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October 23, 2016
Liberal Jews teach their kids to deal with anti-Semitism on liberal campuses
(Paul Mirengoff) Recently I learned that my Jewish congregation is providing training for college age congregants on how to deal with anti-Semitism on campus. That's how bad things have gotten. I wonder whether the sad irony of the situation has registered with the congregation, the vast majority of whose members are leftists. Anti-Semitism is so rampant at America's colleges and universities that teenage Jews need special training before entering this bastion of
Lefty Lawyer Says Trump Accusers Face Uphill Battle If He Sues
'A jury would have to decide what happened'
Via: The Daily Caller
WTF is machine learning?
It's no coincidence that Alan Turing, one of the most influential computer scientists of all time, started his 1950 treatise on computing with the question "Can machines think?" From our science fiction to our research labs, we have long questioned whether the creation of artificial versions of ourselves will somehow help us uncover the origin of our own consciousness… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Donald Trump shuns experience in campaign advisers
Dick Cheney as vice president once told a top aide, "Don't make it hard for me to be your friend."
That is just what Donald Trump's campaign has been doing: "making it hard for me and other Republicans I know to be the campaign's friend, even though we have tried ...
EXCLUSIVE: An Inside Look At An Opulent Clinton Foundation 'Site Visit'
Sumptuously appointed aircraft and 'royal resorts'
Via: The Daily Caller
Obama in Las Vegas: Trump's 'Rigged' Talk Means 'He's Losing'
"If this was rigged, boy it would be a really big conspiracy" President Obama says in Las Vegas of Donald Trump's remarks that U.S. election is "rigged" against him. Says Republican politicians "pumped up crazy stuff" for years; some senators "knew better" but thought it would "rile up the base" "Donald Trump didn't start this. He just did what he always does: slap his name on it, take credit for it" Of Republicans distancing themselves from Trump after businessman's controversial comments, Obam
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Obama hoping for quick Mosul victory to validate ISIS strategy, boost Hillary Clinton
With the fight for Mosul entering its second week, the Obama administration is under pressure to declare victory over the Islamic State, a win the White House says would validate the president's strategy of waging proxy wars against the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria days before Americans head to ...
McCarthy: It's 'Disgraceful' Vets Have To Return Their Reenlistment Bonuses
'We are the ones who owe a debt for the great sacrifices our heroes have made'
Via: The Daily Caller
EXCLUSIVE: Kerry's Daughter Traveled On Taxpayers' Dime To Get Government Contracts
'The least Kerry could do ... is pick up the tab for her own travel'
Via: The Daily Caller
The NFL: Twitter's Kingmaker?
The NFL has a distinguished history of successful partnerships with upstart media companies. When it became the home of Sunday Night Football in 1987, ESPN's unprecedented growth accelerated. In 1993, the NFL sold its NFC Sunday afternoon package to Fox, firmly establishing it as the fourth major broadcast network in the U.S. This fall the NFL is working with another new media partner… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Donald Trump's voter fraud concerns overblown, election officials say
Voter fraud has occurred in recent presidential elections, officials in key swing states say, yet its magnitude falls short of the type of systematic cheating that Donald Trump is prophesying.
Ohio's secretary of state discovered dozens of people who appeared to vote in two states or cast ballots as noncitizens ...
Happy 15th Birthday, iPod
It's been 15 years since Apple first released the classic iPod. It was the first device to usher in what would become, in many respects, the age of Apple. Since its launch Apple's mobile products have become (to many people) the gold standard. Other folks had launched digital music players before Apple. But none had Apple's cache, or the weight of iTunes' amazing… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Clinton Makes Pitch in Ohio for Wavering Trump Fans
Hillary Clinton is making a direct appeal to voters who may be reconsidering their support of Republican Donald Trump after his tumultuous few weeks in the presidential race, saying she wants to assuage voters who are still wary about backing her instead.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
The Latest: Mass at Arizona-Mexico border gets underway
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) - The Latest on a mass at the Arizona-Mexico border for immigrants (all times local):
3:22 p.m.
The final of three cross-border masses in Arizona this year is underway.
A representative of Pope Francis in the U.S. began the Sunday afternoon ceremony, which is encompassing an altar ...
GOP Judiciary Chairman Presses DHS On 10-Time Deported Criminal Alien Charged With Raping Child
'Yet again, I must write to you to request information about criminal aliens...'
Via: The Daily Caller
A Republican in praise of California red tape. 
A New Climategate Scandal?
(Steven Hayward) The East Anglia email scandal of 2009 was a major turning point in the climate change crusade. At the time I compared it to the Pentagon Papers—something that changed the narrative fundamentally. Now there's another climate scandal breaking. The Daily Mail reported yesterday about the apparent fraud of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), a project of the London School of Economics and the University of Leeds
Source: Power LinePower Line
Minnesota immigrants watch presidential election closely
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Many of Minnesota's hundreds of thousands of immigrants are closely watching this year's presidential election as the two major-party candidates have contrasting stances on immigration.
Republican candidate Donald Trump has called for mass deportations of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and stricter rules for ...
US Vigilante Hacker Strikes Back At Russia After US Internet Outage
'You may be able to push around nations around you, but this is America. Nobody is impressed'
Via: The Daily Caller
Advancements in artificial intelligence should be kept in the public eye
Artificial intelligence allows machines to reason and interact with the world, and it's evolving at a breakneck pace. Now consider that most of our data, the best minds in the business and more computing power than you could ever imagine sit with just a handful of companies. Indeed, only a few companies in the world are able to understand the true potential — and the current… Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Border mass aims to bring attention to immigrants
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) - Catholic leaders will hold the final of three border masses in Arizona this year, and this time the representative of Pope Francis in the U.S. will lead the ceremony.
Dioceses Without Borders will hold a mass along the international border in Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico, ...
The GOP Could Lose Utah For The First Time In The Super Bowl Era
'I think that what we're seeing in the state of Utah is an electorate that's in flux'
Via: The Daily Caller
2 aides settle whistleblower suit against Michigan House
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A settlement has been reached between the Michigan House of Representatives and aides to two former state representatives who alleged they were wrongfully fired after reporting their bosses' extramarital affair and other misconduct.
The Detroit News reports (http://detne.ws/2eEKG91 ) that the deal was reached last week ...
All These Clown Bans Probably Aren't Constitutional
'It has really gotten out of hand'
Via: The Daily Caller
Regulatory Cloud Over AT&T-Time Warner as Election Looms
AT&T Inc.'s planned takeover of Time Warner Inc. mirrors Comcast Corp.'s successful acquisition of NBCUniversal, but the latest pairing faces a potentially rockier path through Washington as the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees both express suspicion of blockbuster deals.
Source: Bloomberg Politics
Big-city money, hunters clash over gun background checks
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A national big money campaign to expand background checks one state at a time is revealing tensions among hunters and law enforcement in Maine about just how far the government should go to keep firearms from falling into the wrong hands.
It's on track to be ...
Another RIP Harambe Sighting In The NFL [PHOTO]
Vikings running back Jerick McKinnon commemorates everyone's favorite gorilla
Via: The Daily Caller
The banana republic of big data
There's a reason Americans feel dispossessed by their government. We citizens have fewer and fewer opportunities for substantive interaction with our leaders. Corporate-funded organizations and narrow interest advocacy campaigns stand in as proxies for citizens as the distance grows between leaders and those they represent. This distance changes the dynamics of democracy. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
MORE: Las Vegas Review-Journal Endorses Trump for President
Donald Trump brings "a corporate sensibility and a steadfast determination to an ossified Beltway culture," the Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial board says. Trump "understands and appreciates the conditions that lead to prosperity and job creation and would be a friend to small business and entrepreneurship", while Hillary Clinton has spent most of "her adult life on the public payroll" The Las Vegas Review-Journal says Trump "represents neither the danger his critics claim nor the magic elixi
Source: Bloomberg Politics
TPP by another name? Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton open to Asian trade deal
He stressed that they still oppose the massive TransPacific Partnership, but Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine signaled Sunday that he and Hillary Clinton will be open to the concept of a major Asian trade agreement if they win the Nov. 8 election.
Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," Mr. ...
Clinton Earns 50 Percent Support In Four-Way Poll
Trump trails 12 points behind
Via: The Daily Caller
AT&T's new streaming service, DirecTV Now, just got a lot more interesting
AT&T's soon-to-launch live streaming service, DirecTV Now, just got a lot more interesting following AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner. Announced earlier this year, DirectTV Now was already an anticipated new arrival on the cord-cutting scene, thanks to its plans to stream more than 100 live channels over the Internet without having to agree to traditional pay TV contract. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
Priebus Suggests Possible Reevaluation of GOP Pledge-Breakers
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said the party may revisit its stance that 2016 presidential hopefuls who didn't support nominee Donald Trump could be punished if they ran again in 2020. "These are things that we're going to look at after the election," Priebus says on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday "I think all Republicans should support the nominee of our party" NOTE: All Republican candidates pledged to support the eventual nominee in exchange for access to data a
Source: Bloomberg Politics
The Russian connection (?)
(Scott Johnson) It is impossible to keep up with the falsehoods with which we are inundated by the presidential campaigns. Take, for example, Hillary Clinton's assertion that 17 intelligence agencies concur with the finding that the Russians are responsible for the DNC and WikiLeaks/Podesta email hacks. This has become a key Clinton campaign talking point, repeated again this morning by Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook on FOX News Sunday to Chris Wallace
Source: Power LinePower Line
Younger, diverse voters are reshaping California politics
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Come Election Day, California could legalize pot. Its new U.S. senator will be black or Hispanic - a first for the state. And voters could end the death penalty and revive bilingual education in schools.
The outcome of voting on Nov. 8 is likely to reflect ...
Advanced Cybersecurity: The Simple Password May Soon Be Obsolete
Eye scans, "audio fingerprints," and facial recognition are here to stay
Via: The Daily Caller
Ex-state attorney general hopes to avoid jail for perjury
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A once-rising star in Pennsylvania politics will learn Monday whether she is heading to prison over a feud that led the state attorney general to leak grand jury materials to the press and lie about it under oath.
Democrat Kathleen Kane, 50, argues that the loss of ...
Would The End Of The US-Philippines Alliance Actually Matter?
'Duterte is not a reliable ally'
Via: The Daily Caller
Hillary Clinton will likely be as pro-innovation as President Obama
Behind the less than enthusiastic embrace is a collective skepticism in the tech industry about Clinton's pro-innovation credentials. The shade is unwarranted. Read More 
Source: TechCrunch
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