‘Operation Varsity Blues’ college scandal:
Elizabeth Warren says she has “no sympathy” for parents who bribed their kids way into college. Of course she just claimed she was Native American and got herself in. This plays into her class-warfare platform for her 2020 race.
- Elizabeth Warren has ‘zero’ sympathy for wealthy parents in college admissions scheme. (Washington Examiner)
A journalist for The Atlantic believes that this only happened because President Trump has normalized cons and side-hustles.
- The Atlantic writer suggests Trump is to blame for college bribery scandal. (Daily Caller)
- The College-Admissions Scandal and the Warped Fantasy of the American Scam. (The Atlantic)
It looks like the Obama’s tennis coach was part of this sting.
- Obama Family Tennis Coach Allegedly Accepted $2.7 Million as Part of College Admissions Scam. (Breitbart)
2020:
Beto made an announcement that he is officially running for President.
Hyperloop:
Missouri lawmakers are talking about creating a hyperloop that would connect KC and STL, with a stop in Columbia. The trip would take 28min.
- Panel looking into plans for hyperloop in Missouri. (KSGF)
- Could ‘Hyperloop’ tube travel thrive in Missouri? New group aims to find out, accelerate construction. (Missourinet)
This Hyperloop tube project was actually pitched to Amazon back in 2017. Where instead of them creating one headquarters in the state, they could have two- one in KC and one in STL and a train that connects the two.
- Missouri banking on futuristic tube travel in bid for Amazon HQ2. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Missouri proposes innovative corridor for Amazon headquarters. (KOMU)
In 2011 Governor Jay Nixon was trying to get high-speed rail in Missouri.
- Missouri going after Florida’s rejected high-speed rail funding. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Best Places to Live:
There was a new list of best places to live and no U.S. city cracked the top 30. The highest ranking U.S. city was San Francisco at #34- the city where there is so much human feces on the streets the city is hiring fecal specialist to pick it up and there is an app to show you where it is.
- No U.S. city cracks the top 30 on this well-regarded list of the world’s best places to live. (Marketwatch)
- CRAP JOB? San Fran Spending $185,000 On Every Member Of Its ‘Poop Patrol’ (Daily Wire)
- ‘SnapCrap’ app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets. (SF Gate)
Boeing Max 8:
Yesterday President Trump grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. Rachel Maddow blamed the issue with the plans having problems on President Trump and the government shutdown.
