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Multiple Lawsuits Filed for More Than $500B Accusing Yale, USC, More of Letting Students ‘Waste’ Money Applying for Elite Schools When It’s Actually Rigged in Wake of College Admissions Cheating Scandal
Two Stanford students, Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods, filed a $5 million class action suit on Wednesday Parent Jennifer Kay Toy filed a separate $500 billion lawsuit saying her son was not admitted to some […]
Little-Known Facts About Big Pharma
The grand debates on healthcare are much like the grand debates on border security. They’re both rife with opportunities for virtue-signaling and moral imperatives, both involve big bucks and bloated bureaucracy, and both are solvable […]
Feds Arrest California Group for Aiding Chinese Exam and Visa Cheats
By Neil Munro | 14 March 2019 BREITBART — Federal investigators arrested five people for helping Chinese nationals cheat their way into U.S. universities — and then perhaps into U.S. jobs and research laboratories. “The indictment […]
Top Execs Flee Facebook: Chief Product Officer, WhatsApp CEO Both Quit; Stock Tumbles
By Tyler Durden | 147 March 2019 ZERO HEDGE — The storm clouds gathering above Facebook are getting darker by the hour. Less than one day after Facebook suffered an unprecedented outage that lasted for hours […]
Patriots Turning to #YangGang In Response to Trump, Conservatism Inc. Failure
By James Kirkpatrick | 12 March 2019 THE UNZ REVIEW — The dark horse candidate of the 2020 Democratic primary is entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who just qualified for the first round of debates by attracting over 65,000 […]
Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Facebook’s Data Deals With Phonemakers
It’s unclear when the grand jury was called By Makena Kelly | 13 March 2019 THE VERGE — Federal prosecutors are pursuing a criminal investigation into Facebook’s data deals it made with large tech companies, The New […]
Rick ‘Get In’ Singer: ‘Elite’ University Admission Edge Gamer For Hire
What the Singer college scandal illustrates more than anything is the depths that some will go to to keep up with the Cohens in a full-blown kakistocracy. Although there is a certain schadenfreude in watching […]
Doomed with Democrats, Trump’s Budget Boosts Pentagon, Targets Safety Net
By Roberta Rampton and Ginger Gibson | 12 March 2019 REUTERS — President Donald Trump called on Monday for spending more U.S. taxpayer money on the military and a U.S.-Mexico border wall, while overhauling social […]