Young Louisiana Woman Found Dead After Seeking Travel Help on Social Media

[From Article]
Lindsay decided to venture out on her own to explore the world.
'She had beautiful blue eyes and a free spirit,' Mrs Ellixson told The Advocate.
'She just had a lot of struggles that she needed to overcome.'
Lindsay was one of three kids who are all adopted.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514764/Social-media-pleas-bring-clues-brutal-murder-Lindsay-Ellixson.html

Woman, 21, on Louisiana adventure to 'figure out life' is found murdered and dumped in a bayou after asking strangers for ride
The body of Lindsay Louise Ellixson, 21, was found in a canal in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday by fishermen
She had been killed by blunt trauma to the head, neck and chest and had been in the water between two and five days
Ellixson had been on an extended trip 'exploring the world', with her adoptive mother, Catherine Ellixson, saying she 'had a lot of struggles she needed to overcome'
Social media posts show Ellixson pleading for 'a ride and somewhere to stay' in the months before her death, also listing herself as 'engaged'
Her boyfriend, Clinton Allen Head, 31, said they were never 'officially' engaged but were 'in love'
Her heartbroken father, Chris Ellixson, said: 'She's looking down on us, smiling, wishing us a happy Thanksgiving.'
By JOEL CHRISTIE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 22:29 EST, 27 November 2013 | UPDATED: 09:03 EST, 28 November 2013

TV Judge Judy's Son Charged With Cover-up Of Child Sex Crimes

[From article]
It has since emerged that Hossu, who is originally from Romania, is allegedly an illegal immigrant after outstaying his visa - despite working for one of New York's top lawyers.
Levy, the son of television personality 'Judge' Judy Scheindlin, has come under fire for employing Hossu, 35, and giving him accommodation at his million-dollar house in Putnam, New York.
He has vehemently denied knowing about Hossu's immigration status and has become embroiled in a public scrap over the accusations with the sheriff of the county.
Hossu was charged last week with two counts of first-degree rape after the 15-year-old daughter of a friend told a school counselor she had been sexually abused by him when she was 12.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514887/Judge-Judys-district-attorney-son-asked-step-accused-trying-cover-personal-trainers-child-sex-crimes.html

Judge Judy's district attorney son asked to step down after he is accused of trying to cover up his personal trainer's 'child sex crimes'
Adam Levy serves as District Attorney for Putnam County, New York
But if convicted of leak he could face four years behind bars
He is accused of helping former live-in trainer Alexandru Hossu, 35
Hossu has been charged with raping an ex's 12-year-old daughter
Hossu is an illegal immigrant but Levy said he was not aware of this
By LEON WATSON
Daily Mail (UK) 
PUBLISHED: 05:52 EST, 28 November 2013 | UPDATED: 11:05 EST, 28 November 2013

Italian Gangster Feeds Rivals To Pigs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515069/Gangster-kills-rival-feeding-alive-pigs-year-feud-members-Italian-crime-syndicate.html

Gangster 'kills rival by feeding him alive to pigs' as part of sixty year feud between members of Italian crime syndicate
Francesco Raccosta was 'beaten with iron bars before being fed to animals'
Police released tapes of wire taps as part of investigation into crime family
Simone Pepe was allegedly responsible for the death of Mr Raccosta
He can reportedly be heard boasting of the killing on one of the tapes
By NICK PISA
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 11:05 EST, 28 November 2013 | UPDATED: 11:21 EST, 28 November 2013

Mother Warns Son Not To Have Sex With Woman Without Written Permission

[From article]
Columnist and mother Roxanne Jones has written a controversial piece for CNN detailing how she told her son to get a 'text message of consent' from a girl before he has sex with her.

Wonder why she suggests this action? Do women ever make false rape claims?  I am shocked.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514596/Mom-tells-son-text-consent-sleeping-girl.html

Mother tells her son to never sleep with a girl unless she sends a text of consent first to avoid accusations of rape
By RACHEL QUIGLEY
PUBLISHED: 14:45 EST, 27 November 2013 | UPDATED: 14:52 EST, 27 November 2013

Maoist UK Sect Benefits From Wealthy Inheritance, Woman Dead After Suspicious Fall

[From article]
Sian Davies received thousands of pounds when her father Alun died in 1970 - but apparently spent most of it on funding the far-Left movement based in South London.
When she died, she had just £5 in her bank account and her only possession was a stash of Marxist literature, according to reports.
It has also been claimed that Ms Davies' family, from whom she was enstranged, were so worried about her being exploited that they froze her bank account.
She died in 1997 after breaking her neck when she fell from a window at the building in Brixton where she was living with cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan and his other followers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514862/Fourth-Lambeth-slave-died-fall-window-gave-60k-Maoist-sect.html

Fourth 'slave' who died in fall from window 'handed her £60,000 inheritance from father to Maoist sect'
Sian Davies inherited £60,000 after her father Alun died in 1970
But she was left with just £5 at her death after decades of 'funding cult'
Relatives apparently tried to freeze her bank account to stop spending
Ms Davies' daughter and two other women escaped from South London commune last week
By HUGO GYE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 04:55 EST, 28 November 2013 | UPDATED: 05:20 EST, 28 November 2013

Dumbed Down Population, False Beliefs

[From article]
On Sept. 17, Constitution Day, a student at Modesto Junior College was told to stop distributing copies of the Constitution until he had filled out the requisite forms for permission to use the college’s designated “free speech area.” The Bank of England is putting Jane Austen on a new 10-pound note because without a woman on some notes, British currency would “not command respect and legitimacy.” Queen Elizabeth II is on all notes.
[. . .]
MSNBC, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Gov. George Wallace’s attempt to prevent the integration of the University of Alabama, identified Wallace as a Republican.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will112813.php3#.UpeSaN00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Pardon these turkeys: Give thanks to the year 2013
By George Will
November 28, 2013

Redistributing Wealth A Form of Slavery

[From article]
What the positive rights tyrants want but won't articulate is the power to forcibly use one person to serve the purposes of another. After all, if one person does not have the money to purchase food, housing or medicine and if Congress provides the money, where does it get the money? It takes it from some other American, forcibly using that person to serve the purposes of another. Such a practice differs only in degree, but not kind, from slavery.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns112713.php3#.UpeUF900i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2013/ 24 Kislev, 5774
Masking Totalitarianism
By Walter Williams

List of Misguided Policies, False Beliefs

[From article]
Barbarians with electronic devices are still barbarians.
[. . .]
One of the best peace speeches I ever read was one delivered back in the 1930s -- by Adolf Hitler! He knew that peace speeches would keep the Western democracies from matching his military buildup with their own, or attacking him to prevent his buildup from continuing. Peace speeches by Iran today serve the same purpose of buying time -- until they can create a nuclear bomb.
[. . .]
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires -- and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.
[. . .]
Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?
[. . .]
One of the reasons it has taken so long for some people to finally see through Barack Obama is that people do not like to admit, even to themselves, that they have been played for fools by a slick-talking politician.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell112613.php3#.UpeV8900i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 26, 2013/ 23 Kislev, 5774
Random Thoughts
By Thomas Sowell

Small Business Sues Over First Amendment Violation Of Obamacare

[From article]
As Lori Windham, senior counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing Hobby Lobby in its court battles, said at the time: "Washington politicians cannot force families to abandon their faith just to earn a living. Every American, including family business owners like the Greens, should be free to live and do business according to their religious beliefs." Amen.
This summer, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals exempted Hobby Lobby from the abortion mandate and allowed the business to avoid those crippling fines while pursuing its case. Now, the Supreme Court will decide whether Democratic Party pandering trumps bedrock constitutional principles.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin112713.php3#.UpeXn900i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2013/ 24 Kislev, 5774
Thank You, Hobby Lobby
By Michelle Malkin

Journalist Sues Over U.S. Law Enabling Military Abuses of Civilians

[From article]
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Chris Hedges, a former New York Times reporter who is the leading plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against the NDAA (Hedges v. Obama).
What follows may well be startling news to you, too: "If Section 1021 stands, it will mean that more than 150 years of case law in which the Supreme Court repeatedly held the military has no jurisdiction over civilians will be abolished.
"It will mean citizens who are charged by the government with 'substantially (otherwise undefined) supporting' al-Qaida, the Taliban or the nebulous category of 'associated forces' will be lawfully subject to extraordinary rendition.
"It will mean citizens seized by the military (including in America) will languish in military jails indefinitely, or in the language of Section 1021, until 'the end of hostilities' -- in an age of permanent war, (which could mean) for the rest of their lives" ("The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA," Hedges, truthdig.com, Sept. 2).

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff112713.php3#.UpeZSd00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2013/ 2 Kislev, 5774
Only some of our young are now independent Americans
By Nat Hentoff

U.S. Coastal Elites Distort Values

[From article]
Those in Boston, New York and Washington determine how our government works; what sort of news, books, art and fashion we should consume; and whether our money and investments are worth anything.
The Pacific corridor is just as influential, but in a hipper, cooler fashion. Whether America suffers through another zombie film or one more Lady Gaga video or Kanye West's latest soft-porn rhyme is determined by Hollywood

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/hanson112813.php3#.Upeam900i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 28, 2013/ 25 Kislev, 5774
America's coastal royalty
By Victor Davis Hanson

Respect for Constitution and Laws Essential for Democracy

[From article]
What distinguishes an institution from a flash mob is that its rules endure. They can be changed, of course. But only by significant supermajorities. That’s why constitutional changes require two-thirds of both houses plus three-quarters of the states. If we could make constitutional changes by majority vote, there would be no Constitution.
As of today, the Senate effectively has no rules. Congratulations, Harry Reid. Finally, something you will be remembered for.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-democrats-outbreak-of-lawlessness/2013/11/28/3184b6f2-579b-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html?hpid=z3

An outbreak of lawlessness
By Charles Krauthammer,
Published: November 28, 2013

Obama's Actions Meet Criminal Violation Standards

[From article]
Forget impeachment, it’s time for criminal prosecution. Obamacare isn’t about incompetence and it isn’t about political disagreement. It’s about a trillion dollar fraud, carried out by the President of the United States. Now add in the IRS scandal and all the others. There’s enough here to put a CEO away for life. Bernie Madoff would blush at what Obama has pulled off (so far).
It’s time to wonder, Is a President "too big to jail?”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/29/obama-too-big-to-jail

OBAMA'S 'SHAM-WOW' PRESIDENCY
by WAYNE ALLYN ROOT
29 Nov 2013

NY Times Shows Bias Favoring Democrats

[From article]
The Times said that Republicans were unjustified in their opposition to the death of the filibuster, even though the Times had no problem with Democrats who opposed killing the filibuster during Republican rule.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/29/NYT-Tea-Party-nihilists

NEW YORK TIMES: TEA PARTY 'NIHILISTS' TO BLAME FOR KILLING FILIBUSTER
by BEN SHAPIRO
29 Nov 2013

McCain Joins Cruz Attacking Obama, Reid and Liberals

[From article]
In a new fundraising letter for the Republican National Committee released Friday, McCain lashed out at “Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Washington liberals,” who he claimed are destroying the United States.
Liberals, he warned, “have taken us down a dark and dangerous path defined by record levels of debt, ever-expanding government, and a lead-from-behind defense strategy. There's not much time left to turn things around.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/john-mccain-joins-ted-cruz-in-assailing-obama-harry-reid-and-washington-liberals/article/2539946

John McCain joins Ted Cruz in assailing 'Obama, Harry Reid and Washington liberals'
BY PAUL BEDARD
NOVEMBER 29, 2013 AT 3:02 PM

Palin Helped McCain Candidacy, Still Popular and Effective

[From article]
Palin has subsequently proven to be the most powerful female politician on the planet due to her ability to get others elected by her endorsement and the ability to generate media buzz at will. She played a crucial role in the 2010 midterms that swept dozens of Democratic lawmakers out of office and even managed to help elect tea party favorites such as Ted Cruz in 2012, despite the drag generated by Mitt Romney at the top of the ballot.
This means that whether she runs or not, Palin will still be a political force for 2014 and 2016.

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-black-legend-sarah-palin-2008-disproved-12425780.html?cat=9

The 'Black Legend' of Sarah Palin and 2008 Disproved by New Study
Mark Whittington
Nov 30, 2013

Dangers of Iran's Bomb, Enabled By Obama

[From article]
In terms of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, this deal accomplishes identically nothing. Iran promises to dilute its stockpile of 20% enriched uranium that we know about. Inspectors will be allowed into the low-enrichment facilities that we know about. Iran gives up on a plutonium bomb, or at least the facility that we know about. Given the size and duration of Iran's bomb program, there could be a lot that we do not know about.
[. . .]
Do Obama and Kerry require an EMP, neutron burst, ground tremor, and mushroom cloud as proof?
[. . .]
The foreign policies of the Obama administration have been a never-ending tragedy of failures. The only success has been the sanctions imposed on Iran, by Congress, against Obama's objections. This author knew people from Chicago's Palestinian and Middle Eastern community in which Barack Obama was heavily involved. Many of them believed Obama to be a Muslim, and all of them knew that Obama viewed Israel as a mistake that needed to be corrected. As with all of Obama's perceived failures, were they really failures due to his inexperience and lack of critical thought, or were the outcomes the ones he desired?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/six_months_to_doomsday.html

November 30, 2013
Six Months to Doomsday
By Anthony J.Ciani

Dermocrats Still Denying Death Panels Accurately Noted By Palin

[From article]
Made up of 15 unelected bureaucrats, the IPAB was established expressly for the purpose of determining whether doctor-recommended treatment will be paid for or not.
[. . .]
Americans are becoming increasingly apprehensive that Barack Obama, who has lied about everything having to do with his signature legislation, is also being disingenuous about health care rationing.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/liberal_semantics_and_the_redefining_of_death_panels.html

November 30, 2013
Liberal Semantics and the Redefining of Death Panels
By Jeannie DeAngelis

Obama's Democratic Party Arrogance and Lawlessness Will Have Repercussions

[From article]
“I’m talking about how the administration, particularly the president, seems to think that he has the right to change duly passed statutes on his own or to suspend parts of laws on his own,” Krauthammer said when asked to clarify his critique of the Obama administration’s “lawlessness.”
“The Constitution is pretty clear,” he continued, “the Congress passes the laws and the president executes the laws.”
Krauthammer cited Obama’s unilateral delaying of aspects of the Affordable Care Act and his appointing of administration officials via recess appointment while the Senate was in session. “This is a very cavalier attitude,” he added.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/krauthammer-dems-will-regret-allowing-obamas-lawlessness-when-gop-returns-to-power/

Krauthammer: Dems Will Regret Allowing Obama’s ‘Lawlessness’ When GOP Returns to Power
by Noah Rothman
1:08 pm, November 30th, 2013

Harassment Prevents Publishing

Experiencing an enormous amount of harassment both personally and to my computer from two persons (graduate student in psychology at Harvard Medical School and a building superintendent) reportedly employed and protected by the Harvard University campus police. They caused my computer to crash 94 times in the past three days, and disturb my sleep every one or two hours. Hope to resume publishing as soon as possible. Thanks for your continuing interest.

Homeless Man Pushes Elder Man Onto Subway Tracks

[From article]
Lin was quickly pulled up off the subway tracks before a train arrived by good samaritans on the platform.
According to New York magazine, he suffered a fractured skull and a broken collarbone and is now in a coma at St Luke's Hospital.
[. . .]
The New York Post reports that Baldao is Guyanese, with a full head of hair and a white beard.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512514/Homeless-man-charged-attempted-murder-pushing-elderly-man-subway-tracks.html

Homeless man charged with attempted murder for pushing elderly man onto subway tracks
Homeless man Rudralall Baldao, 57, has been charged with attempted murder
He allegedly pushed 72-year-old Shou Kuan Lin onto subway tracks at 145th St station
Lin is now in a critical condition in hospital
By ALEX GREIG
Daily Mail (UK0
PUBLISHED: 17:14 EST, 23 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:14 EST, 23 November 2013

New York Father Son Team Tried To Swindle $1 million Lottery Winner

[From article]
The owners of a Long Island, New York, deli have been arrested after they allegedly tried to scam a $1million lottery winner by taking his ticket, handing him $1,000 cash and keep the winning scratch-off for themselves.
The victim, who speaks no English, initially fell for the bait-and-switch scam and left with the meager cash and no ticket.
But, he returned the next day and demanded the ticket back. When they wouldn't give it to him, he called the police.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512470/Deli-owners-gave-1million-lottery-winner-1-000-kept-ticket-themselves.html

Swindling New York deli owners 'gave $1million lottery winning customer just $1,000 and then KEPT the scratch-off ticket for themselves'
By MICHAEL ZENNIE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:58 EST, 23 November 2013 | UPDATED: 16:54 EST, 23 November 2013

Florida Teens Brutally Beat and Gang Rape 16-year-old Woman

[From article]
Prosecutors presented the teens' cellphone videos as chilling evidence in court. They argued that two girls charged in the assault were too dangerous to be freed pending trial even though juveniles tried as adults normally are entitled to bond.
After Circuit Judge Lisa Porter retreated to her chambers for 20 minutes to watch the recording, she returned to the bench and described what she saw on the video.
It was 'depraved and sick,' unlike almost anything else she has seen during her time on the bench, she said.
[. . .]
Three others, Dwayne Henry, 17, of Hollywood; Lanel Singleton, 18, of North Miami; and Woolfork, 19, all face charges of capital felony sexual assault and kidnapping. They remain jailed pending their next court hearings.
[. . .]
But then she began describing the video of the crime, detailing how the victim pleaded with them to stop as she held her arms over her face to protect herself from their unrelenting blows.
‘The cruelty shown on this video . . . this was repeated over and over again . . . The girls are trying to remove her bra. You saw the victim sitting on the toilet crying, her face blown up and swollen from injuries, and then they beat her,’ Schneider said.
[. . .]
The victim claims that she was kicked, thrown down stairs and had her face smashed on concrete, breaking bones near both her eyes.
Judge Hurley said: 'This 16-year-old woman, both of her eyes were closed from being beaten, she had blood coming from one of her ears.
[. . .]
According to the police report, the girl was watching TV and listening to music when Montes and Avery suddenly grabbed her, pinned her down and began kicking her in the head.
They taunted her, called her names and told her that they would continue to beat her until she agreed to have sex with a 19-year-old man who lived in the house.
The girl refused, and Montes, Avery and three others continued to beat her, telling her that they wouldn’t let up until she complied, the report said. They then dragged her by her hair into a bedroom, where they stripped her of her clothes and the 19-year-old, identified as Jayvon Woolfork, raped her, it said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512062/Judge-blasts-depraved-sick-teens-videotaped-rape.html

Judge blasts 'depraved and sick' Florida teens in videotaped gang rape after 16-year-old girl was 'beaten until her ear bled' in brutal attack recorded on cell phone
Teen 'was set upon by group while watching TV at a friend's house'
'Raped by Jayvon Woolfork, 19, while four others pinned her down'
'Victim was thrown down stairs and smashed against the concrete'
All five accused - including three minors - have been charged as adults
Two of the teenagers have been released on bail
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:48 EST, 22 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:49 EST, 22 November 2013

Dark Internet

[From article]
It works by bouncing messages around several computers before they reach their final destination. The Tor network — which its founders liken to a series of ‘virtual tunnels’ — has 3,200 volunteers around the world who allow their computers to be used to send these messages.
Once users have downloaded some free software from the Tor website, they are ready to begin surfing — or selling things — with impunity.
Each message that is sent has several layers of encryption which are peeled away like the skins of an onion as it moves from computer to computer.
These reveal the next destination of the communication (which could be a file, web page, message, picture and so on), without showing its content as it is passed along the chain.
This means it is impossible to establish the identities or locations of the people at either end of the chain, or to see what they are talking about, selling, swapping or sharing.
[. . .]
Contrary to what you may imagine, the Tor Project — the body which provides the Tor network — is a highly respected organisation partly funded by Cambridge University, the U.S. State Department, the Swedish government and other organisations campaigning for liberty and free speech.
Based in Massachusetts, the Project is dedicated to electronic privacy and the rights of people to use the internet without being snooped on or tracked by intelligence agencies or companies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512136/Its-just-child-porn-Fake-passports-guns-cocaine-hitmen-hire-clicks-away-internet.html

It's not just child porn: Fake passports, guns, cocaine, even hitmen for hire are a few clicks away on the internet
Tor is a computer system which allows people to talk in private online
Messages are encrypted as they bounce around a computer network
Officials cannot see who is talking to who or what is being said
It has been used by political activists during the Arab uprisings
However criminals also use it to sell drugs, guns and child porn
By  STEVE BOGGAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 18:24 EST, 22 November 2013 | UPDATED: 18:25 EST, 22 November 2013

* * *
[. . .]
Meanwhile prosecutors in New York have charged Ulbricht - a native Texan who was living in San Francisco and holds degrees from the University of Texas and Penn State - with trying unsuccessfully to solicit the murder of a Canadian man who allegedly hacked into Silk Road, obtained dealers names and began blackmailing Ulbricht.
Ulbricht is also accused of operating Silk Road under the alias 'Dread Pirate Roberts' and earning $80 million from commissions involving every sale.
[. . .]
FBI agents appear to have penetrated the behind-the-scenes operations of Silk Road and obtained a list of the sites users and sellers, court papers show.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511727/Silk-road-drugs-gangs-Ross-William-Ulbricht-planned-6-murders.html

Man behind Silk Road drug gang 'planned to carry out six murders'
Ross William Ulbricht accused of masterminding Silk Road website
Notorious online marketplace sold everything from illegal drugs to guns
The 29-year-old is now alleged to have hired a hitman to carry out six killings
FBI shut down website, but just weeks later it has reopened as Silk Road 2.0
By SHARI MILLER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 07:27 EST, 22 November 2013 | UPDATED: 09:07 EST, 22 November 2013

Unions Need More Money To Live Better Lives

Here's one more attempt by the teachers unions to steal more taxpayer money. One would think that the mission of teachers unions is to protect the jobs of teachers and to prevent abuses of teachers. But the unions are trying to persuade taxpayers that their objective in this matter is to improve education, learning of students. That may conflict with the interests of teachers. But what is happening is one more effort to increase the membership base of the unions top increase the cash money dues paid to the unions. The unions give, invest is an appropriate word here, some of the dues as campaign contributions to politicians and make up a story that whatever they want will improve education and that it is for the children. After getting campaign money politicians are usually amenable to whatever their benefactors desire. They are willing to increase the size of the bureaucracy in the schools so that the unions can have more income to improve the standard of living of the unions leaders. It is a fast moving money laundering system. Taxpayers pay for more school bureaucracy, which pays more dues to the unions, who give more money to the politicians. And where and when does education improve? 

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/11/mass_unions_pushing_early_educator_legislation

Mass. unions pushing early educator legislation
Saturday, November 23, 2013
By: Associated Press
Boston Herald

Canadian Scandals

[From article]
Most unnerving is Quebec, Canada’s Tammany Hall. Since 2011, a government commission has been investigating the awarding and management of public contracts. Its findings have led to the resignation in 2012 of the mayor of Canada’s second-largest city, Montreal; the arrest in 2013 of his replacement; the arrest in 2013 of nearby Laval’s mayor for “gangsterism” and criminal charges against two more small-town mayors.
In addition, Quebec’s anti-corruption squad has arrested 49 people and laid criminal charges against 13 companies.
“Acts of collusion and corruption exist everywhere in Quebec — in every region. Our investigations are proving this to us,” said Robert Lafreniere, head of the squad.
There are 20 more ongoing investigations outside the construction industry, he added, involving contracts for computer technology and work related to an ambitious scheme to develop mining, tourism and infrastructure in the province’s far north.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/23/forget-rob-ford-canada-is-chocked-full-of-scandal/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Forget Rob Ford, Canada is chock full of scandal
By Diane Francis
November 23, 2013 | 10:48am
New York Post

U.S. Taxpayer Foreign Aid Stolen Repeatedly

[From article]
One new investigation shows millions are being stolen and sold on the black market from money meant for malaria drugs in Africa.
[. . .]
The allegations in Africa come on the heels of widespread concern about how $1.1 billion in Haiti earthquake recovery aid has been spent in the three years since the disaster hit, as well as aid funding in Afghanistan.
[. . .]
“Foreign aid is notoriously corrupt,” Fitton said. “The surprise is that anyone is surprised by this anymore. Twenty percent of aid is lost. If this happened in the private sector, (the program) would have been shut down.”
[. . .]
For Fitton, the problems are not something he sees being resolved any time soon.
“If this were Apple computer, it would be shut down but it’s not,” he said. “Billions have been lost and more will be.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/22/fraud-corruption-and-bid-rigging-allegations-continue-to-hit-usaid/

By Barnini Chakraborty
Published November 22, 2013
FoxNews.com

Obama's Dependency Policies Encourage Black Teen Attacks on White People

[From article]
“And, again, it comes to the fundamental question, are we going to promote an opportunity society or are we going to promote a dependency society?” West asked. “What is the problem if we head down this road? You're going to have more Detroits. And think about what Detroit used to be. Think about what Detroit used to look like. And guess what? You have this—and this is something that is absolutely driving me crazy, this knockout game.”
West noted that many of those teens involved in the knockout game would have, in his day, had jobs in their towns and would not be engaged in this behavior. But since the economic and education systems created by the left—including immigration policy which allows foreign workers into the country to compete with them for jobs—they have nothing to do but engage in violence.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/23/Allen-West-Policies-like-amnesty-driving-
up-black-unemployment-lead-to-things-like-Knock-Out-Game

ALLEN WEST: 'DEPENDENCY SOCIETY' LEAD TO 'KNOCKOUT GAME'
by MATTHEW BOYLE
23 Nov 2013, 1:38 PM PDT

Network Does Not Punish TV Host For Personal Attacks on Palin

[From article]
“However, if Mr. Bashir or anybody else in this media elite bubble that they put themselves in were to attack someone who is defenseless, like a vulnerable child, who does not have that podium, that microphone that God has blessed me to be able to express my opinion … well, if you want to see a mama grizzly get riled up and slap that person down, then you come after a vulnerable child,” she said.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/24/sarah-palin-slams-msnbc-for-allowing-martin-bashirs-insult/

Sarah Palin slams MSNBC for allowing Martin Bashir’s insult
By S.A. Miller
November 24, 2013 | 3:11pm
New York Post

Obama Destroying His Own Credibility

[From article]
Obama responded like a ruler of a banana republic unfettered by constitutionalism and the rule of law. Although no president has even a line-item veto power (which 44 governors have), this president asserts the power to revise the language of laws by “enforcement discretion,” and suggests no limiting principle.
But even this is a crisis only if Congress makes it so by supine acquiescence. Congressional Democrats are White House poodles. They also are progressives and therefore disposed to favor unfettered executive power. Republicans are supposed to be different.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will112313.php3#.UpJqKN00i6Y.*

Jewish World Review
How a presidency unravels
By George Will
November 23, 2013

Government Continues to Mislead Taxpayers

[From article]
The economics specialty that reveals this is known as the incidence of taxation. The burden of a tax is not necessarily borne by the party upon whom it is levied. The Joint Committee on Taxation held that "both the employee's and employer's share of the payroll tax is borne by the employee." The Congressional Budget Office "assumes — as do most economists — that employers' share of payroll taxes is passed on to employees in the form of lower wages than would otherwise be paid." Health insurance is not an employer gift, either.
Another part of Social Security and Medicare deception is that the taxes are officially called FICA, which stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Act. First, it's not an insurance program. More importantly, the word "contribution" implies something voluntary. Its synonyms are alms, benefaction, beneficence, charity, donation and philanthropy. Which one of those synonyms comes close to describing how Congress gets Social Security and Medicare money from us?

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns112013.php3#.UpJrtt00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 20, 2013/ 17 Kislev, 5774
Do Americans Prefer Deception?
By Walter Williams

Misguided Liberal Priorities

[From article]
The last thing the political left needs, or can even afford, are self-reliant individuals. If such people became the norm, that would destroy not only the agenda and the careers of those on the left, but even their flattering image of themselves as saviors of the less fortunate.
Victimhood is where it's at. If there are not enough real victims, then fictitious victims must be created — as with the claim that there is "a war on women." Why anyone would have an incentive or a motivation to create a war on women in the first place is just one of the questions that should be asked of those who promote this political slogan, obviously designed for the gullible.
[. . .]
What would happen if Americans in general, or blacks in particular, started celebrating people like this armless young man, instead of trying to make heroes out of hoodlums? Many of us would find that promising and inspiring. But it would be a political disaster for the left — which is why it is not likely to happen.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell111813.php3#.UpJsvN00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 19 2013/ 16 Kislev, 5774
The War Against Achievement
By Thomas Sowell

Black Teen Thugs Attack White People As Game

[From article]
Many aspects of these crimes are extremely painful to think about, including the fact that responsible authorities in New York seem to have been caught by surprise, even though this "knockout game" has been played for years by young black gangs in other cities and other states, against people besides Jews — the victims being either whites in general or people of Asian ancestry.
Attacks of this sort have been rampant in St. Louis. But they have also occurred in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and elsewhere. In Illinois the game has often been called "Polar Bear Hunting" by the young thugs, presumably because the targets are white.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell112013.php3#.UpJtu900i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 20, 2013/ 17 Kislev, 5774
A Very Dangerous Game
By Thomas Sowell

Laws Useless When People Ignore Them

[From article]
“A society’s first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions, and moral values,” wrote Professor Walter Williams a few years ago. “They include important thou-shalt-nots such as shalt not murder, shalt not steal, shalt not lie and cheat, but they also include all those courtesies one might call ladylike and gentlemanly conduct. Policemen and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct.”
[. . .]
As a “continuing body,” the Senate’s procedures are supposed to remain in force unless a two-thirds supermajority votes to change them. In this case, a 52/48 all-Democratic majority voted to change the rules, and so the rules have been changed. After all, who’s gonna stop Harry Reid? The Senate page boys? Legislative majorities are here today and gone tomorrow, but legislative mechanisms are supposed to be here today and here tomorrow and here next year. If a transient party majority can change the rules on a single, sudden, party-line vote, than there are no rules. The rules are simply what today’s rulers say they are. After all, banana republics and dictatorships pass their own rules, too – to deny opposition politicians access to airtime, or extend their terms by another two or three years, or whatever takes their fancy.
[. . .]
The law is applied according to whim, which means there is no law.
[. . .]
A government that lies to its own citizens should command no respect. To accord them any is to make oneself complicit in their lies, which is unbecoming to a free people.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/steyn112413.php3#.UpJut900i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 25, 2013/ 23 Kislev, 5774
When a society's first line of defense fails
By Mark Steyn

More Racism From White House

[From article]
On Friday, while defending the beleaguered Common Core program in a meeting with state school superintendents, Duncan unleashed a brazen race and class warfare attack on grassroots foes. As The Washington Post reported, Duncan sneered that he found it "fascinating" that the revolt came from "white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were."
As a brown-skinned suburban mom opposed to Common Core, I can tell you I've personally met moms and dads of all races, ethnicities, backgrounds and parts of the country over the past year who have sacrificed to get their kids into the best schools possible. They are outraged that dumbed-down, untested federal "standards" pose an existential threat to their excellent educational arrangements — be they public, private, religious or homeschooling.
[. . .]
A textbook liberal racist, Duncan whitewashes all minority parents and educators who oppose Common Core out of the debate.
This is a White House war on uppity women and children of all colors. Duncan's a bigot, a bully, an elitist and a foot-in-mouth fool all rolled into one — and he continues to enjoy the support of the president.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin112013.php3#.UpJwwd00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 20, 2013/ 17 Kislev, 5774
Arne Duncan's War on Women and Children
By Michelle Malkin

No-History, Smartest Man In The Room, Obama Makes It All Up

[From article]
But there is no record that Obama or his lieutenants had ever publicly said such a thing. The president's attempt to airbrush history is similar to the commandments on the barn wall in George Orwell's "Animal Farm." One day the commandment "All Animals are Equal" mysteriously appears rewritten with a new qualifier beside it, as if it had been there all along: "All animals are equal -- but some animals are more equal than others."
[. . .]
The administration has also downplayed the disaster by claiming that the more than 30 million who lost their coverage represent only "5 percent" of the insured. But even if that number is not far too low, try using that minority percentage argument on issues like gay rights. If millions of gays represent only about 5 percent of the population, is federal policy that affects gays negatively not really that important?

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/hanson112113.php3#.UpJzPd00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 21, 2013/ 18 Kislev, 5774
Obamacare-speak fails to mask an evolving fiasco
By Victor Davis Hanson

Elaborate Immigration Bill Indicates Out of Control Politicians

[From article]
The bill, which Rubio helped to write, is 1,197 pages long.
It is 1,193 pages longer than the National Archive’s parchment copy of the Homestead Act of 1862, which is one of the most important legislative acts in U.S. history. Passed when there were few national laws regulating immigration, the Homestead Act was designed to attract immigrants to settle the continent’s interior.
Today’s Senate bill is gigantic because it deals with everything. Its size is proportional to Washington’s serene confidence that it knows everything. What should be the hourly wage of an agricultural sorter in 2016? The Senate bill (through an explanation given on page 318) says $9.84. And the hourly wage of a worker in a nursery? Twenty cents less than the agricultural sorter’s wage. Some senators know everything.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will111413.php3#.Uoip4N00jDo

Jewish World Review
A sure-fire way to pass immigration reform
By George Will
November 14, 2013

Misguided Liberals Believe They Can Spend Other People's Money Better

[From article]
Warren, a scourge of (other) economic royalists and especially of large financial institutions, is a William Jennings Bryan for our time: She has risen from among Harvard’s downtrodden to proclaim: “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of derivatives.”
Before she sank to a senator’s salary, she was among the 1 percenters, whose annual incomes now begin at $394,000. Hillary Clinton recently made more than that from two speeches, five days apart, for Goldman Sachs, a prowling Wall Street carnivore that Warren presumably wants to domesticate. Between Warren, hot in pursuit of malefactors of great wealth, and Clinton, hot in pursuit of great wealth, which candidate would be more fun for the kind of people who compose the Democrats’ nominating electorate?
[Hillary Clinton] explained her health-care plan this way (a delicious quotation excavated by the Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins):
“We just think people will be too focused on saving money and they won’t get the care for their children and themselves that they need. . . . The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better.”

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will111613.php3#.UoirFN00jDo
   
Jewish World Review
Excitement for 2016
By George Will
November 16, 2013

Misguided Control Freaks In White House, Washington DC

[From article]
The biggest challenges in any system, whether it's an economic, biological or ecological system, are information, communication and control.
[. . .]
Oblivious to the huge information problem in the allocation of resources, the people in Washington have great confidence that they can run our health care system better than we, our physicians and hospitals. Charles Darwin wisely noted more than a century and a half ago that "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." Congress exudes confidence.
[. . .]
Politicians really don't care about what Joe thinks is best, because they arrogantly think they know what's best and have the power to coerce.
Hayek said, "The curious task of economics is to illustrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." We economists have failed miserably in that task.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns111313.php3#.Uoisut00jDo

Jewish World Review
Nov. 13, 2013/ 10 Kislev, 5774
Does Washington Know Best?
By Walter Williams

Surveillance Systems Being Sold Worldwide

[From article]
Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that "off the shelf" equipment will allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to a cache of documents published on Monday.
The papers show how firms, including dozens from Britain, tout the capabilities at private trade fairs aimed at offering nations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East the kind of powerful capabilities that are usually associated with government agencies such as GCHQ and its US counterpart, the National Security Agency.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/18/private-firms-mass-surveillance-technologies

Private firms selling mass surveillance systems around world, documents show
One Dubai-based firm offers DIY system similar to GCHQ's Tempora programme, which taps fibre-optic cables
Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor
The Guardian,
Monday 18 November 2013 16.42 EST

Liberal Prosecutors Abuse Power Targeting Wisconsin Conservatives

[From article]
The law, “Bars a subpoena’s targets from disclosing its contents to anyone but his attorneys. John Doe probes work much like a grand jury, allowing prosecutors to issue subpoenas and conduct searches, while the gag orders leave the targets facing the resources of the state with no way to publicly defend themselves.”
[. . .]
Eric O’ Keefe, director of Wisconsin’s Club For Growth and one of the groups being targeted, said that he knows of at least three of the targets who have had their homes raided. During the raids, law enforcement officers confiscated computers and files.

http://capitolcityproject.com/homes-raided-subpoenas-issued-targeting-conservative-groups-and-allies-of-scott-walker/

Homes raided, subpoenas issued targeting conservative groups and allies of Scott Walker
November 18, 2013
Joe Schoffstall

Useful Idiot U.S. Education Secretary Expresses Racist Hatred Toward Whites,

Duncan joins, Obama, "Comrade" Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton, Kanye West, Tom Perez, Eric Holder and other racists stirring up racial animosity. It shows why there is so much divisive antagonism in the country. Is it due to liberal holier than thou smartest men in the room hypocrites? Why isn't the FBI investigating these government criminal haters as they do me, and high school students?

[From article]
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin called Duncan a “corrupt and bankrupt bigot” for his remarks. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said Duncan “really doesn’t get it.” Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, tweeted that Duncan “should be fired for dismissing Common Core critics as just white suburban moms with dumb kids.”

http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/arne-duncan-regrets-white-suburban-

Duncan regrets ‘white suburban moms’ remark
By Associated Press
November 18, 2013 | 7:33pm

Security Experts Recommend Obamacare Unsafe

[From article]
All four cyber security experts unanimously concurred that, given the security issues, Americans should not use the site at present.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/19/healthcaregov-already-compromised-security-expert-says/

Healthcare.gov ‘may already have been compromised,’ security expert says
Published November 19, 2013
FoxNews.com

Black Racist Still Employed At Dept. of Homeland Security

[From article]
The black-nationalist Department of Homeland Security employee who was placed on leave almost four months ago for running a website that espouses the mass murder of whites has still not been fired, an agency spokesperson told National Journal.
The Southern Poverty Law Center first exposed Ayo Kimathi in August, prompting a small media firestorm that led DHS to place the procurement officer on administrative leave with pay pending review. DHS deputy press secretary Gillian Christensen confirmed that his status has not changed and that he is still on leave pending review.
Kimathi, using the online nom de guerre "the Irritated Genie," called for "ethnic cleansing" of "black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors" on his website, which envisioned a massive race war on the horizon. "In order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites—more than our Christian hearts can possibly count," he wrote.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/dhs-still-hasn-t-fired-black-supremacist-who-called-for-mass-murder-of-whites-20131119

DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites
Almost four months after he was unmasked as a militant black nationalist who called for murdering "Uncle Tom race traitors," Ayo Kimathi is still employed.
By Alex Seitz-Wald
November 19, 2013

Massive Fraud Exposed in Welfare Program

[From article]
Store owners would allegedly purchase customer’s WIC coupons and give the recipient a percentage of the cash value.
The store owners would then pocket their cut of the money before being reimbursed by the government for the coupons, sources said.
[. . .]
Sources said the scheme was localized specifically in Asian neighborhoods, with some stores buying as much as $20,000 worth of welfare vouchers per month.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/20/multi-million-dollar-welfare-fraud-scheme-busted-in-nyc-bodegas/

Multi-million dollar welfare scam busted
By Daniel Prendergast
November 20, 2013 | 3:25pm
New York Post

Second Time UT Town Fails To Hold Election

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/20/utah-town-forgets-to-hold-election/

Utah town forgets to hold election
3:50 PM 11/20/2013
Alexis Levinson
Political Reporter

Boston Policeman Kills Self

[From article]
A veteran of the Boston Police Department who appeared on TNT reality series about cops has died of an apparent suicide.
The law enforcement agency confirmed that officer Pat Rogers died Tuesday as a result of a 'non homicide,' but declined to provide additional details out of respect for his family.
Rogers appeared in the first season of Boston's Finest, which is being produced by actor Donnie Wahlberg.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511013/Veteran-Boston-cop-commits-suicide-featured-Donnie-Wahlbergs-reality-pressures-police-work.html

Veteran Boston cop commits suicide after being featured in Donnie Wahlberg's reality show about pressures of police work
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
PUBLISHED: 00:50 EST, 21 November 2013 | UPDATED: 00:53 EST, 21 November 2013
Boston Herald

ATF Agent Found Dead With Wife

[From article]
Mr Parisi had been with the ATF since 1993, his wife a teacher at the school since 2005.
Students were sent home with a note written by the school’s principal.
[. . .]
The Parisis were married for two decades, he added.
Shocked neighbors spoke of how the family was always outside running, playing basketball or spending time together.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510993/Federal-agent-husband-school-teacher-wife-shot-dead-apparent-domestic-incident.html

Federal agent husband and school teacher wife found shot dead in family home in 'domestic incident' which teenage daughters fled from
Paul and Jeannine Parisi were found dead early Wednesday morning in their Virginia home
Their daughters were in the house and fled when they heard gunshots
Authorities have categorized the incident a 'domestic situation'
By RYAN GORMAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 23:14 EST, 20 November 2013 | UPDATED: 00:42 EST, 21 November 2013

Burglar Returns to Victim's House Rapes Her For Reporting Theft

[From article]
Curtez Deshawn Graham returned this past June to the twice-burglarized St paul, MN., home after being furloughed from prison and raped the woman after blaming her for his previous imprisonment, the victim told police.
‘B***h, you sent me to prison for 14 months,’ he snarled at the woman while standing naked in her bedroom menacingly holding a pair of scissors, said an affidavit cited by the Pioneer Press.
[. . .]
The frightened couple woke up to see the crazed man naked and threatening to kill them with the scissors if they did not do as he said, according to the affidavit.
He forced the man to tie himself up, revenge raped his helpless victim and then forced her to wash between her legs while taking a shower, the affidavit said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511012/Man-18-sentenced-25-years-prison-revenge-rape-elderly-lady-twice-previously-burglarized.html

Man, 18, sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for revenge rape of elderly lady he twice previously burglarized
Curtez Graham, 18, was previously sent to prison for twice robbing an elderly couple
Once released on work furlough, he returned to their home and raped the 65-year-old woman
By RYAN GORMAN and ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 00:44 EST, 21 November 2013 | UPDATED: 00:44 EST, 21 November 2013

Son of US Judge Shot Himself Dead

[From article]
A 26-year-old who committed suicide at a Mormon temple has been revealed as the son of a federal judge.
Scott Greer Bybee shot himself dead at the temple in east Las Vegas on Tuesday night. He is the son of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jay Bybee.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510870/Federal-judges-son-26-kills-Mormon-temple.html
Federal judge's son, 26, shoots himself dead at Mormon temple in Las Vegas
Scott Greer Bybee took his own life at the temple in east Las Vegas on Tuesday night
The Bybee family said in a statement that Scott had suffered from long-term depression
Judge Bybee signed the 'torture memo' in 2002 which approved techniques such as waterboarding to be used on suspected terrorists
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 18:46 EST, 20 November 2013 | UPDATED: 19:01 EST, 20 November 2013

Knockout Attacks In New Haven CT

[From article]
The first attack took place Monday at 7 p.m., according to Witkowski. A group of six to eight young men approached a 28-year-old man between Union and Columbus avenues. One punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Then they all ran.
A half hour later, a group of young men faced off with a 29-year-old man a block away at Church Street South and Union. One struck the man, again in the face, and again they all fled.
On Tuesday, right around the same time of Hsieh’s attack, eight males descended on a 30-year-old man near Columbus Avenue and Liberty Street. Once more, one of the males punched the victim, then ran off with his comrades.
A half hour later, at 6 pm. a group fell upon a 68-year-old women at Loop Road and Portsea Street, attacking her from behind. One of the young men struck her, then ran off with the group. She fell and hit her head on the pavement. She declined medical attention.
The last reported attack occurred around 6:45, when a group of males approached a 31-year-old male at Columbus and Church Street South. Again, one person punched the man in the face, gave him a kick, then, laughing, ran off with the group.
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/rash_of_attacks_may_be_linked_to_knockout_game/id_63198

New Haven Independent
6 “Knockout”-Style Attacks Hit The City
by Cora Lewis
Nov 21, 2013 3:33 pm

Increase in Fatal Shootings By NYPD

[From article]
In 2012, city police officers shot and killed 16 people, an increase from nine in 2011 and the highest number seen during the Bloomberg administration, according to the report. Thirteen officers were wounded by gunfire in the line of duty in 2012, a number not reached since the late 1990s; none died.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/nyregion/police-report-shows-increase-in-fatal-shootings-by-new-york-officers.html?_r=0

Report Documents a Rise in Fatal Shootings by the City’s Police Officers
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
Published: November 19, 2013
New York Times

Rogue Electronics Can Overpower U.S. Navy

[From article]
Exploiting and remotely shutting down a Navy ship's software "gives you a nonlethal warfare capacity at sea," Peter Singer, a Brookings Institution national security analyst, said in an interview after speaking at the Defense One Summit. Commanders could give an order like, “Don't let this enemy fleet seize these island chains, but also don't let it turn into a shooting war.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-acoustic-hackers-could-halt-fleets-2013-11

US NAVY: Hackers 'Jumping The Air Gap' Would 'Disrupt The World Balance Of Power'
GEOFFREY INGERSOLL
NOV. 19, 2013, 2:54 PM

Man Without License Drives 3 Miles Dragging Woman After Leaving Motel Where She Worked

It appears that often these days the public gets more common sense from volunteer readers who make comments under stories, than from over paid lawyers, judges, police and politicians. It really does look like the United States became an idiocracy run by mindless narcissistic misguided simpletons, and bozos. 
 
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/11/man_pleads_not_guilty_in_dragging_death_of_woman

Man pleads not guilty in dragging death of woman
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Boston Herald
By: Antonio Planas 
and Laurel J. Sweet

A Critic's Hilarious View Of The MA Governor

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2013/11/carr_deval_patrick_just_put_it_on_my_er_taxpayers_tab

Carr: Deval Patrick: Just put it on my – er, 
taxpayers’ tab
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Boston herald
By: Howie Carr

Four Bodies Found In Arlington, MA, Mother of Twins Sought Help

Posted November 19, 2013 9:26 PM ET; Last updated November 20, 2013 9:25 PM ET

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/11/slain_arlington_mom_posted_plea_for_help

Slain Arlington mom posted plea for help
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Boston Herald
By: Jack Encarnacao, Laurel J. Sweet, Colneth Smiley Jr. and John Zaremba


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[From article]
However, a reporter working for the local CBS affiliate, WBZ Boston, tweeted that she had spoken to the the woman's family who said she was in the middle of a 'nasty divorce' and that her husband had recently moved out of the house.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509518/Pictured-The-new-mother-twin-sons-stabbed-death-suburban-home-alongside-estranged-husband-just-week-babies-birthday.html

Pictured: The new mother and twin sons found stabbed to death in their suburban home alongside estranged husband just a week before babies' first birthday
The bodies of two adults and two infants have been discovered in a home in Arlington, Massachusetts
The couple were identified as Scott and Mei Kum Jones, both 43
It would have been Colt and Cameron's 1st birthday on November 26th
The bodies will be identified by police once the deceased's next of kin is informed
A neighbor says that the condo where the bodies were found was the home of a married couple and their infant twin sons
By ASHLEY COLLMAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 14:35 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 22:18 EST, 18 November 2013

Women Who Fake Orgasms Likely To Cheat

[From article]
The scientists established women fake orgasms far more often than men do – they do so 18 per cent of the times they have sex while men only fake it in one in 20 times.
Almost one in six of the women questioned admitted they had cheated on their partner.
The figure was even higher for men, with more than a quarter - 26 per cent - admitting being unfaithful.
Researchers found men and women who faked orgasms were far more likely to be unfaithful.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2510497/Women-fake-orgasms-likely-cheat-partner.html

Women who fake orgasms are 'more likely to cheat on their partner'
Women fake it a fifth of the time while men only fake orgasms one time in 20
Women orgasm 61% of the times they have sex, men orgasm 70% of times
1 in 6 women and 1 in 4 men say they have cheated on their partner
Orgasm frequency does not influence the chance of cheating
By EMMA INNES
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 07:06 EST, 20 November 2013 | UPDATED: 07:06 EST, 20 November 2013

NC Policeman Removes Implanted Bomb From Man

[From article]
A North Carolina police officer was awarded the Medal of Valor after surgically removing and defusing a bomb implanted into a man’s neck – without wearing protective gear.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510340/Hero-bomb-squad-officer-removes-explosive-device-mans-neck-wearing-protective-gear.html

Hero police officer and surgeon removed bomb from suicidal man's neck
The improvised explosive device was embedded in the neck of a man who had tried to commit suicide
Charlotte Police Officer Robert Whitely removed the device on a hospital operating table
By RYAN GORMAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 21:37 EST, 19 November 2013 | UPDATED: 01:38 EST, 20 November 2013

More Government Fraud in 2012 Election

[From article]
'It was a phone conversation — I forget the exact words — but it was, "Go ahead and fabricate it" to make it what it was,' Mr Buckmon told The Post's John Crudele.
Mr Buckmon had been fired by the time President Obama was facing re-election, but The Post columnist says that he spoke to a source who told him the inflation of reports remained a problem long after he left.
'He's not the only one,' the source told Mr Crudele.
He goes on to claim that the problem 'escalated' towards the end of the campaign, but gives not specific reasons why the September 2012 figures have been singled out.
That shift- from 8.1 per cent to 7.8 per cent- was the most dramatic drop through all of 2012.
It undoubtedly helped President Obama during the final weeks of the campaign against former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510023/Census-Department-rigged-unemployment-rates-came-final-months-2012-presidential-election.html

Census Department 'rigged' the unemployment rates that came out in the final months of 2012 presidential election
There has been a history of Census Bureau employees inflating the numbers that they report when surveying Americans
New revelations allege that could have happened in September 2012 when the unemployment rate dropped from 8.1% to 7.8%
Said to have helped President Obama get re-elected
By MEGHAN KENEALLY
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 10:59 EST, 19 November 2013 | UPDATED: 11:10 EST, 19 November 2013

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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rick-santelli-rages-against-media-over-manipulated-unemployment-data-allegations/

Rick Santelli Rages Against Media Over ‘Manipulated’ Unemployment Data Allegations
by Andrew Kirell
12:14 pm, November 19th, 2013

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http://nypost.com/2013/11/19/house-probes-census-over-fake-results/

House probes Census over ‘fake’ results
By John Crudele
November 19, 2013 | 9:32pm
New York Post

Obama Getting Stale

[From article]
Obama’s cool was, in part, an artifact of world-class marketing. Graphic designer Michael Bierut writes in the book Designing Obama (yes, there’s such a book) of how impressed he was watching Obama rallies in 2008: “The awe-inspiring part was the way all the signs were faithfully, and beautifully, set in Hoefler & Frere-Jones’s typeface Gotham.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/364277/obama-loses-his-cool-rich-lowry

NOVEMBER 19, 2013 4:00 AM
Obama Loses His Cool
From Williamsburg to Silver Lake, he’s yesterday’s arugula.
By Rich Lowry
National Review

Obama Destroying Liberalism

[From article]
Now, if you can picture the Titanic, packed with black plague victims, exploding over Lakewood, NJ, you have a reasonable picture of the enormity and impact of ObamaCare, a fiasco that will cause more damage than any other government-sponsored operation since the heyday of the Marxist dictatorships in the mid-20th century.
[. . .]
That's the pattern, one that could not have established itself without a complete lack of honesty, historical knowledge, common sense, or professional pride among anyone concerned
[. . .]
One of the great desires of the liberal elite of our time is perfect communion with radical Muslims. This yearning for oneness with butchers is in no way a new trait.
[. . .]
In Syria, the United States has found itself supporting "rebels" who tear out living hearts and eat them.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/obama_vs_liberalism.html

November 20, 2013
Obama vs. Liberalism
By J.R. Dunn
American Thinker

Hitler Destroyed Democracy Confiscating Guns From Critics

[From article]
Hoping to stem further attacks on the state, the liberal Weimar Republic imposed Draconian gun control laws that made it punishable by death to carry a gun. The brutal and undisciplined Freikorps were given the task of enforcing these laws and did so with alacrity, even murdering nurses who carried firearms for protection against rape amid the post-war chaos.
[. . .]
Although the Weimar Ministry of the Interior worked to assure registrants that their information would remain safe, this proved to be an empty promise. When the Nazis took over in 1933, the information was culled for registrants who were deemed "enemies of the state," a euphemism for Jews, communists, and other political opponents.
[. . .]
The issue of an armed populace resisting tyranny is why the Second Amendment exists. It was not written to promote hunting or target shooting. It was written to keep a check on tyrants both foreign and domestic

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/gun_control_the_jews_and_the_third_reich.html

November 20, 2013
Gun Control, the Jews, and the Third Reich
By Abraham H. Miller
American Thinker

Celebrities Treated Better in Courts

[From article]
Is my city turning into Los Angeles — a place where Chris Brown was sentenced to probation and community service for bashing the face of Rihanna, and 50 Cent was awarded probation for smashing up his ex-girlfriend’s condo?
It isn’t fair.
Alec Baldwin is free to wander the streets of New York, a cursing, gay-bashing human wrecking ball. And the one woman who summoned the guts to stand up to him is locked up for months.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/entitled-celebs-get-special-treatment-in-court/

Proof that celebrities get special treatment in court
By Andrea Peyser
November 18, 2013 | 2:36am
New York Post

Man Freed After 25 Years, Wrongful Conviction

[From article]
Another reason Deacon got a retrial was the recantation of witness Colleen Campbell, who testified she had seen the murderer fleeing the crime scene and knew it wasn’t Deacon – but had been afraid of the Jamaican gang and so didn’t want to finger one of them.
“Campbell also testified that she had initially told the police that the perpetrator was not the defendant, but that she had been pressured by police or prosecutors to provide ‘vague’ testimony at trial,” stated the 2009 Appellate Court decision that granted Deacon a new trial.
“Campbell testified that the police and/or prosecutors had threatened to “take away” her children if she did not cooperate with them.”

http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/freedom-after-being-wrongly-imprisoned-for-25-years/

Free after being wrongly jailed for almost 25 years
By Josh Saul
November 18, 2013 | 4:47pm
New York Post

False Racism Claims Used To Censor Cirtics

[From article]
This president reaffirms the adage that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” and when it’s combined with arrogance, you get what we’re seeing now.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/joe_fitzgerald/2013/11/fitzgerald_new_low_for_debacle_with_racial_comment

New low for debacle with racial comment
Monday, November 18, 2013
By: Joe Fitzgerald
Boston Herald

Man, 87, Says Daughter Killed Because Of Support For DHS Whistleblower

[From article]
Angelo Bertolotti, 87, alleges that at the time of her death his daughter was under surveillance from shadowy government operators who wiretapped her phone and terrorized her after she spoke out in support of a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower.
[. . .]
On the National Whistleblower Center website, Julia Davis said she 'prevailed' in court against the Department of Homeland Security despite a total of 54 'retaliatory' investigations being launched against her in an 'attempt to discredit Julia as an upstanding law enforcement officer and a staunch American patriot.'
On the site, she says that when her fears about terrorists being able to slip into the U.S. were ignored by her bosses she went to the FBI, infuriating her bosses.
Last year, a trailer for the documentary about the whistleblower case, called 'Top Priority: The Terror Within,' was posted on YouTube.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509626/Brittany-Murphys-father-believes-husband-poisoned-death-government-spooks.html

Revealed: Brittany Murphy 'was poisoned by government spooks in revenge for star's support of whistleblower', claims her grief-striken father
Father Angelo Bertolotti, 87, claims Brittany and her husband were killed for supporting Department of Homeland Security whistleblower
Julia Davis claimed U.S. was letting in terrorists over the Mexican border because of lax security and her backers were put under surveillance
She and Mr Bertolotti are writing a tell-all book on the mystery
The Clueless actress died on December 20, 2009 and the Los Angeles County Coroner said at the time it was due to pneumonia
Husband Simon Monjack died five weeks later in the same house
A new toxicology report ordered by her father found ten heavy metals in the actress' system, meaning she might have ingested rat poisoning
By DAVID GARDNER IN LOS ANGELES
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 19:13 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 20:36 EST, 18 November 2013

Texas College Students Play Illegal Immigrant Game

[From article]
The group held a bake sale in September in which brownies were priced more cheaply for students of color and for women. In tweeting a picture of the price list, the group wrote:
‘If you agree with this, you agree with how the university is admitting students. Please listen to what we're saying.’
The bake sale was later deemed ‘inflammatory and demeaning’ by UT administrators.
As for Wednesday’s event, Garcia told the Houston Chronicle he’s none too concerned about critics or even potential protestors.
‘Sticks and stones,’ Garcia said. ‘We’re not going to let anything like that stop us this time.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509673/Texas-conservative-student-group-plans-awful-catch-illegal-immigrant-game-25-gift-certificate-prizes.html

Texas conservative student group plans awful 'catch an illegal immigrant' game with $25 gift certificate prizes
The event will be held by the Young Conservatives of the University of Texas at Austin
Students marked with 'illegal immigrant' labels will walk around campus on Wednesday
Any student who 'catches' them and returns them to the club will receive a $25 gift card
'Not afraid to be politically incorrect': The group is led by group chairman Lorenzo Garcia, a former paid campaigner for Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott and intern for Senator Ted Cruz
By JOSHUA GARDNER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 19:18 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 22:53 EST, 18 November 2013

Republicans Tried To Prevent Loss of Insurance Under New Health Care Law

[From article]
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul told an audience in Charleston, S.C. last week that the wave of health insurance cancellations following the Affordable Care Act's implementation came from 'a regulation written by President Obama' months after he signed the law.
And every Senate Democrat, he said during his Nov. 11 remarks, voted against the GOP's attempt to block the regulation.
[. . .]
'I'm still learning about it,' Paul said of the Affordable Care Act. 'It’s 20,000 pages of regulations. The Bill was 2,000 pages. And I didn’t realize this until this week – the whole idea of you losing or getting your insurance cancelled wasn’t in the original Obamacare [law]. It was a regulation written by President Obama, three months later.'
[. . .]
During a brief debate, Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley complained that 'only in the District of Columbia could you get away with telling the people "if you like what you have you can keep it," and then pass regulations six months later that do just the opposite, and figure that people are going to ignore it.'

[video embedded]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509520/Senate-GOP-tried-block-Obamacare-rule-caused-insurance-cancellations.html

Revealed: Senate Republicans tried to block Obamacare rule that caused millions of insurance cancellations, but EVERY Democrat voted to save it
In a 2010 Senate vote, Republicans failed to block the Obamacare regulation responsible for as many as 5 million insurance cancellations
The vote was 59-40, with every Democrat opposed
Sen. Rand Paul told a partisan crowd last week that the rule was never part of the Affordable Care Act, but was tacked on later by the White House
The so-called 'grandfather' clause virtually guarantees the cancellation of private health insurance policies that change in any way from year to year
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:31 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 16:31 EST, 18 November 2013

New Prostate Cancer Test Promising

[From article]
Lead scientist Dr Hayley Whitaker, from Cambridge University, said: ‘This is early research, but if clinical trials confirm our results then it could help clinicians to tell which patients have a more aggressive tumour and need proportionally aggressive treatment, while sparing patients with low grade tumours unnecessary radiotherapy or surgery.
[. . .]
The study, conducted in collaboration with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, is published in the journal Oncogene.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2509452/Major-prostate-cancer-breakthrough-thanks-simple-test-shows-man-aggressive-form-disease.html

Major prostate cancer breakthrough thanks to simple test which shows if a man has the aggressive form of the disease
There are higher levels of the protein NAALADL2 in aggressive tumours
Finding means doctors can identify those tumours that are likely to pose a deadly threat and which need to be tackled with intensive treatment
Currently the aggressiveness of a tumour can only be loosely identified meaning some patients have debilitating treatment that is not necessary
By EMMA INNES
PUBLISHED: 12:23 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 12:25 EST, 18 November 2013

NJ Official Lives In Low Income Housing Earning $100,000

[From article]
Michael Razzoli, who runs the city Department of Public Works, says he resides in one of the co-op’s College Drive buildings. But an application to College Towers says a resident’s household income must not exceed $64,000.
Razzoli, whose name is misspelled on the apartment’s doorbell, makes $117,048 as the DPW director, in addition to a $65,085 annual pension as a retired firefighter.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/11/jersey_city_with_six-figure_salary_claims_residence_in_affordable_housing.html

Jersey City official with six-figure salary claims residence in affordable housing
By Terrence T. McDonald
The Jersey Journal
November 17, 2013 at 2:21 PM, updated November 18, 2013 at 11:58 AM

Obama Has Right On His Side. Laws Are No Longer Essential

[From article]
What is the common denominator of the Obama administration’s serial scandals [. . .] In a word: the advancement of postmodern notions of justice at the expense of traditional truth.
[. . .]
The true became the advocacy of fairness, while the real lie was the reactionary adherence to a set of oppressive norms. All this was faculty-lounge fluff, but soon it filtered out into the larger culture.
[. . .]
In the postmodern world of the New York Times and Barack Obama, again, “truth” is a relative concept.
[. . .]
If ACA navigators on occasion have urged poor applicants to fudge on their eligibility, what is the big deal? 
[. . .]
As Obama put it, “So the majority of folks will end up being better off, of course, because the website’s not workin’ right, they don’t necessarily know it.”
[. . .]
When U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied five times on national television about the Benghazi deaths, followed by Hillary Clinton over the coffins of the dead men and yet again by Barack Obama at the United Nations, they were not really telling untruths.
[. . .]
Right and wrong, like truth and lies, are calcified concepts in service to a rigged world of discrimination. [. . .] These are details that pale in comparison to the larger picture of social justice:
[. . .]
Does anyone deny that James Rosen works for Fox News and that Fox News opposes social justice?
[. . .]
If Obama wanted Guantanamo closed, then it is virtually closed.
[. . .]
To obsessive-compulsive accountants, perhaps the Pigford agricultural payouts were fraudulent, but who can deny that many of the poor recipients might have wished to farm?
[. . .]
The Left, which cares for humanity and strives for fairness and equality, has earned the moral right of exemption from one-dimensional truth. The Right, which focuses on the liberty of the selfish individual to do what he pleases against the collective interest, has not.
[. . .]
If the laws that enhance privileges of race and class are “broken,” then that is to the good, given the greater issues of social justice at stake. 



http://nationalreview.com/article/364250/obamas-noble-lies-victor-davis-hanson

November 19, 2013 4:00 AM

Obama’s Noble Lies
Stop worrying whether the president’s statements conform to ossified standards of truth.

By Victor Davis Hanson

Obama Acts As If He Is King

[From article]
On Thursday [November 14, 2013, Obama] passed a new law at a press conference. George III never did that. But, having ordered America’s insurance companies to comply with Obamacare, the president announced that he is now ordering them not to comply with Obamacare.
[. . .]
But Obama is the first to order that his omelet be unscrambled and the eggs put back in their original shells. Is this even doable? No. That’s the point. When it doesn’t work, he’ll be able to give another press conference blaming the insurance companies, or the state commissioners, or George W Bush

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/steyn111813.php3#.Uoit7N00jDo
   
Jewish World Review
Nov. 18, 2013/ 16 Kislev, 5774
Obama orders his omelet unscrambled
By Mark Steyn

Tea Party Ordinary Concerned Citizens, Threat To Socialist Promoters

[From article]
There is no question that the principles of anyone who believes in the freedom of American citizens from arbitrary government dictates like ObamaCare — unauthorized by anything in the Constitution and forbidden by the 10th Amendment — must oppose this quantum leap forward in the expansion of the power of government.
There is nothing ambiguous about the principle. The only question is about the tactics,

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell111213.php3#.Uoiw-d00jDo

Jewish World Review
Nov. 12, 2013/ 9 Kislev, 5774
Tea Party at the Crossroads
By Thomas Sowell

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[From article]
Like ObamaCare, Prohibition sounded good to a lot of people before it went into effect. Only after they saw what a disaster it was in practice did people change their minds.
We are already seeing people changing their minds about ObamaCare, after they experienced the multiple disasters that are just starting to emerge. That includes Congressional Democrats who had voted for it.
[. . .]
Friend and foe alike see the Tea Party as not just a bunch of politicians trying to stay in office, but people with a purpose beyond going along to get along. The left's desperate — and dishonest — efforts to discredit the Tea Party show that they understand its threat to their expanding government agenda.
[. . .]
There are millions of Americans today who are losing their insurance and their doctor — and who may also lose everything financially to identity thieves, if ObamaCare is as careless with their private information as early reports indicate. These Americans are infinitely more important than internal battles among Republicans.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell111313.php3#.UoiyKt00jDo

Jewish World Review
Nov. 13, 2013/ 10 Kislev, 5774
Tea Party at the Crossroads: Part II
By Thomas Sowell

Health Care Ads Misleading, Appeal to Base Instincts of Youth

[From article]
It's bad enough that these idiocracy-targeted ads reduce young people to perpetually partying boozers and traffic-bait boobs. But what's truly toxic is the ad campaign's cynical feint to draw attention away from Obamacare's undeniable harm to responsible young people. Brosurance and Hosurance are trifling distractions from the federal law's Nosurance consequences. Insurers started dropping child-only plans in Colorado, California, Ohio and Missouri in 2010 thanks to Obamacare-induced premium increases. Colleges across the country have canceled low-cost plans for students because of Obamacare rules. Thanks to the Obamacare mandate, young, healthy Americans face higher insurance premiums, decreased work hours and perverse incentives to enroll in Medicaid instead of remaining independent and off the dole.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin111313.php3#.Uoiza900jDo

Jewish World Review
Nov. 13, 2013/ 10 Kislev, 5774
Bros and Hos: Obamacare's Bread and Circuses
By Michelle Malkin

Hate Speech Higher Priority Than Homicides

[From article]
The Kimmel kerfuffle is worthy of a Monty Python skit, but also typical of the surreal theater of offense-taking in contemporary America. Are we, in such matters, a ridiculous country? One that encourages a sense of victimhood and grievance? One that lacks any sense of proportion? Yes, yes and yes.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/lowry111213.php3#.Uoi2TN00jDo

Jewish World Review
Nov. 12, 2013/ 9 Kislev, 5774
Why won't Jimmy Kimmel apologize some more?
By Rich Lowry

Obama's Health Care Law Impossible to Implement

[From article]
Obama’s promise on insurance wasn’t just injudicious, it was completely impossible. It wasn’t an incidental falsehood but ran counter to the central premise of his own health care law. People losing their current insurance isn’t an unintended consequence of the law; it is an intended consequence without which much of the law doesn’t work.
[. . .]
Its strategy is always based, at bottom, on spin and muddling through. These are the same people who believe they possess the administrative mastery to run highly complex laws remaking swaths of the American economy.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1113/lowry111513.php3#.Uoi3Hd00jDo
   
Jewish World Review
Nov. 15, 2013/ 12 Kislev, 5774
The Obamacare lie that can't be fixed
By Rich Lowry

U.S. Has Enormous Number of Prisoners

[From article]
Robyn E. Blumner of the Tampa Bay Times [former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union chapter in Utah and then at the same challenging position in Florida]: reported, is California, which "spends an average $47,000 annually to keep someone in prison and about $8,500 to educate a public school student."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff111313.php3#.Uoi4gt00jDo

Jewish World Review
Nov. 13, 2013/ 10 Kislev, 5774
Our cruel and usual criminal justice system
By Nat Hentoff

Obama Weakens International Standing Of United States

[From article]
Neutrals and enemies alike assumed that it was as unwise to be on the wrong side of America as it was beneficial to be on friendly terms.
The Obama administration apparently has tired of the global order that American power created. The president seems determined that America should become unexceptional, and his five-year-long efforts are now bearing fruit. The result is that no one knows where global violence will break out next, much less who will stop it.
[. . .]
Obama has misled over Benghazi, flipped and flopped over Syria and Egypt, and deceived the American people on the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363895/jumping-global-tigers-back-victor-davis-hanson

NOVEMBER 14, 2013 12:00 AM
Jumping Off the Global Tiger’s Back
The Obama administration has little interest in world leadership.
By Victor Davis Hanson

Wikipedia Unreliable Research Resource

[From article]
It’s easy to laugh off the Big Apple howlers. But millions take Wikipedia as gospel on more challenging subjects, from Kenya’s Mau Mau war to nuclear fission, which can’t be checked with a stroll around the block. What a travesty for journalism, for education and for what we once called “knowledge.”

http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/dont-trust-anything-on-wikipedia/

Don’t trust anything on Wikipedia
By Steve Cuozzo
November 16, 2013 | 8:30pm
New York Post

Two Harvard University Drug Tests on Prisoners

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Concord+Prison+Experiment

Concord Prison Experiment
The Concord Prison Experiment was designed to evaluate whether the experiences produced by the psychoactive drug psilocybin, derived from psilocybin mushrooms, combined with psychotherapy, could inspire prisoners to leave their antisocial lifestyles behind once they were released. How well it worked was to be judged by comparing the recidivism rate of subjects who received psilocybin with the average for other Concord inmates.

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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Marsh+Chapel+Experiment

Marsh Chapel Experiment
The round window above the altar at Boston University's Marsh Chapel
The Marsh Chapel Experiment (a.k.a. "the Good Friday Experiment") was a 1962 experiment conducted on Good Friday at Boston University's Marsh Chapel. Walter N. Pahnke, a graduate student in theology at Harvard Divinity School, designed the experiment under the supervision of Timothy Leary and the Harvard Psilocybin Project.[1] Pahnke's experiment investigated whether psilocybin (the active principle in psilocybin mushrooms) would act as a reliable entheogen in religiously predisposed subjects.[2]

Criminals Preying On Elders Using Obamacare

[From article]
Among the survey's respondents, 10% say they or someone they know has been the victim of a health-care fraud. Ms. Greisman says in many instances, con artists claim—falsely—that the ACA requires Medicare beneficiaries to buy a new policy or Medicare card. Often, they pose as a representative of Medicare or an insurer and ask for personal financial information, such as a Social Security or bank-account number.
[. . .]
Advocates say consumers shouldn't divulge any information to unsolicited callers or visitors and should be skeptical of Caller ID, which can be manipulated. Those who are approached should file complaints with the FTC (ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm), local law enforcement, and their state's attorney general and insurance department, says John Breyault, a vice president of public policy at the National Consumers League. They can also call the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging's new fraud hotline at 855-303-9470.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303460004579193720742106130

Fraudsters Are Exploiting New Health Law
One Con: Telling Medicare Beneficiaries They Must Choose New Plans
By ANNE TERGESEN
November 17, 2013

Alleged NYC Gangster Found Dead

[From article]
Meldish, 62, controlled the 1980s drug trade in the Bronx and Harlem, and ran the Purple Gang, doing business with the Luchese and Genovese families.
“He was one of the most feared people in the city,” a law enforcement source told The Post.


http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/notorious-purple-gang-mobster-found-dead/

Notorious ‘Purple Gang’ mobster found dead
By Kirstan Conley
November 16, 2013 | 2:08pm
New York Post

Federal Databases Available To Local Police, and To Public

[From article]
As Seattle perfects its massive surveillance system, the technology is likely to replicate nation-wide as more and more mesh network nodes pop up across major cities. While these networks could positively benefit certain first responders, the federal government’s involvement gives extra assurance that the system will be used against law-abiding Americans, as it already has.
With Homeland Security’s blatant targeting of peaceful American citizens, such as their labeling of military veterans as the number one terror threat, opposition to the illegal spy grid takeover has become more essential than ever.

http://www.infowars.com/new-mesh-network-documents-confirm-police-vehicles-real-time-access-to-dhs-spy-cameras/

New Mesh Network Documents Confirm Police Vehicle’s Real-Time Access To DHS Spy Cameras
Mikael Thalen
Infowars.com
November 16, 2013

Foreign Countries Warn About Dangerous U.S. Cities

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/14/16-american-cities-foreign-governments-warn-their-citizens-about//?print=1

16 American cities foreign governments warn their citizens about
By Reid Wilson
Updated: November 14, 2013 at 4:34 pm

OK For Black People To Use Hate Speech, White People Should Mind Their Own Business

[From article]
Charles Barkley admitted Thursday to using racial slurs with his friends.
Commenting on Los Angeles Clippers’ Matt Barnes using the “N” word on Twitter and the Miami Dolphins bullying investigation on TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” Barkley stated he will continue to use the racial slur around his friends and that white people should not dictate how he talks.
“I’m a black man. I use the ‘N’ word,” Barkley said. “I’m going to continue to use the ‘N’ word with my black friends, with my white friends. They are my friends.”
[. . .]
Barkley also said he’s tired of “regular people” trying to make sports politically correct.

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2013/11/15/barkley-what-i-do-with-my-black-friends-is-not-up-to-white-america-to-dictate/

Barkley: ‘What I Do With My Black Friends Is Not Up To White America To Dictate’
November 15, 2013 10:10 AM

International Child Trafficking Ring Busted

[From article]
A sweeping child pornography investigation has led to the rescue of 386 children around the world and the arrest of 348 people, Canadian police said Thursday.
[. . .]
School teachers, doctors and actors were among those arrested.

http://nypost.com/2013/11/15/386-kids-rescued-in-global-child-porn-bust/

386 kids rescued in global child porn bust
By Associated Press
New York Post
November 15, 2013 | 7:58am

Robots Will Read Your Mind

[From article]
Ralescu's work eventually could be used in conjunction with another project being presented at HuCeRo by UC's Gaurav Mukherjee, a master's student in mechanical engineering in UC's College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), and Grant Schaffner, an assistant professor in UC's Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Mukherjee and Schaffner designed and built a spring-assisted leg exoskeleton that can help people with impaired mobility. By integrating Ralescu's brain-computer interface into the exoskeleton, someone using the device could think, "I'm going to stand," and they'd receive a robotic boost as they rose to their feet.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131114102558.htm

Mind-Reading Robots Coming Ever Closer
Nov. 14, 2013
Science Daily

Council Election Results Official, Cambridge, MA

Posted November 6, 2013 12:21 AM ET; Last updated November 15, 2013 11:10 PM ET



Cambridge Election Commission

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1275643450/Official-results-widen-margins-dont-change-results-in-Cambridge-City-Council-election

Official results widen margins, don't change results in Cambridge City Council election
By Erin Baldassari/ebaldassari (at) wickedlocal.com
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Nov 15, 2013 @ 07:08 PM
Last update Nov 15, 2013 @ 07:22 PM
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Unofficial results from Cambridge Election Commission shows Minka Y. van Beuzekom only six votes behind Nadeem A. Mazen with 17, 737 votes counted. Absentee ballots and provisional ballots remain uncounted. Final results scheduled for November 15, 2103.

http://www.cambridgema.gov/election2013/unofficial/ccouncil/Council%20Round17.htm

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http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x529847973/Cambridge-elects-four-new-city-councilors-two-new-School-Committee-members

Cambridge unofficially elects four new councilors, two new School Committee members
By Erin Baldassari/ebaldassari (at) wickedlocal.com
Cambridge  Chronicle
Posted Nov 06, 2013 @ 01:05 AM
Last update Nov 06, 2013 @ 12:10 PM

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http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x529847973/Cambridge-elects-four-new-city-councilors-two-new-School-Committee-members

Cambridge elects four new city councilors, two new School Committee members
By Erin Baldassari/ebaldassari (at) @wickedlocal.com
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Nov 06, 2013 @ 01:05 AM

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http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1275639443/Unofficial-Cambridge-Election-Commission-releases-preliminary-results

Unofficial: Cambridge Election Commission releases preliminary results
By Staff reports
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Nov 05, 2013 @ 11:07 PM
Last update Nov 05, 2013 @ 11:25 PM

BY THE NUMBERS

Unofficial preliminary No. 1 votes for City Council (in order):

Leland Cheung, 2,317
Tim Toomey, 1,417
David Maher, 1,387
Dennis Benzan, 1,258
Marc McGovern, 1,151
Denise Simmons, 1,143
Dennis Carlone, 1,119
Craig Kelley, 1,007Nadeem Mazen, 946
Ken Reeves 899
Minka vanBeuzekom, 852
Sam Seidel, 673
Jefferson Smith, 567
Logan Leslie, 482
Kristen Von Hoffmann, 410
Janneke House 392
Mushtaque Mirza, 276
Luis Vasquez, 256
Elie Yarden, 99
Gary Mello, 98
James Lee, 82
Lesley Phillips, 81
James Williamson, 73
Ron Peden, 43
Gregg Moree, 37
TOTAL: 17,128 votes cast; QUOTA: 1,713

Unofficial preliminary No. 1 votes for School Committee (in order):

Patty Nolan, 3,794
Fred Fantini, 2,785
Richard Harding, 2,295
Kathleen Kelly, 2,041
Fran Cronin, 1,781
Mervan Osborne, 1,204
Joyce Gerber 1,093
John Holland, 566
Elechi Kadete, 481
TOTAL: 16,040 votes cast; QUOTA: 2,292

Bulger Trial Missed Opportunity to Expose Police and FBI Corruption

[From article]
Had Bulger testified, Wyshak said, “I would have walked him through all the charges in the indictment, all the murders and extortions. I would have asked about his relationships with John Connolly and John Morris, and other corrupt law enforcement agents. It would have been about exposing people who have been hiding in the shadows all these years. The statute of limitations may have run out on some, but we’re all about exposing wrongdoing and achieving justice.”
[. . .]
Make no mistake, it takes no business acumen to take money from folks on the other side of a gun.’’

Mr. Wyshak may be sincere in his desire to expose corrupt officials who enabled Bulger's reign of terror. But the failure of the Justice Department to investigate fully the criminal abuses and malfeasance indicated that the government attorneys did not want to expose all of the corruption. John Durham's fantasy that only Connolly was a problem made it clear they were  unwilling to investigate the police and the FBI thoroughly.
It is not only Bulger who steals money using guns. The IRS does the same thing with more firepower than  Bulger could ever assemble.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x919106205/MARGARET-MCLEAN-Dramatic-Bulger-trial-impacted-nearly-all-of-us

MARGARET MCLEAN: Dramatic Bulger trial impacted nearly all of us
By Margaret McLean
For The Patriot Ledger
Posted Nov 15, 2013 @ 04:11 AM