The majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump for president; the majority of voters did not vote for Republican candidates for the Senate; and fewer than 51% of voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The Republican Party now controls the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, no matter how that came to be. I believe it is worth bearing in mind that a majority of U.S. citizens did not support the Republican winners.   read more

Some witnesses stated that Corrie was crushed by a bulldozer, while the IDF concluded that she died after being struck by falling debris. In addition, while the IDF reported that the driver of the bulldozer could not see her, witnesses said there was nothing to obscure the driver’s view.   read more

The 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of a black Baptist church that killed four children in Birmingham wasn’t enough to motivate the U.S. Department of Justice to opening a civil rights unit in Alabama. Nor was the ugly police violence that accompanied the famed 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. But the strict anti-immigration law now haunting Hispanics was apparently the reason for the Justice Department establishing its first-ever civil rights unit in the Crimson Tide state.   read more

Pentecostals base their opposition to women wearing pants on Deuteronomy 22:5, which states, ”The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man.” The corporate motto of Burger King is “Have it your way.”   read more

The summit does not represent the first time that the Sullivan Foundation has assisted Obiang. Last December it honored the dictator with the “Beacon for Africa” award for “exemplary contributions to improving the lives of Africa's most vulnerable citizens.”   read more

Of the second 1,000 who have died, 75% were Caucasian, 90% were enlisted personnel, and half were killed in either Kandahar or Helmand provinces, where the U.S. focused much of the surge in an effort to cripple the Taliban and other forces. Their average age was 26, according to The New York Times.   read more

In 1993, the IRS adopted a rule that limited the deduction for executive compensation at publicly-traded corporations to $1 million per executive. However, the rule exempted compensation that is based on an executive’s performance, which is fully deductible.   read more

The five most popular commemoratives between 2009 and 2011 were: • Christmas Holiday Evergreens (1,811,577,438 sold) • Winter Holidays (1,078,703,956) • Flags of our Nation Series 3 (496,570,600) • Love King and Queen of Hearts (480,160,800) • Adopt a Shelter Pet (389,707,871)   read more

The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked commercial fishing as the most dangerous job in the country from 2007 to 2010. According to records kept by the Centers for Disease Control, the greatest number of fatalities occurred among Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishers, followed by Atlantic scallop fishers and Alaska salmon fishers.   read more

The cancellation represented the biggest of its kind for the Dreamliner since Boeing began selling it. In March, China Eastern gave up on buying 24 787’s. The manufacturer currently has more than 800 Dreamliners in its inventory.   read more

Police departments across the United States will soon have access to facial recognition software developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Under the expanding pilot project, the FBI will provide its Universal Face Workstation to police for free. The program will allow local law enforcement to compare photos of suspects against a repository of nearly 13 million criminal mug shots.   read more

The regulation required 28 states in the East, Midwest and South to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides that cross state lines and pollute the air of downwind states. Reducing these emissions would have added costly changes for power plants that burn coal to generate electricity, so the coal power industry praised the two judges who voted in their favor.   read more

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) responded by shutting down the Hanford-based Central Valley Meat Company on Sunday. Still, the question arises as to why USDA inspectors did not discover the abuse themselves and had to rely on video submitted by an infiltrator.   read more

Backing the administration on the issue is the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, which represents major American exporters to Russia, ranging from Caterpillar, John Deere, General Electric, Boeing, Halliburton and Dell to Avon Beauty Products, Wrigley and Walt Disney Studios. If the restrictions were dropped, tariffs on vehicles shipped to Russia, for example, would drop from 15% to 5%.   read more

Former neo-Nazi Marine T.J. Leyden told Reuters, “I went into the Marine Corps for one specific reason: I would learn how shoot. I also learned how to use C-4 (explosives), blow things up. I took all my military skills and said I could use these to train other people.” Leyden later renounced white supremacist causes. Despite such examples, one Army spokesman, Colonel Kevin Arata at Fort Bragg, told Reuters: “We don’t really think this is a huge problem, at Bragg, and across the Army.”   read more

Although Republican State House Majority Leader Mike Turzai had boasted that the voter ID law “would allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,” if large numbers of elderly voters are turned away because they lack ID, it could damage any Republican advantage to win the state.   read more

Until now, the board could question punishments handed down by agencies unless a worker had a security clearance. But a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit voted 2-1 last Friday that the MSPB could also be limited in cases involving “noncritical sensitive” positions—in other words those jobs not requiring a security clearance.   read more