Blog Heap of Links for the day 6 June 2011

President Obama's chief consumer affairs adviser, Elizabeth Warren. On multiple occasions this year, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have asked Warren, a former Harvard University professor, simple, direct questions about her decisions and actions regarding the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In response, Warren has resolutely responded with a systematic evasion that cries out for a contempt of Congress citation.

according to RAND Corporation researcher Gregory S. Jones. ... At its current rate of uranium enrichment, Tehran could have enough for its first bomb within eight weeks.... says, there is nothing the US can do to stop Tehran, short of military occupation.....

Walter Ehlers's squad scrambled up the beach at Normandy in France under heavy German fire, and all his men survived that historic turning point of June 6, 1944.

The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.

despite the web's green promise, this explosion of data has turned the Internet into one of the planet's fastest-growing sources of carbon emissions. The Internet now consumes two to three per cent of the world's electricity. [And what are the energy offsets for not using paper, vehicles, etc? IRRELEVANT if you want to propagandize about "carbon bigfoots"!]

California's attempts to switch to green energy have inadvertently put the survival of the state's golden eagles at risk.

Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless

The edge of our solar system is filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles, … key to our understanding of how fast-moving particles known as cosmic rays are spawned, and how they reach near-Earth space. … NASA hasn't revealed many details …

A family lawyer who devoted most of her time outside of work to caring for feral cats, 70 to 80 at one time, in her Oakland, Calif. home is entitled to much of her claimed $12,068 in cat care expenses as a charitable deduction on her 2004 income taxes, according to a recent Tax Court case. Basically, the case says that unreimbursed volunteer expenses, to the extent they are incidental to charitable work for a qualified charity and are properly substantiated, are deductible.

Three New Jersey women are behind bars for a crime, that is becoming more and more common according to police. Authorities say they stole brass markers from the graves of veterans at local cemeteries, and sold the stolen markers to a scrap yard. Authorities tell Eyewitness News the suspects needed drug money.

Five U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in an attack in central Iraq , the U.S. military said in a statement. ... An Iraqi security source said that the five U.S. soldiers had been working as advisers on a base for Iraqi national police in eastern Baghdad when their quarters were targeted by rocket fire shortly before 7 a.m. local time. ...