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A Milwaukee Police officer shot and killed an armed suspect fleeing from a car on Milwaukee’s North Side.

Riots and clashes with police have been reported in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after a man was shot dead by an officer during a chase on foot on Saturday. Police say the victim was armed with a handgun.

Scores of angry African American protesters gathered near the scene of the police shooting at Sherman Boulevard. What at first seemed like a Black Lives Matter-style gathering, however, soon got out of control.

On August 14 2016 12:12 oBlade wrote:
So Hillary didn't release her taxes until August, yet in a year of campaigning I've never heard anyone complain that she hadn't, only that Trump hasn't. Meanwhile people are forgetting that she'll never release her speeches, which is what people actually wanted from her. http://hillarytranscriptclock.com/

On August 14 2016 12:39 Toadesstern wrote:

funny that Trump is criticized for things he said that go against what people expect of him while Clinton isn't criticized for things she didn't say, right?

What do you expect there to change? Clinton would be getting heat had she said she refuses to release her tax releases just like she would have been criticized had she said that maybe NATO isn't that good a thing. As it stands she never said those things though.
And I'm fairly sure had Trump not said them either the media would not be criticizing him for it either

On August 14 2016 14:46 oBlade wrote:

I have no idea why you're bringing up NATO. Clinton is never going to release transcripts of the private speeches she gave (the majority of her income is speaking fees from her status as a politician).

In nearly eight years in office, President Obama has sought to reshape the nation with a sweeping assertion of executive authority and a canon of regulations that have inserted the United States government more deeply into American life.

Once a presidential candidate with deep misgivings about executive power, Mr. Obama will leave the White House as one of the most prolific authors of major regulations in presidential history.

Blocked for most of his presidency by Congress, Mr. Obama has sought to act however he could. In the process he created the kind of government neither he nor the Republicans wanted — one that depended on bureaucratic bulldozing rather than legislative transparency. But once Mr. Obama got the taste for it, he pursued his executive power without apology, and in ways that will shape the presidency for decades to come.

The Obama administration in its first seven years finalized 560 major regulations — those classified by the Congressional Budget Office as having particularly significant economic or social impacts. That was nearly 50 percent more than the George W. Bush administration during the comparable period, according to data kept by the regulatory studies center at George Washington University.

An army of lawyers working under Mr. Obama’s authority has sought to restructure the nation’s health care and financial industries, limit pollution, bolster workplace protections and extend equal rights to minorities. Under Mr. Obama, the government has literally placed a higher value on human life.


And it has imposed billions of dollars in new costs on businesses and consumers.

Many of the new rules are little known, even as they affect the way Americans eat, love and die. People can dine on genetically engineered salmon. Women can buy emergency contraceptive pills without prescriptions. Military veterans can design their own headstones.

In its final year, the administration is enacting some of its most ambitious rules, including limits on airborne silica at job sites, an overhaul of food labels to clarify nutritional information, and a measure making millions of workers eligible for overtime pay.

The administration’s regulatory legacy has become an issue in the campaign to replace Mr. Obama, as Donald J. Trump has sharply criticized regulatory overreach and promised to undo many of the new rules. But executive power has expanded steadily under both Republican and Democratic presidents in recent decades, and both Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton have promised to act in the service of their own goals.

The new rules built on the legislative victories Mr. Obama won during his first two years in office. Those laws — the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank Act and the $800 billion economic stimulus package — transformed the nation’s health care system, curbed the ambitions of the big banks and injected financial support into a creaky economy. But as Republicans increased their control of Capitol Hill, Mr. Obama’s deep frustration with congressional opposition led to a new approach: He gradually embraced a president’s power to act unilaterally.

History may now judge the regulations to be one of Mr. Obama’s most enduring legacies. At the least, his exercise of administrative power expanded and cemented a domestic legacy that now rivals Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society in reach and scope.

In May, Mr. Obama was asked by a farmer in Elkhart, Ind., to justify the “dramatic increase” in government regulations that affected his business. “I’m not interested in regulating just for the sake of regulating,” Mr. Obama responded. “But there are some things like making sure we’ve got clean air and clean water, making sure that folks have health insurance, making sure that worker safety is a priority — that, I do think, is part of our overall obligation.”

Infuriated Republicans describe many of the new rules as unwarranted, resulting in “less jobs, less businesses, less prosperity, lower take-home pay,” in the words of the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan. Business groups, also incensed, have challenged a number of new regulations in court, delaying them or preventing them from taking effect. Some economic experts worry that the accumulation of regulation is contributing to the economy’s persistent sluggishness.

“The big issue that I grapple with is that the regulatory state keeps growing,” said Robert Hahn, an economist and a regulatory expert at the Smith School at the University of Oxford. “And as it keeps growing, when does it become too much?”


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On August 13 2016 15:11 Atreides wrote:


The ACA still doesn't do a single thing besides offer me tax credits either as far as assistance goes. Except that now instead of at least 4 providers in my state to choose from I have 1 and it is over twice as expensive.

On August 14 2016 08:54 zlefin wrote:


there's a rather long list of quotes of the known flaws with democracy. and the populace is smarter than it used to be.
it used to be less informed. and people have always been stupid (comparatively speaking at least)
There are some ways to improve the system of course.

On August 14 2016 17:13 Shingi11 wrote:
So i just want to fathom how trump's thought process on running. He is down badly in almost every comparative battle ground state and is also slipping in red to deep red states. So with all that you know what that screams to trump "I should go campaign in blue Connecticut". I just dont get it.