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1. A soon-to-be released audit of the state Board of Equalization finds that the agency still can’t explain how it misallocated tens of millions of dollars worth of tax revenue and describes how one of its elected leaders effectively swelled his political staff by “redirecting” civil servants to his own projects.

2. Judge blocks ( Read more... )

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1. Final Tab for Pelosi’s Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt-Or $3.66 Billion Per Day
Вдумайтесь - каждый день долг США увеличивался на 3 с лишком миллиарда долларов.

2. 31% of students, or roughly 2.4 million kids, admitted to using student loan money to fund their binge drinking trips to Cancun and Daytona Beach for spring ( Read more... )

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1. New York to Nix Literacy Tests for Teachers because too many Minorities Are Failing
Логично.

2. Actually, Repealing Obamacare Wouldn't Kill Anyone

3. Seattle landlords sue over city’s first-come, first-served rental law
В Сиэтле теперь запрещено отказывать в сдаче квартиры - владелец обязан сдавать первому кандидату, без ( Read more... )

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1. В США, до 2010 года (!!) существовала организация, в чьи обязанности входил просмотр и утверждение выходивших в США комиксов.
Большинство издателей отказывалось публиковать комиксы, не утверждённые этой организацией.

2. From 2013, critique of the second hand smoke shoddy science, which by now is pretty clear that is all was ( Read more... )

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1. One of Zimbabwe’s largest wildlife reserves, the Bubye Valley Conservancy, recently announced that it was considering culling up to 200 lions as the cats have become increasingly overpopulated. The wildlife reserve said its current population of around 500 lions is unsustainable due to the dramatic decline in hunters, possibly ( Read more... )

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1. With Sales Depressed by Soda Tax, Philly Grocers Look to Cut Jobs as Mayor Blames 'Greedy' Soda Industry
Внезапно!

2. California Governor Jerry Brown is proposing cuts to higher education scholarships for middle class students while increasing scholarship funding for illegal immigrant students
Priorities.

3. Britain is wasting ( Read more... )

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1. North Dakota wants hired pipeline protesters to pay state income taxes
Неплохой ход. Капоне тоже на налогах прищучили.

2. Legalizing Marijuana Would Hurt Mexican Drug Cartels More Than Trump's Border Wall
Not gonna happen tho. At least on federal level.

3. The Washington Post reports that some federal workers are “in regular ( Read more... )

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1. Ohio to Libertarian Party: You Can't Qualify for the Ballot By Winning Votes Since We Won't Let You on the Ballot
Somebody was reading Catch-22.

2. Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable
Что, собственно, любой живший в совке может подтвердить. Да и любой современный россиянин, не занимающийся политической деятельностью ( Read more... )

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1. Even the Feds are Warning that California's Bullet Train Is a Disaster in the Making

2. Labor law in America has reached the absurd point where the NLRB is taking the position that a company can't tell its employees to have a positive attitude.

3. Obama, in his last speech as a president, says US is the only country in the world ( Read more... )

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1. Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Wins Near-Billion Dollar California ‘High Speed Rail’ Contract
Вот теперь понятно, зачем это всё затевается.

2. Manhattan eatery: overregulation did us in.

3. Philly Mayor Blames ‘Price Gouging’ for Outrage Generated by City’s New Soda Tax
Они повысили налоги, выросли цены - кто виноват? Спекулянты, ( Read more... )