Secret Service Chief Gets the Third Degree, Doves Get Hawkish, FCC Won’t Block Your Games Anymore : P.M. Links

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Secret Service Director
Julia Pierson got
raked over the coals for the very un-secret breach of White
House security.
A host of former Democratic doves have
learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong are
expected to have long-term ramifications for both the former
British colony and for all of China.
The exodus of people fleeing northeastern states—largely
because of high taxes—is shrinking the region’s share of the
national population, and consequently its
congressional representation and political clout. Heh.
Many Syrians along the Turkish border are abandoning everything
to
get as far away from ISIS as they can.
The FCC
dropped its NFL-enabling sports blackout policy, so you just
may be able to watch the damned game you want to see after
all.
California has now
banned plastic bags because…well, it’s California.
A New Hampshire cop involved in a really sketchy drug bust that
resulted in a fatal shooting
may get his job back despite criticism from his police chief
and the state’s attorney general. It looks like city officials are
afraid of the police union.