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Ex-Va. governor Robert McDonnell guilty of 11 counts of corruption By Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky September 4 RICHMOND — A federal jury on Thursday found former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, guilty of public corruption — sending an emphatic message...

Samuelson writes a thoughtful op-ed on how fast-food workers are winning wage increases through state and local governments, not through unionising: How to get a raise at McDonald’s - The Washington Post The day of the American union may be coming to a close, for two reasons. First, unions...

How municipalities in St. Louis County, Missouri profit from poverty - The Washington Post

In corporations, it’s owner-take-all - The Washington Post Kinda scary, but since most of my income comes from investments, I'm cool with it.

Staten Island Residents Brace For Eric Garner Protest March Saturday NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Staten Island residents are bracing for what they expect to be a crowd in the thousands Saturday for Rev. Al Sharpton’s march to protest the police custody death of Eric Garner. The “We Will Not Go...

Ice bucket challenge goes awry, firefighters hurt By Associated Press August 22 CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — A charity stunt that has grown into a social media phenomenon went terribly wrong for four Kentucky firefighters when a fire truck’s ladder got too close to a power line after they dumped...

In the news: But in the coming weeks, NASA is expected to announce its long-awaited solution: a multibillion-dollar contract to build a U.S. spacecraft, which could help reignite a struggling American space program. Instead of paying the Russians more than $70 million a seat to ride their...

Here's Officer Sunil Dutta's Stasi screed in a nutshell. It could be straight out of the mouth of a Stasi agent: And here's the whole essay: I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me. - The Washington Post And here is the Atlantic's brilliant response...

In Compton, school police can use semiautomatic weapons By Justin Moyer August 21 It’s a place that’s been associated with gunfire at least since the release of N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” in 1988: Compton, Calif., a city of 100,000 south of downtown Los Angeles, and a site of 1992...

Democrats on Hobby Lobby: ‘Misspeaks,’ ‘opinion’ and overheated rhetoric “Really, we should be afraid of this court. The five guys who start determining what contraceptions are legal. Let’s not even go there.” — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), at her weekly news conference, on...

Here's another example of the Nanny State violating the civil and property rights of private enterprise. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Inspectors showed up at a hospice agency here in March 2012, and then issued what amounted to a 161-page catalogue of end-of-life neglect. A woman dying of liver cancer...

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In World Cup action today, mighty England scored another thrilling victory, defeating Italy 1-2 on their way to an inevitable seventeenth World Cup championship. England scored three seconds into the match, then followed up with one goal per minute until minute 33, when it was discovered that...

Worth a read. Might even change some minds. A few, anyhow. https://twitter.com/hashtag/YesAllWomen?src=hash

Never check a privilege, Princeton writer Tal Fortgang! Are you mad? By Alexandra Petri May 8 Lately it has come to my attention (read: my manservant read it to me off a tablet) that a Princeton student has been making waves by denouncing the concept of privilege. “A Princetonian...

This West Virginia 17-year old just beat an incumbent state delegate By Reid Wilson May 14 Saira Blair will graduate from a West Virginia high school later this month. She posts photos of her smoothie habit on Instagram, volunteers at the Martinsburg VA hospital and helps raise money for the...

No, not Paul Hogan. 17 million-year-old giant sperm discovered Tom Warren, The Verge yesterday Scientists have unearthed the world’s oldest sperm at a fossil site in Australia. The 17 million-year-old sperm belongs to an ancient species of tiny shrimp that lived in the Australian...

Common Core critics offer too little, too late Because it's communist. And Kenyan. And black.

Donald Sterling blames woman for his own racial comments: ‘I was baited’ By Terrence McCoy , May 12 For two weeks, Donald Sterling’s voice has been everywhere. Since April 25, when TMZ released a recording of Sterling making racist, disparaging comments about Magic Johnson, the clip has...