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Looks like the air battle over Newport Beach has flared up again. In a mini-replay of recent history, the Orange County Board of Supervisors is considering expanding business jet operations at John Wayne Airport–prompting the rich folks in Newport to protest that the plan would increase noise and ai...

Investigators probing two deadly crashes of Boeing Co. 737 MAX airliners are grappling with a hybrid of old and new technology, where a complex piece of software controls hydraulic pumps and motors similar to those used when Lyndon Johnson was president. The plane, first designed in the 1960s and mo...

(snip) But the number of Americans who use cannabis heavily is soaring. In 2006, about 3 million Americans reported using the drug at least 300 times a year, the standard for daily use. By 2017, that number had increased to 8 million—approaching the 12 million Americans who drank every day. Put anot...

I am the biggest, I am the strongest, I am the... most pugnacious

PG&E Corp. equipment started more than one fire a day in California on average in recent years as a historic drought turned the region into a tinderbox. The utility’s unsuccessful efforts to prevent such blazes have put it in a state of crisis. The fires included one on Oct. 8, 2017, when nearly...

And, I don't know why we need an Executive Branch. Just put Limpaw and Coulter in charge. They are, after all.

(snip) The more lasting damage will derive from the shoddy, humiliating way Mr. Trump treated the secretary and his generals on such a core military issue as deployments in Syria. Jim Mattis is not some neoconservative bent on staying in Syria for years. He is less hawkish on Syria and Iran than nat...

Well, if you want to split hair, go carry a dictionary. For most of their supporters, both Sanders and Trump, populism was about issue that can be summed in one sentence, no thought required.

So much for the good feeling about that trade framework supposedly negotiated between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on the weekend. Equity markets rallied on Monday following reports by U.S. officials that the U.S.-China dinner in Argentina represented tangible trade progress. But stocks ga...

Oh c'mon! Whiny Donny is a populist because he is promising things that he cannot deliver. Because he is trying to "feel the pain" of many who lost their jobs even though he got all those millions from daddy.

And, yes, immigration and isolation are part of it.

(snip) If this year’s midterm elections are any clue, the populist surge on which Mr. Trump capitalized two years ago isn’t spreading widely. In fact, when measured by two key indicators of populist and nationalist sentiment—immigration and free trade—it hasn’t spread much at all. For businesses wor...

Of course he does not give a damn.. until the new House will demand to see his tax returns; until the new House will demand he account for the emoluments that benefited him and his spawns.

Trump Met With Backlash After Inadvertently Referring To Fire-Scarred ‘Paradise’ As ‘Pleasure’ Donald Trump has received some backlash on social media after inadvertently referring to the northern California community of Paradise as Pleasure. The slip-up occurred after he visited the fire-scarred ar...

After many, many long years, Orange County voters finally booted Surfin’ Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and District Attorney Tony Rackauckas from office. The 48th Congressional District will now be represented by a Democrat, Harley Rouda. And longtime Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer, a former p...

I've heard that in the 70s most elected officials were Democrats, but they moved toward the R.

And now, if we can just put the fire down..

Ten years before man walked on the moon, a group of software engineers created the Common Business-Oriented Language—better know as Cobol—to standardize business computer programming... Indeed, despite its advanced age, Cobol is still the most prevalent programming language in the financial-services...

I think that if one's computer get locked by ransomware, the only alternative is to pay.

But one has to be quite fit...

Oh, wanted to add that shortly after that story was published Google said they were removing the ads. Would not have made a difference for me..