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UC Berkeley must face lawsuit alleging bias against conservative speakers
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 6 years ago
(Reuters) - A federal judge rejected the University of California at Berkeley’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter by imposing unreasonable restrictions and fees on their appearances. In a decision late Wednesday, U.S. District...
Byron York: Is Comey telling the truth about his memos?
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 6 years ago
April 26, 2018 As he presses on with his bookselling tour, fired FBI Director James Comey is leaving a trail of confusing statements about how he handled the memos he wrote after conversations with President Trump, including the memo he leaked for the purpose of creating momentum for the...
Declassified Congressional Report: James Clapper Lied About Dossier Leaks To CNN
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 6 years ago
April 27, 2018 A newly declassified report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections reveals that former intelligence chief James Clapper lied to Congress about information he shared with CNN on the infamous Steele dossier. Buried within a newly declassified congressional report on...
Collusion, Anyone?
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 6 years ago
By Michael BaroneApril 20, 2018 As the likelihood that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia seems headed toward zero, the likelihood of proof of a different form of collusion seems headed upward toward certainty. The Russia collusion charge had some initial credibility because of...
FINALLY: Senator Demands Zuckerberg Fire Staffer Who Let Obama Campaign Steal User Data
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 27 Comments • 6 years ago
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by the Senate Tuesday for allowing Cambridge Analytica, a data company that worked for Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016, to harvest user data from his platform. However, little was made of the fact that the Obama presidential campaign in 2012 used the...
Robert Mueller Is a Hothead Who Can't Own Up to His Mistakes, Former Aides Say
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 26 Comments • 6 years ago
FBI Director Robert Mueller is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing on "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)," on Capitol Hill in Washington September 17, 2008. REUTERS/Molly Riley Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the...
Turns out Obama was the real Russian stooge
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 42 Comments • 6 years ago
The circumstantial evidence is mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the US government at the highest levels. How else to explain a newly elected president looking the other way after an act of Russian aggression? Agreeing to a farcically one-sided nuclear deal? Mercilessly...
Report: Opioid Drugs Dragged 1 Million Americans Out of the Workforce
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 6 years ago
28 Mar 2018 Almost 1 million prime-age Americans were dragged out of the 2015 labor force by Chinese-supplied fentanyl, Mexican heroin and U.S-made prescription opioid drugs, says a report by the American Action Forum, a business-first advocacy group. The economic impact of this opioid drug...
Holocaust survivor’s body found burnt, stabbed in Paris apartment
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 45 Comments • 6 years ago
March 25, 2018 In possible hate crime reminiscent of the Sarah Halimi murder, victim Mireille K., 65, had previously reported that a neighbor threatened to burn her The burnt and stabbed body of a Holocaust survivor was found in her Paris apartment, in what a watchdog on anti-Semitism said...
Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society
Via: sixpick • News & Politics • 90 Comments • 6 years ago
‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’ Another former Facebook executive has spoken out about the harm the social network is doing to civil society around the world. Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007...