Morley Safer, a longtime reporter for CBS' 60 Minutes, has died, the network confirmed Thursday. Safer, 84, died at his home in Manhattan. He was longest-serving correspondent at CBS News. Funeral arrangements are private, CBS said, adding that memorial service will be announced at a later date.
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If you love your work that much then go ahead and work yourself to death. If you can't think of anything better to do then stay in harness until you croak. Otherwise, retire as early as you can.
#2
Bank passbook interest, certificates of deposit, affordable healthcare, real estate investment, retirement pensions, family vacations to Yellowstone; these are all antiquated concepts. Morley Safer epitomized the 'new normal' and preferred gov't model.
[Huffpoo] Donald Trump on Wednesday fulfilled his promise to release his list of potential Supreme Court nominees -- a group he has vowed would consist of conservative jurists with "great intellects."
The most notable names among his picks are Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett and U.S. Circuit Judges Diane Sykes and William Pryor, all of whom are well respected in Republican circles.
Trump’s inclusion of Willett, a libertarian legal star who has a dedicated Twitter following, is particularly curious given the judge’s prior swipes at the businessman on social media.
On Friday, Willett led the Texas Supreme Court in an unanimous ruling that the state’s crumbling school infrastructure meets "minimum constitutional requirements" despite grave budget shortfalls. Last summer, a senior editor at libertarian publication Reason praised Willett for authoring "a full-throated defense of economic liberty" in a state licensing case.
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IIRC, no presidential candidate has ever signaled a future nomination the way Trump just did. Perhaps the opportunity has never arisen, but this is still an interesting strategic move.
#9
The list is hoping to reassure Republicans, but what will it do to the 30% of Bernie voters considering voting for Trump if Hillary wins the Dem Primary?
[DAWN] PUNJAB appears to be leading the way in putting concepts of women’s protection into actual practice. In February, its provincial assembly had passed the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Protection of Women Against Violence Act, 2015. In many ways, this is perhaps the most comprehensive legislation on the subject because it also takes into account cultural realities that make women doubly vulnerable in this society and stipulates measures to address them. Then, on Tuesday, the Punjab chief minister directed the province’s top police official to create the post of DIG women protection -- to which a woman will be appointed and which will be under the IGP’s direct command -- and depute women superintendents at the Violence Against Women Centres in order to implement the aforementioned legislation.
It is encouraging that not only has the Punjab government resisted the pressure from religious parties to roll back or modify the Women’s Protection Act, but has seen fit to take follow-up steps fairly quickly. Many a good law on our statute books has been unable to make any impact because of lack of implementation. The domestic violence legislation in Sindh and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , passed in 2013 and 2014 respectively, is a case in point. In fact, where setting up implementing mechanisms is concerned, laws pertaining to violence against women or to cultural practices that violate women’s rights are particularly prone to foot-dragging. There is simply not enough enthusiasm within the relevant political circles or the bureaucracy -- both of them overwhelmingly male -- to change a status quo so skewed in their favour. The VAWCs are the linchpin of the Women’s Protection Act, containing under one roof all the facilities required to deal with cases of gender-based violence from initial reporting all the way up to post-trauma rehabilitation. Appointing a senior woman police officer specifically to head them, and giving her the requisite powers to do so effectively, makes eminent sense. Care must be taken, however, that these centres retain their specialised purpose and do not become an extension of women’s cop shoppes.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
