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Damning Study Finds a ‘Whitewashed’ Hollywood: ‘We Don’t Have a Diversity Problem. We Have an Inclusion Crisis’

Published February 22, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are “whitewashed,” and that an “epidemic of invisibility” runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people. A study to […]

Can the GOP Stay United on Strategy to Fight Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee?

Published February 22, 2016

Kelsey Harkness / @kelseyjharkness / February 21, 2016 /The Daily Signal The fight over the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court is spilling over into a second week, with most Senate Republicans uniting around the idea that the American people should be left to decide the future fate of the high court. Using the hashtag […]

Inside Jeb Bush’s $150 Million Failure

Published February 22, 2016

Jeb Bush, the Republican establishment’s last, best hope, began his 2016 campaign rationally enough, with a painstakingly collated operational blueprint his team called, with NFL swagger, “The Playbook.” On page after page kept safe in a binder, the playbook laid out a strategy for a race his advisers were certain would be played on Bush’s […]

Salt Lake City will host Republican presidential debate March 21

Published February 22, 2016

Republican presidential candidates are coming to Salt Lake City on March 21 for a just-added debate. More at Source: Salt Lake City will host Republican presidential debate March 21 | Deseret News

Uber driver suspected in Michigan shootings, six dead

Published February 22, 2016

A Michigan man who worked as an Uber [UBER.UL] driver was under arrest on Sunday in the fatal shooting of six people in Kalamazoo, as police investigated reports he may have driven customers of the car-hailing service the night of the rampage. Prosecutors alleged that Jason Dalton, 45, opened fire, apparently at random, in parking […]

Black water pouring out of Texas town’s faucets

Published February 22, 2016

A Texas town is facing another crisis days after its mayor, city manager, mayor pro tempore, a city councilman and a former councilman were arrested earlier this week. Crystal City residents don’t have any water they can drink. Black water came out of the pipes in homes in the tiny city where the sweeping bribery […]

Cyclone Winston leaves 18 dead, thousands without power in Fiji

Published February 22, 2016

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – The death toll from a ferocious cyclone which tore through Fiji over the weekend has risen to 18 as authorities on Monday began to get a grasp on the scale of the disaster and deploy aid to hard-hit outer islands. Authorities were still having trouble communicating with some islands, including places […]

Germans Cheer As Refugee Center Burns, Crowds Stop Firefighters From Extinguishing Blaze

Published February 22, 2016

Over the past two months, Europeans have become completely fed up with the wave of refugees streaming into the bloc from the Mid-East.After demonstrating a remarkable degree of restraint and tolerance in the wake of the attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris in November, the string of sexual assaults that swept Cologne, Germany […]

French President Threatens To “Suspend” Nations That Elect “Far-Right” Polticians

Published February 22, 2016

Last month, we documented the burgeoning spat between Brussels and Poland over the latter’s move to approve new laws that allow the conservative (and eurosceptic) Law and Justice (PiS) government to name the chiefs of public TV and radio, and select judges for Poland’s constitutional court. In response to a bloc-wide backlash, Polish minister Zbigniew […]

Caught On Tape: Ukraine Nationalists Trash Offices Of Russian Banks; Police Refuse To Intervene

Published February 21, 2016

Two years after the US State Department, and specifically Victoria Nuland, hand-picked Ukraine’s next government in the aftermath of the Euromaidan riots which led to a coup and the ouster of then president Yanukovich and the appointment of a US puppet government led by the increasingly unpopular Arseniy Yatseniuk, tens of thousands of people in […]

Moscow: No Direct Restrictions on Military-Technical Cooperation with Iran

Published February 21, 2016

“It is alleged that a ban on delivery of weapons and military equipment to Iran imposed by the UN Security Council is still in effect and that this arms embargo has been imposed by Resolution 2231 of the UN Security Council passed in support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This is not […]

Politics Is So Insane Right Now Satirists Can’t Keep Up

Published February 21, 2016

For his latest book, Christopher Buckley took a break from political satire and went to Renaissance Europe instead. Source: Politics Is So Insane Right Now Satirists Can’t Keep Up | WIRED

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