News Archives – https://ezkool.com/category/news-2/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 03:11:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ezkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ezkool-logo-75png.png News Archives – https://ezkool.com/category/news-2/ 32 32 12773863 Amazon Echo Needed to Help Solve Murder Case https://ezkool.com/2016/12/amazon-echo-needed-help-solve-murder-case/ https://ezkool.com/2016/12/amazon-echo-needed-help-solve-murder-case/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2016 04:51:10 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=65656 Investigators are trying to get Amazon to give up recordings from an Amazon Echo found in the home where a murder was committed. But Amazon is putting up a fight to protect the privacy of a customer. The murder happened in November of 2015 in the home of James Bates. According to the investigation, Bates invited […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/12/amazon-echo-needed-help-solve-murder-case/feed/ 1 65656 Time For the Main Event https://ezkool.com/2016/09/time-for-the-main-event/ https://ezkool.com/2016/09/time-for-the-main-event/#respond Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:05:32 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=64103 I suppose it was inevitable that the first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign would be touted as a must-see, Super Bowl-sized audience extravaganza. This has been building since Dwight Eisenhower lamented that running for president was akin to being a product marketed across the country. Television and now social media has turned this election […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/09/time-for-the-main-event/feed/ 0 64103 Concerned About the Polls? Don’t Be. https://ezkool.com/2016/09/concerned-about-the-polls-dont-be/ https://ezkool.com/2016/09/concerned-about-the-polls-dont-be/#respond Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:22:07 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=64022 I know you. You’re a Democrat, or at least someone who believes that Donald Trump is a disaster waiting to happen, and you’ve been very concerned over the past week because the polling seems to indicate that Hillary Clinton’s once safe lead is vanishing with every news release. You also wonder how anyone, and I […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/09/concerned-about-the-polls-dont-be/feed/ 0 64022 The Last Quiet Week https://ezkool.com/2016/08/last-quiet-week6/ https://ezkool.com/2016/08/last-quiet-week6/#respond Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:54:01 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63904 You do realize that this will be the last week that food stores will be listing summer fruits, vegetables and other items in their sales flyers, right? After Labor Day it will suddenly be soup, oatmeal and cold/flu medicine time even though it’s likely to be near 80 degrees where most of us live. Such […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/08/last-quiet-week6/feed/ 0 63904 I Will Always Tell You the Truth… And Other Lies… https://ezkool.com/2016/08/will-always-tell-truth-lies22/ https://ezkool.com/2016/08/will-always-tell-truth-lies22/#respond Mon, 22 Aug 2016 01:15:21 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63869 Which, of course, is an absolute lie, no matter who says it. But the fact that it was Donald Trump, all-of-a-sudden apologizing and blabbering on about how in the heat of a campaign he might have said some nasty things about, oh, African-Americans, women, Hispanics, judges, pollsters, Bush, Republicans etc., makes it doubly ironic and […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/08/will-always-tell-truth-lies22/feed/ 0 63869 Lock Him Up https://ezkool.com/2016/08/lock-him-up/ https://ezkool.com/2016/08/lock-him-up/#respond Sun, 14 Aug 2016 15:52:07 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63823 Don’t you just love politics and politicians? Here’s a group of people who seemingly do not ever consider that what they say about their opponents will even happen to them. And yet… This week’s ridiculousness comes, not surprisingly, from the Trump-Christie branch of what used to be one of America’s great political parties; the GOP. […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/08/lock-him-up/feed/ 0 63823 The Trump-Christie Effect https://ezkool.com/2016/08/2trump-christie-effect/ https://ezkool.com/2016/08/2trump-christie-effect/#respond Sun, 07 Aug 2016 16:35:57 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63793 In case you missed it, Donald Trump had a terrible week that saw any lead he had after the GOP Convention in Cleveland completely evaporate in a climate-changing blast of heat and parch. Not only did he dive into the empty pool of stereotype, anti-Islamic rhetoric and sexism, he ended the week by questioning the […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/08/2trump-christie-effect/feed/ 0 63793 We Need to Calm Down https://ezkool.com/2016/07/2we-need-to-calm-down/ https://ezkool.com/2016/07/2we-need-to-calm-down/#respond Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:52:49 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63595 If we need anything now, it’s to stop talking and let the investigations into the tragedies of the past week move forward. After all, in the overwhelming number of big news stories, the early information is usually the least reliable, but that’s the information that becomes the narrative. Then when we get contradictory evidence, it’s […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/07/2we-need-to-calm-down/feed/ 0 63595 Chris Christie: Terrible as Governor But Qualified for VP https://ezkool.com/2016/07/5christie-terrible-governor-qualified-vp/ https://ezkool.com/2016/07/5christie-terrible-governor-qualified-vp/#respond Sun, 03 Jul 2016 21:23:25 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63551 I sort of forgot that Chris Christie was still the Governor of New Jersey and an active politician until this week, so quiet was he on policy and bombast. But now he’s back. His first foray was to emerge with a set of checks made out to suburban school district students for $6,599 each.  This […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/07/5christie-terrible-governor-qualified-vp/feed/ 0 63551 If Only We Could Trexit https://ezkool.com/2016/06/2if-only-we-could-trexit/ https://ezkool.com/2016/06/2if-only-we-could-trexit/#respond Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:23:59 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63544 If only Donald Trump would Trexit. Before November, when he’ll likely Trexit anyway. Yes, I know that the British vote to leave the European Union is being interpreted as a warning that the angry, anti-immigrant, anti-trade, build-an-entire-sea-around-the-country (which the British actually did at minimal cost), xenophobic population in England is heading towards the United States, […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/06/2if-only-we-could-trexit/feed/ 0 63544 One Week Later https://ezkool.com/2016/06/22one-week-later/ https://ezkool.com/2016/06/22one-week-later/#respond Sun, 19 Jun 2016 15:42:44 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63487 It’s been a week since the attack in Orlando and much of what’s happened is predictable. Both political parties have rolled out their positions on gun control, and both are very familiar. Democrats want new background checks and to ban sales of guns to anyone on the no-fly or terrorist watch lists. Republicans counter by […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/06/22one-week-later/feed/ 0 63487 The Endless Election Finally Begins https://ezkool.com/2016/06/endless-election-finally-begins2016/ https://ezkool.com/2016/06/endless-election-finally-begins2016/#respond Sun, 12 Jun 2016 15:49:06 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63415 Good news: The primaries are over. Well, except for the DC primary this Tuesday, but that one really won’t count for much. Bad news: The general election is on our doorstep, promising us five months of mudslinging, advertisements across numerous screens and multiple forms of media, and, oh yes, some policy prescriptions. At this point, […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/06/endless-election-finally-begins2016/feed/ 0 63415 The Ali Effect https://ezkool.com/2016/06/the-ali-effect56/ https://ezkool.com/2016/06/the-ali-effect56/#respond Sun, 05 Jun 2016 15:16:23 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63375 So many thoughts. So many questions. So much controversy. So much for us to learn from his actions. Such was the man and his effect on the country. Others have written with far more eloquence than I ever could about the legacy of Muhammad Ali, but from where we are now, we had better pay […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/06/the-ali-effect56/feed/ 0 63375 The Silly Season Starts Early https://ezkool.com/2016/05/silly-season-starts-early/ https://ezkool.com/2016/05/silly-season-starts-early/#respond Sun, 29 May 2016 16:21:21 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63350 Technology really speeds things up, no? We used to have to wait until August to read stories that made little sense or that focused on the non-political part of the political process, but this year we should be proud that the press is once again ahead of the calendar and is in full silly season […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/05/silly-season-starts-early/feed/ 0 63350 Mr. May vs. Ms. October https://ezkool.com/2016/05/mr-may-vs-ms-october/ https://ezkool.com/2016/05/mr-may-vs-ms-october/#respond Sun, 22 May 2016 16:01:10 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63308 Those of us old enough to remember the halcyon days of the late 70s and early 80s and the great New York Yankee teams of that era with their owner, George Steinbrenner. George knew greatness and proved it when he went out and bought Reggie Jackson to patrol right field for the 1977 and 1978 […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/05/mr-may-vs-ms-october/feed/ 0 63308 The Conservatives’ Bathroom War Erupts https://ezkool.com/2016/05/bathroom-wars-erupt14/ https://ezkool.com/2016/05/bathroom-wars-erupt14/#respond Sun, 15 May 2016 16:15:59 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63268 Add the latest skirmish about bathroom usage to the list of phony wars the conservatives believe we are fighting in this country over issues that should have been settled long ago. Like voter fraud, those opposed to bathroom choice have created an image of a transgender man, or in the nightmare scenario, a man pretending […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/05/bathroom-wars-erupt14/feed/ 0 63268 Don’t Like Trump? Does Trump-Christie Make You Feel Better? https://ezkool.com/2016/05/dont-like-trump-trump-christie-make-feel-better/ https://ezkool.com/2016/05/dont-like-trump-trump-christie-make-feel-better/#respond Sun, 08 May 2016 16:17:04 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63218 I’ve read some scary headlines over the past few months about the primaries and the Trump march to the GOP nomination, but now that it’s all-but-official, the race for his running mate is beginning to take shape. The early signs are, of course, terrible: Chris Christie, the roach of the GOP, is back in the […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/05/dont-like-trump-trump-christie-make-feel-better/feed/ 0 63218 Fire Breaks Out in Basement of IRS Building https://ezkool.com/2016/04/fire-breaks-irs-building/ https://ezkool.com/2016/04/fire-breaks-irs-building/#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:59:58 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63029 They say a transformer is to be blamed, but I blame Republicans! A transformer fire broke out Monday in the IRS building, NBC Washington reported. The building at 1111 Constitution Ave. NW was evacuated. The fire broke out in the basement of the building and caused traffic closures in the area. Fox 5 DC reported there […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/04/fire-breaks-irs-building/feed/ 0 63029 The Reality Show Election Just Got Very Real https://ezkool.com/2016/04/reality-show-election-just-got-real9/ https://ezkool.com/2016/04/reality-show-election-just-got-real9/#respond Sun, 03 Apr 2016 15:53:20 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=63012 It is true that political discourse has taken a wildly unpredictable and extremely troubling turn in this country, but just when it seems that the shouting match will get louder, along comes a politician who is calm, focused, steely, intelligent, moral and principled. Who is this person? The current occupant of the Oval Office. A […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/04/reality-show-election-just-got-real9/feed/ 0 63012 Five Year Old Saves Mother from Drowning in Home Pool – Video https://ezkool.com/2016/03/five-year-old-saves-mother-from-drowning-in-home-pool-video/ https://ezkool.com/2016/03/five-year-old-saves-mother-from-drowning-in-home-pool-video/#respond Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:06:00 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62912 And it was all captured on video. Little Allison from Texas,  who learned to swim when she was 2 years old, realized something was wrong when her mother stopped moving in the deep section of the pool. That is when the little 5 year old hero dove into the pool and miraculously pulled her mother […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2016/03/five-year-old-saves-mother-from-drowning-in-home-pool-video/feed/ 0 62912 Trump-Christie Agonistes https://ezkool.com/2016/02/trump-christie-agonistes255/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:25:19 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62573 This is what happens when a political party is in the midst of self-destruction. I remember it well when the Democrats dissolved between 1972 and 1984, and these last, frantic days should remind us that it’s not pretty or helpful when a major political organization goes nuclear. Such is the Republican Party. I have been […]

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]]> 62573 Hillary Salves the Bern: Trump Burns Bush https://ezkool.com/2016/02/hillary-salves-the-bern-trump-burns-bush50/ Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:50:47 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62548 I don’t think this is what the GOP had in mind when they made the calendar and rules that would govern the primaries. The party clearly wanted to make it easier for a candidate to consolidate support and win enough delegates so they could then turn their attention to fundraising and the general election. This […]

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]]> 62548 Public Workers: Working Hard, Paying More, Getting Less, Being Blamed. Solution? https://ezkool.com/2016/02/public-workers-working-hard-paying-more-getting-less-being-blamed-solution/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:44:12 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62482 Governor Christie wasn’t back in New Jersey for two days before his administration and its apologists went back on the attack on public worker pensions and health benefits. The man who promised that he wouldn’t touch pensions in his gubernatorial run in 2009, and who staked his presidential ambitions on a bipartisan pension and benefits […]

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]]> 62482 Christie’s Last Stand https://ezkool.com/2016/02/chris-christies-last-stand/ Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:50:25 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62429 It’s too late to say it with any meaningful conviction now, but Chris Christie should have run for president when the Republican Party and Nancy Reagan were imploring him to do so in the late fall of 2011. He was the guy, the shining star, six months removed from pounding out a public worker pension […]

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]]> 62429 Cruz Bumps Trump, Rubio A ReMarcoble Third, Dems Deadlocked https://ezkool.com/2016/02/cruz-bumps-trump-rubio-a-remarcoble-third-dems-deadlocked/ Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:14:56 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62393 I’m not really the type to say “I told you so,” but I indeed told you so on numerous occasions that Donald Trump would not be the GOP nominee and neither will Ted Cruz. Trump’s second place finish in Iowa is but the first blow to his campaign, because while he was battering Cruz with […]

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]]> 62393 Political Junkies Unite! It’s Time to Vote https://ezkool.com/2016/01/political-junkies-unite-its-time-to-vote56/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:08:55 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62376 I predict that the global rise in temperature will show a significant decline on Monday as all the hot air bloviators, pollsters, consultants and media talking heads hold their steamy breath as they await the results of the Iowa caucuses. And why shouldn’t they? The numbers all say that Donald Trump will win the caucuses […]

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]]> 62376 Disuniting the Public Unions https://ezkool.com/2016/01/public-unions/ Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:44:59 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=62045 The end result is in reach for those conservatives who have worked so hard to destroy public sector unions and along with them, the rest of the middle class. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association about the legality of public unions charging people who […]

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]]> 62045 Officer Who Arrested Sandra Bland Indicted https://ezkool.com/2016/01/officer-who-arrested-sandra-bland-indicted/ Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:54:52 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=61994 No, the Grand jury did not indict Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia on any wrong doing in Sandra Bland’s death, but he was indicted on a perjury charge, for falsifying information about why Bland was stopped and removed from her vehicle. Special prosecutor Shawn McDonald said Wednesday outside the courthouse that “the indictment was issued […]

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]]> 61994 It’s 2016: Do You Know Where Your Candidates Are? https://ezkool.com/2016/01/2016-do-you-know-where-your-candidates-are/ Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:30:50 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=61938 Is there really a president in this bunch? And I’m not just talking about the Republicans either. While none of the GOP candidates thrill me at all for various reasons, I find myself also looking critically at the Democrats and asking if this really is the best we can do. Of course, Americans generally ask […]

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]]> 61938 Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Police Shooting of Quintonio LeGrier https://ezkool.com/2015/12/wrongful-death-lawsuit-filed-in-police-shooting-of-quintonio-legrier/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:48:10 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=61842 The father of Quintonio LeGrier, the teenager fatally shot by Chicago police over the weekend, has taken legal action against the city of Chicago, CNN reports. On Monday, Antonio LeGrier filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court, alleging the officer shot his son without justification, used excessive force and failed to provide […]

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