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29 Sep

Jim Jordan: Spending Bill that Funds Planned Parenthood and Not a Wall ‘Unacceptable’

It is less than one week until the September 30 deadline to fund the federal government. While many lawmakers think the bill passed by the Senate will fly in the House, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is not one of them. “This bill funds things we said we wouldn’t, like Planned Parenthood, but doesn’t fund things we said we would, like the border security wall,” Jordan said in an Associated Press (AP) report. “That’s unacceptable.” “Republicans need to actually do what we [...]

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28 Sep

Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users

Facebook, already facing scrutiny over how it handles the private information of its users, said on Friday that an attack on its computer network had exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million users. The breach, which was discovered this week, was the largest in the company’s 14-year history. The attackers exploited a feature in Facebook’s code to gain access to user accounts and potentially take control of them. The news could not have come at a worse time for Facebook. [...]

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25 Sep

U.S. powerless to fight drone attacks, top official says

The Department of Homeland Security is pressing Congress for more powers to stop malicious drones that could threaten the United States. Intelligence officials are increasingly concerned about the use of drones by terrorists and drug cartels. CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues got rare access to some drones in action at a Customs and Border Protection facility in Tucson, Arizona. CBP officers fly drones along the Mexican border looking for people attempting to cross illegally, but also for something else: drones [...]

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25 Sep

Donald Trump to U.N.: OPEC ‘Ripping Off the Rest of the World’

President Donald Trump proclaimed as he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday that he does not like that “OPEC and OPEC nations are, as usual, ripping off the rest of the world.” The U.S. president commended Poland and warned Germany about energy dependence on Russia that “can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation.” He added that the U.S. has become the largest energy producer in the world and that OPEC nations will [...]

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09 Jun

Why Weaker Yuan Risks Making Trade War a Currency War

China’s management of its currency, the yuan, is under fresh scrutiny after a record eight-week drop in the exchange rate made it a focus in the U.S.-China trade war. The yuan has tumbled more than 6 percent against the U.S. dollar since mid-June, just as the two sides ratcheted up tariffs and threats of more to come. That’s the most significant slide since 2015, when a surprise devaluation roiled markets. Chinese officials say they favor a stable currency, and [...]

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29 Mar

Is Imported Food Safe?

If you think more people are becoming sick eating food than in the 80’s or 90’s you would be correct. America’s food has become not only less safe but we are increasingly becoming dependent upon other nations to feed us. Since the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2005 that requires all gasoline in America to contain a percentage of plant based ethanol; imports of food from other countries has skyrocketed. Along with these imports have come a tremendous [...]

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08 Feb

Illegal Immigrants and Crime

Over at Reason, Alex Nowrasteh has taken issue with a Corner post in which I used SCAAP reimbursement figures (a program which reimburses states and localities for some of the cost of incarcerating illegal aliens and suspected illegal aliens) to do some calculations about illegal aliens’ involvement in crime. Before I address his objections, a few points: ‐ Illegal-immigrant crime calculations conveniently and invariably steal a base by leaving out the millions of crimes committed by illegal immigrants related to [...]

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