Washington Post – by Craig Whitlock and Bob Woodward

The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post.

Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. But after the project documented far more wasteful spending than expected, senior defense officials moved swiftly to kill it by discrediting and suppressing the results.   Continue reading “Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste”

New York Times – by Christopher Surpun

DALLAS — I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president of the United States. Since the election, people have asked me to change my vote based on policy disagreements with Donald J. Trump. In some cases, they cite the popular vote difference. I do not think president-elects should be disqualified for policy disagreements. I do not think they should be disqualified because they won the Electoral College instead of the popular vote. However, now I am asked to cast a vote on Dec. 19 for someone who shows daily he is not qualified for the office.   Continue reading “Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump”

ABC News

The November election put Republicans in full control of a record number of state legislatures around the country, a level of power that gives the party an unprecedented opportunity: change the U.S. Constitution.

Republicans already control Congress, the White House and more governors’ offices than they have in nearly a century. But it’s the state legislatures that hold perhaps the greatest promise for lasting change.   Continue reading “Republican success opens door to amending US Constitution”

Independent – by Harriet Agerholm

A sniper has shot dead a local council official and two journalists outside a restaurant in Imatra, a small Finnish town near the Russian border.

Police confirmed a 23-year-old local man has been detained following what is thought to be a random attack.   Continue reading “Sniper shoots dead council official and two journalists in Finland”

Grabien News

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that despite Democrats losing the House, Senate, and almost two-thirds of state houses, the American people don’t want a new direction.

The California congressman appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday and instead said the issue facing Democrats is simply a failure of communication.    Continue reading “Pelosi: ‘I Don’t Think That People Want A New Direction’”

C-Net – by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

It’s maybe the most satisfying arrest we can imagine.

Seattle police caught an alleged car thief by enlisting the help of car maker BMW to both track and then remotely lock the luckless criminal in the very car he was trying to steal.

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, deputy director of communications for the Seattle Police Department, posted a witty summary of the event on the SPD’s blog on Wednesday. Turns out if you’re inside a stolen car, it’s perhaps not the best time to take a nap.   Continue reading “BMW traps alleged thief by remotely locking him in car”

NewsMaxTV – by Rob Lauer

Megan Barth interviewed Republican Assembly Candidate for District 15, Stan Vaughan, with actual proof of massive voter fraud in his Clark County district. Vaughan brought into the NEWSMAXTV Las Vegas studio and laid it out for all to see, US postal service certified returned mail from 9,200 voters in District 15. Many of the people who were listed as deceased are still on the active voter rolls today. Many of the returned mail came back with 5 people living in a vacant lot with no mail receptacle.
Continue reading “Huuuge Nevada Voter Fraud Uncovered? Worse Than Acorn”

CNN

If you’re a guy mouse, the news about Zika’s effect on your sex life couldn’t be worse.

Not only did male mice infected with the Zika virus have a tougher time getting females pregnant, their levels of sex hormones crashed, and their testicles shrunk by 90%, possibly permanently, according to new research by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.   Continue reading “Zika shrinks mice testicles, damaging fertility”

Listverse – by Jamie Frater

Unfortunately, in modern times, the responsibility of raising your children to be respectful of others has been taken over by government. In virtually every Western nation, political correctness is rife and books are being torn from the shelves by the handful. Some of these books make their way back, with revisions, but some have vanished entirely (at least for now). This is a list of the top 10 books considered to be politically incorrect.   Continue reading “Top 10 Politically Incorrect Kids Books”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

While I’m not a Dodd-Frank fan, it’s not because it was too harsh, but because it didn’t really do much of anything. It was the typical neoliberal bait and switch, designed to look tough for public consumption, while merely making tweaks around the edges of a financial system that requires systemic, paradigm level change.

Trump’s support of repealing Dodd-Frank tells you all you need to know. A Trump Presidency will see Wall Street felons who should be in prison, running as wild and free as ever.   Continue reading “There Will Be Swamp – Steve Mnuchin Confirms Treasury Secretary Nod”

USA Today – by Charisse Jones

Saying that “a safe environment to work and shop is a top priority,” the CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. is requesting that gun owners leave their weapons at home when in the company’s offices, facilities or stores.

In a letter posted on LinkedIn, Chip Bergh recounted how a Levi’s customer recently got hurt when a gun the shopper was carrying accidentally fired.   Continue reading “Levi’s: Go ahead and try the jeans, but leave the guns at home”

Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, according to people familiar with the decision, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across the Middle East to run the Pentagon less than four years after he hung up his uniform.

To take the job, Mattis will need Congress to pass new legislation to bypass a federal law stating that defense secretaries must not have been on active duty in the previous seven years. Congress has granted a similar exception just once, when Gen. George C. Marshall was appointed to the job in 1950.
Continue reading “Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense”

CNBC

Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz will leave his post as the company’s chief executive, the company said Thursday.

Schultz will become the company’s executive chairman, and current President and COO Kevin Johnson will become Starbucks’ next CEO.

The changes will take place on April 3, the company said.   Continue reading “Howard Schultz stepping down as Starbucks CEO; current COO to replace him”

Yahoo News

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico’s central bank chief Agustin Carstens resigned Thursday, officials said, sending the peso on its latest plunge since Donald Trump’s victory in last month’s US presidential election.

Carstens, who had compared Trump with a maximum Category Five hurricane because of his tough stance toward Mexico, will step down on July 1 next year, the Banco de Mexico said in a statement.   Continue reading “Mexico’s central bank chief resigns amid Trump turmoil”

MRC TV – by Brittany M. Hughes

Recent government data shows that more than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president’s Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all.

To date, more than 10,600 Central Americans from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador have applied for refugee status or humanitarian parole under the CAM program, the State Department said Wednesday. The controversial initiative was launched in December 2014 as part of President Obama’s executive actions on immigrant, and was touted as a way to bring illegal alien children from certain Central American countries into the United States to be reunited with their families, who are often here illegally themselves.   Continue reading “2/3 Of Aliens Admitted Under Obama’s ‘Minor’ Program Are Adults”

WFAA

PLANO — It’s not the chore Carolyn Chaufty had on her list for Tuesday.

The Plano resident used a razor blade to scrape away the sticker that had been placed on her mailbox. She’s not the only one in her Hunters Ridge neighborhood in Plano that has it.

“It’s not like it’s just happening on one street,” said David Tilley, with Plano Police Department. “We’re getting multiple streets reporting.”   Continue reading “Mysterious stickers placed on residents’ mailboxes spurs concern in Plano”