Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’ A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More
YouTube Said to Be Planning a Subscription Option The Web site this week is expected to announce a plan to let some video makers charge a monthly subscription, according to people with knowledge of the plan. More
What the f***?! Google Glass censors foul language In order to write emails or text messages with Google Glass, you dictate words. The device is pleasantly reliable at transcribing things you say ... unless you happen to have a foul mouth. More
Elizabeth Garner has been Colorado’s demographer for two decades, and her deputy, Cindy DeGroen, has been on the job for closer to three decades. They uncovered what story the population numbers were telling and then told that story to anyone who would listen.
“Our goal is to be as close to right as possible.
“Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, spoke to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon, and both later characterized their discussion as positive while providing different descriptions of what Mexico is doing to stave off a potential tariff war,” the New York Times reports.
“While Mr. Trump posted on social media that Mexico had agreed to stop migration to the United States through Mexico, ‘effectively closing our Southern Border,”’ Ms.
“American oil executives and bond investors are urging President-elect Donald Trump to abandon his first-term policy of maximum pressure on Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and instead strike a deal: more oil for fewer migrants,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
New York Times: “Of all the Trump children, no one has stuck closer to their father’s side than Donald Jr., the president-elect’s eldest son.”
“The 46-year-old Mr. Trump has found political power and personal fortune in stoking the flame of the Make America Great Again movement his father started. He has an array of conservative-focused businesses, from a publishing company to a seven-figure annual podcasting deal.
House Republican candidate and Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) said that progressive Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should consider leaving Congress if he is elected, The Hill reports.
Said Fine: “The Hebrew Hammer is coming.”