Exile on Kappert Isle

Apr 09

Intelligence director says budget cuts could be ‘insidious’ for national security -

“This is . . . a big deal to me,” Clapper said. “It is a uniform conviction across the leadership of the intelligence community that the most important resource we have is our people. So I’m going to try to do all I can — all of us are — to protect our people. If we have to furlough, then minimize the damage and the impact of doing that. All that hasn’t been worked out.”

Apr 03

New Fatwa permits rape of non-Sunni women in Syria

Apr 01

Terrorist Has Cooperated With U.S. Since Secret Guilty Plea in 2011, Papers Show -

The case of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, who was interrogated for months without a lawyer, has been seen as a test of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism tactics.

Mar 31

NGO Checks 'Unprecedented' in Post-Soviet Russia | News | The Moscow Times

Browder Warned Germany About Russian Money in Cyprus | Business | The Moscow Times

Mar 30

Accelerated Learning Would Add Trillions of Dollars in Wealth — The American Magazine

Ex-Schools Chief in Atlanta Is Indicted in Testing Scandal -

A third-grade teacher’s 2010 choice to aid a state investigator helped lead to the indictment Friday of a former superintendent and 34 others in a vast alleged cheating scheme.

Mar 26

TALLAHASSEE: Ex-RPOF chairman Jim Greer faces sentencing hearing - Florida - MiamiHerald.com

Mar 24

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg eyes political push on immigration - Michelle Quinn and Anna Palmer - POLITICO.com

Mar 23

Russian Oligarch and Critic of Putin Dies in Britain -

Once a close ally of Boris N. Yeltsin who helped install Vladimir V. Putin as president, Boris A. Berezovsky later exiled himself to Britain after a bitter falling-out with the Kremlin.