The campaign supporting California’s secession opened its first embassy in, yes, you guessed it, Moscow. “Certainly it’s controversial,” the campaign’s leader told Vice News on the choice. “But we can’t become a country just by saying it. Countries like Russia need to help.” ↩︎ posted Dec. 24,
An eight-year broken promise After failing to deliver on a campaign promise (never mind that day-one executive order) to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, President Obama recently told Congress he intends to transfer some 18 of the 59 inmates left in the facility on his very
“We’re just bailing out the ship with a plastic bucket.” If/when Trump follows through on his promises to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, they will be funneled through ICE’s “removal” apparatus, the detention facilities for which are contracted out to private prison groups. These facilities are already
Straight from the next White House’s Twitter account The CIA has concluded that Russia hacked the election in order to help Trump. Unfortunately, we must therefore consider the President-elect’s take on the reports: Sorry about that. Though to point out this was brought up before the election:
“There may or may not be much more leverage than we know about.” The Wall Street Journal breaks down how President-elect Trump uses shell companies to avoid taxes. For instance, 15 of his entities own five aircraft. ↩︎ posted Dec. 13, 2016 We do not understand how GSA or its
Over the past 45 years, we have virtually stood still while our peers have zoomed ahead in the realm of traffic safety. Many of these countries have taken the long view and have tackled the hard, ingrained cultural, political and engineering issues that must be addressed to bring about sustained
The force inside the force San Francisco’s police union is the sole reactionary conservative political voice in a city where the political spectrum ranges from progressive to liberal. ↩︎ posted Dec. 1, 2016 When Terrence M. Cunningham, the chief of police in Wellesley, Mass., and president of America’s largest
Journalist Barrett Brown is free, but will continue to pay Journalist Barrett Brown was released from a Texas federal prison yesterday after serving over four years behind bars. Brown was convicted after taking a plea bargain that admitted a role in the alleged hack of Stratfor—which he had nothing
It makes no sense to remake a system that is not broken. The FAA’s air traffic control system is the largest and safest in the world. A proposal to privatize it was killed earlier this year. Trump wants to bring it back. ↩︎ The New York Times, posted Nov. 21,
Why Russians love Putin: He represents steady strength in the wake of extreme instability Putin’s pursuit of neo-Soviet ideals, like projecting Russian strength in foreign policy, paired with his near-total control of the media, has resulted in “a generation whose dreams are the embodiment of everything Putin
