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Demolition can move forward in Taksim Square's Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, according to an administrative court's ruling. From Hurriyet Daily News: An Istanbul administrative court has unanimously overturned a lower court’s stay of order ruling on planned construction on Istanbul’s Gezi Park, allowing the demolition of...

Bryan Jacoutot ably explored the core reason for the Motor City's recently fiscal crash: unfunded liablities. As a former citizen of the Detroit area, I simply shake my head, as the city's race-based politics and poor business environment caused me to flee to the Golden State...

Detroit's declaration of bankruptcy has been discussed in countless articles, both the how and the why of it. One thing nearly everyone agrees on is that it's been a long time coming. Just how long? Well, if you'd like a musical interlude, just listen to this...

I was looking for a little lighter fare to close out a Sunday night, and this was one was sitting unread in my newsfeeds.  It made me smile.  I hope more like this 19 year old have as much passion as they try to navigate...

When did we start measuring the "success" of Congress based on the number of laws it passes?  Seriously.  I'm asking: when?  I don't really remember the moment or the year or even the decade, but at some point, Americans got into our heads that the...

Detroit’s recent bankruptcy filing, the largest of any municipality in U.S. history, has drawn a lot of attention to the sustainability problem that has long been facing many state and local governments. While the bankruptcy has been attributed to a number of factors, the majority of...

The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that supports the Assad regime, claims it has hacked the database server of messaging and social networking service, Tango. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA12/status/358355124751568896 The group posted the following message to its website Friday: The Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Tango app (video/text messages...

Sex and school...

As Professor Jacobson's recent pictorial essay noted, there is something for both the left and right to hate about the Obama Administration's use of drones. As the co-founder of San Diego's first Tea Party group, I love the grassroots initiative displayed by the citizens of one...

Just when I thought the anti-religious, anti-First Amendment left couldn't get any more base, any more insulting, I read this: The Freedom from Religion Foundation wants the proposed Statehouse Holocaust memorial changed by removing what it sees as the Jewish religious symbolism of the Star of David. In...

This is turning out to be a case of one TV station that just seems determined to perpetuate the Streisand Effect. KTVU, which was recently duped into reading off the very obviously fake names of several purported pilots from Asiana Flight 214, has apparently been trying...