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http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/25/exactly-what-she-deserves-professor-fired-for-saying-otto-warmbier-got-exactly-what-he-deserved/

Looks like Dettwyler got exactly what she deserved.

Dettwyler blamed Warmbier’s parents for allowing their son to grow up “thinking he could get away with whatever he wanted.”

She also wrote that “young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women” in the United States.

'...they bluster and threaten their female professors.”

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Republican legislation overhauling the Obama health care law (all times local):
6:35 p.m.

The White House says the Congressional Budget Office's projection that 22 million more people will be uninsured in 2026 "must not be trusted blindly."

The White House is again trying to undermine the analysis of the CBO, questioning the office's predictions that millions of more Americans would be uninsured under a Senate health care proposal compared with President Barack Obama's health care law.

The White House says the CBO "has consistently proven it cannot accurately predict how health care legislation will impact insurance coverage."

It says the office has a "history of inaccuracy," and cites its "flawed report on coverage, premiums and predicted deficit arising out of Obamacare.

6:30 p.m.
Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono is decrying the Republican health care bill as "mean, ugly" a day ahead of her own surgery.

Speaking on the Senate floor Monday, Hirono says people typically figure health insurance is a concern for someone else until they get sick. Hirono announced in May that she was being treated for kidney cancer.

She says she will have surgery Tuesday to remove a lesion on her rib.
But first she joined several Democratic senators in criticizing the GOP health care bill, saying it was a "tax cut for the rich bill."

Hirono says health care is a right, not a privilege. And in light of the budget analysis that found 22 million more Americans would be uninsured, Hirono says, "it's as bad as we thought."

6 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is focusing on the tax cuts, deficit reduction and lower premiums cited in a nonpartisan analysis of the Senate's health care bill, and making no mention of the 22 million more Americans who would be uninsured.

McConnell put out a brief statement Monday after the release of the Congressional Budget Office report.

He says Americans need relief from the "failed Obamacare law," and says the Senate will soon act on a bill to give Americans better care.

The Kentucky Republican says the bill would lower premiums by 30 percent in 2020, cut taxes by $700 billion and reduce the deficit by $331 billion.

His statement omits any mention of the CBO prediction that 22 million more Americans would be uninsured in 2026 than under President Barack Obama's health care law.

Justice Thomas, the most conservative justice there now that Scalia is dead.

UW study finds Seattle’s minimum wage is costing jobs

Seattle’s minimum-wage law is boosting wages for a range of low-paid workers, but the law is causing those workers as a group to lose hours, and it’s also costing jobs, according to the latest study on the measure passed by the City Council in 2014.

The report, by members of the University of Washington team studying the law’s impacts for the city of Seattle, is being published Monday as a working paper by a nonprofit think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research.

That law raises Seattle’s minimum wage gradually until it reaches $15 for all by 2021. The second jump, in January 2016, raised the minimum wage to $10.50 to $13.

The team concluded that the second jump had a far greater impact, boosting pay in low-wage jobs by about 3 percent since 2014 but also resulting in a 9 percent reduction in hours worked in such jobs. That resulted in a 6 percent drop in what employers collectively pay — and what workers earn — for those low-wage jobs.

For an average low-wage worker in Seattle, that translates into a loss of about $125 per month per job.

The report also estimated that there are about 5,000 fewer low-wage jobs in the city than there would have been without the law.

I think cheese-eaters might be innately incapable of that, Finn, but it's a nice thought.

Could well be a Pyrrhi victoria.

I am a (North Rhine-)Westphalian of German nationality.
I don't know why you think that I'm a "bottom-feeder" less a "damn bottom feeder".

To be honest: of course I knew what wanted to say.
(Studying law here doesn't mean at all that you're a lawyer or even want to become a lawyer. [And besides that: I never claimed to be a "fully qualified lawyer"])

Three journalists "quit" CNN in fallout from retracted Russia story

Three CNN journalists who worked on a now-retracted story about Russia and a top Trump adviser are leaving the network.

CNN is casting their departure as resignations in the wake of the fiasco, but the network has come under substantial criticism since apologizing for the story. The move would also help CNN’s legal position in case of a lawsuit.

The story tried to draw a link between Scaramucci and the Russian Direct Investment Fund. Scaramucci was a Trump transition team member who has been nominated to an ambassadorial-level post based in Paris.

In the retraction, the network said the story “did not meet CNN’s editorial standards.” The network is now requiring approval from two top editors before any Russia-related story can be published.

Lex Harris, executive editor of CNN’s investigative unit, was the highest-ranking official to resign. Thomas Frank, who wrote the story, and Eric Lichtblau, who edited it, also turned in their resignations. Lichtblau is a highly regarded reporter who spent nearly a decade and a half at the New York Times.