NBC Suspends Serial Humble-Bragger Brian Williams for Six Months, Costing Him $5 Million
Move comes despite defenses from millionaire media friends like Jon Stewart (who's also retiring, BTW).
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Homeschooling: The New Techie Fad?
Wired notes a growing conflation between cutting-edge tech thinking and escaping the education monopoly.
Ukraine: Arresting Dissidents, Eager for U.S.'s Military Support
Let's think more than twice about fighting Ukraine's battles.
NYPD Cop Indicted for Manslaughter in Shooting Death of Akai Gurley
Peter Liang reportedly texted his union rep instead of calling for medical assistance after shooting and killing Akai Gurley while patrolling a stairwell.
Chaffetz Reintroduces Ban on Internet Gambling, a.k.a. the Sheldon Adelson Protection Act
Supporters claim Congress meant to prohibit online betting in 1961.
Nanny Bloomberg Says Black Kids Can't Be Trusted with Guns
He can't be trusted to respect citizens' rights.
Social Media Censorship Gaining New Ground in U.K., France
British lawmakers call for banning offensive speakers from social media entirely while France continues hate speech prosecutions
All the President's Voxsplainers
Remember when Vox was going to give us all a better way to "understand the news"? What we get instead is a better way to become courtiers to power.
Professors Resist Higher Education Innovation
Some vendors of higher education may have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to make improvements
Climate Geoengineering Research Should Go Forward, Says National Academy of Sciences Reports Today
Both albedo management and carbon dioxide removal should be researched
Meet the Anti-Rand-Paul Protest Candidates
The peculiar presidential campaigns of John Bolton, Peter King, and Lindsey Graham
I.J. Analysis Confirms Modest Impact of Holder's Forfeiture Reform
The changes may affect about a quarter of equitable sharing forfeitures and less than a tenth of proceeds.
Anonymous Posts Update on #OpISIS, Claims to Have Taken Down Hundreds of ISIS Twitter Accounts
A video claiming to speak for the hacker collective Anonymous says it's taken down hundreds of ISIS-affiliated Twitter and other online accounts.
Lunar Licensing: Promoting and Protecting Private Business on the Moon
Why not instead an interplanetary Homestead Act and Mining Law?
Four Reasons Why Freedom Lovers Should Cheer a Restrictionist-Led DHS Shutdown
It's an incompetent and evil agency. Shutting it down will halt the spread of its notorious new stop-and-frisk CARI program.
Timothy Sandefur: Do We Really Want A Passive Judiciary?
The Constitution promises uncompromising protection of liberty.
Do We Really Want A Passive Judiciary? No.
The Constitution promises uncompromising protection of liberty.
Check Out On Your Own Terms
Suicide among the elderly may be less tragic than self-empowering
Never, Never Call the Cops For "Help" Unless You're Willing to Risk Someone Being Shot and Killed
74-year-old North Carolina Man Shot and Killed by Cops as They Bust Through His Back Door on a "Welfare Check"
D.C. Council Cancels Hearing on Marijuana Regulation
The District's attorney general warns that further legalization would be illegal.
Kid Rock: "Fiscally, I'm Republican. But the social issues kill me — gay marriage and abortion. It's like, Come on, man, get off it."
When you've lost Kid Rock, GOP, you might as well go home already.
Gays Marrying in Alabama As We Speak (World Still Here), U.S. Might Arm Ukraine, Will NBC Fire Brian Williams? P.M. Links
Today in possible U.S. military interventions, Ukraine.
Obama Needs to Answer These Questions
From Obamacare to Charlie Hebdo, the president has some explaining to do.
Gay Marriage: A Done Deal?
Some see the Supreme Court tipping its hand by declining stays of rulings.
