Mayor and Wife Arrested in Disappearance of 43 Students

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Photo Credit: Fox NewsFederal police early Tuesday detained the former mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala and his wife, who are accused of ordering the Sept. 26 attacks on teachers’ college students that left six dead and 43 still missing.

Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were arrested in Mexico City without resisting, according to two security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The couple was in the custody of the Attorney General’s Office, where they were giving statements. At least 56 other people have been arrested so far in the case, and the Iguala police chief is still a fugitive.

The couple’s detention could shed light on disappearances, which have prompted outraged demonstrations across the country to demand the students be found. The case forced the resignation of the governor of Guerrero state, where Iguala is located.

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Yazidis Face Genocide by ISIS After U.S. Turns Away

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Photo Credit: GettyIn August, the Obama administration intervened to stop what it called a pending genocide of Yazidi minorities in Iraq. Now the U.S. is gone, but the genocide continues.

Thousands of Yazidis remain stranded and starving on Mount Sinjar while thousands more have been sold off into slavery by ISIS, according to Yazidi leaders, several of whom are in Washington to beg for urgent assistance.

When President Obama announced U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq in early August, he said the mission was twofold: to protect U.S. personnel in Erbil and to save the ethnic Yazidis from ISIS, who had fled from their villages, chased by ISIS, and were stranded on the mountain with no food, no supplies, and no protection.

“People are starving. And children are dying of thirst. Meanwhile, ISIL forces below have called for the systematic destruction of the entire Yazidi people, which would constitute genocide,” said Obama. “And when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, then I believe the United States of America cannot turn a blind eye. We can act, carefully and responsibly, to prevent a potential act of genocide. That’s what we’re doing on that mountain.”

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Alaska’s Marijuana Legalization Measure 2

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Photo Credit: inquisitr.com[Update: With 100% of Alaska precincts reporting, the marijuana initiative appears to have passed by 52% to 48%. Absentee and some early ballots still remain to be counted, but they are unlikely to change this result.]

Alaska’s marijuana legalization is coming to vote for a second time this decade in the 2014 elections. The initiative, Measure 2, would make recreational marijuana legal for adults and regulate it similar to alcohol.

In a related report by The Inquisitr, Florida’s marijuana legalization effort went to pot in the final 2014 elections results. Although Amendment 2 supporters vow to try again during the 2016 election, Oregon’s marijuana legalization results had the entire state buzzing.

Alaska’s ballot Measure 2 is the northern state’s initiative to legalize marijuana. If Measure 2 is passed, it would remove state legal penalties for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults 21 and older and establish a regulatory framework for licensed businesses to cultivate and sell marijuana to adults, similar to the laws enacted in Colorado and Washington state.

Medical marijuana is already legal in Alaska, though the state has seen previous efforts to legalize recreational pot fail. Even though recreational marijuana would be legalized at the state level it would still remain a federal crime, according to BallotPedia.

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Never-Ending Pasta Pass Holder Eats $1,510 Worth of Food in 6 Weeks

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Photo Credit: Fox NewsA North Carolina man is working hard to get the most out of his Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Pass.

Alan Martin was one of the lucky 1,000 people who in September raced to buy one of the all-you-can-eat passes.

Over the past six weeks, Martin has eaten at Olive Garden every day, twice a day, totaling up to 95 meals and ringing up $1,510 worth of food, according toFox 8 WGHP.

Now when he goes into the restaurant, Martin told WGHP that the waitstaff treat him “like a celebrity.”

The pasta pass, which Martin bought for $100, is good for all of the pasta, salad, bread and Coca-Cola drinks a person can eat during the seven week period, which runs until Nov. 9.

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Why I'm Supporting the Parnell-Sullivan Ticket

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The Parnell-Sullivan race is critical for Alaska. I’ve known both Bill Walker and Sean Parnell for years and have a great deal of respect for both of them. I believe they both love Alaska and desire the best for her people. But I’m voting for the Parnell-Sullivan ticket, and here’s why.

Governor Sean Parnell has stood unequivocally in favor of traditional marriage and opposes the federal court’s unconstitutional usurpation of Alaskans’ right to be heard on this issue. The Governor did not hesitate when an Anchorage judge overstepped his bounds several weeks ago. He intervened on behalf of Alaskan voters who overwhelmingly voted for a constitutional amendment preserving marriage as between a man and a woman. The Governor demonstrated courage on this issue.

The Governor is also pro-life, and is willing to protect the most defenseless through positive legislation. Both the life and traditional marriage issues present real contrast between the Parnell-Sullivan and the Walker-Mallott tickets.

But that’s not all. Even though I worked closely with Bill Walker on litigation involving the state’s oil companies for years, and believe that he is well-positioned to advocate for the State’s interests in natural resource extraction, he chose to join with a lieutenant governor candidate who could prove devastating to efforts to remedy the vote integrity issues that have plagued our state. Mayor Dan Sullivan, on the other hand, is a much better candidate to lead the Division of Elections and has the proven record and experience to give us confidence if he’s called to lead the state.

The Governor’s race should not be a close call. The Parnell-Sullivan team is endorsed by the Conservative Patriots Group, Alaska Family Action, National Rifle Association, Family Research Council, National Right to Life, and Alaska Outdoor Council. Whether it’s fighting federal overreach by the Obama administration to defending Alaskans’ Second Amendment rights, Governor Parnell deserves our support. Conservatives have a clear choice.

Please join with Kathleen and I in voting for the Parnell-Sullivan team.

Serious Voting Irregularities Reported Throughout United States

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Photo Credit: Daily CallerThe office of Georgia’s Secretary of State confirmed Tuesday that its website has been experiencing intermittent problems on Election Day . . .

Two of Georgia’s elections Tuesday hold high significance. Its Senate race could help determine majority control in the upper chamber, while its gubernatorial race could see the ouster of its Republican incumbent governor for Democrat Jason Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter. . .

More serious claims have been made elsewhere. In Connecticut, Gov. Dan Malloy is asking a judge to extend voting hours after delays and other problems were reported at Hartford polling locations Tuesday morning, according to local reports . . .

CNN affiliate WAVY in Virginia received reports from local voters who said they experienced voting machine errors at multiple locations.

And in North Carolina, conservative activist James O’Keefe released a new video Monday showing how he obtained ballots at polling stations by pretending to be inactive voters. The point of the video was to show the need for voter ID laws, which are scheduled to start in North Carolina in 2016.

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'Seismic Change' as Dollar Hits 4-Year High

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Photo Credit: AlamyThe US dollar has surged to a four-year high against a basket of currencies and has punched through key technical resistance, marking a crucial turning point for the global financial system.

The so-called dollar index, watched closely by traders, has finally broken above its 30-year downtrend line as the US economy powers ahead and the Federal Reserve prepares to tighten monetary policy.

The index – a mix of six major currencies – hit 87.4 on Monday, rising above the key level of 87. This reflects the plunge in the Japanese yen since the Bank of Japan launched a fresh round of quantitative easing last week.

Data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange show that speculative dollar bets on the derivatives markets have reached a record high, with the biggest positions against sterling, the New Zealand dollar, the Canadian dollar, the yen and the Swiss franc, in that order.

David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said a “seismic change” is under way and may lead to a 20pc surge in the dollar over a 12-month span. The mega-rally of 1980 to 1985 as the Volcker Fed tightened the screws saw a 90pc rise before the leading powers intervened at the Plaza Accord to cap the rise.

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Voter Fraud and Voter I.D.

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Photo Credit: TownHallOne of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting.

Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion University indicates that there are more than a million registered voters who are not citizens, and who therefore are not legally entitled to vote.

The most devastating account of voter fraud may be in the book “Injustice” by J. Christian Adams. He was a Justice Department attorney, who detailed with inside knowledge the voter frauds known to the Justice Department, and ignored by Attorney General Holder and Company.

One of these frauds involved sending out absentee ballots to people who had never asked for them. Then a political operator would show up — uninvited — the day the ballots arrived and “help” the voter to fill them out. Sometimes the intruders simply took the ballots, filled them out and forged the signatures of the voters.

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‘Scandal’ Sex Scene Airs Right After ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,’ Making Parents Angry

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Photo Credit: Kevin Dooley / FlickrFor those who say network scheduling isn’t a big deal anymore thanks to DVRs, we turn your attention to what happened Thursday night on ABC. In a very jarring transition, the adorable end of the annual special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” segued into “Scandal,” which happened to kick off with a very steamy sex scene.

On Monday, the watchdog group Parents Television Council unleashed an angry statement at ABC condemning the abrupt shift in kid-centric programming to a very much not age-appropriate scene. After all, families are known to gather around the cartoon every year and may not have anticipated that they needed to quickly change the channel.

“Shame on ABC for putting a peep show next to a playground,” PTC President Tim Winter said. “In less than 26 seconds we were taken from the Peanuts pumpkin patch to a steamy ‘Scandal’ sex scene.”

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Churches Defy IRS, Endorse Candidates, Dare Agency to Sue…

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Photo Credit: APA record number of rogue Christian pastors are endorsing candidates from the pulpit this election cycle, using Sunday sermons to defiantly flout tax rules.

Their message to the IRS: Sue me.

But the tax agency is doing anything but. Although the IRS was sued itself for not enforcing the law and admitted about 100 churches may be breaking the rules, the pastors and their critics alike say the agency is looking the other way. The agency refuses to say if it is acting.

At the same time, the number of pastors endorsing candidates in what they call Pulpit Freedom Sunday jumped from 33 people in 2008 to more than 1,600 this year, according to organizers, Alliance Defending Freedom. And this year, they’ve stepped up their drive, telling pastors to back candidates any Sunday up until the election, not just one Sunday as in past years.

The church leaders are jumping in high-profile races that will help decide the Senate and tight governor races across the country, endorsing candidates from Thom Tillis (R) over Sen. Kay Hagan (D) in North Carolina to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) over Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) in Kentucky.

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