For years, the liberal foreign policy establishment presented Americans with a false choice on Iran: surrender or war. President Trump has proved that binary to be a fantasy, squeezing and deterring the Iranians without full-on confrontation. “When I became president, Iran was a true state of terror,” Trump said in France this week. Now, “theyRead moreRead more
Trump has already proved Team Obama was completely wrong about Iran
University of Alabama trustees vote to refund $26M gift over abortion ban controversy
The University of Alabama gave back a philanthropist’s $26.5 million donation and took his name off the law school Friday, a week after he called on students to boycott the institution over the state’s restrictive new abortion ban. Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr., a 70-year-old Florida real estate investor who didn’t attend the school, said heRead moreRead more
Entertainment Weekly will become a monthly publication
It’s been rumored for years, and on Thursday it finally became a reality: Meredith said Entertainment Weekly magazine will publish its last “weekly” issue on June 25 and become a monthly as of August. Click Here: highlanders rugby gear world JD Heyman, deputy editor of People, will replace Henry Goldblatt as editor. About 15 peopleRead moreRead more
Why fantasizing about killing your boss is totally healthy
Bosses, watch your backs. Not only is fantasizing about murdering your supervisor — a la “Horrible Bosses” or “9 to 5” — totally normal, it’s healthy, Dr. Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist at University College London, tells The Independent. Shaw addressed the crowd at the UK’s Cheltenham Science Festival, saying “popular targets” in our murderousRead moreRead more
Google employee who organized walkout quits, alleging retaliation
One of the organizers of a worldwide Google employee walkout in November has quit the company, citing retaliation from her superiors. Click Here: cheap kanken backpack Claire Stapleton, who worked as a marketing manager at Google-owned YouTube, said in an internal post that was later shared to Medium that she decided to leave the searchRead moreRead more
This ‘paid leave’ bill is a real restaurant-killer
On the heels of New York City raising the minimum wage to $15, businesses are bracing for yet another proposal that would only exacerbate the policy pressures bearing down on restaurants. In May, the city’s public advocate, Jumaane Williams, a longtime proponent of mandatory paid time off, unveiled a new version of his proposal fromRead moreRead more
China accused of stealing Australian students’ data to blackmail them
China has been accused of stealing the personal data of 200,000 university students and staff in Australia to blackmail them into becoming spies. Senior intelligence officials strongly suspect China of having orchestrated the attack, which targeted bank numbers, tax details and academic records going back 19 years, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Authorities have describedRead moreRead more
Inside Chase Center: The Warriors’ $1.4 billion pitch to keep Kevin Durant
SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, with all the hullabaloo swirling over a Warriors’ part-owner shoving Toronto’s Kyle Lowry on the sidelines at Oracle Arena, Golden State executive Rick Welts was across the Bay Bridge, conducting his final tour of the franchise’s pride and joy — the Chase Center. It is a $1.4 billion sparkling, shiningRead moreRead more
That cut wire looks like the top of an MTA no-show-jobs iceberg
How many MTA workers aren’t actually on the job for shifts they get paid for? The cut wire shown on the front page of Thursday’s Post makes that a very live question. The cable ran to a fingerprint-scanning machine that’s part of a new biometric timekeeping system at Jamaica Station on the Long Island RailRead moreRead more
De Blasio’s whitewashing on anti-Semitism
Here’s what’s been happening in New York City over the past year: Jews who are visibly Jewish have been getting assaulted in record numbers. We’ve seen numerous videos of these assaults, in which a bearded man in a yarmulke is smashed in the head or knocked down or otherwise physically set upon by one orRead moreRead more