|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Unanimous SCOTUS rules against Obama, for religious liberty
The Supreme Court's unanimous decision to send the Little Sisters of the Poor case back to the courts below is a big victory for the Little Sisters and a big defeat for the Obama administration. An evenly split court could have left in place the Court of Appeals decision, in which case the government would have won and the Little Sisters lost. The court unanimously agreed that the government's plan to force the Catholic religious organization to pay for contraceptives was not sufficiently accommodating under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and remanded the case to the Appeals Court, recommending a course of action that the group has said it can abide by.
|
|
|
 |
Trump hires Bob Dole's pollster
After months of running on instinct, Donald Trump has finally hired a professional pollster who's been around the block a few times. Tony Fabrizio is a veteran Republican pollster who has worked for dozens and dozens of representatives, senators and presidential candidates, as well as corporate clients including Hewlett-Packard, FedEx and Pfizer. He last worked for GOP primary hopeful Rick Perry in 2012.
|
|
 |
 |  |
  |
|
 |
Why John Kasich isn't ready to back Trump
Ohio governor John Kasich said Monday that he is not ready to back Donald Trump, and would not fit into Trump's campaign because he has tried to appeal to voters as a "uniter," which would clash with Trump's focus. He did, however, admit his interest in helping congressional candidates win re-election this November. Kasich told CNN's Anderson Cooper he had reached out to GOP leaders over the weekend, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, to say he was willing to get out on the campaign trail with senators who need a boost.
|
|
|
|
 |
Frank J. Fleming, blogger and humorist. 
@IMAO_
The Hillary vs Trump spectacle will achieve something lasting and useful if it reduces our reverence toward the office of the president.
Get the news in real-time, follow us on Twitter.
|
|
|
|
|
 |
White House says Rhodes won't testify on Iran deal spin
The White House told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Monday that Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes won't be testifying on Tuesday about his controversial comments on the Iran deal. In a letter to Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, Neil Eggleston, counsel to President Obama, said it would raise "constitutional concerns" if Rhodes were to testify. "Specifically, the appearance of a senior presidential adviser before Congress threatens the independence and autonomy of the president, as well as his ability to receive candid advice and counsel in the discharge of his constitutional duties," he wrote. Rhodes had boasted as part of a New York Times profile of himself about how easily he had manipulated reporters' and think-tankers' views of the nuclear deal with Iran.
|
|
|
|
| If you have a tip or think there is something more we should be writing about, let us know here. |
|
|
 |
Report: Trump to meet Kissinger
Donald Trump will reportedly meet with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in New York City on Wednesday, according to a report Monday evening that cited three unnamed sources close to Trump. The move seems intended to boost perception of the businessman's foreign policy proficiency. The report says the presumptive GOP presidential nominee had already been talking over the phone with the 92-year-old Kissinger for weeks.
|
|
|
|
| Happy Prime Day! Today is 5/17, one of 53 days of 2016 whose month and date are both represented by prime numbers. There will be a total of 11 such days this month, but only nine in February (2 is a prime number). In non-leap years, there are only 52 such days. |
|
|
Gay pastor admits cake slur was a hoax
Jordan Brown, founder of the Church of Open Doors in Austin, Texas, issued a public apology for falsely claiming in a lawsuit that a Whole Foods bakery had mocked him by writing an offensive term for homosexuals on his cake. "I want to apologize to Whole Foods and its team members for questioning the company's commitment to its values, and especially the bakery associate who I understand was put in a terrible position because of my actions," he said. "I apologize to the LGBT community for diverting attention from real issues. I also want to apologize to my partner, my family, my church family, and my attorney." The apology was required for Whole Foods to drop its six-figure countersuit against him.
|
|
|
|
A gay pastor in Austin, Texas who claimed his cake had been decorated by Whole Foods with a slur, and actually sued the grocery chain over the incident, has admitted to staging a hoax. Whole Foods has dropped its counter-suit. Should he face other consequences for filing admittedly false allegations?
Send your responses here and we'll publish the best. |
|
|
 |
Careless foreign tourists force killing of baby bison at Yellowstone
If you see a wildlife critter on the road in Yellowstone National Park, do not put it in your car. That was the message that managers of the park had for tourists on Monday after an unfortunate incident involving a baby bison and two visitors resulted in park officials having to put the animal down.
|
|
|
 |
Obama's planned visit to Hiroshima criticized as hypocritical
President Obama's visit to Hiroshima at the end of the month is stoking critics of his nuclear disarmament record who say the visit will only draw attention to one of the biggest unfulfilled promises of his presidency. Obama will become the first sitting president to visit one of two Japanese cities where President Harry Truman dropped the atomic bomb in 1945 at the end of World War II, which killed nearly 200,000 people, mostly civilians.
|
|
 |
 |  |
| |
|
 |
Sasse shrugs off state GOP resolution condemning opposition to Trump
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., a critic of Donald Trump, shrugged off a resolution passed at Nebraska's state GOP convention reprimanding him for saying that he won't support Trump for president. "I have lots of respect for grassroots activists in the Republican Party in the state who've built a really good state Republican Party," Sasse said Monday evening at an event at the American Enterprise Institute. "Nebraska is a really well-governed place because we have a lot of hard-working people at the local level." But he added that it's "pretty obvious" that voters "wish they had better choices ... [and] a big optimistic conversation about the future of the country."
|
|
| |
|
Obama threatens to veto multiple spending bills
The Obama administration on Monday threatened to veto several major bills, including the House GOP's annual must-pass Defense authorization bill, as well as spending bills for military construction and the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. The White House's Office of Management and Budget threatened to veto the House version of the annual defense authorization bill, arguing that it gambles with funding for the troops by shifting billions from war spending to pay for military readiness.
|
|
|
Greenhouse gases are down - thank fracking
The federal Energy Information Administration announced last week that as of 2015, the power generation industry, the largest contributor to American emissions, has reduced carbon dioxide emissions to 1993 levels - down 21 percent since 2005. Between this reduction, and a smaller reduction in emissions from motor vehicles, the U.S. has cut total emissions by 12 percent below 2005 as of last year, despite 15 percent growth in the economy. Why? It's all because fracking has caused the price of natural gas to plummet.
|
|
|
Activists take fracking fight to feds' homes
Environmental activists are targeting the homes of federal energy officials in a week-long series of protests aimed at a key government agency that they blame for "rubber-stamping" fossil fuel projects that encourage fracking. Activists plan to hold vigils at the homes of all four members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this week to coincide with the commission's public meeting on Thursday. They are expected to demonstrate in force outside FERC headquarters in Washington and likely will attempt to bring the protest into the building, as has been the case in the past.
|
|
|
Girls beat boys on nationwide tech and engineering test
As part of the so-called "Nation's Report Card" body of tests, eighth grade girls beat their male peers on a technology and engineering literacy test. The test covers three content areas. Girls and boys were virtually equal in technology and society, as well as design and systems. Girls beat boys by enough on the information and communication technology portion of the test for their average overall scores to come out in favor of girls.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Brak komentarzy:
Prześlij komentarz