Friday, November 24, 2017

In the news, Saturday, November 4, 2017


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from ABC News (& affiliates)

Senator Rand Paul assaulted at Bowling Green home
(WBKO) -- On Friday, the Kentucky State Police responded to Rand Paul's residence in Bowling Green at 3:21 p.m. When they arrived, troopers say they discovered that Rene Boucher, 59, of Bowling Green, intentionally assaulted Sen. Rand Paul causing minor injury.

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from Associated Press

Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats’ emails
It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton during her first presidential run, the messages bounced back untouched. Except one. Within nine days, some of the campaign’s most consequential secrets would be in the hackers’ hands, part of a massive operation aimed at vacuuming up millions of messages from thousands of inboxes across the world.

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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota

C.S. Lewis Explains How Governments Create ‘Tame Human Animals’
A ‘freeborn mind’ results in a richer and happier life, Lewis argued. But he saw that vanishing in modern society. The government has kindly offered its education to the masses 'free of charge' for years. But has that 'free' education come at the expense of free thought? If we want our children to be free and independent thinkers who are able to recognize and repudiate the flaws in government, do we, as Lewis implies, need to remove them from government schools?

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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