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The Willamette Weekly, Portland’s alternative newspaper, reports that the Justice Department placed Marshall on leave earlier this month pending an investigation of allegations that she stalked one of her male prosecutors.
The paper reports that the stalking allegedly involved text messages and emails, which would provide documentary evidence of her behavior. Neither Marshall nor the subordinate responded for comment to the paper, which wrote that it was unclear the nature of their relationship.
Marshall was nominated for the position by President Obama in 2010 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2011.
Posted: 3/27/15 at 1:08 PM under News Story.
Thousands of employers will blame “ObamaCare” for whatever unpopular moves they impose their workers. It’s the obvious play. In many cases, this blame will be mostly or entirely misplaced. Other times, the blame will be justified, reflecting glitches or unintended consequences of the new law. Either way, many workers will believe what their employers tell them. Millions of workers with relatively modest incomes will see their lives getting a little worse when they were hoping that health reform would make their lives a little better. Other people—I suspect many more—will see their lives getting a little or a lot better. Some of the most deserving people will seek benefits and medical care–only to discover that no help is forthcoming because their states rejected Medicaid expansion. Republicans had better hope that this is a disorganized and politically marginal group.
We’ve been seeing this all along. For the past year or so, Obamacare has been the perfect foil for every corporation in America that’s done something unpopular with its benefits package. In the past, they were forced to vaguely blame their handiwork on “rising prices” and leave it at that, but now they have something better. Cutting back on benefits? Obamacare! Raising copays? Obamacare! Reducing hours? Obamacare! Whatever it is, all they have to do is say that it’s a response to Obamacare. CEOs and HR directors across the country are pleased as punch that for at least a little while, they can plausibly deflect criticism for things they were probably planning to do anyway. It’s been a godsend.
But deceptive or not, Pollack is right that it’s a real phenomenon and that workers will often believe what their bosses tell them. There’s not a lot liberals can do about this when it comes to smallish companies—other than relentlessly highlighting the truth and pointing to positive experiences around the country—but in the case of large corporations I hope liberals are able to make it clear that it’s a bad PR decision to badmouth Obamacare. The Fortune 5000 folks don’t have to be Obamacare boosters, but we should expect them to at least remain neutral. If they’re on the side of the tea partiers, they should know that there’s a PR price to be paid.
One day left. It starts tomorrow, folks.
Channel Islanders are marking the First World War Centenary with special ceremonies, art installations and a look back through the stories of people who were there.
In total there were 1,000 beacons across the UK and the overseas territories.
The States of Guernsey Treasury have introduced the commemorative note into circulation with a total of 500,000 being commissioned.
Today marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. The armistice on November 11, 1918 saw Allied and German forces cease fighting.
Schools in Jersey and Guernsey have been marking the 100 year anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Bells have tolled at St. Anne's Church in Alderney for the past four years specifically to honour each of the 42 islanders who died in WWI.
Jerseywoman Isabella Cale, collected recipes during the Great War, from the people she met and wrote them on scraps of paper.
Islander Reg Guille tells us his personal story of a generation lost to his family, and why he says we should never forget.
Members of the Jubilee Day Centre in Guernsey have been getting crafty and turning their hand to painting.
Transparent silhouettes are installed to help people understand the loss felt by communities a hundred years ago.
Ahead of Remembrance Day this weekend, we’re looking at different commemorations across the Channel Islands.
The billboard, sporting the hashtag #SocialismTakesCapitalismCreates, is paid for by the Job Creators Network, an advocacy organization funded by conservative foundations and corporations. They and the numerous other presumed champions of free enterprise who are lavishing praise on the billboard would have served their cause better had the billboard title been abbreviated to just “Thanks, AOC!” On Amazon, Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic New York congresswoman and darling of the left, has done a service to free enterprise by vanquishing what would have become one of America’s most egregious examples of big business getting in bed with government.
There is nothing praiseworthy or capitalistic about governments giving Amazon or any company US$3 billion in tax breaks. A few conservative organizations — National Review and The Federalist among them — did, to their credit, back Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism of New York’s corporate-welfare offer. But many of those claiming conservative credentials who voiced their views, including Fox News commentators and Breitbart, for the most part sided with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in mocking Ocasio-Cortez for her belief that the US$3 billion could have been better spent elsewhere.
Memo to Mayor de Blasio. There is no free lunch for New York, only for Amazon. Every advantage you and your political allies give Amazon acts to disadvantage Amazon’s competitors, reducing their profitability and the tax revenues they’re able to generate for you. That disadvantage is most dramatic in the retail apocalypse in bricks and mortar stores — in addition to the carnage seen to date, over one quarter of the remaining shopping malls in the U.S. are expected to go bankrupt in the next few years, representing the loss of thousands more stores and tens of thousands more jobs.
Amazon’s strength lies largely in an army of lobbyists skilled in gaming the system. According to Bloomberg, Amazon lobbies more government agencies on more issues than any other tech company, to ensure that government policies on taxes, on transportation, on the postal system, on everything important to its bottom line go its way. Amazon outcompeted bricks and mortar stores for two decades through lobbyists that convinced politicians to exempt taxes on the out-of-state sales of online merchandise. With the recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows states to start taxing such sales, Amazon’s lobbyists will be turning their efforts to burdening its small competitors with regulatory compliance costs that maintain Amazon’s advantage.
According to the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, while profitable major corporations have paid an average of over 21 per cent in federal taxes, over the last 10 years Amazon’s use of tax loopholes has lowered its average to just three per cent. In the last two years, during which it earned US$16.8 billion in profits, it paid no federal income tax at all, thanks to its use of unspecified tax credits and executive stock options.
Amazon’s army of lobbyists is skilled at extracting taxpayer subsidies for an astonishing number of its developments. Apart from the US$3 billion from New York that Amazon decided to abandon, in the last year alone it obtained US$750 million from Virginia for a headquarters, US$102 million for a Nashville logistics centre, US$30 million for a Boston robotics facility and US$5 million for a lowly North Carolina warehouse fulfillment centre. Plus the subsidies it receives from the United States Postal Service, whose package operation effectively operates as an arm of Amazon.
Splish splash, a Pennsylvania woman will be taking a bath — behind bars.
Pocono Mountain Regional Police served an arrest warrant on Marisol Delarosa, 45, and she tried closing the door, telling cops she couldn’t come with them until she had taken a bath.
They wouldn’t wait and grabbed Delarosa immediately, booking her for allegedly receiving stolen property — and resisting arrest.
Will the prosecution please rest — from biting the leg of that lingerie-shop worker?
Sarah Naughton, an assistant state’s attorney in Cook County, Ill., was drunk when she strolled into Taboo Tabou in Chicago, police said.
When she was asked to leave, Naughton, 31, became belligerent and bit a worker, cops said.
She has been placed on administrative leave.
A Phoenix man allegedly dressed his 16-year-old nephew in a sheet and had him carry a fake grenade launcher in the streets — all to test police-response time.
Michael David Turley, 39, was charged with giving a false impression of a terrorist act, endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and misconduct involving a simulated explosive.
A woman survived a 60-foot fall off an Alaska cliff, after she became distracted while texting.
A Hong Kong tycoon will pay a male suitor $65 million to charm his beautiful, successful daughter into marriage.
But there’s an obstacle for any guy accepting Cecil Chao Sze-tung’s challenge: His 33-year-old daughter, Gigi, is an open lesbian.
Daddy wants to prove it’s not so.
According to the Western media, most Israelis, including leading peace advocates, support the ongoing war in Lebanon. But Israeli doves are beginning to speak out. Will it make a difference?
When the current Israeli war in Lebanon began, some leading Israeli doves quickly declared their support for it: Novelist Amos Oz, one of the founders of Peace Now and a tireless advocate of a two-state solution, wrote a bellicose op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times on July 19. “The Israeli peace movement should support Israel’s attempt at self-defense, pure and simple,” Oz declared.
Yossi Beilin went even further. He’s another prominent peace activist, one of the architects of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians and justice minister at the time of Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. He was also one of the architects of the 2003 Geneva Accord, a joint Israeli-Palestian nongovernmental two-state solution to the conflict that was comprehensive, detailed and followed closely the principles outlined in the 2000 paramaters laid out by President Clinton. In a July 25 Washington Post article headlined “Israeli ‘Doves’ Say Response Is Legitimate,” Beilin was quoted saying that instead of invading Lebanon, Israel should have attacked Syria for arming Hezbollah.
The last time Israel invaded Lebanon, in 1982, hundreds of thousands of Israelis demonstrated against the war. Today, opponents of the war are few–although 5,000 marched in Tel Aviv on August 5, calling for an end to the conflict and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, according to Ha’aretz .
As the death toll mounts and the impossibility of achieving the war’s goals becomes clearer, the way will be open for more Israelis to join these brave voices–maybe even Yossi Beilin and Amos Oz.
Over here at The Observer, we were pretty excited about the news that Bush would be playing Bowery Ballroom on July 28 because yes, we are that desperate for a nostalgia fix. Though we don’t have the highest of hopes for their new album, Sea of Memories (speaking of nostalgia…), which will be released in September, we’re sure all you Bush fans out there have really been pining for a reunion since those dark days of 2002 when the band split up. As for the rest of us, you remember Bush, don’t you? They sang that song “Glycerine,” from their six times-platinum debut Sixteen Stone, a song we still don’t understand. And not in some grand philosophical “this is so deep I just can’t grasp it” kind of way, but literally we don’t know what Gavin Rossdale is saying. The song’s meaning has eluded The Observer since we first heard it on alternative radio while our father drove us to elementary school.
Ok. So far so good.
Hm? What was that about you and me?
Oh. Glycerine. Wait. The Observer doesn’t understand.
Right. The Observer heard you, Mr. Rossdale. But what does that mean? Are you referring to Glycerol, the colorless, odorless compound found in many pharmaceutical drugs?
Sigh. Alright, Bush. We give in. It is kind of catchy. Five million Bush fans can’t be wrong or whatever. Just don’t expect us to sing along at your concert.
Emotional moment autistic boy is overcome watching Coldplay \| HELLO!
A video showing an autistic boy totally overcome with emotion as he listens to Coldplay has swept the internet. The clip, which shows the young child watching the band perform their hit song Fix You at a concert in Mexico, has gone viral since it was posted online – and has even been shared by the band themselves.
It was filmed by proud father Luis Vazquez and his wife, as they took their little boy to see his favourite band. Alongside the video, Luis wrote: "Something my wife and I decided to share with the whole wide world. You have to watch it! It says it all! You guys #coldplay please need to see this!"
It has been shared by thousands of people on Facebook and Twitter and has over 1.9million views on YouTube. And it did indeed reach the British band, who posted it on their official page with the words: "This kind of thing makes it all worthwhile. Hola Luis y tu ijo hermoso! Love."
The clip shows the young boy trying to sing and dance along next to his father, but is so overcome with emotion he cannot help but put his head in his hands and cry. His dad, seeing his son’s reaction, also becomes emotional and presses his son's head to his as he sings the words to him.
The clip has touched social media users around the world, with many leaving comments for Luis and his son. "I just saw your video on Facebook and I just wanted to say that it really brought tears to my eyes," wrote one, while another added: "Your son a true blessing. Wow your video puts things into perspective, the real values of life. Thank you for making me want to be an even better father...."
Thanks Taregul,.. It is when I read things like this, that I find it hard to believe that these birds have not been 'programmed' by a master programmer, (' creator!') There are far too many unexplained phenomena in the natural world that I believe point to the fact that we, who believe in God, are maybe, not so stupid, after all!
What a magnificent bird! I saw a program recently that says they are threatened. We must be vigilant in protecting their habitat, and that of so many others!
Noted, thank you Tarequl. Amazing birds.
Fox News unveiled new on-screen graphics this morning, premiering the new package during this morning’s edition of Fox & Friends First.
At first look, the red, white and blue Fox logo seems brighter and sharper than it previously did, it it includes a slight white border, and, most noticeably, it no longer spins which gave it a 3D effect.
The network celebrates its 21st anniversary in a few weeks.
Scott and Amanda Jarantowski of Little Axe announce the engagement and approaching wedding of their daughter, Brittany Jarantowski of Shawnee to Daniel Hopper, also of Shawnee.
He is the son of Bruce and Janet Hopper of Shawnee.
The couple will wed 1 p.m. May 17 at Downtown Pentecostal Holiness Church.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Evelyn Jarantowski of Shawnee and the late John Jarantowski and is a graduate of Shawnee High School. She is employed at Luv N Stuff Childcare.
The groom-elect is the grandson of Orlando and Sue Metchell of Shawnee and Gail and Wanda Hopper of Woodward. He is a graduate of Bethel High School and is employed by Finley and Cook.
Cops say 71 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in west London. They released the official figure last week.
Housing campaigners took to the high court last week to challenge Labour-run Haringey council over its plan to demolish seven estates in the north London borough.
“It’s like cladding your home in solid petrol,” fire expert and surveyor Arnold Tarling told the BBC last week.
Only ten out of 203 Grenfell Tower households have found permanent housing. Most are still waiting to be rehoused four months after the fire.
The Love Lane estate in Haringey, north London, is set to be sold off to property developers Lendlease.
Up to 1,500 people marched through North Kensington in west London on Saturday night to demand justice for the people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire.
Labour councils and Labour’s leadership seem to be on opposite sides of the fight for better housing.
The Tory-led council that ignored safety warnings ahead of the Grenfell Tower fire is still trying to sideline residents’ voices.
Opposition grows to Haringey demolition plans. Tenants delay Genesis housing association merger.
The Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network has issued tips on how to keep your home safe when going on holiday this summer.
Working in partnership with its security sponsor Avocet Hardware, Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network is urging householders to #stayABSsafe this summer by launching the #ABSsummerlockin campaign to coincide with the school summer holidays – a time of year that sees a 10 per cent increase in domestic burglaries and 40 per cent increase in outdoor thefts.
The office for National Statistics latest crime survey for England and Wales reports 92 per cent of all domestic burglary in a dwelling is committed through the front and back door, 52 per cent and 40 per cent respectively.
Furthermore, the report highlights one quarter of all burglaries are the result of forcing the lock or lock snapping as it’s more commonly known – a growing trend directly related to the increase use of uPVC and other double glazed doors.
Jim Maddan, chairman of the Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network, said: “The school holidays is a busy time for burglars as many houses are left empty when people head off for a getaway. Throw in the light nights and warmer weather and it’s no wonder there is an increase in break-ins.
Clive Lloyd, managing director of Avocet Hardware, said: “The rise in lock snapping is directly related to the increased use of uPVC and other double glazed doors, which can be found in millions of homes around the UK. By and large, these doors are fitted with a standard Euro cylinder lock that can be snapped and removed in a matter of seconds using nothing more than simple DIY tools.
For further information and updates on #ABSsummerlockin follow Twitter @N_Watch and @avocetabs. To stay up to date on Avocet news and competitions join its Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/abs.secure.
The Neighbourhood and Home Watch Network is also advising people to get to know their neighbours in a bid to lessen the chance of a burglary at their home.
Recent research by Admiral home insurance shows only one in three people in the South East make an effort to get to know their neighbours when they move house and 48 per cent don’t tell nearby homeowners when they’re going on holiday.
The growing concern is that a lack of neighbourly communication could pose a security risk to residents’ homes this summer.
Jim Maddan said: “Neighbourliness seems to have slipped down the agenda in our busy lives, and this important survey has highlighted the issues.
“At this time of year when we are often away on holiday, it is vitally important that we share our plans with our neighbours, if only to ask them to feed the pets, water the plants or to make the house look lived-in.
Joining a Neighbourhood Watch scheme is completely free and has been proven to reduce your chance of getting burgled. For further information and home security safety advice visit the Neighbourhood and Home Watch website at www.ourwatch.org.uk.
You likely haven’t heard much about CISPA lately, as the bill is past the House, and we are now waiting on the Senate to make the next move. Essentially, one of the competing cyber-security bills that is currently bouncing about the Senate needs to pass, before reconciliation can occur, and something can be sent for the President’s signature.
While the White House has stated several times that it would veto CISPA, the current administration has anointed one of the Senate bills as passable. It’s called the Lieberman-Collins bill, or the SECURE IT Act of 2012.
However, despite being heralded by some as an improvement over CISPA, a bill that attracted waves of protest, given what many, TNW included, viewed as excessively broad language in its writing, issues remain. That looseness, and the possibility of private information being handed to National Security Agency are thorny sticking points. If that sounds a touch Orwellian, well, it’s because the creation of a conduit of private citizens’ information to a government agency designed to know more than you would wish, is.
We understand that cybersecurity legislation will be on the Senate floor soon and that some may consider S. 2151 as a viable alternative to the Cybersecurity Act, S. 2105. In our view, SECURE IT is no such thing in its current form.
SECURE IT undermines privacy and cybersecurity by authorizing companies to “use cybersecurity systems” to monitor their clients’ and customers’ Internet usage for broadly-defined “cyber threat information,” by authorizing ill-defined “countermeasures” against completely undefined “cybersecurity threats,” and by immunizing companies against liability for monitoring activities and countermeasures that violate their own contractual obligations.
SECURE IT, unlike the Cybersecurity Act (S. 2105), lacks a requirement that companies make reasonable efforts to remove personally identifiable information unrelated to a cybersecurity threat before they share information for cybersecurity purposes.
It goes on, and on, in the best possible sense. I encourage you to read the full text, which you can find here.
Here’s the rough gist: the people who generally are on the right side of the privacy discussion are throwing up as many red flags as they can about this act. That’s an important piece of information. Essentially, it states that there is yet no cyber-security bill that is acceptable from a privacy standpoint, and that the leading candidate for passage is inherently flawed, as it doesn’t protect the privacy of individuals.
Not the best news, to be sure. For more, as always, the archives are your best friend.
, tension between Common and Drake first began when the Chicago veteran released his song "Sweet," which angrily dismisses "soft" rappers who sing. In an interview today with Sirius XM's Hip Hop Nation, Common said he decided to take things to the next level after Drake responded— first at a concert in Las Vegas, and then on Rick Ross's recent single "Stay Schemin.'"
"Once he said something back, that's when I was like 'Aight, I guess you wanna get in a battle with me, and if that's what you want, then I'll battle,'" Common said.
The hip hop mainstay maintains that "Sweet" wasn't specifically about Drake (though it's easy to see why many interpreted it that way), and said he's only been trying to speak up for a particular brand of hip hop that he feels has gone missing. He also dismissed the idea that the conflict is the result of both rappers being romantically linked to tennis star Serena Williams.

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