Kansas intern confidentiality rule: What happens in a lawmaker’s office stays there

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 15:49

TOPEKA--Interns in the Kansas Statehouse are required to sign a sweeping confidentiality agreement that employment law attorneys warn could have a chilling effect on their willingness to report harassment or illegal activity.

Anything that takes place or is said in a lawmaker’s office stays there, the document says, under threat of immediate termination.

Nurse Dies After Receiving Mandatory Flu Shot

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 15:45

A West Virginia nurse died of complications from the flu this week after being forced to recieve a mandatory flu shot at the hospital she worked at.

Stacy Sparks died Sunday after catching pneumonia while battling the flu, the Williamson Daily News reported.

Healthcare workers in the U.S. are required by law to receive flu shots or risk being suspended or fired from their job.

Trump Just Told George Soros To ‘Go To Hell’ Right To His Face

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 15:43

During this photo-op at Davos, Switzerland, where the world’s financial elite were meeting to thrash out plans for the future, President Trump couldn’t help letting slip his real feelings about billionaire George Soros.

A female reporter with a German accent asked President Trump, who had just taken his seat, “Why are you smiling so broadly, like the cat that got the cream?“

Professor Makes Students Step On American Flag To Enter Art Show

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 15:37

A professor made students step on a painted American flag to enter an art show, according to a Monday report.

Lisa Rockford, an art professor at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., painted an American flag white, cut it in half, and placed it like a doormat at the entrance to an art exhibit, reported Campus Reform.

Zinke Promises To Fire As Many People As He Needs To At The Park Service

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 15:27

LAS VEGAS — Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke slammed former National Park Service board members in a blistering interview with The Daily Caller last Friday, accusing them of ignoring Obama-era sexual misconduct claims the same way some in Hollywood covered up for accused predator Harvey Weinstein.

House Appropriations Chair Frelinghuysen Announces Retirement

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 15:24

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey said he won’t seek re-election Monday, making him the seventh committee chairmen in the lower chamber to announce their retirement.

Frelinghuysen, who assumed office in 2011, faced a competitive race to retain his seat in his northern New Jersey district.

After 24 Years In Congress, Corrine Brown Starts New Life In Prison

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 15:20

Former Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown reported to federal prison Monday to start her five year sentence for multiple crimes, including tax fraud and corruption.

Brown, 71, turned herself in to the Sumter Correctional Institution in Florida, one of the largest federal prisons in the country, which houses both violent and non-violent offenders. Brown will be serving her five-year sentence at a minimum-security satellite facility, which keeps roughly 391 other female inmates.

FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR MCCABE ‘REMOVED’ DAY AFTER BUREAU READS MEMO

JD Mon, 01/29/2018 - 14:54

Memo said to reveal corruption, collusion between Obama admin, Clintons and Justice Department

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been “removed” from the bureau following FBI Chief Christopher Wray reading the secret FISA memo alleging wrongdoing by the Justice Department and Obama administration.

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