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Let's not fool ourselves about whether the skyrocketing gas and soon-to-be-skyrocketing electricity prices are intended by this administration. Obama himself forewarned us when he was running for office. As he said in January of 2008, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrock...
Among other recommendations, Ms. White suggests that for "major policy decisions" made by the EPA we start to require "Congressional accountability." But she should go well beyond that -- indeed, when it comes to any regulatory rulings by all of our numerous quasi-independent regulatory agencies that have the cumulativ...
Philosopher Gary Jason is a senior editor of Liberty and the author of the new book Dangerous Thoughts (available through Amazon).
AARON Chalmers definitely had a birthday to remember on Friday night as he celebrated with sometimes girlfriend Marnie Simpson.
The on-off couple barely left each other's sides as they headed out on the toon with the rest of their Geordie Shore castmates having clearly enjoyed themselves massively.
The MMA fighter hit the toon hard as he partied with his cast mates, and left with a satisfied look on his face.
It was a particularly big night for Aaron, as he celebrated his milestone 30th birthday with his pals and Marnie.
While the birthday boy kept it casual in skinny jeans and a beige T-shirt, Marnie put her curves on display in a black bodycon mini dress and thigh high brown boots.
The 25-year-old added big hoop earrings and braided her hair for the occasion, which took place at Powerhouse nightclub.
Aaron's co-stars Chloe Ferry and Nathan Henry were behind the planning of his birthday bash, which took place during the filming of series 15.
The party planners arrived together, with Chloe looking summers in a white A-line dress with thin straps.
She completed her girly ensemble with a pair of high heeled thin strapped heels.
Meanwhile Nathan wore jeans with ripped panels and a white jumper.
Also in attendance was Sophie Kasei, who arrived with her long term boyfriend Joel Corry.
Sophie wore an off the shoulder white top with a pastel pink and white striped mini skirt, adding fluffy topped sandals for an extra flourish.
Gaz Beadle was all smiles despite his recent return to bachelor status after his split from Emma McVey.
However it's still unclear if Aaron is also single as he kept close to Marnie, just weeks after the pair were pictured snogging on another night out.
The Sun Online exclusively revealed the pair are potentially giving their romance another go, just nine months after Aaron called time on their relationship after watching Marnie cuddle up to Lewis Bloor on Celebrity Big Brother.
A source revealed: "Marnie and Aaron were inseparable all night, they were kissing and holding hands in front of their co-stars.
"Aaron looked over the moon, he's clearly never got over their split."
The credit card-sized Linux computers are now largely UK-made, according to owner of Pi-maker element14.
More of the production of the Raspberry Pi has now been shifted from China to the UK.
UK distributor Premier Farnell, which owns Raspberry Pi-maker element14, announced on Friday that 100 percent of element14's manufacturing is now back in the UK, marking the completion of a transition away from Chinese manufacturing it began last September . To bring production to the UK, Premier Farnell signed a deal ...
The Sony facility was originally contracted to make up to 30,000 of the $35 Model B devices. The Raspberry Pi foundation recently launched another lower-powered and cheaper $25 Model A device for the European market that is distributed by Premier Farnell and its other main distributor, RS Components.
The Model B is a bare-bones board, designed for hackers and modders, and comes without usual PC features such as an operating system and storage, but is designed to plug into a keyboard or TV.
Since launching to huge demand last February, element14 has distributed over 500,000 Raspberry Pi devices, with hundreds of schools taking up the pocket-sized Linux computers to teach computing and spur interest in engineering.
"The business stated back in September its intention to bring production of the computer back to its home, the UK, and now after a period of transition we are delighted to announce that all production is in Wales," Claire Doyle, global head of Raspberry Pi at element14, said in a statement.
"We believe that a UK creation should be produced in its home country and since partnering with Sony UK Tec we have been delighted with the quality and the commitment they have shown in developing the product."
Richard Holway, chairman of analysts TechMarketView, gave element14's 'onshoring' the thumbs up. The Raspberry Pi holds potential to address not only clouds hanging over the UK's manufacturing sector, he said, but also a looming ICT skills crisis.
"There is undoubtedly a growing trend both here and in the US for 'onshoring' as costs in the previously low-cost production centres in China and elsewhere have grown and as the exchange rate move against imports," he wrote.
Wausau police have arrested a man after they say he tried to use a prescription drug to kill his unborn child.
Jeffery Smith is accused of going to the home of a woman who was 20 weeks pregnant with his child, who claims that he put something in her water bottle during the visit. Wausau Police then sent the bottle to the State Crime Labratory where it tested positive for Mifepristone, a drug used to terminate pregnancies.
Wausau detectives searched Smith’s home and found an empty package of Mifepristone and an empty package of Misoprostol, a drug used to induce labor.
Smith is currently being held on a $500,000 bond and the mother and baby were not hurt during the incident.
Samira Ahmed meets the next generation of Britain's imams, asking whether they are equipped to deal with the needs of their communities.
Almost half of Britain's Muslim population is under 25 and born in Britain. Yet many of the country's imams are foreign-born and elderly, leading to claims that they can be out of touch with their communities.
After the 7/7 bombings in 2005, the UK government launched 'Prevent', an anti-radicalisation strategy to tackle extremism in the UK. An emphasis on 'homegrown' imams - born and trained in the UK - was seen as key in engaging young Muslims and curbing extremism.
A decade on, Samira Ahmed explores the changing role of the imam in Britain. Under an increasing media spotlight, their job includes not just the traditional roles of teaching and leading prayers, but counselling and pastoral care, helping third and fourth generations understand their identity as British Muslims. It ca...
Samira visits the seminaries and colleges where many of Britain's imams are trained, and meets graduates who have left behind mosques, instead providing spiritual guidance online or in their own homes. She asks whether the next generation of Britain's imams are equipped to provide the spiritual guidance and community e...
More staffers at the state’s maximum-security mental hospital linked with an abuse investigation have been terminated. Three staffers at the Whiting Forensic Division in Middletown were let go on Dec. 4, the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters learned. The three were terminated for reasons including physical abuse, sleepin...
More staffers at the state’s maximum-security mental hospital linked with an abuse investigation have been terminated.
Three staffers at the Whiting Forensic Division in Middletown were let go on Dec. 4, the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters learned. The three were terminated for reasons including physical abuse, sleeping on duty and failing to report work rule violations.
In all, 37 staffers at Whiting were put on administrative leave since the case was first reported by NBC Connecticut in April. Of those 37 workers put on leave, five were terminated and another five either resigned or retired.
The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), the agency in charge of Whiting, told the NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters the three men who lost their jobs on Monday include a forensic nurse and a pair of mental health workers.
A state police investigation, which remains open, revealed the 59-year-old male patient allegedly suffered abuse over a one month period. The findings were based in part on video surveillance from the patient’s room.
The alleged abuse included taunting, kicking, and even putting a soiled diaper on the patient’s head.
Would Ahad Ha’am be denied entry to Israel today?
While reading an interview in the Forward with the 87-year-old literary critic and polymath George Steiner, I couldn’t help but think about the string of troubling bills that have been passed by the Knesset over the past few years.
The most recent bill, from March 6, denies entry to any non-Israeli who “has knowingly issued a public call to impose a boycott on the State of Israel.” It should be added that the bill includes those who call for a boycott of products produced in the settlements, which is a very different matter than calling for an ac...
To the best of my knowledge, George Steiner has not called for a boycott of Israel. That said, he defines himself as “fundamentally anti-Zionist” in that he believes that Jews are called upon to be “the guest(s) of other men and women.” Given how things are going, I couldn’t help but wonder if the day might arrive soon...
Steiner belongs to a long tradition of modern thinkers who have defined Jewishness as the quest for intellectual, cultural or ethical excellence, rather than as the aim to attain political sovereignty. Some of these thinkers have even been Zionists. Figures such as Martin Buber, Akiva Ernst Simon and Judah L. Magnes, f...
One wonders how welcome such figures would be in the Israel of today. The Knesset has been chiseling away at the edifice of Israeli democracy through a raft of laws. In July 2016, it scaled back the principle of parliamentary immunity by making it easier to expel Arab parliamentarians. In the same month, it passed a la...
The Knesset’s new limitations on speech both erode Israel’s democratic foundations and do damage to its reputation in the international community.
That is a pretty high bar. It is hard to see how a single person expressing her views, even in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, would cause “serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for Israel. It is especially hard to see how Israel gains by denying entry to someone who expresses oppositi...
What also is unsettling about the law is that it cuts against the tradition of sharp dissent that has been a constant feature of both Jewish and Zionist thought. The Zionist movement was born in contentious and productive disagreement, from the very first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897. It was at Basel...
In retrospect, it seems clear that the divergence of views in various Zionist camps — Socialist, Religious, Revisionist, among others — was a source of strength, not weakness. This diversity allowed for different groups of supporters to enter the Zionist fold through various portals, as well as for a robust competition...
What has changed since that formative period? Simply put, Zionism has succeeded in placing a Jewish state on the map — and not merely a state, but a powerful, technologically advanced state without peer in the Middle East. It is strange to consider the prospect that this powerful state might no longer be open to the li...
As I write, the national news is dominated by the arrival of Hurricane Florence, and the political news has emphasized Donald Trump’s reaction to this event and last year’s Hurricane Maria. Other Atlantic pieces lay out some of the problems with Trump’s response: for instance, one by David Graham here and others by Van...
On Tuesday, September 12, Donald Trump awarded himself “A pluses” for his administration’s hurricane-response efforts in Florida and Texas. In a tweet he also said that his team “did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico, even though an inaccessible island with very poor electricity and a totally incompetent Mayor ...
What this shows about Trump is familiar. He is unbounded by fact. He is incapable of understanding any event except through the prism of how it makes him look. He cannot even feign the sober selflessness expected of leaders of any organization. He …. well, he is himself.
But this is worth noting for the record as it underscores two points. One involves Trump’s further departure from the norms of all previous presidents. The other involves the response of the supposedly co-equal legislative branch.
The office: Like it or not, consciously or by instinct, all previous presidents have tried to do two things after taking office. The first is to expand the base. Or at least to try.
Through all of America’s presidential elections, only once has the winning candidate received as much as 61 percent of the popular vote. That was Lyndon Johnson, who got that 61 percent against Barry Goldwater, in 1964. FDR against Alf Landon in 1936, Richard Nixon against George McGovern in 1972, and Warren Harding ag...
All the other winning candidates got less. This seems obvious, but focus on what it means: Every new president takes office knowing that 40+ percent of the public wishes he hadn’t won. In response, every one of them has at least tried to court some people from the other side.
The long litany of inaugural addresses, which you can peruse at the invaluable UC Santa Barbara American Presidency Project site, contains one example after another of new presidents trying to expand their support. For instance: Jimmy Carter’s inaugural address, which I helped work on, devoted its very first line to th...
There are countless other examples, but the main point is: out of decency, out of political calculation, out of the primal political-psychology impulse to be liked, and perhaps too because they have been sobered by the responsibilities of office, nearly all presidents start out trying to be unifiers. On the campaign tr...
The language of us is foreign to Trump. When applied to the U.S. citizens who live in Puerto Rico. When applied to traditional U.S. allies who are part of NATO. When applied to the elected officials of another party who share governing responsibility. When applied to anything. In all these cases, it’s simpler: me, and ...
Does this seem unusual? That’s because it is.
The other duty that previous presidents recognize as falling to them involves the emotional, ceremonial, inspirational, and even parental responsibilities of being the symbolic head of the national family. At moments of national stress or tragedy, most previous presidents have risen to this responsibility without even ...
After the space shuttle Challenger blew up, Ronald Reagan gave a brief, moving speech what this meant for the country as a whole. (“Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss.”) Bill Clinton...
Every president, except this one.
The absence of that instinct—to unify, to heal, to reassure, to embolden—is the most notable aspect of Trump’s response to anyone else’s suffering.
Checks and balances: One of Congress’s supposed powers and obligations involves “oversight” of this executive branch. That is: hearings, investigations, and other ways of determining how members of the Executive Branch are carrying out their jobs.
At their highest level, these have involved public sessions like those that Senator J. William Fulbright, of Arkansas, held about the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Or that Senator Frank Church, of Idaho, held about excesses of U.S. intelligence agencies in the 1970s. Or that Senator William Proxmire, of Wisconsin, held abo...
At their most tendentious, they have included spectacles like those of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early Cold War era, under Representative Martin Dies of Texas. Or the two-year-long proceedings of the Select Committee on Benghazi, under Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. Or the multi-ye...
In short: Congress likes to hold hearings. Right at this moment it has a situation in which many thousands of U.S. citizens died after a natural disaster; in which a similar disaster is in prospect; in which news reports have highlighted possible fraud or mismanagement in relief efforts. After the Hurricane Katrina dis...
Back during the 2016 campaign, I put out 152 installments of the Trump Time Capsule series, chronicling what was known about this man at just the time the Republican party was deciding to accept (and then embrace) him as its nominee, and as the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were delivering him an Elec...
Until November, 2000, no living American had any reason to view the “Electoral College versus popular vote” distinction as anything other than a quaintly antique curiosity, since the most recent time there’d been any difference in results was back in 1888. That was before cars or airplanes had been invented; when not e...
Through modern America’s 20th-century rise, citizens and politicians alike, Republicans and Democrats and others, assumed that, whatever the theoretical oddities of 18th-century drafting, the U.S. would in reality function like the many other democracies it inspired, and base public office on public support. But now th...
The brand-new print issue of The Atlantic, available online today (but Subscribe!), is all about the structural contradictions in modern democracy, and why it may be more imperiled around the world than many Americans would like to think.
The U.S. version of representative democracy has always involved a careful calibration of the balance between direct-democratic popular sentiment, and deliberately less-democratic buffers. These range from the original intention of the Electoral College (to ensure that the populace didn’t choose the wrong person, and t...
Two of the past five presidential elections—versus zero of 27, from 1892 through 1996—have gone to the candidate who lost the popular vote. Both of those majority/minority presidents—George W. Bush in 2000, and Donald Trump in 2016—governed as if they had won FDR- or Reagan-scale mandates.
The 51 senators who now make up the GOP’s governing majority represent about 30 million fewer constituents than do the 49 Democrats and independents. And thanks to gerrymandering and similar factors, a 1 percent GOP edge in House of Representatives voting in 2016—just over 63 million total votes for Republican candidat...
These House and Senate measures are of course imperfect—vote turnout varies in contested House races versus safe seats, and I’m doing the Senate tally by assigning each Democratic or Republican senator half of his or her state’s total population. The Democratic total for the Senate comes to about 180 million people; th...
I mention these disproportions to introduce a Time Capsule series for the 55 days between now and the 2018 midterm elections. It will focus on the 51 people who have disproportionate power. Unlike the other 330+ million Americans, members of this group could do something directly to hold Donald Trump accountable for wh...
Any one senator, of majority or minority party alike, has vast power to hold up the Senate’s business in order to get his or her way—on a point that really matters to the senator. The filibuster is one obvious tool. Ever seen the old movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? Ever watch Rand Paul try to hold up renewal of the...
Any one senator, who happens to be a committee chair, is in a very strong position to: hold hearings, issue subpoenas, and generally direct public and governmental attention to an issue. In the House, think of Representative Trey Gowdy, and what he did for years with the Benghazi hearings. Think of Devin Nunes. In the ...
Any two senators could decide, temporarily, to declare themselves independent and “caucus with the Democrats” and thus shift operational control of the Senate from Republican hands to the Democrats’. The chairmanship of every committee would change. So would the majority lineup in every one of those committees. Hearing...
But 55 days before the election, not a one of these 51 people has dared act. Not after the “anonymous” op-ed in The New York Times; not after Bob Woodward’s Fear (and the dozen previous books to similar effect); not after … anything.
I inferred an “oh, sure” eye-roll through the phone line. The senator pointed out that steps like those would represent a total challenge to the party. The lesson I took was that if senators are going to think of themselves as party loyalists apart from anything else—apart from local concerns in their state, apart from...
Will anything about GOP bashfulness change in the next 55 days, or through the month-plus after that in which this Congress will still have power? Will one of them act, or even two?
I don’t know, but as with the original Time Capsules I’ll try to record this every day or two, for the long-term record. History is being made in real time.
Stakeholders, governorship aspirants and statutory delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State led by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr. Babachir Lawal have warned that any attempt to foist the indirect primary option on the party in the state may cause the party the 2019 ...
The stakeholders including Dr. Mahmud Halilu, believed to be brother to the Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari and former EFCC Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu told a news conference in Abuja at the weekend that only primaries conducted through direct option will be acceptable to the generality of members of the party in t...
The former SGF who spoke on behalf of the stakeholders said that as a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, there is no way a proper stakeholders meeting can be held in the state without being invited, adding that the meeting which endorsed indirect primary for the state was secretly called and held ins...
He reminded leaders of the party at all level of a pending appeal against the conduct of the congresses that brought the current leaders to office in the state, adding that any primary conducted by such a group will be null and void.
Lawal said: “Further to our press conference of 27th April 2018 on APC elective congresses, we are constrained to once again express our total rejection to the Indirect Primaries being concocted by Adamawa State Government and their cohorts.
“You will recall that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of our great Party APC has adopted the Direct Primaries for the nomination of candidates for the 2019 general elections. We hereby commend our dear National Chairman Comrade Adams Oshiomole and members of the NEC of our Party for the progressive landmark deci...
“For a long time especially in the days building up to the current political activities, otherwise key and respectable stakeholders in the Party have been increasingly marginalized and Party activities and processes carried out more and more shrouded in secrecy to exclude legitimate interests.
“This policy of exclusion came to a head with the purported meeting of the State Executive Committee convened at the Government house on Monday, September 3, 2018 where Indirect Primaries was allegedly adopted as mode of electing Party flag bearers.

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