All states except Hawaii report widespread flu, federal officials said Friday. Infection and hospitalization rates are likely to equal or surpass those in 2009.

For most people, the only mail they get is bills, junk mail, and the occasional birthday card. Many people won’t even send cash via the post because of the risk of it being intercepted. But some people have been a bit more ambitious with the things they entrust to their postman. Here are 10 of […]
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When progressive politicians raise taxes on something, very often they’ll just take out their calculators and add up how much more the government’s going to haul in without taking into account a variety of other factors. This is one of the latest examples:

In its first year, Philly's soda tax fell more than $13 million short of revenue goal: https://t.co/h1eMLSRp9D @PHLBizJournal pic…

Senator Chuck Schumer, fresh off the colossal Democrat failure that was causing a government shutdown over DACA, was back at it again this week:

The clock is ticking for #Dreamers. If we don’t solve this problem in 15 days, the Republicans are going to have to explain to dreamers what their plan is to prevent them from being deported.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 24, 2018

WHO is going to owe an explanation? Reality check time for Chuck, courtesy of Dan Bongino:

No Chuck, you and your Democrat cronies are going to have to explain why you continue to obstruct and shut down our taxpayer funded govt for people who are not in the country legally…

World War II epic “Dunkirk” will be returning to movie theaters after nabbing eight Oscar nominations, and that’s potentially problematic, at least to Peter Maass over at The Intercept. Maass, you see, is trying to make the case that it’s time for Hollywood to stop making war movies like “12 Strong” that project an outdated image of masculinity “that does violence to us all…

With nearly 1,200 students signed up, a course that tells students how to lead more satisfying lives may be the largest in university history.

Ancient Greece is undoubtedly one of the most impressive pages in history. The sheer complexity and length of Greek culture left behind a trove of ruins and art. But the most remarkable are the unexpected realities, behaviors, and skills that big ancient Greek projects tend to reveal. Lost cities, strange relationships with earthquakes, battles, and […]
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Markos Moulitsas of The Daily Kos really has a knack for timing. On Friday, he tweeted this in response to a story saying that RNC finance chair Steve Wynn was not considering resigning over reports of sexual misconduct:

Why would he? Republicans are the party of sexual harassment. We boot our harassers. They keep theirs in power. https://t.co/jYRBG07C1K
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) January 26, 2018

Not only did he manage to make that assertion just as news was breaking that Hillary Clinton had kept an aide on staff during her 2008 campaign despite allegations of sexual harassment — he also misread the cards: on Saturday, the RNC announced that it had accepted Wynn’s resignation…

A paraphilia is an intense sexual attraction to something considered atypical or extreme. The attraction can be centered on an abnormal source, such as an object, a certain body part, or an abnormal activity.[1] For paraphiles, the abnormal behavior or object of obsession is required in order to achieve sexual gratification. Some paraphilias are illegal […]
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The agency said on Friday it was evaluating other animal studies and would retire the remaining monkeys to a sanctuary.