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Americans love Oprah, but not that much: Majority say she shouldn't run for president

AutSteven Shepard
Politico
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:17 UTC
Oprah President
© Phil Mccarten / APA majority of voters across several polls don’t think Oprah Winfrey should run for the White House.
Americans love Oprah Winfrey. But they aren't exactly clamoring for the media mogul and former talk-show host to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020.

A majority of voters across several polls don't think Winfrey should run for the White House, according to polls conducted since Winfrey's much-heralded speech at a Hollywood awards show launched a round of presidential speculation. Even among Democratic voters, more say she shouldn't run for president than should.

Still, there's enough evidence to continue fueling speculation about her political prospects. Winfrey performs well on polling ballot tests, tying or leading Trump in a number of surveys. The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows Democratic voters prefer her to a host of other potential candidates - except former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

Comment: More on the poll results from Morning Consult:
"If you were watching cable news the Monday after the Golden Globes, you would have thought the numbers would say 99 percent of Americans want her to run," said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University, in a Tuesday interview. "Certainly polls have their limitations, but these numbers don't quite indicate that degree of enthusiasm."

Doug Heye, a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee who is now a CNN contributor, said Winfrey successfully seized the moment at the Golden Globes with a speech about important contemporary issues that was not blatantly political. Asked about the voters who said Winfrey should not run for president, he ascribed that to political fatigue.

"People like Oprah because they've watched her do amazing things for 30 years now. Yeah, she supported candidates in the past, but being a candidate yourself opens you up to all kinds of political attacks," he said in a Tuesday interview.

Sixty-two percent of those surveyed described Winfrey as liberal, 39 percent of whom described her as "very liberal." Six in 10 Republicans described Winfrey as "very liberal," compared with 28 percent of Democrats who described her as such. A 33-percent plurality of Democrats described Winfrey as "somewhat" liberal.
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In #MeToo age, Ithaca College's new female president draws attention for 16-year-old sex abuse conviction

Jennifer Kabbany
The College Fix
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:27 UTC
Shirley Collado
Five months ago, Shirley Collado was tapped as the new president of Ithaca College. Today, she's making headlines for a different reason. The New York Daily News reports:

The president of Ithaca College in upstate pleaded no contest to sexually abusing a patient when she worked at a psychiatric hospital nearly two decades ago.
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Ohio State University course to teach students why white male masculinity is harmful and privileges men

Amanda Tidwell
The College Fix
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:13 UTC
masculine man
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Masculinity simultaneously harms yet privileges men, syllabus states

A class taught this spring at Ohio State University will review a parade of reasons why white heterosexual masculinity is allegedly problematic, tackling the topic from the constructs of racial issues, bullying, pop culture, societal expectations and much more, according to its syllabus.

The course, "Be a Man! Masculinities, Race and Nation," includes a variety of readings to that end, including its required textbook "Dude, You're a Fag!" by C.J. Pascoe, which analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process, but sexual one, its Amazon description states.

Other assigned reading excerpts include: "Masculinity as Homophobia" by Michael Kimmel; "Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity" by Jackson Katz; "Dude Sex: Dudes Who Have Sex with Dudes" by Jane Ward; "Looking for My Penis" by Richard Fung; "Sodomy in the New World" by Jonathan Goldberg; and "Teaching Men's Anal Pleasure" by Susan Stiritz.
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Ex-bride of jihadi commander shocks viewers during interview after saying her extremist husband has a good side


RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:15 UTC
Ex-jihadi bride
© Tania Joya TheLibertarian/ Facebook ·
The British ex-wife of a top American Islamic State commander left audiences baffled when she said she still loves her terrorist ex-husband and suggested that he has a "good side."

Tania Joya, originally from Harrow in London, who describes herself as a former extremist, married American jihadi John Georgelas - whose convert name is Yahya al-Bahrumi - after meeting him online.

Having dedicated herself to extremism after meeting al-Bahrumi, she fled with him to Syria in 2014, along with her four children. Joya has since left the country, now living in Dallas, Texas. She claims to have a new focus in life; helping to de-radicalize terrorists.

Comment: An important point made in Stanton Samenow's book, Inside the Criminal Mind is that all criminals of every type believe they are basically good people. This view of the self is essential in being able to commit crimes, including ones against humanity. This same belief obviously also exists in those who purposely choose criminals as their mates, both with regard to their own self image as well as toward their chosen partner. As Samenow notes, it is this belief that poses the greatest obstacle for change:
No matter how much physical, financial, or emotional damage he causes, the criminal believes he is a good person...

It is important to understand how a criminal fortifies his good opinion of himself so that he can do a kind deed for someone and then, shortly thereafter, wreak havoc. The criminal's view of himself as a decent person constitutes a major barrier to change.


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MLK opposed everything liberal America represents


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:14 UTC
MLK on picket line
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There is nothing quite so nauseating as liberal America associating itself with the legacy of Martin Luther King (MLK), a man who stood against everything it stands for and represents, such as cozying up to Wall Street and the rich at home while unleashing war without end overseas.

That Martin Luther King Day is an annual circus of liberal hypocrisy is evidenced in the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton using it an opportunity to engage in gushing tribute to a man whom, if alive today, would be among their most impassioned adversaries. As US academic Cornel West writes, "The litmus test for realizing King's dream was neither a black face in the White House nor a black presence on Wall Street. Rather, the fulfillment of his dream was for all poor and working people to live lives of decency and dignity."

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Louis Vuitton model accused of murdering rival who starred in Zara and Mercedes campaigns

Anthony Joseph and Shekhar Bhatia
The Daily Mail
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:08 UTC
Harry Uzoka
Harry Uzoka (pictured) died from a single stab wound
Police have charged two men on suspicion of murder after a model was stabbed to death.

Harry Uzoka, who was on the books of Premier Model Management, died from a single stab wound.

Detectives have charged IMG model George Koh, 24, from Camden, and Jonathan Okigbo, 23, from Kentish Town, with murder, while Koh is also facing charges of possessing an offensive weapon.

Koh, who has modelled for brands including Louis Vuitton and Paul Smith, was arrested on Sunday and Okigbo was arrested yesterday, Scotland Yard said.

Koh's Instagram page boasts 12,000 followers on his latest post, which showed David Beckham standing in front of his image at London Fashion Week Men's AW18, was shared on January 7.

A representative for IMG models said: 'Koh hasn't been on our books since March 2017.'

Both men appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court today.

The pair appeared in the dock in grey prison issue tracksuits, speaking only to confirm their personal details.
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Jewish dating site launches Yenta programmers ad


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:04 UTC
jdate ad
© CC BY 2.0 / vobios / Jdate
A prominent Jewish dating website has launched a creative ad campaign which combines old cultural tidbits and modern high-tech trends into a single humorous and enticing package.

The series of new ads recently launched by Jdate uses the image of 'yenta' - old Jewish women who served as matchmakers "back in the shtetl days", according to the campaign's architect David Roth cited by the Drum.
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Investigation into Ukraine's PrivatBank reveals 'large-scale, coordinated fraud'


RFE/RL
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:41 UTC
Ukraine's PrivatBank
© RFE/RL GraphicsUkraine's PrivatBank was nationalized in December 2016 after risky lending practices left it with a capital shortfall of more than $5.5 billion.
Ukraine's central bank says an investigation into the country's largest lender, PrivatBank, shows that it had been "subjected to a large-scale and coordinated fraud" over at least a decade.

The fraud resulted in the bank, which was taken into state control in 2016, suffering a loss of at least $5.5 billion, the central bank said in a statement on January 16.

One of the bank's former main shareholders, Ihor Kolomoyskiy, dismissed the results of the probe as "nonsense."

The central bank commissioned the independent audit conducted by the global investigation firm Kroll and other international companies.
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Gender dysphoria increases in Sweden


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:56 UTC
gay pride parade in Stockholm
© AFP 2018/ Erik SIMANDER / TT News Agency
The number of Swedes who applied for a gender investigation has risen by 25 percent, indicating a steady increase in "gender dysphoria" diagnoses, which is commonly referred to as "being born in the wrong body." At the same time, more refrain from choosing their gender.

Over 1,000 Swedes applied to investigate their gender identity in 2017, a marked increase compared with the year before. Some of those suffering from gender dysphoria undergo sex-reassigning treatment, becoming transsexual, obtaining a new gender identity, both body-wise and legally.

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Still in the SJW crosshairs: Jordan Peterson lecture canceled by Edmonton theater without explanation

Stephanie Dubois
CBC News
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:36 UTC
Jordan Peterson
© jordanbpeterson.comUniversity of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson had a rental request application for a book talk denied by the Citadel Theatre.
A controversial Canadian professor's plan to promote his latest book at the Citadel Theatre has been dashed after the theatre refused his request to rent the venue.

Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto psychology professor who is on an international book tour to promote 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, had already advertised on his website that the event would take place Feb. 11 in Zeidler Hall.

On Tuesday, Peterson tweeted to his nearly 300,000 followers that the Edmonton theatre cancelled his event without explanation.

In a statement to CBC News, Peterson says the Citadel Theatre's decision was "regrettable, made in haste and unprofessional."
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