The Federal Trade Commission today obtained an agreement from for-profit college lead generation operators to hand over the army.com, air-force.com, armyenlist.com, navyenlist.com, and other internet domains, which they used to trick people into believing their operations were associated with the U.S. military. Unfortunately, as is often the case, the FTC settled for a promise not
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President Trump seems to have no idea what it means to live in a democratic country. In particular, in recent weeks he has ratcheted up his attacks on the rule of law, asserting that government “flipping” of witnesses in order to obtain evidence “almost ought to be illegal”; again demanding the end of the criminal
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Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is set to be introduced at his confirmation hearing by two Republican heavyweights — Senator Rob Portman (OH) and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — and also by a lawyer most people haven’t heard of, Lisa Blatt. Why Blatt? She published an article in Politico last month entitled, “I’m a
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Our heroes: Jeff Sessions, Jim Comey, Jeff Flake, Michael Cohen, Omarosa Manigault, George Will, Bill Kristol, Lanny Davis (ok maybe not), John Brennan…. WTF have you done to us, Don? Since 2017, Republic Report‘s “Trump Terrible 10” has ranked the week’s 10 most disgraceful people in Trump world. Republic Report, which focuses on how money corrupts democracy, has
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You have until midnight ET tonight to tell Betsy DeVos what you think of her proposed obliteration of regulations issued under the Obama administration to protect students and taxpayers from abuses by predatory for-profit colleges. My colleagues have a webpage that makes it easy for you to comment, and you can speak your mind —
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Since 2017, Republic Report‘s “Trump Terrible 10” has ranked the week’s 10 most disgraceful people in Trump world. We’re on vacation this week! But it’s fun to have togetherness activities here in the vacation house, and I hate board games and, especially, puzzles. So we’ve developed attractions for a new theme park, #MAGA-Land, where over-priced emoluments will
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In discussions early this year, members of a U.S. Department of Education team led by senior adviser Diane Auer Jones told executives from Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH), run by CEO Brent Richardson, to publicly represent that two of the company’s Art Institutes schools remained accredited, even though the schools’ accreditor had written the company
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Ken Salazar, a former Obama Interior Secretary and Democratic senator, spoke at an oil and gas industry gathering last Thursday and was critical of the wave of lawsuits brought by U.S. cities and counties seeking damages from the industry for the effects of climate change. “I don’t agree with those who take those positions into the
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