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Sen. Chuck Grassley defended his party's tax plan this weekend by saying that plans to reduce or eliminate the estate tax mean that people will use their money more wisely.

"I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.”

The Iowa senator's comments were widely shared on social media and were criticized by a number of Democratic strategists for their harsh portrayal of how people spend money.

How are people going to attract Booze and women to see a movie?

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An Active-Duty U.S. Navy commander was sentenced to more than a year in prison for his involvement in the investigation of Singapore-based defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, also known as "Fat Leonard."

Bobby Pitts, 48, had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by attempting to protect Francis, who owns Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Pitts admitted that he had learned the U.S. Navy was investigating whether Francis was over-billing the government on ship husbanding contracts in 2009 and 2010. At the time, he was the Officer in Charge of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Industrial Supply Command (FISC) in Singapore.

A total of 28 defendants have been charged in connection with the investigation so far 19 of whom have pleaded guilty, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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The U.S. media has come under intense scrutiny, with analysts, politicians, and even journalists themselves accusing it of bias and sensationalism of having failed.  

Two developments bear noting.
Traditional media is no longer the only way to spread the word. Media companies are experiencing an extreme competition that comes with digital technologies.

Social media is distinct from traditional media in that it connects users to each other. This means that messages can spread far more easily and quickly.

The share of traditional Media is narrowing.  Talk about selling Fox News, CNN, etc is increasing. The scandals and intense exposure of old sexual habits are surfacing and many are ousted.
Are they related? 

The Rest...

The fierce competition with traditional Media by Face Book, Google, twitter and others, opened the flood gate of elimination of some of the important people in various organization. All of a sudden, the Media organizations started realizing their are sexual misconduct going on for years.
Never noticed before? that would be the Fake News of the century. In addition, the organization themselves are the one who protected their golden goose all through.

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A North Carolina man has filed a lawsuit against an NFL player who he says seduced his wife.

The Charlotte Observer reports Joshua Jeffords filed a lawsuit against Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Fletcher Cox in Mecklenburg County Civil Court. The 26-year-old Cox is being sued for alienation of affection.  

Jeffords said in the filing that he learned in September of text and Snapchat messages between his wife and Cox, including explicit photos and discussions of having children together. He says his wife met Cox during a work trip to Pennsylvania in April and she moved there in October.

Jeffords says he sought mental health treatment for "substantial emotional distress." He's seeking at least $50,000 in damages.

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Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, says he will not be seeking reelection in 2018. The move comes after a woman shared a series of private Facebook messages, in which Barton had asked her questions that were sexual in nature just a week after he apologized for sending a nude photo himself to another woman.  

The woman, Kelly Canon told the Star-Telegram she had exchanged messages with Barton for several years, said that he "took it a step too far on rare occasions." 

According to the Washington Post, the woman who received the nude photo from Barton had consensual sexual intercourse on two occasions and also recorded a phone conversation in which he threatened to call the Capitol Police if she revealed their correspondence. 

Over time, she said, she became aware of and corresponded with multiple other women who engaged in relationships with Barton.

Are we running out of materials in the Media?  

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Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in the most important digital privacy case in decades, involving whether it's constitutional for authorities to seize and search a person's cellphone records without warrant.

The case, Carpenter vs. USA, focuses on Timothy Carpenter, who was convicted of robbery after authorities used cell phone records to capture his location. Carpenter appealed the case a lower court's decision to affirm Carpenter's conviction and 116-year sentence. 

The American Civil Liberties Union  has signed on to the case to defend what they see as key Fourth Amendment rights. 

ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler, said the records give the government a "time machine" that "upends the balance of power" between people and the government that the founding fathers never intended. 

"We carry our cellphones everywhere we go," and a record of days, weeks or months of our cellphone location records can chart out the most private parts of our lives — where we go to the doctor, where we sleep at night and who we sleep with.