A Texas Lawsuit Being Heard This Week Could Mean Life Or Death For The ACA
Another Republican effort to wreck the ACA might succeed.
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Nick Turse: The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!
The US military disproves the notion “the conventional army loses if it does not win,” and now wins simply by not losing.
Read more...Second Circuit Narrows Reach of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Second Circuit last week narrowed the reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but will not redirect the DoJ to focus on enforcement of more significant violations that occur closer to home.
Read more...Trans Mountain Pipeline a Serious Misstep for Trudeau
Inept political maneuvering by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned what was a longstanding controversy in Canada over Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project into a complete and utter quagmire.
Read more...The Mills of Providence Were Ground Up Slowly
Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Financial Times Publication Confirms Accuracy of Our Reporting on CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Resume Misrepresentations; Board Refuses to Investigate and Instead Attacks Us
CalPERS is making credulity-straining defenses of its CEO Marcie Frost, and even a normally friendly publication isn’t buying them.
Read more...Marrying NAFTA and The TPP: The “US-Mexico Trade Agreement”
How a new “great” Trump trade deal is just recycled old trade deals with a new label.
Read more...Why I Hate The New York Times Front Page Redesign
Moar crapification.
Read more...TSB: Why Are So Few Customers Leaving a Bank that Trampled on Them?
Despite months of IT mayhem and all kinds of problems, customers cling to TSB Bank in the UK.
Read more...A Stopped Clock Asks Two Good Questions — Will Trump Resign? Will Democrats Impeach Him?
Looking at presumed end-games for the pursuit of Trump.
Read more...White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis — and That Helped Fuel President Trump’s Rise
Ten years later, Trump’s rise to power is a consequence of poor governance.
Read more...Why Marcie Frost’s Shoddy Resume Alone Was Reason Not to Hire Her at CalPERS
Did any member of the CalPERS Board actually read the words in Frost’s resume?
Read more...CalPERS’ CEO Marcie Frost’s Misrepresentations Regarding Her Education and Work History During and After Her Hiring
Another apparent case of employment fraud at CalPERS, this time with CEO Marcie Frost as the perp.
Read more...Cover-Up of CalPERS’ CEO Frost’s Misrepresentations of Her History: Document Destruction/Loss at CalPERS, Pressure on The Evergreen State College
While CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s cover-up of her resume misrepresentations is not worse than her crime, it looks awfully guilty.
Read more...Fracking, the Water Cycle, and Sacrifice Zones
Groundwater contamination with endocrine distruptors from fracking, and its uneven distribution
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