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M.N.: And here is mine: 
All of America IS NOT arrayed against black people. And all the black people ARE NOT arrayed against America. The overwhelming majorities are not. 
Mr. Obama, many observers of this conflict blame you directly for this unprecedented, senseless, tragic, self-destructive and very dangerous war on police and possibly other law enforcement officers, which they think you are using for your own political purposes: to "divide and conquer". And which, I think, is inspired, instigated and provoked by America's enemies with the aim of starting the racial and anti Law and Order war in America and to destroy the country from within. 
Prove that you are not to blame and use your "bully pulpit" to calm the passions; disarm and isolate the hostile radical elements and stop this criminal war. This is the real "climate change" issue. 
I think that American people, of all racial and ethnic groups expect this from you. Inaction and "Olympian laissez-faire" attitude might exacerbate the situation further. This is not the issue of "police brutality" which can be dealt with by appointing a committee and issuing the guidelines. This is one of the most pressing National Security issues. 
"President Barack Obama expressed condolences Monday to Kathleen Goforth, the widow of Darren Goforth, the Texas deputy sheriff who was fatally shot on Friday. The president promised in a telephone call to continue to highlight “the uncommon bravery that police officers show in our communities every single day.”
“Targeting police officers is completely unacceptable -- an affront to civilized society,” Obama said in a statement. “As I said in my State of the Union address, we've got to be able to put ourselves in the shoes of the wife who won't rest until the police officer she married walks through the door at the end of his shift.  That comfort has been taken from Mrs. Goforth.  So we must offer her our comfort -- and continue to stand up for the safety of police officers wherever they serve.” 
Goforth was gunned down Friday evening in Houston while gassing up his cruiser. He was shot 15 times, and investigators have said they do not know what motivated the gunman, who was found incompetent to stand trial Monday. The suspect, Shannon J. Miles, has been charged with capital murder. 
"Our assumption is he was a target because he wore a uniform,” said Sheriff Ron Hickman, NBC Newsreported. "

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    • President “Started This War on Police”
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:29 PM

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    Reacting to the recent killing of a Texas deputy, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (shown on right) named high-profile accessories in the murder: Barack Obama and ex-attorney general Eric Holder.
    The comments were made Saturday to Judge Jeanine Pirro, who’d noted that “without leadership” nothing would change the current climate of hostility toward law enforcement. This is when Sheriff Clarke responded, “And that’s why I said that the president of the United States started this war on police.”
    Telling Pirro that he was “too p***** off to be diplomatic,” Clarke was understandably angry about the fatal shooting of Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth. The uniformed officer, a 10-year veteran of the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, was ambushed Friday while pumping gas into his police cruiser at a Chevron station on the outskirts of Houston. The killer, a 30-year-old with a long criminal record named Shannon Miles, shot the deputy in the head from behind, then straddled his body and fired three more shots into his back.
    The attack is widely presumed to have been instigated by anti-police sentiment stoked by the bigoted Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. In fact, just hours after the shooting BLM held a march to the gates of the Minnesota State Fair during which protesters chanted, “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” Saint Paul Police Federation President Dave Titus called the chant “ignorant” and “disgusting.”
    These anti-police feelings — along with anti-white feelings — are widespread. As the Telegraph reports, just days before Goforth’s murder, “a caller to an internet radio show based in Texas had called for the ‘lynching’ of white people, and the killing of police officers, to ‘turn the tide’.” And, not surprisingly, Friday's crime appears to have a racial component: Miles is black while Goforth was white.
    Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman also made note of this factor, saying after his deputy’s murder, "I think that's something that we have to keep an eye on. The general climate of that kind of rhetoric can be influential on people to do things like this.… As far as we know Deputy Goforth had no previous contact with the suspect, and it appears at the outset to be clearly unprovoked."
    But none minced as few words as Sheriff Clarke, who rightly took issue with the labeling of BLM and its fellow travelers as “activists.” As he also said to Pirro, “I’m tired of hearing people call these [individuals] black activists; they’re not activists; this is black slime, and it needs to be eradicated from American society and American culture.… This whole movement, Black Lives, I’ve renamed it 'l-i-e-s' because it’s based on a lie, the 'Hands up, don’t shoot.' That’s why I said this slime needs to be eradicated.”
    The lie Clarke referenced was, of course, the now-discredited notion that criminal Mike Brown had his hands up when he was shot last year by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson. Even Eric Holder’s Department of Justice (DOJ) had to reluctantly admit as much, clearing Wilson in March of charges relating to the incident. Despite this, “protesters” still saw fit to demonstrate in Ferguson on August 9 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the shooting, a demonstration that, like the “protests” last year, turned violent.
    In light of this, many could wonder, does the truth matter at all? The DOJ — a bureaucracy that itself had continually stoked the fires of racial unrest in Ferguson — ceded that “Hands up, don’t shoot” was a lie, yet this doesn’t matter to the so-called activists. Only the narrative does, as the “protests” continue like a perpetual-motion machine of irrationality. Of course, some now claim that “Hands up” is a metaphor for the supposedly widespread problem of the targeting and killing of blacks by police.
    Yet the idea that this is a reality is a lie itself. As black pundit Larry Elder pointed out last year, “In 2012, according to the CDC, 140 blacks were killed by police. That same year 386 whites were killed by police. Over the 13-year period from 1999 to 2011, the CDC reports that 2,151 whites were killed by cops — and 1,130 blacks were killed by cops.” Furthermore, Elder reports that “in the last several decades the numbers of blacks killed by cops are down nearly 75 percent.”
    Of course, this isn’t surprising given that whites outnumber blacks in America five to one. So what do studies and deeper statistics tell us? Contrary to popular belief and as I reported in May:
    • As this recent Washington State University study shows, police are actually more willing to shoot white than black suspects. Why? Because police know that, as Ferguson officer Darren Wilson’s experience illustrates, shooting a black criminal can mean media crucifixion, career destruction, death threats, and, basically, the end of your life as you know it.
    • Relative to whites, blacks are shot by police at a lower rate than their involvement in crime would suggest. As sociologist and ex-cop Professor Peter Moskos writes, "Adjusted for the homicide rate, whites are 1.7 times more likely than blacks [to] die at the hands of police. Adjusted for the racial disparity at which police are feloniously killed, whites are 1.3 times more likely than blacks to die at the hands of police.”
    • According to FBI statistics, 46 percent of those who’ve murdered police officers during the last decade have been black.
    It is protesting in the face of such facts — and the spreading of the lie contravening them — that has inspired Sheriff Clarke to condemn BLM as “slime” and implicate figures such as Obama and Holder in the murder of police officers. And Clarke isn’t alone in speaking this harsh truth. Late last year ex-FBI Special Agent K. Dee McCown, currently director of Global Security and Loss Prevention at W.W. Grainger, Inc., penned a scathing letter to Eric Holder in which he called the then-attorney general a “hypocrite” and a “coward.” He wrote that Holder shares “in the blame for much of the violence and protests we are now witnessing against law enforcement officers” and has sacrificed his “integrity on the altar of political expediency.” McCown further wrote, “Rather than be a man of moral courage you [Holder] chose instead to cower, further inflame racial tensions, advance false narratives and play progressive political activist.… You, President Obama and Al Sharpton own this problem [of attacks on police] lock, stock and barrel and now it is your legacy.”
    And so it is. Barack Obama has rarely missed a chance to inflame racial tensions. After the 2012 Trayvon Martin self-defense shooting, he remarked, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” After the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police arrested a black college professor, Obama weighed in and, before getting all the facts, said they’d “acted stupidly.” He also secretly met with Ferguson activists, including rabble-rousing race hustler Al Sharpton. Moreover, his former attorney general, Holder, and other DOJ officials actually traveled to Ferguson, an involvement that apparently just stirred the pot of racial discontent. In fact, even after exonerating Officer Wilson, the Obama/Holder DOJ insisted on obfuscating the matter by issuing a report accusing the Ferguson Police Department of “institutional racism.”
    Unfortunately, with the real institutional racism coming from Washington, critics such as Sheriff David Clarke might say that accusing Obama of having “acted stupidly” is the kindest thing you could say about him.
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    Revenge Motive Suspected in Houston Police Officer's Murder
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:29 PM

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    Revenge Motive Suspected in Houston Police Officer's Murder

    Written by  Bob Adelmann
    Following his investigation of a routine automobile accident Friday night, Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth (shown) pulled his police cruiser into a Chevron station on the outskirts of Houston, Texas, and began filling it up. Shannon Miles, a black man with a long criminal record, approached Goforth from behind and shot him in the head. Goforth pitched forward onto the pavement and Miles straddled his body, pumping three more bullets into his back.
    Goforth died at the scene. Miles was tracked down by authorities and arrested and charged with capital murder early Saturday morning.
    Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman called it an ambush. When asked about a possible motive, Hickman said only that investigators would be looking at whether Miles was motivated by anger over recent killings elsewhere of black men by police that spawned the violently racist Black Lives Matter group:
    I think that’s something that we have to keep an eye on. The general climate of that kind of rhetoric can be influential on people to do things like this. We’re still searching to find out if that’s actually a motive…
    This rhetoric has gotten out of control. We’re heard that black lives matter. All lives matter. Well, cops’ lives matter too. So why don’t we just drop the qualifier and just say: lives matter.
    Just what kind of rhetoric would that be? The kind of vile filth pouring from the mouths of the three Marxist revolutionaries who founded Black Lives Matter following the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Florida in 2013. The group accuses America of teeming with “virulent anti-Black racism [that] permeates our society” and maintains that the country’s “corrupt democracy” was “built on indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color.”
    The group claims that “structural oppression” routinely “de-humanizes” blacks and “deprives [them] of their basic human rights and dignity.” Further, BLM insists that such rampant racism results in “extrajudicial killings [of blacks] by police and vigilantes” and consequently, black Americans are “collectively” subjected to “inhumane conditions” in a “white supremacist system.”
    Little mention was made by the national media covering the murder of Goforth of the obvious parallels to the revenge murders of two New York City police officers last December while they sat in their cruiser. At the time investigators were tracking the motives behind Ismaalyl Brinsley’s broad-daylight murders of officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. Said NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton: “No warning, no provocation — they were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniforms” — just like Goforth. 
    Before committing these atrocities, however, Brinsley made very clear exactly what his intentions and motives were by writing on his Instagram page:
    I’m putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours … let’s take 2 of theirs.
    This may be my final post.
    Brinsley murdered the two officers almost exactly three weeks after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict a police officer for the chokehold that contributed to the death of Eric Garner. Brinsley, like Miles, had a criminal record dating back years: for carrying a concealed weapon, for shoplifting, for criminal trespass, for criminal property damage, and for illegally discharging a firearm.
    Twenty-three officers have been killed nationwide since the first of the year, but 10 were killed in the month of May — the month after the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore.
    As noted earlier, the link between Black Lives Matter and the murder of Darren Goforth by the criminal Shannon Miles remains, at this writing, tenuous. But the unprovoked attack by a black man with a long criminal record on an unsuspecting white police officer merely because he was wearing a uniform is in line with BLM’s mantra of hate and revolutionary extremism.
    In July, BLM activists disrupted a Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix, Arizona, at which Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was attempting to speak, by chanting the following (excerpts):
    If I die in police custody, avenge my death! By any means necessary!
    If I die in police custody, make sure I’m the last person to die in police custody. By any means necessary!

    A graduate of an Ivy League school and a former investment advisor, Bob is a regular contributor toThe New American magazine and blogs frequently at <a href="http://www.LightFromTheRight.com" rel="nofollow">www.LightFromTheRight.com</a>, primarily on economics and politics. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">badelmann@thenewamerican.com.
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    Armed Black Panthers to Texas Cops: ‘We Will Start Creeping Up on You in the Darkness’
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:27 PM

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    Armed Black Panthers to Texas Cops: ‘We Will Start Creeping Up on You in the Darkness’

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    by Bob Price and Lana Shadwick31 Aug 201532,435

    HOUSTON, Texas – Armed Black Panther members marched in front of the Waller County jail and shouted, “You’re gonna stop doing what you’re doing, or we will start creeping up on you in the darkness.”

    The statement was made just two weeks prior to the assassination of a Harris County deputy sheriff.
    Shannon Miles, a black male, allegedly came “creeping up” behind Harris County Deputy Darren Goforth in the darkness on the night of August 28. While Goforth stood at a convenience store pumping gas into his patrol vehicle, Miles allegedly raised a pistol and shot him dead.
    The comments, made by a leader of the Houston-based chapter of the New Black Panther Party, were captured on a short video clip (below) from the scene by the Houston Chronicle. The writers from the Chronicle made no mention of the threat in their article published that same day.
    Not part of a chant, the march leader, wearing the rank of colonel, shouted directly to Harris County mounted deputies through a megaphone. “You think we’re not pissed off a bunch about y’all killing our sisters? You think it’s okay? [We’re] the wrong n***ers to mess with. You’re gonna stop doing what you’re doing, or we will start creeping up on you in the darkness.”
    The rally, also covered by Breitbart Texas, took place at the Waller County Jail where inmate Sandra Bland took her own life by hanging herself with a trash bag after her arrest following a traffic stop in the town of Prairie View. She was accused of an illegal lane change and assaulting a police officer. After being left in jail by her family for three days, Bland hung herself.
    In the video below, Breitbart Texas recorded several other violent statements towards police. “The revolution is on… Off the pigs,” and “Oink Oink… Bang Bang!,” was the message leveled by the heavily armed Black Panthers directly at Harris County deputies who had been asked by the Waller County Sheriff to come out to help keep the peace.
    Two weeks later, a black man, Shannon Miles, allegedly walked up behind Deputy Goforth and shot him in the head and back fifteen times, according to a Breitbart Texas report on Miles’ first court appearance.
    The Waller County jail is located just over 30 miles from the Chevron station where Goforth was executed. The alleged killer, Shannon Miles, also attended the same university as Sandra Bland. It is possible that her arrest and subsequent suicide could have played a role in Miles’ possible motivation.
    Lana Shadwick is a contributing writer and legal analyst for Breitbart Texas. She has served as a prosecutor and an associate judge. Follow her on Twitter @LanaShadwick2.
    Bob Price is a senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas and a member of the original Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.
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    NY Times' Charles Blow: ‘All of America Is Arrayed Against Black People’
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:26 PM

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    Monday on CNN’s “AC360,” New York Times columnist and CNN regular Charles Blow was asked to react to the argument the Black Lives Matter movement and misses a point that all lives matter and shouldn’t be used as a rallying cry.
    According to Blow, it’s a “great concept” but ignores the different treatments of people along racial lines.
    “In general, that is a great concept,” Blow replied. “And I wish that all of America believed that all lives matter. However, what we see is disparate treatments of different segments of the population, particularly along racial lines in America, which looks like devaluation of specific segments of the population, specifically black people. And I think that until America says, in its core, that all lives matter, it is appropriate, and in fact necessary to point out the lives that America seems to value less.”
    Blow went on to argue that since the government in charge in America is a reflection of the people, America is against black people because certain elements of the government don’t treat blacks equally in his view.
    “I am adamant that there is this conversation always hinging around police and people of color is too narrow, that the police are simply the tip of the spear and not the spear itself, that you have to look at the entire system, you know, the state as an actor. And the state becomes us. The state becomes America. And all of America is arrayed against black people. So, you look at the disparate interactions with police, all the way to the criminal justice system, all the way to how people are sentenced — longer sentences, all the way to the death penalty itself and they’re disparate.”
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    Negotiating the Russian relationship - The Washington Post
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:22 PM

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press)
    August 31 at 5:39 PM
    Charles Krauthammer’s Aug. 28 op-ed column, “What 6 years of ‘reset’ have wrought,” was far too kind to the Obama administration’s “misjudgments” and mishandling of the Russian relationship.
    Among the issues Mr. Krauthammer ignored was the lead-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The Obama administration fretted and fussed over whether a Russian law about advocating certain kinds of sexual behavior would create a hostile environment for visiting gay athletes. Russian President Vladimir Putin must have smiled as he listened to this and planned the Crimean takeover, which took place shortly after the Olympics. Are our intelligence services so bad and our diplomats so misinformed that they missed this?
    And then there was Syria. As President Obama was busy drawing lines of various kinds in the sand, who saved him? Mr. Putin brokered the arrangement that purportedly stopped the use of poison gason civilians by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Mr. Obama gratefully accepted his intervention.
    Mr. Obama would be wise to heed Winston Churchill’s admonition in his “Iron Curtain” speech given at Westminster College in March 1946:  “[T]here is nothing [Russians] admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness.”
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    Charles Krauthammer described President Obama’s policies toward Russia as weak and clueless. As evidence, Mr. Krauthammer cited, among other examples, the pending sale of Russian S-300 missiles to Iran, Russia’s 2014 kidnapping of an Estonian security official, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, the Egyptian president’s recent visits to Moscow and the Saudis’ recent invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to travel to Riyadh.
    Russia offered the S-300 missiles to Iran while President George W. Bush, whom Mr. Krauthammer supported, was in office. That offer was rescinded in 2010 under U.S. and allied pressure as part of nuclear sanctions on Iran. Mr. Putin visited Saudi Arabia in 2007, welcomed Hosni Mubarak to Moscow, sent his troops into neighboring Georgia and allegedly ordered the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London, all while Mr. Bush was president.
    Rather than showing Mr. Obama’s policies to be at fault for Russian behavior, Mr. Krauthammer’s examples demonstrated that Russia under Mr. Putin is a dangerous and unreliable actor no matter who is in the White House.
    Jeffrey Goldberg, Rockville
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    Russia’s truncheon - The Washington Post
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:21 PM

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    Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov looks on from a defendants' cage as he attends a court hearing in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, this month. (Stringer/Russia/Reuters)
    By Editorial Board August 30
    WHEN VLADIMIR Putin first became Russian president, a decade and a half ago, he promised to bring about what he called “dictatorship of the law.” It is an awkward phrase, but the meaning was clear: to bring order out of the tumultuous decade of the 1990s, for the law to reign supreme.
    Mr. Putin supervised the rewriting and modernization of many obsolete laws from the Soviet years. But as he turned more authoritarian, the law became just a tool. Mr. Putin followed a long line of predecessors in the Kremlin who have used the police and courts to punish their enemies and stifle dissenting views. Today, this is one of the profound failings of Mr. Putin’s rule — establishing the rule of law is a distant dream.
    The latest example was the sentencing in a Russian military court on Aug. 25 of Oleg Sentsov, a 39-year-old filmmaker, to 20 years in a prison camp after conviction on charges of terrorism in the Crimean Peninsula. Mr. Sentsov was active in protests against Viktor Yanukovych , the Russian-backed president of Ukraine, who abandoned his office in the face of widespread demonstrations last year. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine soon after.
    Mr. Sentsov pleaded not guilty to charges by the Russian prosecutors of creating a radical nationalist group in Crimea and setting fire to the offices of pro-Kremlin organizations. Another Crimea activist, Alexander Kolchenko , an ecologist, was sentenced to 10 years as an accomplice. The trial was marked by irregularities; the main prosecution witness recanted in the courtroom and said his evidence had been extracted under duress. Mr. Sentsov said he had been pressed to confess but refused. “I am not going to beg for leniency,” he declared. “Everything is already clear. A court of occupiers cannot be just, by definition.” After the presiding judge read out the sentence and asked Mr. Sentsov and Mr. Kolchenko if they understood, the two men, standing in a glass defendants’ cage, started singing Ukraine’s national anthem, as many did during the protests against the president last year.
    The harsh sentences were clearly political, aimed at sending a message to anyone who might oppose the seizure of Crimea. This use of the law as a weapon is hardly isolated. It was employed against the musicians in Pussy Riot, a punk rock band that staged a brief protest against Mr. Putin in Moscow’s central cathedral and were sent to jail. Others who challenged Mr. Putin have suffered the same fate. At the same time, Mr. Putin has signed new laws giving the authorities wide latitude to pressure or close down organizations such as those defending human rights or monitoring elections. These are just as pernicious as the prosecution of individuals who cross Mr. Putin.
    They all reflect a sad truth that Russia has not achieved rule of law, but instead is ruled by the arbitrary power of a boss.
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    Healthy skepticism - The Washington Post
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:19 PM

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    A researcher, seen through a window, prepares DNA in a laboratory at the Bioaster Technology Research Institute in Lyon. (Robert Pratta/Reuters)
    By Editorial Board August 29
    A STUDY in the journal Science confirms that not every report published in a top-flight academic journal can be taken as gospel, no matter how much you might want the reported findings to be true. Researchers tried to reproduce the results from 100 studies printed in three major psychology journals and managed to do so in only 39 cases.
    That doesn’t mean that only 39 percent of scientific studies are valid. As The Post’s Joel Achenbachpointed out, there were several limitations on the findings: The reviewers examined only psychology studies; 100 studies is a small sample; researchers exercised some choice in which studies they tried to replicate, which could have skewed the results; and the reviewers themselves might have introduced circumstances that confounded their results somewhere along the line.
    Both the study and the caveats, though, underscore a broad, crucial point for policymakers, the media and the public at large: Healthy skepticism must be nurtured; wishful thinking and its opposite number, cynicism, must be avoided. Just as any one research project’s results shouldn’t be assumed to be valid based on one initial round of peer review, it’s not healthy to conclude that scientific inquiry is hopelessly incapable of shedding light on controversial questions, instead defaulting to party, ideology or theology to illuminate issues on which scientists have serious claims. Good science, soberly assessed, is all the more important in a world in which ideologues and special interests push their own “studies” and “data” to justify their parochial concerns and reject inconvenient evidence with equivalent ferocity.
    Most scientists are working in good faith to describe realities that can be difficult to pin down . Over time, further inquiry tends to sharpen experts’ view of what’s really happening. This should not paralyze government; it should encourage leaders to favor research findings supported by multiple lines of evidence over exciting ones supported by less, highly-scrutinized results over minimally-scrutinized ones .
    Scientists, meanwhile, can help by maintaining a sense of professional modesty and responsibility. Researchers should seek accurate results, not provocative ones. Journals and scientific institutions should cultivate standards that reduce the possibility of confusing the two. Authors should disclose more information about their procedure, and they should offer their raw data up as a matter of habit.
    It would be easy to read through the reviewers’ results and despair that so much chaff may have made it into respected academic journals. Instead, we take the study itself and its generally respectful reception among scientists as evidence that the scientific method is still working. Scientists are still subjecting each other to exacting scrutiny. Concepts such as experimental repeatability continue to be core principles. People continue, slowly and painstakingly, to get ever closer to describing the world as it is, not as politicians, pundits or scientists themselves wish it were. It’s on all of us to listen — carefully.
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    Scientific studies were tarred with too broad a brush
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:19 PM

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    (Peter DaSilva/for The Washington Post)
    August 30
    Scientists’ ability to influence public debate on issues of scientific importance depends upon our reputations, which are derived from the robustness and reproducibility of our results.
    The Aug. 28 news article “A study of studies finds it’s hard to replicate scientific results” reported on a large study of scientific reproducibility (or lack of it) in the psychological sciences but extended this conclusion to science in general, quite unfairly, potentially tarnishing the standing of science.
    I have examined the results of many researchers in the course of my own work in earth sciences, finding very few erroneous results. Organizations such as the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change go to great lengths to ensure the scientific accuracy of the data incorporated into climate models. I suspect that for many of the hard sciences — physics, chemistry, biology, geology and medicine — results are well supported by reproducible observations. In the softer sciences, such as psychology and economics, perhaps the human element or specific samples make it far more difficult to ensure that verifiable and meaningful results are produced.
    To extend the results of the reported study so blithely to science in general without evidence potentially does great harm to otherwise high-quality research necessary for the advancement, improvement and protection of society.
    Derrick Paul Hasterok, Windsor Gardens, Australia
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    It is ironic that the headline for an article about certain scientific studies reaching conclusions that are overly broad, and therefore potentially incorrect, “A study of studies finds it’s hard to replicate scientific results,” is overly broad and, therefore, incorrect. The casual reader is led by this headline to assume that all science is in question when in fact the study examined only a particular class of psychology experiments involving human subjects in controlled situations that, in some cases, were less controlled or controlled in different ways than the researchers may have believed.
    The conclusion is that more care may be needed in this type of behavioral experiment if the results are to be reproducible (which is certainly what all parties involved would hope for). By implying that the conclusion is that “it’s hard to replicate scientific results,” The Post does a disservice to its readership and to science.
    John T. Fourkas, Bethesda
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    Homeland Security’s Peculiar Prosecution of Rentboy
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 12:18 PM

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    The website <a href="http://Rentboy.com" rel="nofollow">Rentboy.com</a> is accused of connecting male sex workers with clients, enabling prostitution, which is unlawful virtually everywhere in the country. It operated fairly transparently, giving annual parties, announcing a scholarship contest for escorts and promoting the motto “Money can’t buy you love … but the rest is negotiable.”
    It’s somewhat baffling, though, that taking down a website that operated in plain sight for nearly two decades suddenly became an investigative priority for the Department of Homeland Security and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. This week, the website’s founder and six employees were chargedwith violating federal law by facilitating paid sexual encounters.
    Kelly Currie, the acting United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, trumpeted the case against Rentboy.com, calling it an “Internet brothel” that “made millions of dollars from the promotion of illegal prostitution.” The website pulled in $10 million over the past five years, charging escorts for publishing their profiles, according to prosecutors. That’s less revenue than an average McDonald’s franchise generates.
    The criminal complaint is so saturated with sexually explicit details, it’s hard not to interpret it as an indictment of gay men as being sexually promiscuous.
    “Based on my investigation,” Susan Ruiz, a Homeland Security special agent, wrote in the complaint, “I have learned that a sling, also known as a ‘sex sling,’ is a device that allows two people to have sex while one is suspended.” Later, she helpfully explained that “the term ‘twink’ is a slang term for a young, gay man with an effeminate manner, thin build, and no body or facial hair.”
    Prosecutors can credibly argue that the site’s operators were breaking the law. But they have provided no reasonable justification for devoting significant resources, particularly from an agency charged with protecting America from terrorists, to shut down a company that provided sex workers with a safer alternative to street walking or relying on pimps. The defendants have not been accused of exploiting sex workers, featuring minors on the website, financial crimes or other serious offenses that would warrant a federal prosecution.
    Amnesty International announced this month that it would be pushing for the decriminalization of consensual sex work worldwide. After a lengthy and at times fraught debate, the organization’s experts concluded that sex workers were less likely to be harmed and exploited in places where the trade is lawful. Several gay and transgender rights organizations, including Lambda Legal and the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, issued a joint statement supporting Amnesty International’s position.
    Gay men in the United States turn to sex work for a variety of reasons. In New York, where homeless shelters for gay and transgender youths have lengthy waiting lists, sex work can mean the difference between sleeping on a bed and sleeping on the street. For others, it is a way to afford a degree.
    The <a href="http://Rentboy.com" rel="nofollow">Rentboy.com</a> bust may spook clients and sex workers for a while, but it would be naïve to think it will do much more. Federal authorities should consider whether continuing to spend time and money turning the website’s operators into felons is worthwhile, while far more serious crimes, including human trafficking and sexual exploitation, go unpunished.
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    Islamic State battles Syrian rebel forces in Damascus
    Tuesday September 1st, 2015 at 11:21 AM

    Opinions Review


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    » Rentboy wasn't my 'brothel'. It was a tool to stay alive in this economy of violence | Anonymous
    01/09/15 11:15 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 10:55 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 10:45 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 09:17 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 09:00 from Breitbart News Network
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    01/09/15 08:35 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
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    01/09/15 07:34 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 07:15 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 06:45 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 06:40 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 05:12 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 05:12 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 04:45 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 03:00 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 01:00 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    01/09/15 00:53 from Breitbart News Network
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    01/09/15 00:00 from NYT > Editorials
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    01/09/15 00:00 from NYT > Editorials
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    » Baylor, Football and the Rape Case of Sam Ukwuachu
    01/09/15 00:00 from NYT > Columnists
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    01/09/15 00:00 from NYT > Contributors
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    31/08/15 23:03 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    31/08/15 22:00 from rss
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    31/08/15 21:44 from The Great Debate
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    31/08/15 21:00 from rss
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    31/08/15 20:55 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    31/08/15 20:43 from Breitbart News Network
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    31/08/15 19:49 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
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    31/08/15 19:44 from WSJ.com: Opinion
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    31/08/15 19:44 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
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    31/08/15 19:39 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
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    31/08/15 19:32 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    31/08/15 19:28 from WSJ.com: Opinion
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    31/08/15 19:27 from WSJ.com: Opinion
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    31/08/15 19:23 from WSJ.com: Opinion
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    31/08/15 19:21 from WSJ.com: Opinion
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    31/08/15 19:17 from Washington Post Editorials: Latest Editorial and Editorial Archive
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    31/08/15 18:50 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
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    31/08/15 15:23 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    31/08/15 13:27 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    » Some of us do judge discriminately and do not love indiscriminately
    31/08/15 12:54 from RenewAmerica columns
    (Sylvia Thompson) - If you are tired of observing Christians hide behind their misuse of Christ's admonition not to "judge" and so-called leaders' directing followers to "love" any and everybody regardless of their behavior, welcome to t...
    » Hasbians in the New Eden
    31/08/15 12:52 from RenewAmerica columns
    (Frank Maguire) - (Originally published in The Liberty Tree, August 2005) It was a relief to see Bryan Fischer's validation of the pansexuality that calls itself homo. This deception is strategy of Lucifer and in this era of amorality an...
    » Holocaust Democrats and the Night of the Long Knives
    31/08/15 12:49 from RenewAmerica columns
    (Ellis Washington) - Every single one of us shuddered [during the Night of the Long Knives]; nevertheless each of us understood clearly that he would do it the next time if it were ordered and if it were necessary. I mean here the evacua...
    » Cohen: Remembering Marvin Mandel, a towering figure in Maryland politics
    31/08/15 12:47 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    Although he certainly did not look the part, Marvin Mandel thought of himself as a latter-day Duke of Windsor. Just as the duke abdicated the British throne to marry “the woman I love,” so did Mandel lose the Maryland governorship and ev...
    » Biased media vs. behavioral standards
    31/08/15 12:46 from RenewAmerica columns
    (Lloyd Marcus) - I love her because she is a little over a hundred pounds, 5'2" gutsy fired ball. However, every time we fly, I pray she makes it through TSA without losing her cool. My wife Mary despises the gross infringement upon her ...
    » I am neither Mr, Mrs or Ms but Mx | Jacob Tobia
    31/08/15 12:45 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The Oxford English Dictionary finally added the gender-neutral title into their lexicon. For genderqueer people the decision couldn’t have come soon enough For the better part of two minutes, I stared down at the form in front of me. I w...
    » Dialing for babies
    31/08/15 12:44 from RenewAmerica columns
    (Bryan Fischer) - Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at "Focal Point" Host of "Focal Point" on AFR Talk, 1-3pm CT, M-F Don't let them lie to you. The Republican leadership in the United States Senate can defund Planned Par...
    » Why the Supreme Court is not supreme
    31/08/15 12:43 from RenewAmerica columns
    (J. Matt Barber) - "Judicial activism occurs when judges write subjective policy preferences into the law rather than apply the law impartially according to its original meaning." The Heritage Foundation To vocal opponents of judicial ac...
    » Can the male Republican presidential hopefuls go to war FOR a woman (Carly Fiorina) against CNN?
    31/08/15 12:41 from RenewAmerica columns
    (Michael Gaynor) - If all the Republican men won't man up, then Donald J. Trump should gallantly offer his place to Carly Fiorina. As usual, Democrats are promoting the Republican War on Women canard. Hillary Clinton even compared Republ...
    » Denali’s Name Change Upsets a Senator
    31/08/15 12:25 from Taking Note
    Senator Rob Portman called the renaming “another example of the President going around Congress,” but he hasn’t always felt that Congress should concern itself with names.
    » Sheriff Clarke: White House Started ‘Open Season’ on the American
    31/08/15 12:25 from Breitbart News Network
    Sheriff Clarke: White House Started ‘Open Season’ on the American Police Officer On Saturday night’s broadcast of “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” Milwaukee County, WI Sheriff David Clarke reacted to the killing of Harris County, TX deputy ...
    » The promised ‘transparency’ around TTIP has been a sham | Sven Giegold
    31/08/15 12:17 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The most important documents about the TTIP talks are unavailable to us MEPs as well as the public – and it suits big business to keep it that way Are you concerned about the implication of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partners...
    » 2015-08-31Mount McKinley, America's highest mountain, to be restored to original
    31/08/15 12:11 from Mike Nova - Google+
    2015-08-31 Mount McKinley, America's highest mountain, to be restored to original name Denali by Telegraph Staff Monday August 31st, 2015 at 11:41 AM Mount McKinley, America's highest mountain, to be restored to original name Denali   by...
    » Sargent: Dick Cheney is back. Here’s why the GOP won’t listen to him.
    31/08/15 12:06 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    If you have been plagued in recent days by not knowing the answer to the question, “What would Dick Cheney do?”, then your sleepless nights may be behind you. The former vice president is back, with a new book (written with his daughter ...
    » The Middle East Diaspora Descends on Europe
    31/08/15 11:49 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    They are fleeing the war in Syria—and turmoil in Iran, Afghanistan and beyond.
    » Why I swam across the Mediterranean in solidarity with refugees | Nina Hall
    31/08/15 11:42 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Contrary to the cruelty attitudes of today, 70 years ago the world opened its arms when it was Europeans fleeing crisis – and benefited as a result Last Friday, I swam from Turkey to Greece in solidarity with the refugees who are making ...
    » Hiding on the Internet
    31/08/15 11:41 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    Europe wants to impose its ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google search results in the U.S.
    » The Donald vs. The Jed (Clampett)
    31/08/15 11:37 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    A wealthy outsider shakes up the established order—is it the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ paterfamilias or a story ’bout a man named Trump?
    » The GE Headquarters Sweepstakes
    31/08/15 11:36 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    A new report shows which state governments tax business the most.
    » Why I'm Not Looking to Hire Computer-Science Majors
    31/08/15 11:31 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    Finding software developers is hard, especially with colleges doing such a rotten job of teaching them skills.
    » Ohio Legislature Moves to Protect the Disabled Unborn
    31/08/15 11:20 from rss
    Abortion advocates are in an uproar as Ohio lawmakers consider House Bill 135, which would prohibit the abortion of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome. Statistics show that 50 to 80 percent of pregnancies where this disorder is present ...
    » Revenge Motive Suspected in Houston Police Officer's Murder
    31/08/15 11:20 from rss
    Is there a connection between the hateful Black Lives Matter rhetoric and the murder of Office Darren Goforth?
    » The US should mandate gun insurance so the two monoliths fight to the death | David Ferguson
    31/08/15 11:15 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    If you alone are not strong enough to vanquish your opponent, you must find someone who is – and then find a way to set them against each other Related: If we don't change our permissive gun laws, we'll never end gun violence | Congressw...
    » Required gun insurance would put two powerful lobbies at odds. We'd benefit | David Ferguson
    31/08/15 11:15 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    If you alone are not strong enough to vanquish your opponent, you must find someone who is – and then find a way to set them against each other Related: If we don't change our permissive gun laws, we'll never end gun violence | Congressw...
    » We in Alaska see that climate change is real. The time to act is now | Othniel Art Oomittuk
    31/08/15 10:30 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Ahead of his trip to the Arctic, President Obama said ‘alarm bells are ringing’ about climate change. Here in Alaska, sirens have been sounding for decades How can we say no to drilling in the Arctic when we use oil every day? We use it ...
    » With so many Republicans vying for the wingnut vote, it was only a matter of time before one solved immigration
    31/08/15 10:22 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Chris Christie’s plan to track immigrants like FedEx parcels is the kind of magical, once-in-a-lifetime diamond bullet of an idea that makes everyone kick themselves for not having thought of it earlier Given the generally dismal state o...
    » Trump's immigration plan would require every Latino to show their papers, please | Julio Ricard Varela
    31/08/15 10:15 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The Republican candidate’s plan to deport more than 11m undocumented immigrants would put the police spotlight on all of America’s 54m Latinos Related: Donald Trump wants to deport 11 million migrants: is that even possible? Imagine this...
    » Jeremy Corbyn’s first move as leader? Remove the Labour whip | Julian Baggini
    31/08/15 10:07 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The country is crying out for a more open politics, and getting rid of this centuries-old practice could transform Westminster If, as expected, Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership election, he will immediately have a historic opport...
    » Thiessen: Sorry, Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump is no Nazi.
    31/08/15 09:53 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    In his seminal essay “How to argue effectively,” humorist Dave Barry had some advice for what to do “when your opponent is obviously right and you are spectacularly wrong.” The answer, he wrote, is simple: “Compare your opponent to Adolf...
    » There’s only one reason for this badger cull – votes | Patrick Barkham
    31/08/15 09:28 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The latest cull is not honest, scientific or even effective at containing bovine TB. It is simply a political move to appease countryside voters Join me, dear urban dwelling, bunny-hugging Guardian reader, in setting aside your ethical a...
    » North Dakota Authorizes Police to Use Weaponized Drones
    31/08/15 09:02 from rss
    North Dakota becomes the first state to allow police to use weaponized drones.
    » Nicki Minaj has something serious to say about race. We should listen to her | Suzanne Moore
    31/08/15 08:48 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Minaj’s supposed ‘catfights’ – the latest at the VMA awards – are heavily reported. But the media rarely reflects on her astute political points Why is it so hard to listen to Nicki Minaj ? I don’t mean her music – which may or may not b...
    » Chrissie Hynde is a heroine to me, but she is so wrong on victim blaming | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    31/08/15 08:35 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The Pretenders star blames herself for being sexual assaulted by a biker gang when she was 21. How sad that any woman could have this mindset The problem with having heroes is that, one day, they will open their gobs and inevitably say s...
    » George Koo on the limits of American exceptionalism | Asia ...
    31/08/15 08:20 from american exceptionalism - Google Blog Search
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    31/08/15 08:17 from Breitbart News Network
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    » Big Solar's Subsidy Bubble
    31/08/15 08:03 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    Companies cash in on tax credits and ‘net-metering’ schemes.
    » Sins of Solyndra
    31/08/15 08:01 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    After a fraudulent loan deal, the administration keeps pushing solar subsidies. Plus, walking with refugees into Europe and Nick Saban’s bargain salary.
    » Meet the man trying to bring Iraq back from the brink
    31/08/15 06:56 from The Great Debate
    » Serena Williams is the best because of her brains – not just her body | Patrick A Wilson
    31/08/15 06:45 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The massive amount of attention the media places on William’s body at the expense of her mental prowess is troubling Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis player in the world – but not for the reasons that most of the media focus...
    » PostEverything: How it feels when white people shame your culture’s food — then make it trendy
    31/08/15 06:00 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    When I’m craving comfort food, I’ll take my father’s ngau lam over mac and cheese any day. Although it takes the better part of a day to prepare, his Cantonese braised brisket stew always soothes my stomach and my soul.Read full article ...
    » He's staying! No-bias Dyson Heydon slices his reasons deli-thin | Richard Ackland
    31/08/15 05:51 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    To the commissioner’s way of thinking, his invitation to a Liberal party fundraiser was merely a dinner speech on legal matters to a group of lawyers Dyson Heydon’s reasons for rejecting the applications that he disqualify himself as the...
    » Don’t call me a neurotic, I prefer ‘original thinker’ | Fay Schopen
    31/08/15 05:42 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Studies that link anxiety with creativity should be taken with a pinch of salt. But as a card-carrying neurotic, I’ll happily take the rebranding If, like notorious neurotic Woody Allen, you feel that life is divided up into the horrible...
    » There are 21 million in need of humanitarian aid in Yemen – please listen | Mark Kaye
    31/08/15 04:30 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Civil war has brought Yemen to its knees, and the fear is that things are about to escalate. We aid agencies need every bit of help we can get Night after night in Yemen’s beleaguered capital, Sana’a, I hear the continuous clack-clack-cl...
    » Exclusive — ‘Stump for Trump’ Girls: Trump’s ‘Immigration Proposal Is
    31/08/15 04:05 from Breitbart News Network
    Exclusive — ‘Stump for Trump’ Girls: Trump’s ‘Immigration Proposal Is Phenomenal’ Jerome Hudson Texas Podcast that Called for Killing Cops Goes Missing After Deputy’s Execution Comments Sheriff Blasts Black Lives Matter: ‘Rhetoric Has Go...
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    » Steve Bell's If ... on Harriet Harman's Labour voter check
    31/08/15 02:00 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    » Spoiler alert: this article says why Terry Pratchett review didn’t have a warning | Open door | Claire Armitstead
    31/08/15 01:59 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    If we add an alert to one review, what about the others? Readers have different sensitivities; who is to say which details may spoil a book for any one of them? Readers hate spoilers, and one of the sacred duties of the literary editor i...
    » Our schools should be less like Singapore and more like Silicon Valley | Zoe Williams
    31/08/15 00:59 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Pitting teachers against each other and setting unrealistic goals doesn’t work. As the tech giants have shown, the best results come from cooperation, not competition We are on the brink of a crisis in teacher numbers . Apparently it’s h...
    » Walmart Decides to Drop Sale of AR-15 Assault Rifles
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Editorials
    The sale of “modern sporting rifles” is a thinly disguised campaign to put even more military-style weapons in civilian hands.
    » Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive?
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Contributors
    How much you write isn’t a reflection of how well you write.
    » 60 Years Later, Echoes of Emmett Till’s Killing
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Columnists
    A savage beating of a 14-year-old Chicago boy is a sadly familiar story to today’s young black people.
    » When Bad Doctors Happen to Good Patients
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Contributors
    If hospitals and the medical community won’t police incompetent physicians, who will?
    » Times Square: The Naked Truth
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Contributors
    The answer to panhandlers is not more cars, but more culture.
    » Mr. Erdogan’s War Against the Kurds
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Editorials
    Renewed fighting with Kurdish separatists looks suspiciously like a move by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to salvage his political ambitions.
    » On China’s Economy
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Contributors
    Economic fears about China culminated last week in a global market rout.
    » Let Consumers Use Better, Cheaper Cable Boxes
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Editorials
    Connecting a set-top box should be as easy as activating a new cellphone on a wireless network.
    » Turkey’s War of Distraction
    31/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Editorials
    Renewed fighting against the Kurds looks suspiciously like a move by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to salvage his political ambitions.
    » Jorge Ramos: Proposed Law Named After Murdered Kate Steinle ‘So
    30/08/15 23:57 from Breitbart News Network
    Jorge Ramos: Proposed Law Named After Murdered Kate Steinle ‘So Unfair’ to Illegals “I think it is unfair that because one undocumented immigrant killed a wonderful human being that all immigrants are being blamed for that killing. It is...
    » 2015-08-30» Police Taser drones authorized in North Dakota 30/08/15 16:23 from Mike Nova
    30/08/15 23:38 from Mike Nova - Google+
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    » How capitalism turns love into addiction
    30/08/15 22:56 from The Great Debate
    » Newcastle grasps what our federal government cannot – coal is the past
    30/08/15 21:41 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    It may once have been a coal town but Newcastle’s fossil fuel divestment could come to be seen as the turning point toward a low-carbon future The news last week that the Newcastle City Council had voted to divest from fossil fuel stocks...
    » Newcastle grasps what Tony Abbott cannot – coal's time has passed | Bill McKibben
    30/08/15 21:41 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    It may once have been a coal town, but Newcastle’s fossil fuel divestment could come to be seen as the turning point towards a low-carbon future The news last week that the Newcastle city council had voted to divest from fossil fuel stoc...
    » Australia's treatment of asylum seekers was bound to lead to something like Border Force | Richard Flanagan
    30/08/15 21:23 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    As history teaches us, tyranny condoned against some will finally become a tyranny visited on us all. Tony Abbott cannot distance himself from this It was news to me, as I suspect it was to many Australians on Friday, that there had been...
    » Hillary Clinton and Protégé Huma Abedin: Two Peas in a Pod?
    30/08/15 20:45 from rss
    Hillary's protégé Huma Abedin came to work in the White House in 1996 as a junior intern assigned to the first lady. She has been connected with Hillary Clinton — and her political career — ever since. She appears to have been a good stu...
    » ‘Cadillac tax’ portion of Affordable Care Act is the next target
    30/08/15 19:55 from Washington Post Editorials: Latest Editorial and Editorial Archive
    THE AFFORDABLE Care Act served dessert first, offering subsidized health coverage across the country before some of its less popular provisions were scheduled to take effect. But the government soon will start asking the country to eat i...
    » Editorial: ‘Cadillac tax’ portion of Affordable Care Act is the next target
    30/08/15 19:55 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    THE AFFORDABLE Care Act served dessert first, offering subsidized health coverage across the country before some of its less popular provisions were scheduled to take effect. But the government soon will start asking the country to eat i...
    » Texas Podcast that Called for Killing Cops Goes Missing After
    30/08/15 19:55 from Breitbart News Network
    Texas Podcast that Called for Killing Cops Goes Missing After Deputy’s Execution The Texas podcast that called for the lynching of white people and the killing of cops appears to have been taken down from their page. While links to the p...
    » D.C.’s personal trainers should not need licenses
    30/08/15 19:54 from Washington Post Editorials: Latest Editorial and Editorial Archive
    A SURPRISING one out of every four U.S. jobs requires a license of some kind. Excessive regulation of the labor market through mandatory credentialing has turned into a subtle destroyer of jobs and opportunity, according to a recent Whit...
    » Editorial: D.C.’s personal trainers should not need licenses
    30/08/15 19:54 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    A SURPRISING one out of every four U.S. jobs requires a license of some kind. Excessive regulation of the labor market through mandatory credentialing has turned into a subtle destroyer of jobs and opportunity, according to a recent Whit...
    » Russia’s truncheon
    30/08/15 19:54 from Washington Post Editorials: Latest Editorial and Editorial Archive
    WHEN VLADIMIR Putin first became Russian president, a decade and a half ago, he promised to bring about what he called “dictatorship of the law.” It is an awkward phrase, but the meaning was clear: to bring order out of the tumultuous de...
    » Editorial: Russia’s truncheon
    30/08/15 19:54 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    WHEN VLADIMIR Putin first became Russian president, a decade and a half ago, he promised to bring about what he called “dictatorship of the law.” It is an awkward phrase, but the meaning was clear: to bring order out of the tumultuous de...
    » The U.S. should take a leading role in the European migrant crisis
    30/08/15 19:47 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    Regarding the Aug. 28 front-page article “Decayed bodies found in truck”:As European leaders struggle to deal with the immigrant crisis, why can’t the United States step up and lead? This nation was founded by immigrants who had enough o...
    » Scientific studies were tarred with too broad a brush
    30/08/15 19:46 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    Scientists’ ability to influence public debate on issues of scientific importance depends upon our reputations, which are derived from the robustness and reproducibility of our results.The Aug. 28 news article “A study of studies finds i...
    » Dionne: Iran and the case for realism
    30/08/15 19:46 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    Foreign policy debates rarely get away from being reflections of domestic political conflicts, but they are also usually based on unstated assumptions and unacknowledged theories. That’s true of the struggle over the Iran nuclear agreeme...
    » Pinning down the candidates on the economy
    30/08/15 19:46 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    In his Aug. 27 op-ed column, “The next debate topic,” Harold Meyerson suggested that moderators ask candidates more questions on the economy. As examples of such topics he cited mostly issues that have little or no bearing on improving t...
    » No more excuses for avoiding tougher gun control
    30/08/15 19:46 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    It’s almost formulaic. Someone with a gun kills people, someone who believes that restricting guns is a possible resolution to future violence says so publicly, and Republicans manifest outrage that that individual is “politicizing a tra...
    » New ruling on unions doesn’t go to absurd lengths
    30/08/15 19:45 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    I don’t have any personal stake in the recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board on the “joint employer” test, but I was struck by the argument from the dissenting members of the board [“Workers get more power to unionize,” fro...
    » My daughter was killed on live television. I will do whatever it takes to end gun violence.
    30/08/15 19:36 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    Last Wednesday, my daughter Alison was brutally struck down in the prime of her life by a deranged gunman. Since then, I have stated in numerous interviews with local, national and international media that I plan to make my life’s work t...
    » Why U.S. generals don’t want advisers on the front lines in Iraq
    30/08/15 19:31 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    Is the United States at war? Even our top leaders do not know. At his nomination hearing last month to become the next Marine Corps commandant, Lt. Gen. Robert B. Neller was scolded by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). Read full article >>
    » 2015-08-30Police Taser drones authorized in North Dakota Sunday August 
    30/08/15 19:31 from Mike Nova - Google+
    2015-08-30 Police Taser drones authorized in North Dakota Sunday August 30th, 2015 at 4:23 PM Police Taser drones authorized in North Dakota Sunday August 30 th , 2015  at  4:23 PM Stars And Stripes News 1 Share Criminals in North Dakota...
    » Samuelson: Globalization at warp speed
    30/08/15 19:26 from Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post
    Globalization lives.A fascinating but little-noted aspect of the recent financial turmoil is how much it’s been an international event. It started with doubts about China’s economy, symbolized by a tumbling stock market and a surprise de...
    » Germany Versus Science
    30/08/15 19:20 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    Berlin threatens a U.S.-Europe trade pact by rejecting GMO food.
    » College Coaches Deserve Their Pay
    30/08/15 19:17 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    Critics decry contracts like Nick Saban’s $7.2 million deal at Alabama. But he brings in tens of millions.
    » Let States Do the Job Obama Won't: Sanction Iran
    30/08/15 18:54 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    The administration doesn’t want states to ‘interfere’ with its nuclear deal with Tehran.
    » Central America's Next Flashpoint
    30/08/15 18:52 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    Protests are erupting in Guatemala as the left tries to exploit an anticorruption probe.
    » All Podcasts Considered
    30/08/15 18:51 from WSJ.com: Opinion
    With a show for every niche, podcasts teach me about everything from Doritos to dark matter.
    » Blame the Federal Reserve, Not China, for Stock Market Crash
    30/08/15 18:00 from rss
    Many blamed the crash on China’s recent currency devaluation. It is true that the crash was caused by a flawed monetary policy. However, the fault lies not with China’s central bank but with the US Federal Reserve. 
    » Jeremy Corbyn’s rise is inspiring, even if his opponents are correct | David Edgar
    30/08/15 17:07 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    We face the risk that the Labour frontrunner’s policies really are electoral anathema or unworkable. Whatever, this moment can renew the centre-left Before more absurd hyperbole took over – Tony Blair comparing Jeremy Corbyn this weekend...
    » We fear the public won't back Corbyn, but he can win and here's the proof | David Edgar
    30/08/15 17:07 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    We face the risk that the Labour frontrunner’s policies really are electoral anathema or unworkable. Whatever, this moment can renew the centre-left Before more absurd hyperbole took over – Tony Blair comparing Jeremy Corbyn this weekend...
    » Jeremy Corbyn’s rise is inspiring. But what if his opponents are correct? | David Edgar
    30/08/15 17:07 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    We face the risk that the Labour frontrunner’s policies really are electoral anathema or unworkable. Whatever, this moment can renew the centre-left Before more absurd hyperbole took over – Tony Blair comparing Jeremy Corbyn this weekend...
    » Shock Report
    30/08/15 15:54 from Breitbart News Network
    Shock Report : MI6 Spy Who Was Found Dead in a Duffel Bag Had Hacked Clinton Data The MI6 spy who was found dead inside a holdall bag in his bathtub in London hacked into secret data held on former U.S. President Bill Clinton, The Sun ne...
    » David Cameron is Straight Outta Eton. He could learn a lot from this NWA movie | Matthew d’Ancona
    30/08/15 15:10 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    The gangsta-rap biopic Straight Outta Compton explores issues relevant to today’s Britain. The prime minister, who was left bewildered after the 2011 riots, could learn a lot When politicians try to get “down with the kids”, the results ...
    » Twitter works just fine – but for investors, anything except total market domination is a disaster
    30/08/15 15:00 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
    Nothing better illustrates capitalism’s addiction to illogic than the mismatch between Twitter’s workability and its unpopularity with Wall Street It’s a way of life, an addiction, a mental torture tool for sexist trolls, a news source f...
    » The Guardian view on Northern Ireland’s new crisis: stick with the peace process | Editorial
    30/08/15 14:46 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    29/08/15 03:00 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    » Gung-ho Americans, steady Brits, and a lack of French resistance – but was the story of the terror train really so clear?
    29/08/15 02:30 from Comment is free | theguardian.com
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    29/08/15 00:00 from NYT > Editorials
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    POLITICS F.B.I. Evidence Is Often Mishandled, an Internal Inquiry Finds By  MATT APUZZO  and  MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT DEC. 19, 2014 Photo The J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. building in Washington. Auditors have found many problems with how the bureau handles evidence.   Credit Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Share This Page Email Share Tweet Save More Continue reading the main story F.B.I.  agents in every region of the country have mishandled, mislabeled and lost evidence, according to a highly critical internal investigation that discovered errors with nearly half the pieces of evidence it reviewed. The evidence collection and retention system is the backbone of the  F.B.I. ’s investigative process, and the report said it is beset by problems. It also found that the F.B.I. was storing more weapons, less money and valuables, and two tons more drugs than its records...
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