fueled boom.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Rove may have just buried himself by claiming the only way to stop mass murders is by repealing the second amendment.

South Carolina prevents concealed carry in churches, making those people victims.

"But South Carolina forbids residents with concealed-carry permits to bring their weapons into a church or “other established religious sanctuary” without “express permission” from a church official or other authority affiliated with the institution. In 2011, a bill that would have allowed people to carry their concealed weapons in churches and other houses of worship failed in the South Carolina legislature."

More victims of disarmament.

Misc

Chinese publicly slaughter thousands of dogs and cats at a festival and them eat them.

Politics

Twelve years ago I noted how Democrats had abandoned the middle ground. They're still doing it and making it work by accusing everybody else of being right-wing.

Education

Texas decriminalizes truancy.

Regulation

Cities are attacking residents who refuse their socialist pseudo-services because those pseudo-services are really about stealing money.

Freedom of Speech

Australia banned 240 games since January.

Government gagged Reason in an attempt to bully commenters.

Health Care

After all the noise about wait times at the VA, they've gotten longer, not shorter. Talk buys votes, but it can't change socialism.

180,000 vets with hepatitis C luckily will get care in the marketplace.

Tax and Spend

At the eleventh hour, it looks like Europe's rulers are finally willing to make some concessions to Greece's rulers. Playing hardball and flirting with Putin may have worked for Tsipras.

Headline claims Washington fears losing Greece to Moscow. I thought that might have triggered Europe's rulers' change of heart.

Obama's FCC is pushing internet welfare. That let's you know the government knows it controls the internet.

War

While the US replays the Cold War playbook, the Department of Defense will urge NATO allies not to do so.

Minority faction threatens to desert Assad's military.

Regulation

FCC's net neutrality rules is already having a negative impact on companies and customers. This is based on the fact that internet bandwidth is a limited resource so companies were foolish to sell "unlimited bandwidth" plans. There's no such thing as unlimited bandwidth.

Police State

Tails is a live, secure operating system.

Environment

I'm skeptical of EPA's claim that one in three data servers does no work.

Fraud claims bread won't rise in the future because of global warming.

Unrepentant NOAA claims May, spring and the year so far are the hottest on record.

Economy

Private wealth managers shun regular rich, highlighting the growing gap between the super-rich and everybody else.

Lifestyles of the super-rich.

Foreign Policy

Putin says proposed pipeline would help Greece pay its debt, but claims he promised no bailout.

Socialism

The number of pools being built in California reaches highest rate in a decade despite the drought.

Federal Reserve

Interview with Texas legislator behind the Texas gold bank.

Politics

Pat Buchanan welcomes Donald Trump as the anti-establishment candidate. Only in words, but he might be worthy of a protest vote.

Police State

Those who cooperated with FBI during the Boston Marathon bombing investigation received harsher punishments, including one who was killed, than those who didn't cooperate.

Health Care

The common factor in all mass shootings is all shooters are hooked on Big Pharma drugs.

Economy

Regulators crack down on gold manipulator.

"The punishment for the manipulators with the “faulty” trading platform?

• In accordance with the settlement offer, the Panel ordered Mirus to pay a fine to the Exchange in the amount of $200,000.

So Nav Sarao may spend 380 years in jail for spoofing the S&P lower, but some bucket prop trading shop executing some “unknown” client’s orders gets away with $200K. Brilliant."

Not exactly a crackdown.

"First Mirus no longer exists: one year ago it was acquired by NinjaTrader, Zenfire was deactivated, and any and all traders complicit in the gold manipulation scheme have long since gone on to bigger and better manipulating venues.
Second, as one furious reader finally blew up and asked then CFTC “regulator” and now HFT lobbyist, Bart Chilton what the hell is going on, only to find out that the US commodity regulator had other more pressing concerns at the time – and every time – than running fair and functioning markets:" 

That's because the Fed is ultimately behind the manipulation.

War on Drugs

Hawaii raises smoking age to 21.

War

Top military brass is against a ground war in Iraq because it wouldn't be good for their futures.

Environment

The Pope is wrong about global warming and the state of humanity.

Another claim humans are causing mass extinctions.

Climate change regulation most harms the poor.

Education

Pennsylvania school district scans student thumbprints to track lunches.

Health Care

Belgian doctors euthanizing patients without consent. This is what socialized medicine does.

Politics

Angry Republican congressman blames Drudge for derailing TPP. Good deal.

Tax and Spend

The possibility of a Russian rescue may be behind Greece's hardline position.

Media

Brian Williams still makes about $10 million a year.

Immigration

Three stories illustrate Obama's dismantling of ICE.

"The first is information pried out of DHS by Senators Grassley and Sessions:

One hundred twenty-one convicted criminals who faced deportation orders between 2010 and 2014 were never removed from the country and now face murder charges, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Just to be clear, these were convicted criminals, in ICE custody, who had been ordered deported but were instead released back into U.S. communities, and then went on to murder Americans."
"If that’s not depressing enough, Maria Sachetti at the Boston Globe has done yeoman’s work in uncovering hundreds of immigrant sex criminals whom ICE let go because of the same Supreme Court ruling – without even making sure they were registered with local authorities as sex offenders."
"And finally, on a less grisly note, my colleague Jessica Vaughan has uncovered data showing a collapse in worksite enforcement. In effect, as the Washington Times headline put it, “Obama gives free pass to businesses that hire illegals.” From 2013 to 2015, the number of ICE audits of employer records (to check the work eligibility of employees) dropped 86 percent; arrests of crooked employers dropped 73 percent; and fines collected dropped 51 percent."

Thanks, Obama.

Federal Reserve

Fed rule change signals it plans to raise rates. This seems odd since the economy shrunk in Q1.

Prediction Fed won't raise rates, but will start QE4 instead.

Facing a bank run, Greece banks may not open.

War

Navy plans 40 full-size helicopter drones.

After abandoning 505 bases in Iraq, US military is building a bunch of new ones.

"As it turns out, however, the vehicle of choice for ISIS suicide bombers these days is the up-armored Humvee. In June 2014, when the Iraqi Army abandoned the country’s second largest city, Mosul, ISIS acquired 2,300 made-in-the-U.S.A. Humvees. Since then, it’s captured even more of them."

The US is also supplying them to ISIS through its Syrian jihadist training programs.

Drone pilots are exhausted and suffering from PTSD or guilt.

Local

Former CEO of Dayton's red light camera supplier plead guilty to eight years of bribery schemes.

"According to the plea agreement obtained by the Dayton Daily News, various unnamed elected officials in both cities received disbursements through the Democratic Party from a consultant hired by the company totalling $30,000. The payments were in the form of campaign contributions. The Columbus Dispatch was reporting Friday that one of the officials was Columbus City Council President Andrew Ginther."

Typical.

Environment

Alarmist predicts humanity will be extinct by 2100 because of global warming.

Police State

Charleston shooter was hooked on Big Pharma drugs.

Anti-depressants and violent behavior.

Politics

Search "legacy of liberalism slavery" from Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.

Self-serving billionaire Donald Trump is no more the solution to America's socialist problems than Hillary Clinton, but he brings a market perspective and a refreshing political incorrectness to the race that makes it more informative and entertaining. I hate the solutions, solutions, solutions candidacy machine.

Local

Government allows taxis to raise prices to cover costs imposed by government.

Environment

The greens hate humans and want to kill them.

Federal Reserve

Critics jump on Texas's new gold depository.

The link between the war on cash and negative interest rates.

Evidence the Deep State is fracturing as the damage from Wall Street becomes obvious.

Sports

NFL's corrupt deflategate witchhunt against Tom Brady and the Patriots.

"But the outcome of the “Deflategate” controversy – even if it turns out that there was no intentional deflating of the footballs – will help the Colts and other competitors in the years ahead, since the Patriots will lose a first- and fourth-round draft pick in 2016 and may have to play without their starting quarterback for a quarter of the upcoming season.
For a decade and a half, the Patriots have been the most consistently successful team in the NFL, winning four Super Bowls (including in 2015) and regularly qualifying for the playoffs. This success has understandably upset many of the teams that compete against them, creating an incentive to get the NFL to intervene to make the Patriots less competitive.
It’s a bit like handicapping a horse race by making the favorite carry more weight than the others, but that approach is itself an assault on the competitive fairness of the NFL, what Commissioner Roger Godell claims he is upholding in “Deflategate.”"

Napoleon Goodell is a fraud. He's complicit in this witchhunt, probably for that reason.

War

Obama and his feds arm terrorists.

Economy

McDonald's shutting stores.

Foreign Policy

Peaceful boycotts threaten Israeli occupation more than rockets and terrorist attacks.

Federal Reserve

Fed keeps rates at zero and downgrades economic forecast.

Media

Instead of firing Brian Williams, NBC makes him a new deal.

War on Drugs

Legalizing medical marijuana doesn't increase teen use.

Misc

Silly theory for moon dust ring.

"The moon wears this hazy veil thanks to the comet dust that speckles the solar system. When a bit of dust from a comet's tail slams into the moon, the collision kicks up thousands of particles of moon dust, which are carried high above their resting place on the lunar surface, Horanyi says."

I'll bet it's a magnetic belt.

Article calls comet 67p a space rock with a rocky surface.

Self-driving cars can be hacked to kill people.

Politics

Republicans plan to extend Obamacare subsidies if the Supreme Court strikes them down. And you thought Republicans were against Obamacare.

Obama's TPP deal is three pacts which would cover 90 percent of world GDP. Sounds like one-world government. More.

"Sessions then laid out how several members of Congress didn’t even know about what they were voting on when leadership forced them to vote—and how it’s not too late for Republicans to see the light and oppose the creation of a new global governance."

They should have voted against it. House to vote again tomorrow. TPP is available in a secret room for congressmen to skim.

Foreign Policy

China will halt building islands.

Power corrupting China's rulers.

Health Care

Doctors used to love trans-fats.

CDC claims it will take three years to meet FOIA request on lab accidents at two labs.

Socialism

Hacked government personnel files couldn't be encrypted because government's computers are too old.

The CIA is still experimenting on people.

World's aquifers being depleted.

California cuts off water to city of 15,000.

Broken sprinkler sprays water at California Capitol.

Immigration

Under pressure, Disney flip-flops and will not lay off American IT workers in favor of immigrants.

Regulation

California declares Uber drivers are employees, not contractors.

FCC fines AT&T for throttling unlimited data users, proving it doesn't understand resources are limited.

Environment

NOAA's climate alarmists say Arctic ocean is rapidly turning acidic.

War

Air Force cuts drone flights because of burned out operators.

Russian troops traced in Ukraine battle-zone by social media.

NATO's deployment to Russian borders forces Russia to respond, increasing the chances of war.

Pentagon hires group advocating more aggression against Russia. That's a sure way to make money off taxpayers. Washington's intellectual gravy train.

Kurds cut off ISIS supply line from Turkey. Supply line from Turkey? NATO, that means the US, supports ISIS. The US supports all sides.

US claims airstrike killed al Qaeda's second in command, in Yemen.

Freedom of Speech

In government's never-ending grasp of control of the internet, a European court declares websites are responsible for the comments they receive. Coming soon to the US.

Socialism

After the hack of all government personnel files, Congress is supposedly demanding a bill to force encryption of data. But that's unnecessary. The president can do that. This is a sham. It's a pretense for passing a law demanding all encryption have a backdoor for government.

Of course states can be limited by pieces of paper, all long as their rulers choose to be.

Police State

The internet of things gets stupider with people wondering how to harness the compute power. No. Harness an additional computer instead.

Socialism

The origin of the welfare-warfare state in the US can be traced to Bismark, who tried to employ Marx to promote it.

Health Care

FDA bans trans-fats.

Rheumatoid arthritis correlated to eleven year solar cycle. From personal experience, it's not causal.

Inflammation is the silent killer and probably the killer behind high blood pressure.

Local

The DDN wants us to believe that running red lights jumped significantly when local communities obeyed the law and turned off red light cameras, but the number of incidents is so small, the percentages are meaningless.

War

ISIS's advanced, heavy weapons come from the US and allies. The meme that all were captured doesn't hold water.

"Most support for the jihadists has come by way of the aid the US offers, along with its allies, to the insurgency in Syria battling to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. Washington has given this support even though the Pentagon admitted internally as early as 2012 that extremists including al-Qaeda were, as the DIA report said, “the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.”"

This is the absurd US cover for actually arming ISIS and al Qaeda.

"It is likely that, without this crucial early logistical aid from the US, the fractious and power-hungry opposition would have fallen apart, the bloody and ruinous civil war would have ended much earlier, and tens of thousands of violent deaths would have been prevented.

More to the point, the war would have ended before Syrian al-Qaeda (aka the Nusra Front) and ISIS could conquer much of Syria, and before ISIS could use its Syrian foothold to stage its conquest of the northwestern half of Iraq. By prolonging the war, the US gave the extremists the time, the space, and the chaos they needed to expand astonishingly.

As the DIA report revealed, the US government knew such blowback was a highly probable consequence of supporting the insurgency, even forecasting the resulting rise of an extremist Islamic State. Yet it barreled ahead anyway."

Because empowering radicals like ISIS and al Qaeda was always the plan.

The Wall Street Journal lifts the veil on evil US war policy.

"then read this recent piece in the Wall Street Journal on the evolution of the Syrian civil war, which opens with this startling query:
“In the three-way war ravaging Syria, should the local al Qaeda branch be seen as the lesser evil to be wooed rather than bombed?”
How can such a question even be conceived, let alone asked? After all, wasn’t the whole purpose of the nearly fifteen-year US military campaign in the region supposed to have been the eradication of Al Qaeda?"

That was all a sham.

The Taliban warns ISIS to stay out of Afghanistan. This is the warmongers wet dream.

Congress symbolically votes to cut funding to Ukrainian neo-nazies, but all this money and training will go to them because they're the most aggressive sect in Ukraine, the same way all US money and training went to ISIS and al Qaeda in Syria.

Economy

Malware trends show malware returns outrageous return on investment.

Contraty to the neo-Luddites, robots are improving productivity, not costing jobs.

Misc

It's about time somebody in the establishment contradicted the assumption Mars was warm and wet in the past.

Environment

I'm skeptical that air pollution kills 3.2 million people a year, more than AIDS and malaria combined.

More on NOAA's corrupt paper designed to make it appear the pause never happened.

The Pope's proclamation called a call for world-wide communism.

Sports

FBI investigates Cardinals for hacking Astros.

Tax and Spend

Republican House Chairman makes reasonable case for privatizing air traffic control.

"Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., who is chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told the Aero Club of Washington that privatizing air-traffic control with aviation fees would save billions of dollars and provide more stable funding than congressional appropriations.
"Now is the time for transformational change that provides a safe, reliable modern aviation system for our future," Shuster said."

I expect he'll lose his chairmanship over this.

Corrupt accounting keeps publicized Federal dept stuck at same level for 90 days to avoid the legal debt limit.

Health Care

The CDC just noticed Americans are getting heavier.

Education

How does an English teacher who refuses to teach Shakespeare keep her job? Socialism.

Local

Six offline refineries blamed for high gas prices.

Environment

Another data set confirms Medieval Warm Period.

Great criticism of Google's crappy solar energy plant and the taxes we paid for it.

The Pope joins the global warming frauds.

Federal Reserve

Texas creates gold and silver depository.

"Joe Salerno earlier mentioned that Texas might create a new state-level gold depository that would allow investors to store gold and silver outside the federally-regulated banking system. As banks clamp down on storage of gold and silver at banks, the purpose of new Texan legislation was to encourage investors to move their precious metals to Texas and to perhaps even to begin to build a system of gold and silver "certificates" that could be traded as a type of money.
As expected, the Texas governor has signed the bill into law. "

This is great news for everybody. More.

"Is this the first step down a road to secession? Notably, they’ll need that gold to establish their own country once they win the potentially imminent war with the US military which starts on Monday (Jade Helm)."

Interesting connection.

Politics

White woman posing as black woman to improve her career blows the doors off leftist race propaganda. She quit. She had previously sued a traditionally black college for discriminating against her because she was white.

Rand Paul scores another point by exposing Paul Ryan's tax hike plan to pass TPP.

Hillary Clinton supported TPP 45 times, but now she wants it changed.

Conspiracy theorists gaining credibility.

New York City Dems pushing to register immigrants, probably illegal immigrants.

"After all, this is a city where nearly 40% of the residents are foreign-born, over 60% speak a language other than English at home, and about 20% — or 1,480,072 — of all registered voters are naturalized citizens or the U.S.-born children of immigrants."

That's ridiculous. New York City should secede and become its own country.

War

US aggression in the Middle East has radicalized Africa, and the US is opening military bases there.

The US is slowly admitting it put neo-Nazis in power in Ukraine.US considering sending nuclear weapons with the heavy weapons NATO is already sending to Russia's border.

NATO's secret plan to defend Baltic states from Russia.

The US Navy joins the cyberwar.

Foreign Policy

Glenn Greenwald is skeptical of the claim Russia and China cracked Snowden's encryption.

North Korea test fired a submarine-based missile.

The State Department and Hillary withheld emails on Benghazi from committee.

Police State

Indian police burn journalist alive for exposing corruption.

New York prison break another failure of socialism.

It makes sense this cop shot a man attacking him with a flagpole, and the activists who claim otherwise are doing disservice to real victims of police. Maybe they've watched too many superhero movies.

New Yorkers are in trouble because ATF is coming to help fight gun crime.

More on Pentagon destroying evidence in NSA whistleblower probe.

More than 100 illegal immigrants ICE released committed 121 murders.

Misc

Comet 67P lander Philae completely awake so scientists will begin turning on instruments.

Billion dollar bunker.

Billionaire bunkers.

More criticism of the Magna Carta, or really of the significance placed on it.

War

NATOs spearhead force moves into Poland to threaten Russia.

Economy

Deeper analysis of CEO pay compared to worker pay.

Federal Reserve

The ECB is keeping Greek banks afloat during a massive bank run.

"According to some the ECB may also decide to no longer boost or even lower the amount of ELA which would in turn precipitate the collapse of the local banking sector, unless of course the ECB is willing to cover virtually every single euro deposited in Greek banks, which at this pace should take place in a few short weeks."

It's impressive that nothing has happened despite this.

Politics

Lobbyists have spent $126 million since 2006 to control education reforms in New York. Reforms are a sham because they're always purchased by the highest bidder, like everything else in politics.

Hillary Clinton's creepy, personal police state.

Tax and Spend

One of the worst aspects of the welfare state is it encourages risky behavior. I want to know how much this woman who ended her ridiculous attempt to row across the Pacific as soon as she heard the weather was going to get bad has to pay for her rescue. She should have to pay the shipping company and the Coast Guard.

Establishment Republicans want to pass small business tax increase to get TPP passed.

Police State

Government drives man to murderous madness, and he attacks a police station. More blowback.

Immigrant groups waging street war in Fargo, N.D.

ICE releases convicted rapists, child molesters and kidnappers.

Health Care

Trade your lawn for a forest food garden.

One South Korean hospital is the source of at least half of the MERS cases in recent outbreak.

Environment

NOAA may have gone rogue by manipulating data beyond other data sets in a desperate attempt to pretend the pause doesn't exist, but the pause is still visible NOAA's semi-secret, highly accurate, other data set.

Foreign Policy

Claim Russia and China have broken Snowden's encryption, forcing MI6 to recall deep intelligence assets. I'm skeptical. As paranoid as Snowden was, it's unlikely he would have used anything other than the best encryption available, and nobody should have broken it by now. Unless they pressured Snowden to give them the key.More skepticism.

"Privacy campaigners questioned the timing of the report, coming days after a 373-page report by the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC, which was commissioned by David Cameron. Anderson was highly critical of the existing system of oversight of the surveillance agencies and set out a series of recommendations for reform.
A new surveillance bill, scheduled for the autumn, is expected to be the subject of fierce debate."

And a political motive for the claim. This is evidence for a hoax.

Misc

Philae lander wakes up, calls home.

An alternative view of the Magna Carta.

Media

Reporters are welcomed to the G7 conference, but harassed at Bilderberg meeting.

Misc

ESA has narrowed down the location of Philae lander on comet 67P

Local

Dayton is superficially copying Pittsburgh's central plan, but not really. While charging 3 percent for residents, Pittsburgh only charges 1 percent tax rate for workers who commute, which attracts workers to the city, compared to Dayton's 2.25 percent rate, and Pennsylvania has a flat 3.07 percent tax rate compared to Ohio's progressive, higher rates. Pittsburgh is also twice as big as Dayton. The metro area is three times bigger. According to Business Insider, Dayton is one of the 20 cities that completely missed the recovery as of 2010. Because of the structural difference in taxes, twice the population in Pittsburgh creates nearly four times the wealth created in Dayton. Pittsburgh ranks 23 in Gross Metropolitan Product with 123,577 million while Dayton ranks 70 with $33,858 million.

Police State

Obama requests more bulk surveillance while pretending to be against it.

Health Care

Chickenpox vaccine makes shingles more likely.

War

Determined to start a hot war with Russia, the Pentagon plans to put heavy weapons on Russia's border.

17 Afghan police killed in attack.

Congress cuts CIA's budget for training ISIS in Syria.

Freedom of Speech

France demands Google censor search results globally, not just in EU.

Politics

Apple CEA Cook is more worried about diversity than products and profits, and it shows.

The hypocritical left.

"Don’t you understand, you morons? A white woman identifying as black is retrograde, fraudulent, and pure evil. A man identifying as a woman is heroic, thrilling, progressive, and enticing. Got it? Or do we need to send you to a regime reeducation camp?"

Funny.

Socialism

More water restrictions in California.

US passport and visa system down because of technical problems, or maybe they're closing the borders.

Foreign Policy

Germany drops probe into NSA spying on Merkel.

Local

Absurd, federally-funded welding.

"These expanded training options for in-demand occupations are funded by grant awards attributed to the Cincinnati-Dayton region’s year-old designation as a nationally recognized manufacturing community."

If they're truly in demand, why does government have to steal money to fund them?

Misc

Scientists fantasize Rosetta discovered lost lander Philae on comet 67P. Ooo, it's shiny.

Environment

Mark Steyn kills the global warming frauds by quoting them.

Politics

Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted down Obama's TPP trade tyranny supported by the Republican establishment. More.

War

European NATO members are smart enough to reject war with Russia, probably because they're the ones who ill get bombed first.

Police State

As I predicted, TSA's failure on all count is being used to steal more money.

Tax and Spend

IMF withdraws from Greek debt negotiations. Both sides are playing hardball, but markets haven't reacted.

Misc

Scientists identify magnetism as the source of energy for the sun's super-hot corona, but they get the basics wrong.

"'Everyone knows that the energy is coming from below, and we know it's a lot of energy,' says study leader Tahar Amari from Ecole Polytechnique told Smithsonian."

Wrong.

Health Care

Egg shells heal cavities because they have all the right ingredients.

Consumers are demanding more healthy food and less processed food.

"Big Food lost $4 billion in sales last year alone due to their inability to answer market demand for non-GM, organic food that doesn’t contain high fructose corn syrup, gluten, antibiotics, growth hormones, MSG, and other toxic additives. Meanwhile, organic food is absolutely exploding."

This is great news.

The risk of dying from terrorism is tiny.

"As We Show In This Updated list, You’re Much More Likely to Be Killed By Brain-Eating Parasites, Toddlers, Lightning, Falling Out of Bed, Alcoholism, Food Poisoning, Choking On Your Meal, a Financial Crash, Obesity, Medical Errors or “Autoerotic Asphyxiation” than by Terrorists"

Great list. Toddlers versus terrorists in the year of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Socialism

Hackers got more data on federal employees than Obama has told us.

"Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, charging that the cyberattack on U.S. employee data is far worse than the Obama administration has acknowledged."

Never tell the truth.

The federal personnel hack went undetected for over a year.

Jerry Brown plans to recycle urine for others to drink. He won't drink it.

Drought shaming will be more effective than anything government has done to limit water use.

Politics

Paul Ryan pulls a Nancy Pelosi in support of Obama's TPP.

"Rep. Paul “Randian” Ryan (R-WI) informs us that Congress must first pass the Obamatrade deals so that afterward we can learn what’s in them. While we are forbidden from seeing the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, some 500 corporate “policy advisors” have had more access than even Congress has had. "

What more do you need to know?

Obama lobbies Nancy Pelosi for TPP plus welfare package. We're supposed to believe the outcome is in doubt, but a procedural TPP vote passed.

George Will endorses TPP so those pesky Congressmen can't add amendments to it.

The trans-gender issue puts single-sex schools in jeopardy.

It's a bad sign that Putin is praising Stalin.