83 Comments School children learn that there are three branches of government: the legislative, executive, and judicial. In actual practice, however, there are four branches of government. The fourth is what for decades now has been called a “headless fourth branch of government,” the administrative state. As early as 1937, in a ” Report of the President’s Committee on Administrative Management ,” the authors write: Without plan or intent, there has grown up a headless “fourth branch” of the Government, responsible to no one, and impossible of coordination with the …

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Chick-fil-A logo on football field As The Daily Wire reports today, Chick-fil-A, one of the last remaining large companies to stand in defiance of the P.C. police and the LGBT rage mob, has suddenly and inexplicably caved. Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos announced in an interview that the company will no longer donate to certain Christian charities that the aforementioned rage mob has deemed “anti-LGBT.” Tassopoulos says that as the company goes into “new markets,” he wants “to be clear about who we are.” And “who [they] …

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Texas employers added 30,100 jobs over the month. Over the year, the state added 297,100 jobs, an increase of 2.4 percent. Texas energy companies are cutting their workforces amid sluggish growth in the sector, according to jobs data from the Texas Workforce Commission released Friday. In the state, mining and logging, the sector dominated by the oil and gas industry, cut 2,000 jobs in October from September. The sector has shed jobs through much of the second half of 2019. Other indicators point to a slowdown for Texas oil as …

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1of3Paul Lazzaro, the former Vice President of Marketing and Public Affairs for The Woodlands Operating Co., is shown in this 1999 photograph. Lazzaro died this week at the age of 85 Paul Lazzaro, the former vice president of marketing and public affairs for The Woodlands Operating Co., and a influential local figure involved with township officials, died this week. He was 85. Gordy Bunch, the chairman of The Woodlands Township Board of Directors, had a very close relationship with Lazzaro and said he will be sorely missed in the community. …

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Cooper Neill for The New York Times A million Americans a year are arrested for drunken driving, and most stops begin the same way: flashing blue lights in the rearview mirror, then a battery of tests that might include standing on one foot or reciting the alphabet. What matters most, though, happens next. By the side of the road or at the police station, the drivers blow into a miniature science lab that estimates the concentration of alcohol in their blood. If the level is 0.08 or higher, they are …

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From fears about work and privacy to a rivalry between the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society. Click here to view original web page at www.pbs.org

Each election I’m fascinated by the amount of bond debt created across Harris County and Texas by land developers using municipal utility districts and that a single voter can approve the debt. According to a 2015 study by Rice’s Kinder Institute , the total amount of Houston MUD debt was $5.8 billion. And yes, sometimes they do go bankrupt . I decided to look at several Harris County MUD elections from Tuesday. Here is a link to view all the MUD’s in Texas – Water Districts Viewer . Election results …

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