But did ‘‘Richard Windsor’’ quit, too?

Washington Examiner:

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has decided to resign her post as top environmental regulator, a move that comes as Congress applies pressure on her for complicating oversight of the EPA by using at least one secondary email address under an alias.
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Lawmakers and the EPA inspector general wonder if Jackson used a private email account created under an alias to develop... [EPA] ...policies in a way that would be invisible to watchdogs and congressional oversight.
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Jackson used a private email under the alias ‘‘Richard Windsor’’ to correspond with EPA colleagues...

UPDATE, related (via Glenn) (121228 18:00):

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So, ya wanted some SNOW for Christmas..?

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Today’s WTF? moment...

Explanation?

Michael Duarte, a Red Cross volunteer from California who was supervising the Long Island shelter, hugged the Israel Flying Aid team as they arrived.

‘‘We had some bad press as a result of misunderstandings,” said Duarte. People in Staten Island, New York were looking for us but due to a New York State law, we could not start operations until after three days.

If there were any real journalists in New York, somebody’d be looking into this...
(Via Daily Pundit.)

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January surprise

A reminder, from "Obama’s Retirement Planner”:

Rules Delayed or "Punted” until 2013 by Obama-EPA:

Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Ozone Rule
Florida Numeric Nutrient Criteria
EPA’s Water Guidance
Stormwater Regulation:
Tier III Gas Regulations:
Boiler MACT Rule
Cement MACT Rule:
Coal Ash
316(b) Cooling Towers Rule
Farm Dust Regulations:
Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule

All guaranteed economy-killers.

Sending the Democrats packing is only the beginning.

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Yknow, if every false request cost, say, $50,000...

...this crap would come to a stop really quickly:

Microsoft falsely branded BBC CBeebies, CNN.com and other websites as Windows 8 piracy haunts - and ordered Google to remove them from search results.

Pages belonging to the Beeb’s children’s telly service CBeebies, film reviews site Rottentomatoes and US cinema chain AMC Theaters - as well as web articles by the BBC's technology news department, CNN and The Huffington Post - were among 66 URLs Microsoft wanted to block.  The Windows 8 giant wielded the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to censor the search results.
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The take-down request appears to have been issued by mistake and the URLs generated by software operating on behalf by Microsoft.   The copyright-infringement-hunting bot coughed up roughly 800 URLs on 27 July...

If you wind up a bot and turn it loose without supervision, you should suffer the consequences when it goes crazy.  This past summer the masters of the universe over at Knight Capital got a schooling, and their example scared their whole industry.  The copyright police need to suffer the same.  For this case, $250,000 seems about right.

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Odds off...

Assuming up and down revisions are equally likely (i.e. 50%), then the probability of 64 consecutive upward revisions is 1/2^64 = 5.42×10^-20.  This is such a small number that it probably wouldn’t occur even once in the entire lifetime of the univese.

RTWT at Daily Pundit.

Related (later, 121008 20:00):

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Reminders: September, 2012

After Bill Quick:

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Divest, or Shut Up

For your reference, some of the heartless folks who invest their cash at Bain Capital:

Major, center-left foundations and cultural establishments, ... includ[ing] the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ford Foundation, the Heinz Endowments and the Oprah Winfrey Foundation...

Then there are those Government-employee pension funds:

• Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
• Indiana Public Retirement System
• Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System
• The Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension System
• Maryland State Retirement and Pension System
• Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada
• State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio
• Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System
• Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island
• San Diego County Employees Retirement Association
• Teacher Retirement System of Texas
• Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System

Now of course the folks in Indiana have an excuse. They have to make up for all the money lost when the government un-secured all those Chrysler bonds.  But otherwise, guess there’s no problem hooking up with Greedy Corporate Darwinists, provided you get your cut.

Glenn Reynolds:

Republicans should challenge these lefty groups to divest, or shut up.

Yep, make ’em live by their own rules. Didn’t somebody named Alinsky say that?

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...and that was *when*, exactly...?

Paul Rahe:

I remember when left-liberals insisted on civility.  I remember when they condemned the tactics of intimidation...  I remember when progressives insisted on impartiality on the part of judges, civil servants, policemen, and those who purported to be reporting the news...

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No comment

Spotted at Election Law Center.

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