The White House is pressuring
Congress to authorize
arming and training Syrian rebels, possibly as part of a
federal funding bill.- The Department of Justice is starting a pilot program to try to
discourage
Americans from joining terrorist groups like ISIS and going to
war overseas. Given the general failure of the federal government’s
war on drugs, we can probably look forward to some really stupid
messaging. The program is also about catching them before they
(allegedly) strike, so maybe we should be worried about more ginned
up “sting” operations against loners and losers. - Microsoft has purchased the studio that created
Minecraft for $2.5 billion. Remember when the creator of
Minecraft got angry when virtual reality headset maker
Oculus Rift sold out to Facebook? Good times. - British Prime Minster David Cameron is
begging Scotland voters to choose against independence,
comparing it to a “painful divorce,” as though there would be no
possibility for things like trade and immigration between the two
of them. - A new, strict dress code at a Staten Island school has resulted
in
hundreds of detentions over the past two weeks over things like
too-short shorts, hoodies, and sunglasses. The school, by the way,
has no air conditioning and the area had been suffering from a heat
wave.
Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democrat challenging Sen. Mitch
McConnell in Kentucky, is running as far away from President Barack
Obama as she can for her race, going so far as to engage in skeet
shooting in her ads.
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