Wednesday, August 2 – Hour 1 Podcast

 

San Francisco Bureaucrats Ban Sand at Playgrounds – Hit & Run : Reason.com

Don’t bother bringing a plastic shovel when you head to a San Francisco playground with the kids. The city is eliminating from all of its local playgrounds.

Mercedes drops contractor in wake of CBS News investigation – CBS News

Mercedes-Benz banned a from its plant in , , after an CBS  investigation found that foreign workers had obtained visas on the basis of roles substantially different from those they ended up occupying.

How Trump Could Force Congress and Its Staff to Live Under Obamacare

I don’t think the president should use this as a threat to get Congress to repeal. I think he should just do it. The funds are not drawn from any statutory authority. could have Congress in a very, very difficult spot.

 

Daily : Wednesday, Aug. 2

 

San Francisco Bureaucrats Ban Sand at Playgrounds – Hit & Run : Reason.com

Don’t bother bringing a plastic shovel when you head to a San Francisco playground with the kids. The city is eliminating from all of its local playgrounds.

Mercedes drops contractor in wake of CBS News investigation – CBS News

banned a construction subcontractor from its plant in , , after an CBS News found that foreign workers had obtained visas on the basis of roles substantially different from those they ended up occupying.

How Trump Could Force Congress and Its Staff to Live Under Obamacare

I don’t think the president should use this as a threat to get Congress to repeal. I think he should just do it. The funds are not drawn from any statutory authority. Trump could have Congress in a very, very difficult spot.


Hour 2

Pentagon investigators find ‘security risks’ in government’s immigrant recruitment program, ‘infiltration’ feared | Fox News

Defense Department investigators have discovered “potential security risks” in a program that has enrolled more than 10,000 foreign-born individuals into the U.S. armed forces since 2009, Fox News has learned exclusively, with sources on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon expressing alarm over “” and enrollees now unaccounted for.

Federal Appeals Court vacates South Bend Police tapes case – 95.3 MNC

The Appeals Court made no determination on whether the recording of the tapes violated the Wiretap Act. Instead, it ruled that the matter must be resolved in state rather than federal court.

Lynch elementary schools will lose the ‘Lynch’ due to racial implications | OregonLive.com

The national movement to change racially offensive names of buildings, sports teams and landmarks will soon touch a group of schools in southeast Portland. Lynch Meadows, and Lynch View elementary schools will shed their “Lynch” before the upcoming year in response to growing concern about the word’s racial connotations.

VIDEO: New York Deputies Knock on Vietnam Vet’s Door, Confiscate Guns

A 70-year-old Vietnam veteran said he was watching television in his Taberg, New York, home when deputies knocked on his door, then entered and confiscated his firearms.

Brain ‘on switch’ for burning fat after meal discovered by scientists | The Independent

The new study helps solve the puzzle of how the body chooses to burn or store fat, and how it makes use of the energy from food that people eat.


Hour 3

They trashed their wedding photographer over a $125 fee, so a jury told them to pay her $1 million – The Washington Post

On Friday, a jury in Dallas decided that the tale of the ransomed wedding photos was not heartbreaking, and not even true.

USC Suspends Football Player for ‘Assault’ the ‘Victim’ Even Says Never Happened

In her statement about the incident, Katz insisted that it was the school that victimized her, not her boyfriend.

Former Obama Aide Ben Rhodes now a person of interest in House Intelligence Committee unmasking investigation

Former Obama White House National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes is now emerging as a person of interest in the ‘s unmasking investigation, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the committee to the National Security Agency (NSA). This adds Rhodes to the growing list of top Obama government officials who may have improperly unmasked Americans in communications intercepted overseas by the NSA, Circa has confirmed.

Bees Are Bouncing Back From Colony Collapse Disorder – Bloomberg

The number of U.S. honeybees, a critical component to agricultural production, rose in 2017 from a year earlier, and deaths of the insects attributed to a mysterious malady that’s affected hives in North America and Europe declined, according a U.S. Department of Agriculture honeybee health survey released Tuesday.

Show Prep: Tues, Oct. 20

Jim Webb May Run As An Independent | Truth Revolt

Bernie Sanders: let’s turn the Post Office into a bank! « Hot Air

Bernie Sanders wants to turn the U.S. Postal Service into a bank so it can put out loans. He told Fusion.net last week how awesome of an idea it’d be because it would fight back against those dirty, rotten payday lenders.

Ballot ‘selfies’ law in Indiana cannot be enforced, judge rules – 953MNC.com

A federal judge has barred the state of from enforcing a new law that prohibits voters from taking photos of their election ballots and sharing the images on social media.

Students Say They Are Absolutely Dumbfounded by Reason School Is Punishing Them for ‘Racial Insensitivity’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

On Friday, students from Atascocita gave Summer Creek students a decorated Halloween bucket along with a , coconut, pineapple and watermelon gum.

US Army forced to borrow British helicopters amid budget cuts – Telegraph

America no longer has any tanks in Europe, and the number of US troops stationed there has decreased by more than a third since 2012. Many of the weapons used for Nato exercises rotate between bases in the US and in Europe.

Federal Spending Increased $183.9B in FY15—But Spending on Defense, Homeland Security, Justice Declined

Even as overall federal increased by $183,890,000,000 from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2015, spending for the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Justice declined, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for September.

S.F., Nevada reach tentative settlement in patient-dumping case – SFGate

has agreed to pay $400,000 to for the costs of caring for 24 homeless, indigent former mental patients who were sent to the city with one-way bus tickets from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital.

Federal court tells the DEA to stop harassing medical marijuana providers – The Washington Post

In a scathing decision, a federal court in California has ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s interpretation of a recent medical bill “defies language and logic,” “tortures the plain meaning of the statute” and is “at odds with fundamental notions of the rule of law.” The ruling could have a broad impact on the ‘s ability to prosecute federal medical marijuana cases going forward.

Illinois School Teaches 12 Yr-Old Kids 9-11 Attacks Had Nothing to do with Islam – The Gateway Pundit

“We have to present, with 9/11 or anything, it wasn’t a religion that did that. It was bad men that did that. I think you have to take moments like that and use them as teachable moments,” he said. “You have to look at the age group and your students, and to me you can talk about different things in the world and teach about tolerance.”

Many Low-Income Workers Say ‘No’ to Health Insurance

“Based on what we’ve seen in the marketplace, we’re advising some of our clients to expect single-digit take rates,” said Michael A. Bodack, an broker in Harrison, N.Y. “One to 2 percent isn’t unusual.”

Vulgar Personality Quiz Angers Parents Arizona | The Daily Caller

“Would you go to a wife-swapping party?”

High School Bans 21-Gun Salute Honoring Vets Because it ‘Promotes Gun Violence’ | Truth Revolt

Veterans firing rifles at the assembly has been a fun, safe tradition for as long as some students can remember. But even though the vets are firing blanks, and since all guns under any circumstances are viewed as being possessed by Satan now, the tradition has been nixed.

Sears Ditches ‘Infidel’ Hat For CAIR | The Daily Caller

John Brennan email hacked, U.S. investigates – CNNPolitics.com

The FBI and Secret Service are investigating reports that non-government personal accounts associated with Director John Brennan as well as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson were hacked, law enforcement officials told CNN.

How You Pay Bills May Affect Your Credit | The Daily Caller

Lenders are no longer just interested in whether you pay your bills or not. Increasingly, they are looking at how you pay those bills to determine whether they want you as a customer.