Government Scientist Blows Whistle On Trump Administration Then Resigns In Fiery Letter. The Trump administration is not exactly known for its high regard for science – or facts in general.
Now, the White House has lost itself yet another scientific advisor. D’oh! Donald Trump Inadvertently Cripples U.S. Coal Exports. President Donald Trump, who pledged to end the alleged “war on coal” and likes to surround himself with coal miners, may have just ended U.S. coal exports from the West Coast.
“In trying to land a blow on the Canadian timber industry,” says Eric de Place, policy director of Seattle, Washington’s Sightline Institute, “Trump may have accidentally knocked out the Western coal industry.” On Monday, at the urging of the U.S. timber industry, Trump imposed tariffs of up to 24 percent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber. The issue of Canadian lumber imports has been vexed for years, but this latest hardball from Trump—especially at a time when he is threatening to pull the United States out of NAFTA—hit a nerve with Canada. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to stand up for Canada’s lumber industry, warning, “You cannot thicken this border without hurting people on both sides of it.”
Clearly, the United States is taking a different approach. 80 percent of Chicago PD dash-cam videos are missing audio due to ‘officer error’ or ‘intentional destruction’ (Bigstock) From DNA Info, here’s the latest piece of evidence that the corruption and abuse in the Chicago Police Department aren’t limited to a few bad cops — the problems are systemic.
Why are so many police dashcam videos silent? Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. A calendar of every mass shooting in 2015. How They Got Their Guns. Oregon shooting: Statistics behind 'routine' US gun violence. Image copyright Getty Images.
When does teen sexting become child porn? Teenager Prosecuted for Possessing Own Nude Selfie. A Fayetteville, North Carolina teenager has reached a plea deal to avoid being charged with multiple sexual exploitation counts after his cell phone was found to contain nude selfies of himself.
Dirty Rotten Ethanol Scoundrels. North Carolina Legalizes Call Girls For Politicians. Deeds attack shows that our system is a mess: Column. The stabbing of Virginia state Sen.
Creigh Deeds on Tuesday apparently by his son, Gus, who later committed suicide, is the latest in a string of mental health related violent incidents. Initial news reports said Austin "Gus" Deeds had been turned away from a treatment center because no beds were available -- a claim later denied by state hospital officials. Infrastructure Economic Multiplier. A recently published working paper from the San Francisco Fed shows that the fiscal multiplier of infrastructure spending is much larger than the typical government spending multiplier.
Death of Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle Puts Spotlight on PTSD. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy The shooting death of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, an advocate for veterans' mental health, has pushed the problem of post-traumatic stress disorder among American troops to the fore.
Taxes, Spending, Regulation and the Economy. An economist explains why the conservative argument that high corporate taxes and burdensome regulation are preventing businesses from hiring an prolonging the recession is false.
It begins with his TV appearance with someone from the Heritage Foundation: A couple of hours after talking to an ABC correspondent about the woeful job numbers and what might be done to improve them, I was in the Bloomberg TV studios debating a guy from Heritage. He went on for several minutes about the damage being done by high taxes, excess regulation, business “uncertainty” about future tax hikes and regulatory burdens. I asked Bloomberg’s host whether he was aware that corporate profits relative to national income had just hit a 60-year peak? Homeland security spending: We'd have to foil 1,667 Times Square-style attacks every year to justify current spending on homeland security. - By John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart.
This is adapted from Mueller and Stewart's new Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security.
Read earlier pieces about why the government refuses to subject homeland-security spending to cost-benefit analysis and how the government overestimates the risk of terrorism. Is it possible to measure the risk of terrorism? Measuring risk can be difficult, but it is done as a matter of course in such highly charged areas as nuclear power plant safety, airplane safety, and environmental protection. The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America. - By Joseph E. Stiglitz.
The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama Bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush's response to the attacks compromised America's basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security. The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable, but the subsequent invasion of Iraq was entirely unconnected to al-Qaida—as much as Bush tried to establish a link. That war of choice quickly became very expensive—orders of magnitude beyond the $60 billion claimed at the beginning—as colossal incompetence met dishonest misrepresentation. Out of Control: The Destructive Power of the Financial Markets - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International.
William Barclay: The Bush tax cuts: A decade of economic disaster. Call Off the Global Drug War.