Fox News Poll: Clinton ahead of Trump after debate...

At Debate, Hillary Clinton Spoke to Black Voters Using Language of a Movement

Source: New York Times, by Farah Stockman

"When political candidates speak, they are often addressing several audiences at once, and their words can have different meanings for each. When Hillary Clinton talked about race during her debate Monday night against Donald J. Trump, she delivered a subtle and powerful message to black voters, speaking to them not only in the substance of what she said, but in her carefully chosen language."

Hillary Clinton Gets A Big Debate Bounce And Takes The Lead In Florida and North Carolina

Here are the PPP swing state results:




Voters in each of the swing states also gave Clinton a big debate win:

The connection isn’t difficult to see. Hillary Clinton did really well with the voters in the states that she most had to reach. Trump’s best performance with swing state voters was in Florida where he lost to Clinton by 18 points.

Read it at: http://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/29/hillary-clinton-big-debate-bounce-takes-lead-florida-north-carolina.html

Watch: Tim Tebow hits home run off first pitch in first at-bat

"Do you believe in miracles?"

http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/09/28/tim-tebow-hits-home-run-video-mets-mlb-video

Deal reached to keep US government running, help Flint

Ezra Klein's observations on Trump's trade/NAFTA debate argument

From: Vox's The press thought Trump’s first 30 minutes were his best. They were his worst.

From the debate, Trump's most "populist" argument:

Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They're devaluing their currency, and there's nobody in our government to fight them. And we have a very good fight. And we have a winning fight. Because they're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing.

So we're losing our good jobs, so many of them. When you look at what's happening in Mexico, a friend of mine who builds plants said it's the eighth wonder of the world. They're building some of the biggest plants anywhere in the world, some of the most sophisticated, some of the best plants. With the United States, as he said, not so much.

On NAFTA and "Hillary's responsibility&quot ?):

Well, he <President Bill Clinton> approved NAFTA. He approved NAFTA, which is the single worst trade deal ever approved in this country.

Fact-checkers wrong about Hillary and her comments on TPP

From the debate:

TRUMP: You called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said it’s the finest deal you’ve ever seen.

CLINTON: No.

TRUMP: And then you heard what I said about it, and all of a sudden you were against it.

CLINTON: Well, Donald, I know you live in your own reality, but that is not the facts. The facts are — I did say I hoped it would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated...

TRUMP: Not.

CLINTON: ... which I was not responsible for, I concluded it wasn’t. I wrote about that in my book...

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Australia is also a growing market for growing exports even as we welcome more trade from you. In fact, our exports to Australia jumped more than 40 percent between 2009 and 2011 raising from under 20 billion to more than 27 billion, and in the first nine months of this year, they're up another 20 percent. President Obama set a goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years, and we've seen extraordinary progress in our relationship with Australia.

So it's fair to say that our economies are entwined, and we need to keep upping our game both bilaterally and with partners across the region through agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. Australia is a critical partner. This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field. And when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment.

That's key, because we know from experience, and of course research proves it, that respecting workers' rights leads to positive long-term economic outcomes, better jobs with higher wages and safer working conditions. And including everybody in that, those who have been previously left out of the formal economy will help build a strong middle class, not only here in Australia or in our country, but across Asia. And that will be good for us.

If we do this right, and that's what we're trying to do, then globalization, which is inevitable, can become a race to the top with rising standards of living and more broadly shared prosperity. Now, this is what I call jobs diplomacy, and that's what I've been focused on in part as Secretary of State. And that's one of the reasons that I wanted to come here to Adelaide and come to this impressive facility.

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LSU at Auburn Day 2 - Les Miles fired and tree burns!

More proof that SEC Football is hardcore!

Top candidates to replace Les Miles at LSU

Investigators said they killed for ISIS. But were they different from ‘regular’ mass killers?

Source: Washington Post, by Abigail Hauslohner, Joel Achenbach, Ellen Nakashima

For years, FBI officials and other national security experts have said that apparent lone wolves such as Adan and Ahmad Khan Rahami, charged in last weekend’s New York bombing, have no discernible profile that could be used to head off terrorist acts. But some counterterrorism experts who studied attackers motivated by jihadist ideology say they often exhibit traits similar to those of non-Muslim mass killers who have attacked schools, churches and workplaces.

“They share common behavioral and psychological characteristics,” said John Cohen, a criminal justice professor at Rutgers University and the former counterterrorism coordinator at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “They’re the same people.”

Many studies of mass killers show that they had serious personal or psychological issues, regardless of their motives or religious identity. They bounced from job to job, struggled to find friends or romantic partners, or felt bullied by their peers. Some had traumatic home lives. Others struggled with a profound sense of shame.

Awareness of these shared traits could help focus FBI questioning of certain young men who already have come to the attention of law enforcement, these experts say.

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10-year-old student arrested in Montgomery creepy clown threats

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - A 10-year-old student was arrested Wednesday in connection with the recent 'creepy clown threats' on a number of Montgomery public schools. The juvenile was arrested at an area elementary school and charged with one count of terroristic threats, according to Montgomery Police.

The announcement was made Thursday morning during a briefing to the press, where Montgomery Police Chief Ernest Finley said, "A child got caught up in the hype. We hope that, at the end of the day, when they go through the juvenile judicial process, that there is some help for that child."

The arrest was made with the cooperation of Montgomery Public Schools as well as the parent of the 10-year-old.

Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange reiterated that "There is no creepy clown. It is a phenomenon of social media and the internet. For the parents and adults, we just need to monitor our young ones' actions as far as these electronic devices."



http://www.wsfa.com/story/33158734/10-year-old-student-arrested-in-montgomery-creepy-clown-threats