AUSTIN, Texas–The Child Protective Services (CPS) Division of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) released the second of two reports that were created as part of an “Operational Assessment” conducted by The Stephens Group (TSG), a consulting
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has today announced his party’s pledge to local democracy, ensuring that decisions take place at a micro-level, rather than at a national level. Farage also backed the use of referenda over contentious national issues, stating that
Long rumoured and long delayed, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos finally announced a smartphone: the Amazon Fire. The Fire phone joins Amazon’s growing tech lineup including Fire HD tablets and Fire TV. Amazon? The book store company now sells a full line
Pro-Russians in east Ukraine rejected President Petro Poroshenko’s truce and engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian troops early Thursday morning near Krasny Liman. “We issued an ultimatum to the terrorists overnight to surrender their weapons. We guarantee their safety and
Ben Brogan, the Deputy Editor of the Telegraph who is rumoured to have been sacked in today’s mass clear out at the paper, has cancelled a lunchtime speaking engagement. Brogan was due to chair a session at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on
The British government is allowed to perform mass surveillance of Britons’ social media and email accounts because the servers are based abroad, a security tribunal has heard. The Daily Mirror reports that Security and Counter-Terrorism chief Charles Farr said the
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition on June 16th by Argentina to stop a group of its sovereign bondholders from foreclosing on Argentine assets in the U.S. The decision effectively ends five years of legal battles in U.S. courts.
This article originally appeared in City Journal Silicon Valley innovators love to talk about “disruptive innovation,” the iconic phrase coined by Harvard’s Clayton Christensen. But today, the innovators’ dilemma–to borrow from Christensen again–is how best to confront disruptive regulation from Washington, D.C.
The news just keeps going from bad to worse for President Obama and disgraced former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner, thanks in large part to Judicial Watch’s investigative work. JW has been instrumental in uncovering evidence of Lerner’s
Mary Barra, the embattled CEO of General Motors, currently embroiled in a recall scandal, is also on the Board of NSA surveillance contractor General Dynamics. Specifically, General Dynamics is the contractor helping the NSA process recorded phone calls going in and
The Guardian published a little something from Owen Jones on Sunday evening on the back of all of this talk about ‘British values’. His article entitled, “Sorry, David Cameron, but your British history is not mine” discusses the differences between
Russia gas company Gazprom shut off supplies to Ukraine, which could affect Europe. Russia provides gas to Europe and the majority of the pipelines flow through Ukraine. “Regarding transit risks (to the EU), they exist and they are not insignificant,”
TrackingPoint has developed ShotView, an app that allows shooters to use Google Glass to aim at targets around corners. This system will enable soldiers to aim and shoot, simultaneously “protecting them from return fire.” According to RT.com, TrackingPoint describes a
I’ve been reflecting on the recent tour de force developer conference held by Apple: the WWDC. CEO Tim Cook and his team presented a sweeping overhaul of the software systems that power the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. Since Steve
This summer one woman is offering a new kind of kids’ summer camp. While some youngsters are crafting, playing sports, or honing their science skills, the kids at Camp CEO Kids will be dreaming up products, making them reality, and
LUBBOCK, Texas–Having lost support in four consecutive legislative sessions, supporters of a ban on smoking in all workplaces are taking their fight to individual cities. The West Texas Smoke Free Coalition targeting Lubbock and Smoke Free Wichita Falls are the
LUBBOCK, Texas–The Texas Tech University Board of Regents on Thursday approved Texas State Senator Robert Duncan as the next chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. On July 7th, Duncan will assume his duties as the fourth chancellor of the system. In today’s
Tesla CEO Elon Musk released a statement on Thursday, vowing his company would “not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” He said that patents hanging on the wall of Tesla headquarters have
AUSTIN, Texas–After being turned out of office by primary voters in the May runoff, State Sen. Bob Deuell (R-Greenville) now finds himself facing a lawsuit from a conservative pro-life organization allegedly he illegally attempted the silence the group during the
A watchdog group has called on the California Department of Motor Vehicles to slow Google down in its rush to get the company’s driverless cars on the road. A prototype for the vehicle was released in May. According to the
Dr. Bob Holsworth, a longtime observer and prescient analyst of Virginia’s politics who has moderated many statewide debates, has seen it all in the Commonwealth. But on Wednesday morning, Holsworth told Breitbart News that Dave Brat’s shocking defeat of House
About.me has raised $11 million from investors and plans to revitalize the personal identity networking website, according to TechCrunch. Co-founder Tony Conrad says the money will add features, make it more user friendly and will invigorate the site with the
It’s been 51 years since the Equal Pay Act was signed, but women still don’t have equal pay. #TimeForProgress pic.twitter.com/z8ojhj9Zr7 — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 10, 2014 — Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Kennedy assassination, the first moonwalk, and September 11,
The former creator of Google Maps and former Chief Technology Officer for Facebook is joining Taser International Inc’s board of directors to enhance its expansion into the market of wearable surveillance equipment for law enforcement officers. According to TechFlash, Bret
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden‘s epic revelations of the existence of numerous global surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA), the Five Eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States)
