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Chronic absenteeism among teachers is on the rise, according to federal data, reports the Washington Post. Twenty-seven percent of teachers — more than 75 percent in some districts — missed more than 10 days of school in 2014. Absenteeism is highest in poor, rural areas and inner cities. In the Alamance-Burlington School System, located between Greensboro […]

After nearly 50 years of being inundated by impatient and ungrateful veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs has announced a plan to replace examination and diagnosis with massive drug issuance; all of which will be done blindly.The policy, which is set to take effect Jan. 1st, calls for the installation of large glass cases in

  Life expectancy for Americans aged 25 to 85 is getting shorter, according to a new study. For 65-year-old males and females, expected lifespan has fallen by six months compared to projections in 2015, the study found.  Read Full Article

Wait, what? I thought it was the Russians? </sarcasm> Chinese intelligence repeatedly targeted US national security agencies and email accounts of US officials, a soon-to-be-released report says, adding that Beijing spies targeted info on nuclear weapons, FBI investigations and war plans.  Read Full Article

Decade-old audio exposes then-Senator Hillary Clinton saying the US should have manipulated Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006 to prevent a Hamas victory. The presidential candidate lamented that the US didn’t “determine who was going to win.”  Read Full Article

More intolerance from the Tolerant.  A black homeless woman guarding Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star was the victim of violent harassment by an anti-Trump crowd. Videos of the abuse show people yelling at the woman and knocking her to the ground as the insults continue.  Read Full Article

I cannot wait to see what revelations are here.  I’m guessing that WikiLeaks is saving the best for last. I would.  But they cannot save them too close to election day. People need time to digest what they are reading.  WikiLeaks has released the 22nd batch of emails from the account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign

People on social media shamed US Democratic Senator Tom Ryan, who claimed Russia might actually be behind the reopening of Hillary Clintons’ email probe by the FBI over new leaked messages.  Read Full Article

  The U.S. Supreme Court has, for the first time, agreed to hear a case on transgender rights. The case involves a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender student access the bathroom which matches their gender identity.  Read Full Article

  The 23rd batch of emails from the account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta, have been published online by WikiLeaks.  Read Full Article

Correspondence among senior Clinton campaign staff released by WikiLeaks in Sunday’s tranche of Podesta emails shows her staff discussing leaks from the Benghazi committee as a “very different kind of warfare.”  Read Full Article

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told people she is unsure how her emails could have ended up on a device she viewed as her husband’s computer, the seizure of which has reignited the Clinton email investigation, according to a person familiar with the investigation and civil litigation over the matter. The person, who

I’m guessing here, but I bet the FBI knew that the news of the emails was going to leak, and they wanted to get in front of it rather than being accused of covering for Hillary. The FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server knew early this month that messages recovered

Good thing we have the government to protect us from bad haircuts!  Arizona is cracking down on unlicensed barbering and start fining barbers $1,500 for cutting hair without a license. Via The Buzz:  “We can no longer tolerate this infraction.… We will no longer tolerate this behavior!!” A government-sponsored board in Arizona has posted this message on

NATO is preparing to station 4,000 troops In East Europe. This will be the largest number of troops near the Russian border since the cold war. It comes as Spain faces criticism from allies for agreeing to refuel a Russian fleet. Via the UK’s Independent:  Nato is preparing to station some 4,000 troops on the Russian

US taxpayers were hit with a $3.6 million bill for Barack Obama to play golf with Tiger Woods.   Tiger Woods and President Barack Obama played golf together in a February 2013 mini-jaunt, and that trip turned out to cost the U.S. taxpayer a lot of money.   Filings from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Senator Ron Wyden leads a bipartisan effort to have the Department of Justice reveal how they plan to use new hacking powers. Via Sen. Ron Wyden:  Thursday, October 27, 2016 Washington, D.C. –A bipartisan coalition of Senate and House lawmakers today asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch to provide Congress with more information about a proposed expansion of government

An email released by Wikileaks shows Bill Clinton personally profited through Clinton Foundation resources. Via USA Today:  In a 2011 memo, an aide to Bill Clinton laid out the messy relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the former president’s personal interests, detailing how some foundation donors also paid Clinton to speak and provide consulting services. The memo was

This will be a game changer in the transportation industry. Via The Verge:  In the early morning hours of October 20th, an 18-wheeler tractor trailer pulled into Colorado Springs, Colorado, bearing 50,000 frosty cans of Budweiser beer. Normally, this would not be a noteworthy occurrence, but this truck was driving itself, marking the first time

Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department spend $5.6 million on crystal stemware. Via The Washington Free Beacon:    The Republican National Committee revealed Thursday in a 21-page memo that Hillary Clinton’s State Department spent millions of dollars on lavish goods and initiatives on the taxpayers’ dime.   The State Department spent $5.4 million on a “no-bid contract for