Report: What Today's High School Seniors Are Reading

Report: What Today's High School Seniors Are Reading | Intellectual Takeout: 
"...One cannot also help but notice that today's youth apparently have a predilection for dystopian literature. 
1) The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (ATOS 5.5)
2) Divergent, Veronica Roth (ATOS 4.8)
3) Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (ATOS 12.0+)
4) Macbeth, William Shakespeare (ATOS 10.9)
5) The Maze Runner, James Dashner (ATOS 5.3)
6) The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (ATOS 5.3)
7) If I Stay, Gayle Forman (ATOS 5.3)
8) Insurgent, Veronica Roth (ATOS 5.0)
9) Animal Farm, George Orwell (ATOS 7.3)
10) Looking for Alaska, John Green (ATOS 5.8)"

Grassley wants to know if Justice Dept. blocked Clinton Foundation probe | Washington Examiner

Grassley wants to know if Justice Dept. blocked Clinton Foundation probe | Washington Examiner:

""If the FBI is denied the ability to gather evidence through compulsory means, Secretary Clinton and her aides have enormous leverage to negotiate extraordinary concessions in exchange for voluntary cooperation," Grassley wrote.

He cited the immunity agreements issued in the year-long Clinton email investigation as an example."

One economist’s final words before being devoured by zombies

Learn Liberty | One economist’s final words before being devoured by zombies
"I’m safe for now, but the office door won’t hold them back for long. The campus is overrun with zombies, and I don’t mean the usual hung-over students in the back row.

In my final minutes, perhaps I can make one last contribution to humanity: economic advice for you, the survivors of the zombie apocalypse.  

How can you rebuild your civilization and economy in the aftermath?

By any reasonable historical standard, the modern zombie-free world of just a week ago was incredibly prosperous, although many people falsely assumed otherwise. 
On almost any measure—life expectancy, infant mortality, caloric intake, real income per capita, variety of goods and services, and more—humanity had achieved a level of success that our ancestors would have considered astonishing. 
These victories were most obvious in the developed world, but increasingly apparent in the rest of the world, too.

But the zombie apocalypse has wiped out most of those gains in a matter of days. And for survivors, the worst is still ahead.

To understand why, we need to think about how we became so prosperous in the first place. 
The answer goes back to Adam Smith, the father of —

—hang on, gotta wedge my chair against the door—

Okay, I’m back. 

Where was I? 

Oh yes. 

Adam Smith, the father of modern economics. 

Smith’s great insight was to recognize the power of specialization, division of labor, and trade to elevate living conditions. 

Self-sufficiency, he realized, is a recipe for poverty. 
Society as a whole becomes more productive as people specialize in narrowly defined tasks and then trade with each other to get everything else they need.

Almost every good or service that we consumed in the pre-zombie economy depended on materials and labor from all over the globe. 
This was the most massive system of cooperation the world had ever known—made all the more remarkable because most of the cooperation happened without central management, without a single plan, through the interaction of people who were mostly strangers.

This web of trade was supported by an astoundingly high degree of specialization of both labor and capital, and also by legal and cultural institutions that enabled trade to occur in an environment of trust and nonviolence.

How has the zombie invasion affected this web of trade? 
To put it simply, it has shredded it. 

Let’s walk through the process in a series of steps–some of which have already happened, some of which are yet to come.

1. Rapid Zombification of the Labor Force

Read on!

Underwater robots kill invasive fish to save the oceans

Underwater robots kill invasive fish to save the oceans | ZDNet
"Robots can help undo some of the damage that has been done to our environment. 
Unmanned aerial vehicles are already being used to track endangered wildlife and assist land conservation efforts by mapping ecosystems and monitoring protected areas.

Meanwhile at sea, autonomous sailing drones are monitoring ocean water to detect any pollution and track changes in temperature and pH. 

Now, underwater robots are also working to restore biodiversity by hunting invasive species. 

Divers around the world have been trying to control invasive marine animals by hand, but robots could be more precise, effective, and constant.

Lionfish in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea

One of the trickiest ocean pests is the lionfish. 

This fish originated in a balanced ecosystem in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, where the population was controlled by natural predators. 

It is gorgeous -- striped, spiky, and colorful -- which is quite impressive in aquariums. 

Unfortunately, this is likely why lionfish ended up in the Atlantic Ocean, where they were first spotted off the Florida coast in the mid-eighties. 

They have since thrived in this unfamiliar habitat, where they have no natural predators and plenty of food.

Lionfish have now multiplied and spread up the eastern US coastline and down into the Caribbean Sea. 

They feast on native fish populations, including species that help control algae on reefs. 

If those fish disappear, algae will likely grow out of control, which can smother the reefs and eventually kill them..."

Lunch video-----Greatest SUPPORT VIDEO - The Real Donald Trump

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Feminists defend Hillary Clinton against 'sexist' FBI investigation: 'Bitch hunt' - Washington Times

Feminists defend Hillary Clinton against 'sexist' FBI investigation: 'Bitch hunt' - Washington Times:

"Hillary Clinton supporters are employing a tried-and-true defense in the wake of the renewed FBI investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee’s emails: It’s “sexist.”
Writing in Time magazine, University of California, Berkeley linguistics professor Robin Lakoff described the investigation into the private server Mrs. Clinton used while secretary of state as a “bitch hunt.”
“I am mad,” Ms. Lakoff wrote. “I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us."

FSU Thanksgiving display an 'all-out assault' on Pilgrims

FSU Thanksgiving display an 'all-out assault' on Pilgrims:

A Florida State University residence hall has been decorated with a bulletin board portraying Thanksgiving as a reminder of the Pilgrims’ ineptitude and racism.

The display contains claims such as “the majority of pilgrims couldn’t farm or build anything" and “Only by selling Squanto into slavery twice and forcing him to learn English were the Pilgrims able to survive."

The RA responsible for the board claims they were motivated by the fact that "history isn't accurately represented," and wants students to "do more research."

A Florida State University residence hall has been decorated with a bulletin board portraying Thanksgiving as a reminder of the Pilgrims’ ineptitude and racism.

The Resident Assistant responsible for setting up the display in Traditions Hall, who requested anonymity, told Campus Reform that they wanted to inform residents that in many cases, “history isn’t accurately represented”, and wanted to “encourage them to do more research.”

“Only by selling Squanto into slavery twice and forcing him to learn English were the Pilgrims able to survive.”    Tweet This

In statements written within the feathers of paper turkey cut-outs, students are told that “the majority of pilgrims couldn’t farm or build anything,” as well as that “Native Americans provided most of the food, but naturally, the white settlers took credit.”

While the creator admitted that the statement about white settlers was a low blow, they maintained that the whitewashing of history is common in movies, TV, and history books, asserting that the Native Americans brought much of the food to the first Thanksgiving dinner, but that “isn’t what we hear about."

“Only by selling Squanto into slavery twice and forcing him to learn English were the Pilgrims able to survive,” another feather claims. “Otherwise, they’d have most likely all died.”

James Fletcher Dilmore, the Chairman of the FSU College Republicans, disagrees with the statements on the board, and feels that they were not necessarily spurred by good intentions.

Describing the display as racist towards whites and an example of the “anti-white narrative perpetuated by the far left,” Dilmore denounced this sort of “all-out assault” on traditional American culture, which he believes is detrimental to the ideal that America should be a society in which those of all walks of life have an opportunity to prosper.

The creator of the board contends that the statements on the board are factual, and are merely nontraditional due to biased reporting of history, arguing that the Pilgrims thought of the Native Americans as savages—often “swindling them into exchanges.”

The RA directed Campus Reform to the website of the United American Indians of New England, which lists Thanksgiving as the “National Day of Mourning” and calls the day “a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture”...

Flag-stomping commies greeted with collective shrug at Berkeley

Flag-stomping commies greeted with collective shrug at Berkeley

Communist protesters at the University of California, Berkeley staged a demonstration Wednesday railing against the “capitalist system” and “American imperialism” by encouraging students to stomp the American flag alongside them.

Witnesses, however, told Campus Reform that students were nonplussed by the intentionally provocative activity, generally ignoring the reds as they passed by on their way to class.

Communist protesters at the University of California, Berkeley staged a demonstration Wednesday railing against the “capitalist system” and “American imperialism” by encouraging students to stomp the American flag alongside them.

The protesters were a part of Berkeley’s “Revolution Bookstore,” a communist establishment near campus frequented by communist academics and students alike. The organization’s website details its goals of “an actual revolution for the emancipation of humanity” and sings the praises of Bob Avakian, the cult-like leader of the American Communist Party.

“To my surprise, even stepping on the American flag is too far for many Berkeley students.”    Tweet This

[RELATED: VIDEO: Veteran detained after forcefully removing American flag from desecration]

Students at UC Berkeley told Campus Reform that the group routinely comes on campus to step on the American flag and to convince students to join the communist revolution. Normally they wait outside the entrance, but this time, they pressed deep into campus in the hopes of getting a positive reaction from leftist students.

The communist “revolutionaries” chanted “America is committing genocide” and “we need a communist revolution,” according to witnesses at the scene, one of whom posted photographs of the demonstration on Facebook.

UC Berkeley is widely known for being one of the most liberal universities in the country, and made headlines last week when protesters violently blocked white students from using an on-campus bridge, but despite these aggressive leftist tactics, most students seemed unfazed by the communist message.

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Border Patrol: 'We Are Simply Overwhelmed'

Border Patrol: 'We Are Simply Overwhelmed' | LifeZette:
"Sen. Sessions sounds the alarm as promise of Clinton amnesty escalates surge of illegal immigrants
by Brendan Kirby | Updated 31 Oct 2016 at 6:34 PM
Eight days before Americans elect a new president, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions on Monday laid out the stakes as immigration enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border continues to deteriorate.
In a news release, the senator’s office declared a “crisis at our southwest border — one that in many ways exceeds the crisis we saw just two years ago, one that further undermines the integrity of our immigration system, but one that the most of the media has elected to ignore.”
The current situation “exceeds the crisis we saw just two years ago, one that further undermines the integrity of our immigration system, but one that the most of the media has elected to ignore.”
...Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, has said talk of amnesty or something resembling it has created a "pull factor," encouraging illegal immigrants to make the dangerous journey to the Mexican border.
"We are simply overwhelmed," Judd said. 
The senator highlighted an immigration enforcement agent who told Breitbart News on Sunday that the workload is worse that it ever has been.
"The administration's policies have created the influx and the crisis situation because people overrun our border knowing they have a chance to stay," the unnamed officer said..."
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It's Rigged! Voters Discover Shocking Mistake On Ballots: Don't Let This Happen To You! - I Have The Truth

It's Rigged! Voters Discover Shocking Mistake On Ballots: Don't Let This Happen To You! - I Have The Truth:

"Do not let them cheat and steal this Election! It happened to these people. Please DO NOT let it happen to your vote!

Donald Trump has said repeatedly, “the system is rigged.” We know, because of WikiLeaks, that Hillary Clinton and the Democrat National Committee rigged the system against Bernie Sanders in the Democrat Primaries."

Click for video-----2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election

2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election | | Observe
"On September 5, 2006, Eli Chomsky was an editor and staff writer for the Jewish Press, and Hillary Clinton was running for a shoo-in re-election as a U.S. senator.
Her trip making the rounds of editorial boards brought her to Brooklyn to meet the editorial board of the Jewish Press.
The tape was never released and has only been heard by the small handful of Jewish Press staffers in the room. 
According to Chomsky, his old-school audiocassette is the only existent copy and no one has heard it since 2006, until today when he played it for the Observer.
The tape is 45 minutes and contains much that is no longer relevant, such as analysis of the re-election battle that Sen. Joe Lieberman was then facing in Connecticut.
But a seemingly throwaway remark about elections in areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority has taken on new relevance amid persistent accusations in the presidential campaign by Clinton’s Republican opponent Donald Trump that the current election is “rigged.”
Speaking to the Jewish Press about the January 25, 2006, election for the second Palestinian Legislative Council (the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority), Clinton weighed in about the result, which was a resounding victory for Hamas (74 seats) over the U.S.-preferred Fatah (45 seats).
“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Sen. Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”
Chomsky recalls being taken aback that “anyone could support the idea—offered by a national political leader, no less—that the U.S. should be in the business of fixing foreign elections.”...

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History for November 2

History for November 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Daniel Boone 1734, James Knox Polk (U.S.) 1795, Warren G. Harding (U.S.) 1865


Burt Lancaster 1913, Patrick J. Buchanan 1938, David Stockton 1941
    

1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.


1920 - The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.


1921 - Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.


1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.


1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers. (Illinois>


1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.


1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


1993 - The U.S. Senate called for full disclosure of Senator Bob Packwood's diaries in a sexual harassment probe.

Huma's email testimony could haunt her as FBI renews probe | Fox News

Huma's email testimony could haunt her as FBI renews probe | Fox News:

"Scrutiny of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin intensified Monday amid speculation that claims she made in her FBI interview and a separate sworn deposition could come back to haunt her as the bureau gains access to emails on her estranged husband’s computer."

Pay No Attention To This Voter Fraud... Nothing To See Here | The Federalist Papers

Pay No Attention To This Voter Fraud... Nothing To See Here | The Federalist Papers:

"It’s getting harder and harder to deny that voter fraud exists when we keep finding it everywhere.

In Chicago, investigators have recently uncovered 119 dead residents who have voted a total of 229 times – after their burial."

* Updated: Worries about U.S. voter fraud overstated? Hah! Multiple news reports shows it is massive!

* Updated: Worries about U.S. voter fraud overstated? Hah! Multiple news reports shows it is massive! | Blogs | Lifesitenews:
Updated: Worries about U.S. voter fraud overstated? Hah! Multiple news reports shows it is massive!ky

Editor's note: The views expressed herein are solely those of the authora and of those in the videos presented.  As a non-partisan public charity, LifeSite does not endorse these statements and takes no position on political candidates.

October 26, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Some of us have tried during the past few U.S. elections to warn Americans of massive voter fraud likely to take place during those two times Barack Obama was elected. 
Unfortunately, few took these warnings seriously. 
They could not imagine that such fraud would or likely did have a significant, negative impact on the issues that LifeSite covers as part of its core mission. 
See the long list of articles below revealing currently on-going federal election 2016 fraud. 

The reaction to LifeSite reporter Ben Johnson's well-researched 4-part investigative series on Obama's Marxist, get-out-the-vote head, Buffy Wicks, seemed to fall on deaf ears. 
There were few comments or other responses. 
Only much later were there reports in some major media confirming that significant fraud did take place during the Obama elections. 

Now, what is happening in this election appears to be far beyond the voter fraud that likely happened during the Obama elections. 

The rapidly mounting evidence, finally being taken seriously by some in the mainstream media and many in alternative media, is that voter fraud is massive this election.

In addition to the Lou Dobbs report above, here are more examples of a growing flood of news reports coming out these past few weeks on this worrisome, now proven to be very real election factor. 
Take a close look at them. 

1. Elections are hacked, missing link discovered (If true - and I cannot verify that - this is very disturbing - watch video)

    Vote fraud expert Bev Harris exposes electronic voting machines 

Read on. 

Much more proof of attempts to castrate your vote!

Pure Michigan Spent $295 Million and Even Hotels Only Got Scraps Back

Pure Michigan Spent $295 Million and Even Hotels Only Got Scraps Back [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Since 2006 this state has spent $295 million on an advertising campaign called Pure Michigan that is intended to draw tourism dollars here from other states.
But a new study shows that state-funded efforts to promote tourism are mostly a blunder.
The marketing scheme is widely recognized thanks to its homey TV commercials showing picturesque Michigan locations and narrated by film and television star Tim Allen.
Michigan’s Legislature appropriated $34 million to the program for the current year, $1 million more than last year. 
Pure Michigan is managed by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, which is the state’s economic development agency.
The study’s authors, Mike LaFaive, director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and Dr. Michael Hicks, a Ball State University professor and Mackinac Center board of scholars member, analyzed decades of tourism promotion data from almost every state to determine whether such programs have had an economic payoff.
“After analyzing 39 years’ worth of tourism promotion data from 48 states, we believe the answer is a resounding no,” the authors said.
LaFaive and Hicks conclusion is that no more taxpayer dollars should be spent on Pure Michigan..."
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Campaign says Clinton still hasn't talked to Abedin about new emails | Fox News

Campaign says Clinton still hasn't talked to Abedin about new emails | Fox News:

"The Hillary Clinton campaign on Sunday again urged the FBI to explain why it was revisiting the Clinton email investigation and said the Democratic presidential candidate has not talked to top aide Huma Abedin, on whose laptop the new emails were purportedly found -- nearly three full days after the department announced the new probe."

Read of the DAY!-----My spiritual journey with Donald Trump

Beaton: My spiritual journey with Donald Trump | AspenTimes.com:
"Donald Trump is not my spiritual adviser, but I find myself on an enlightening journey with the man.
From the beginning, Trump hasn’t exactly acted like a statesman.
In fact, he makes Ferris Bueller look like John Foster Dulles.
But then, he beat my guy fair and square.
So unlike the Republican establishment, I got behind him.

My doubts grew as I learned more.
The disclosure of his shabby words about women was the last of a whole bale of ugly straws, and it finally broke me.
Initially, it felt good to break with Trump.
He’s just not a gentleman, I sniffed.
I’m better than him, I boasted to myself.
Moral sanctimony is a buzz, and it’s addictive. 
I was not just high on my horse; I was just plain high.
But I thought more about it.
I talked with friends I’ve made in other journeys, with professional women and with religious people.
I even prayed a little, which for me is praying a lot.
I realized that my feel-good trip was exactly the repulsive feel-good that I’d seen earlier in the Republican establishment. 
It was a pose. 
It was self-bestowed. 
It was a cheap grace.
Yes, Trump is crude.
I never want to be with him in a locker room or anywhere else.
He’s deeply flawed.
But so am I.
As a deeply flawed man myself, I don’t have the moral authority to judge Trump as a man. 
I can only judge him as a potential president, and in that I can only judge him in comparison with the other candidate.
That would be Hillary Clinton. 
Remember her?
Assisted by countless establishment lackeys pleading the Fifth (the most recent being a State Department employee who did so 90 times last week alone) she’s the person who did for emails what her husband did for cigars — made them disappear..."
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Tonight 9:00 PBS-----Documentary Recalls Horrors of Korean War

Documentary Recalls Horrors of Korean War - Reason.com
"When the Chinese mortar shell exploded, it sent the American soldier hurtling through the air, his body savaged but his mind eerily dreamy as he fell back to earth, cataloging the carnage surrounding him.
He took particular note of a severed limb casually askew on the ground. "Some poor guy lost a leg," the soldier thought to himself sadly. 
When he tried to stand, the dream blinked back to reality: 
The poor guy without a leg was him.
So it goes in The Battle of Chosin, an episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience airing November 1.
It's a series of postcards—surreal, grisly, terrifying—from a largely forgotten battle in the mostly unremembered war that the United States fought in Korea from 1950 to 1953.
For two weeks beginning in late November 1950, a U.S.-commanded force of nearly 15,000 men, mostly U.S. Marines, fought its way out of an encirclement of 120,000 Chinese troops near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.
The combat, at such close quarters that the fighting was often hand-to-hand, took place on steep, craggy mountain terrain ("you had two directions to go in Korea, that was either straight up or straight down, recalls one American soldier) in temperatures that plunged to 50 degrees below zero on some nights.
It was a frozen killing field so gruesome that the soldiers interviewed in The Battle of Chosin are often reduced to ghastly free association in their attempts to describe it: "Grotesque. ... Horrible. Nightmare."
...The arctic cold inflicted almost as much damage on the Marines as the Chinese did; the photos of blackened, mutilated feet will forever dispel you of any idea that frostbite is a minor injury.
One soldier describes how when medics finally used an axe to get his frozen boots off, his toes stayed inside.
...One Marine, after tossing a grenade into an enemy bunker, entered it to find a lone Chinese machine-gunner still at his post, his legs and stomach torn away but his heart somehow still beating. "He kept talking to me in Chinese," the American remembers, his eyes red and moist. 
"Was he telling me about his family; was he pleading with me to dispatch him? ... I still think about him at night sometimes, just wishing I could have understood what he was saying. 
It's nothing to kill them at a distance. 
It's when you look them in the eye, that's different." 
The Battle of Chosin never breaks its gaze.

Lunch video-----Hillary's #1 aide Huma Abedin: Undeniable ties to terrorists & 9/11 fund...

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FBI Email Scandal: Hillary Clinton’s Fault, Not James Comey’s | National Review

FBI Email Scandal: Hillary Clinton’s Fault, Not James Comey’s | National Review:

"Just to remind those whose memories seem so conveniently to fail, Comey is the FBI director, not a Justice Department prosecutor, much less the attorney general. The FBI is not supposed to exercise prosecutorial discretion. The FBI is not supposed to decide whether the subject of a criminal investigation gets indicted. The FBI, moreover, is not obligated to make recommendations "

Bobby Knight trolls Wolverines fans at Donald Trump rally in Michigan

Bobby Knight trolls Wolverines fans at Donald Trump rally in Michigan | MLive.com:
"ANN ARBOR -- Just like his legendary tact, old rivalries die hard for Bob Knight.
Knight, the outspoken former Indiana head basketball coach, was in Grand Rapids on Monday.
An ardent supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, he was charged with warming up the crowd and introducing Trump during a Michigan rally.
Along the way, Knight decided to acknowledge any Wolverines fans in the house.
"I went to Ohio State instead of one of your favorite schools," Knight told the crowd, according to MLive Grand Rapids reporter Lauren Gibbons.
The crowd immediately responded with a heavy boo.
Knight, in turn, responded: "You know we beat your ass most every time we played you."
Indeed, Knight attended and played at Ohio State from 1960-1962.
...Knight ultimately won back the Michigan fans in attendance on Monday, daring cheers as he introduced Trump."

12 Craziest Photos of People Arrested on Halloween

12 Craziest Photos of People Arrested on Halloween - ODDEE:
"A woman in zombie makeup was arrested twice in just three hours for driving while drunk after attending Halloween party at a bar in 2014.
Catherine Butler, 26, was initially arrested after leaving a zombie prom in a Rochester, New York. She posed for the mugshot with her face covered in fake blood.
Police arrested her a second time on the same road three hours later.
She was also arrested for DWI in 2006 and 2011."

Political Correctness and Cultural Appropriation Panic Are Killing Halloween

Political Correctness and Cultural Appropriation Panic Are Killing Halloween - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Australian actor Chris Hemsworth is very sorry for dressing up as Native American.

"I was stupidly unaware of the offense this may have caused and the sensitivity around this issue," he recently wrote on Instagram. 
"I sincerely and unreservedly apologize to all First Nations people for this thoughtless action."
For those who think they were owned an apology, it's actually overdue: 
Hemsworth donned the offensive costume at a New Year's Eve party last year. 
But now he's apparently more enlightened about how cultural appropriation further marginalizes oppressed communities—like the people at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. 
And he's not alone: actress Hillary Duff just apologized for this year's offensive couple costume—Duff and her boyfriend celebrated the holiday this weekend as a Native American and a Pilgrim.

...As I wrote in a recent column for The Daily Beast:

Take Tufts University, where student-leaders of Greek life on campus are particularly worried about costume-related sanctions. They have good reason to be concerned: the university is watching. 

"We encourage all students that feel like they have encountered someone who is wearing an inappropriate and offensive costume to please file a report," said Dean of Students Mary Pat McMahon, according to a letter sent to the Greek community. ..

Greek leaders would like to err on the side of caution—how's that for Halloween spirit?—and have asked members of their community to eschew "inappropriate, offensive, and appropriative costumes." Cultural appropriation—dressing up like someone from a different race—is especially frowned upon. But that's not all: costumes "relating to tragedy, controversy, or acts of violence" are also frowned upon.

One wonders what's left. Many students who heed the above guidelines are presumably restricted from dressing up as samurais, hombres, geishas, belly dancers, Vikings, ninjas, rajas, French maids, Bollywood dancers, Rastafarians, Pocahontas, Aladdin, Zorro, or Thor..."

Report: Loretta Lynch advised Comey not to send a letter to Congress informing them of the discovery of new emails – TheBlaze.com

Report: Loretta Lynch advised Comey not to send a letter to Congress informing them of the discovery of new emails – TheBlaze.com:

"Attorney General Loretta Lynch advised FBI Director James Comey not to send a letter to Congress informing them of the discovery of new emails related to the FBI’s criminal probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, according to a report from the New Yorker."

Misconceptions about the Nordic Economies

Misconceptions about the Nordic Economies | Foundation for Economic Education:
"The Nordic countries are usually mentioned in the Spanish political debate as examples of well-functioning and efficient Welfare States where the government provides citizens with a large range of social benefits.
(The terms “Nordic” and “Scandinavian” will be employed interchangeably to refer to Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Norway and Iceland are excluded from my analysis.)
Politicians, especially on the left side of the political spectrum, look at Sweden, Denmark, or Finland as successful social democratic experiments in which social entitlements are guaranteed by the benevolent and caring hand of the State.
Their existence is conclusive evidence that those who question the sustainability of an unlimited expansion of the Welfare State are wrong.
However, there exists a generalized misperception about the functioning of the Scandinavian economies.
They are usually regarded as highly interventionist countries with hyper-regulated economies and very progressive taxation systems in which the upper classes sustain the Welfare State by paying their so-called fair share.
This widely-extended view is fundamentally wrong for two main reasons. 

• Firstly, far from being socialistic, the economic recipes that have led Denmark or Sweden to have sustainable Welfare States are those usually identified with the free market: deregulated economies and flexible labor markets. 
• Secondly, the burdensome taxation system in the Scandinavian countries is rather regressive; hence, the fiscal burden is essentially borne by low and middle classes..."

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