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  • KEVIN ROCHE: DEAR COMMISSIONER MALCOLM

    03/26/2020 5:55:50 PM PDT · by mathprof · 2 replies
    Powerline ^ | 3/26/2020 | Scott Johnson
    Effective midnight tomorrow, Minnesota sinks more deeply into the shutdown mode of containment under the executive order promulgated by Governor Tim Walz yesterday. Kevin Roche worked with Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm for several years “a long, long time ago.” He has copied us on his letter to Commissioner Malcolm. As it addresses questions of general interest that we have sought to raise, I am posting it below: It has been a long time since we have talked and while I hope you are doing well, I am sure it has been a very difficult time. I am...
  • 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto

    08/06/2019 12:43:48 PM PDT · by mathprof · 48 replies
    cnet ^ | 8/6/19
    8chan owner Jim Watkins says the alleged shooter didn't post the manifesto to his site. , an anonymous forum, has been under scrutiny since the on Saturday. A hate-filled, anti-immigrant manifesto from the alleged shooter was uploaded to the site prior to the massacre. However, 8chan owner Jim Watkins said Tuesday that the 2,300-word tirade was not posted by the alleged gunman. Watkins posted a on Tuesday, saying the manifesto was first published on Instagram and not on his site. He said the document was then uploaded to his site by another user and that law enforcement had been "made...
  • Hillary will run again

    11/11/2018 4:37:38 PM PST · by mathprof · 66 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | Nov 11, 2018 | Mark Penn and Andrew Stein
    Get ready for Hillary Clinton 4.0. More than 30 years in the making, this new version of Mrs. Clinton, when she runs for president in 2020, will come full circle—back to the universal-health-care-promoting progressive firebrand of 1994. True to her name, Mrs. Clinton will fight this out until the last dog dies. She won’t let a little thing like two stunning defeats stand in the way of her claim to the White House. It’s been quite a journey. In July 1999, Mrs. Clinton began her independent political career on retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s farm in upstate New York. Her...
  • Dennis Prager: ‘My Opposition to Donald Trump Was Wrong,’ He Is a ‘Great President’

    01/27/2018 3:04:43 PM PST · by mathprof · 84 replies
    breitbart ^ | 1/27/2018 | ROBERT KRAYCHIK
    “My opposition to Donald Trump was wrong,” said Dennis Prager, describing Donald Trump as a “great president” whose political successes are connected to a disregard for the left-wing and partisan Democrat news media narratives.
  • Papa John's apologizes for criticizing NFL anthem protests

    11/15/2017 8:40:32 AM PST · by mathprof · 49 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 11/15/17
    Papa John's Pizza apologized Tuesday night for comments made by CEO John Schnatter blaming sluggish pizza sales on NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company is a major NFL sponsor and advertiser, and Schnatter said on an earnings call on Nov. 1 that "NFL leadership has hurt Papa John's shareholders" and that the protests "should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago." The company tweeted a statement offering to "work with the players and league to find a positive way forward."
  • Franken seen as reluctant 2020 candidate

    08/25/2017 4:44:06 PM PDT · by mathprof · 44 replies
    the hill ^ | 8/25/17 | Amie Parnes and Devin Henry
    Political associates of Al Franken say they believe the Minnesota senator could be talked into running for the White House if he believes he's the Democrat best positioned to defeat President Trump. But they say Franken would need to be convinced, and argue that the former "Saturday Night Live" star would be reluctant to enter a battle with dozens of other Democrats in what's increasingly expected to be a wide-open race for party's nomination. "He's not the type of person to crawl over everyone's dead carcasses to get to the White House," said R.T. Rybak, the former mayor of Minneapolis...
  • NUNES: FBI IS NOT COOPERATING WITH OUR INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP CAMP SURVEILLANCE

    03/22/2017 12:53:18 PM PDT · by mathprof · 170 replies
    Grabien News ^ | 3/22/17
    The FBI is thus far not cooperating with the House of Representatives' investigation into the NSA's surveillance of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, the chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said today. Nunes said communications from the Trump team were picked up and disseminated within the government during the 2016 campaign. Nunes told reporters that sources within the intelligence community presented him with the information. He spoke to the press after briefing the White House. "We don’t actually know yet officially what happened to General Flynn," Nunes said of how communications from...
  • Hillary Clinton plots her comeback

    02/01/2017 12:33:47 PM PST · by mathprof · 76 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/1/2017 | Daniel Halper
    Hillary Clinton is testing her worth on the free market by returning to the speaking circuit. Clinton has signed on with the Harry Walker Agency, the Associated Press reported, where she regularly commanded $200,000 or more per speech before her failed campaign for the White House. The AP reported Wednesday that Clinton will also be writing a book featuring a compilation of personal essays, “inspired by the hundreds of quotations she has been collecting for decades.” “These are the words I live by,” Clinton said in a press release from her publisher, Simon & Schuster. “These quotes have helped me...
  • Maybe the dogs don’t like it

    11/10/2016 9:57:38 AM PST · by mathprof · 5 replies
    Cafe Hayek ^ | 1/19/2010 | Russ Roberts
    Once upon a time a pet food company created a new variety of dog food and rolled out a massive marketing campaign to introduce the product. Despite hiring a first-rate advertising agency, initial sales were very disappointing. The agency was fired and a new agency and a new campaign was launched. Sales continued to disappoint. If anything, they fell even further. In desperation, the CEO called in all of the top executives for a brainstorming session to analyze what had gone wrong with the two campaigns and how a new campaign might revive sales. The meeting went on for hours....
  • Trump: 'Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice'

    11/06/2016 5:21:37 PM PST · by mathprof · 24 replies
    CNN ^ | 11/6/2105 | Jeremy Diamond
    Donald Trump urged voters Sunday to "deliver justice at the ballot box" on Election Day, hours after the FBI announced that its review of newly discovered emails did not change its earlier conclusion to not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton. Trump, speaking at a rally here, did not directly refer to FBI Director James Comey's announcement. But his remarks amounted to his first public response to the decision, and the Republican nominee argued that Clinton is "guilty" of federal crimes and said a "rigged" system was protecting Clinton. "Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the...
  • Tim Kaine says Hillary Clinton is the 'underdog'

    11/06/2016 9:56:19 AM PST · by mathprof · 62 replies
    CNN ^ | 11/6/2016 | Eric Bradner
    Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton has more money, a much longer political resume, a better-organized campaign than Donald Trump and a lead in national polls. Yet Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, says she's the underdog.
  • Early voting way up in Md.

    11/05/2016 8:36:00 AM PDT · by mathprof · 13 replies
    Washington post ^ | 11/4/2016 | Bill Turque and Antonio Olivo
    More than 1 in 5 eligible voters in Maryland have already voted in Tuesday’s election, a huge jump from four years ago, according to unofficial figures released after the state’s early voting centers closed.
  • Nate Silver's Very Very Wrong Predictions about Donald Trump are Terrifying

    11/04/2016 2:09:10 PM PDT · by mathprof · 16 replies
    Paleofuture ^ | 11/4/2016 | Matt Novak
    Nobody knows what the future holds. That’s what makes it so interesting—and often terrifying. But it’s become increasingly clear that the person who knows the least about the future is the one that everybody has been turning to for answers about the future of American politics: Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight. Nate Silver emerged as Our National Oracle™ after successfully predicting many of the results in the 2008 election. But as Silver’s satirical counterpart, Carl Diggler, has proven time and again, you may as well just be going with gut instinct based on Silver’s terrible track record since 2008.
  • Where's The Media? A BOMBSHELL Is Being Ignored!

    11/02/2016 12:30:41 PM PDT · by mathprof · 93 replies
    The Market Ticker ^ | 11/1/16 | Karl Denniger
    [snip] This "newly discovered" laptop is very likely to be literal nuclear waste for Hillary and everyone around her, including the Clinton Foundation and all of Hillary's "advisers" such as Podesta. Mark Cuban said that Huma used Outlook and IMAP (for Yahoo and similar.) . [snip] IMAP and Exchange are email protocols. [snip] IMAP is typically used by clients like Thunderbird because it doesn't know to speak Exchange. There's a plug-in for calendars using the davical protocol and another (the SoGo connector) for contacts, but no integrated Exchange support. [snip] Here's the problem for the Clintons: Both of these protocols...
  • After another release of documents, FBI finds itself caught in a partisan fray

    11/01/2016 6:00:57 PM PDT · by mathprof · 49 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 11/1/2016
    The surprise tweet from a little-used FBI account came about 1 p.m. Tuesday, announcing that the agency had published on its website 129 pages of internal documents related to a years-old investigation into former president Bill Clinton’s pardon of a fugitive Democratic donor. The seemingly random reminder of one of the darkest chapters of the Clinton presidency a week before the election drew an immediate rebuke from Hillary Clinton’s campaign — with its spokesman tweeting that the FBI’s move was “odd” and asking whether the agency planned to publish unflattering records about Republican candidate Donald Trump. “Will FBI be posting...
  • FBI Unexpectedly Releases Documents Related To 2001 Probe Into Clinton Foundation

    11/01/2016 11:41:01 AM PDT · by mathprof · 27 replies
    zerohedge ^ | 11/1/16 | Tyler Durden
    Update: According to NBC's Tom Winter, the FBI Vault twitter account "released all files pertaining to Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, a few weeks ago. That was response to FOIA" and adds that "the release of WJC FBI files was sent by the FOIA office under normal guidelines. A proper requested was made -Pete Williams rpts.... The account, @FBIRecordsVault started tweeting several days ago after not tweeting for a year. The first tweet.... about Fred Trump's files." And now, it is tweeting about the Clinton Foundation. And then, the following choice piece: "the young federal prosecutor who ultimately decided not...
  • State breaks early voting record; expert says Trump factor is the reason

    11/01/2016 8:15:32 AM PDT · by mathprof · 40 replies
    ABC2News.com ^ | 10/31/2016 | Skyler Henry
    PERRY HALL, Md. - Maryland broke a record for the number of people who voted early in a general election. This comes as thousands of people continue to pour into polling places across the state. One political science professor said he thinks he has an idea as to why. At about noon on Monday, the state board of elections says they broke the record when 430,574 voted early. "Hillary Clinton is not the force that's driving this right now. It's about the unknown," Tony Campbell, a political science professor at Towson University, said. He calls it a gut feeling. "I...
  • Voting patterns in Maryland 2012 vs 2016

    10/31/2016 6:45:30 PM PDT · by mathprof · 25 replies
    Baltimore Sun ^ | 10/31/2016
    Maryland elections officials expect record turnout during early voting this year, which runs from Thursday, Oct. 27 to Thursday, Nov. 3 at select polling locations. Here's a look at how daily early voting stacks up against the 2012 general election, the first time early voting was used in Maryland during a presidential contest.
  • DID DOJ AND FBI BLOW OFF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS?

    10/31/2016 5:46:41 PM PDT · by mathprof · 62 replies
    powerlineblog.com ^ | 10/31/16 | JOHN HINDERAKER
    On Saturday, four Democratic Senators sent a letter addressed jointly to Loretta Lynch and James Comey, on the newly-discovered Hillary Clinton emails. They recited Democratic Party talking points and demanded fast action from the agencies. I haven’t seen the actual letter, but this description seems quite complete: [snip] It is interesting that DOJ and the FBI presented a united front, and that the letter came from DOJ. It doesn’t respond to the Senators’ various demands, doesn’t comment on their talking points, and makes no promise as to when review of the new emails will be completed. Could it possibly be...
  • Huma lies low as Hillary's attack dogs turn on Comey: Clinton's aide nowhere to be seen

    10/29/2016 12:37:42 PM PDT · by mathprof · 84 replies
    Dailymail UK ^ | 10/29/16
    Hillary Clinton emerged on Saturday boarding her campaign plane noticeably without her top aide Huma Abedin as her campaign cranked up its war against FBI Director James Comey. Abedin, who is constantly at Clinton's side as she jets around the country in pursuit of the presidency, remained home in New York, as her husband's online sexting habit upended her longtime boss's presidential campaign. Without her longtime aide at her side, Clinton walked down her campaign's jetway alone, then took time to greet a small group of supporters who waited on a private airport tarmac to greet her.