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Arrow's Katie Cassidy Breaks Out Her Bikinis for Miami Vacay

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Arrow's Katie Cassidy Breaks Out Her Bikinis for Miami Vacay Katie Cassidy shows off her amazing abs while frolicking in a bikini on Saturday afternoon (December 20) in Miami, Fla. The day before, the 28-year-old Arrow star sported a different swimsuit as she hit up the beach and the pool with a group of friends. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Katie Cassidy That [...] Reported by Just Jared Jr 12 hours ago.

Katie Cassidy Shows Off Amazing Bikini Body on 'Arrow' Break

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Katie Cassidy Shows Off Amazing Bikini Body on 'Arrow' Break Katie Cassidy prances around the sand in a bikini while enjoying her vacation time on Saturday afternoon (December 20) in Miami, Fla. The day before, the 28-year-old Arrow star sported a different swimsuit as she hit up the beach and the pool with a group of friends. That same day, Katie‘s co-stars Stephen Amell and [...] Reported by Just Jared 11 hours ago.

‘Arrow’ Star Katie Cassidy Flaunts Her Heroic, Thong-Loving Butt in Miami

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‘Arrow’ Star Katie Cassidy Flaunts Her Heroic, Thong-Loving Butt in Miami Someone’s been keeping up with their squats! Arrow star Katie Cassidy hit the beach in Miami Saturday wearing what can only be described as a very cheeky, thong bikini. We’re going to go ahead and assume Katie’s been hitting the gym harder than ever with the impending debut of her antihero Black Canary on the...Read more» Reported by Celebuzz 4 hours ago.

Katie Cassidy Has Another Bikini Holiday In Miami Beach

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Katie Cassidy Has Another Bikini Holiday In Miami Beach Katie Cassidy hit the beach in Miami with some freinds again on Saturday, showing off her killer bod in a black bandeau bikini. The barely there suit, which featured a polka dot thong bottom, show... Reported by Starpulse.com 8 minutes ago.

Katie Cassidy Flaunts Amazing Abs While on R&R in Miami

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Katie Cassidy was looking mighty fine Saturday while flaunting her amazing abs in a bikini in Miami Beach. The Arrow star is taking a break from filming the CW series and enjoying some much deserved rest and relaxation in sunny … Reported by WebProNews 15 hours ago.

‘Arrow’ Star Hits Beach – Watch : Katie Cassidy Has Another Bikini Holiday In Miami Beach

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‘Arrow’ Star Hits Beach, Katie Cassidy hit the beach in Miami with some freinds again on Saturday, showing off her killer bod in a black bandeau bikini. Wow @MzKatieCassidy's #Arrow abs rival those of her co-star @amellywood! http://t.co/0SPi44j4ma pic.twitter.com/bktKusSrjh — JustJared.com (@JustJared) December 21, 2014 According to Just Jared, the 28-year-old has been seen wearing […]

The post ‘Arrow’ Star Hits Beach – Watch : Katie Cassidy Has Another Bikini Holiday In Miami Beach appeared first on Sports News Magazine. Reported by Sports News Magazine 16 hours ago.

"The Loft" - cast: Karl Urban, James Marsden, Isabel Lucas, Rhona Mitra, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Rachael Taylor, Matthias Schoenaerts, Margarita Levieva, Valerie Cruz, Robert Wisdom, Kristin Lehman, Elaine Cassidy

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The Loft - cast: Karl Urban, James Marsden, Isabel Lucas, Rhona Mitra, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Rachael Taylor, Matthias Schoenaerts, Margarita Levieva, Valerie Cruz, Robert Wisdom, Kristin Lehman, Elaine Cassidy *Release date :* January 30, 2015
*Synopsis :* Karl Urban (Star Trek Into Darkness) and James Marsden (2 Guns) star in the tense psychological thriller THE LOFT, the ... Reported by AceShowbiz 16 hours ago.

'Downton Abbey' producers eye spin-off movie

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Producers of "Downton Abbey" are in talks to make a feature length film of the hit period drama, according to actress Raquel Cassidy. Reported by abc4 9 hours ago.

Katie Cassidy Catches Some Rays In Her Bikini

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Katie Cassidy Catches Some Rays In Her Bikini Katie Cassidy steps out of the ocean and shows off her fabulous bikini body on Monday (December 22) in Miami, Fla. The 28-year-old Arrow actress was seen splashing around the ocean with a gal pal that same day. “#Miami loving life!!! @ South Beach, Miami” Katie tweeted that day. She also celebrated the Seattle Seahawks’ [...] Reported by Just Jared Jr 7 hours ago.

Katie Cassidy's Rock-Hard Abs, Insane Bikini Body Are the Ultimate Gym Inspiration: See the Photos!

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Katie Cassidy Soaks Up the Sun on the Beach in Her Bikini!

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Katie Cassidy Soaks Up the Sun on the Beach in Her Bikini! Katie Cassidy shows off her amazing bikini body while hanging on the beach on Monday (December 22) in Miami, Fla. The 28-year-old Arrow star was spotted horsing around with a gal pal in the ocean while soaking up the sun. “#Miami loving life!!! @ South Beach, Miami” Katie tweeted that day. She also celebrated the [...] Reported by Just Jared 16 hours ago.

Katie Cassidy Wraps Up Vacation with Boyfriend Dana Brunetti

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Katie Cassidy Wraps Up Vacation with Boyfriend Dana Brunetti Katie Cassidy snuggles up to her boyfriend Dana Brunetti while flying home together in this photo posted to Twitter on Wednesday (December 24). The couple took a vacation to Miami together for the past few days, where they were seen cuddling up by the pool and sharing some kisses. Katie, 28, was seen showing off [...] Reported by Just Jared 17 hours ago.

Katie Cassidy Flies Home for the Holidays After Vacationing with Boyfriend Dana Brunetti!

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Katie Cassidy Flies Home for the Holidays After Vacationing with Boyfriend Dana Brunetti! Katie Cassidy sits next to her new boyfriend Dana Brunetti on the flight home from Miami to make it back in time for the holidays on Wednesday (December 24). The couple took a vacation to the sunny location together for the past few days, where they were seen cuddling up by the pool and sharing [...] Reported by Just Jared Jr 3 hours ago.

Nashville apartment sales exceed $1B in 2014

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Nashville's apartment market had its first billion-dollar year in 2014. By topping the $1 billion mark, sales of apartment buildings in the Nashville area bested last year's record of $744 million in deals, The Tennessean reports. There was more than $3 billion in real estate transactions (apartment, office, industrial, hotel and retail) valued at $5 million or more, according to Real Capital Analytics and Cassidy Turley. Want Nashville news in your inbox Click here to sign up for our email newsletters. Reported by bizjournals 4 days ago.

Bill Cassidy disagrees with pundits who said he won by turning Senate race into national referendum on President Obama

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WASHINGTON -- Sen-elect Bill Cassidy is realistic about how much he'll be able to get done during his first few months in his new job. "It's rough and tumble American democracy," said Cassidy, 57, a Republican physician who represented Baton Rouge... Reported by nola.com 4 days ago.

Sen.-elect Bill Cassidy did run against Obama's policies, so own it: James Varney

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Sen-elect Bill Cassidy, R-La., insists he didn't beat incumbent Mary Landrieu by making this year's election a referendum on President Obama's policies. What is Cassidy talking about? I mean, of course he did. That was the main thrust of Cassidy's... Reported by nola.com 3 days ago.

The Zombiefication Of America

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The Zombiefication Of America Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

Do you know people that seem like they have had their souls sucked out of them?  On dictionary.com, a “zombie” is defined as “the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose”.  And that sounds very much like what has happened to tens of millions of Americans. * When you look into their eyes, it doesn’t look like anything is even there. * That is because who they once were is now dominated and controlled by the overwhelmingly powerful “matrix” that is being constructed all around us. 

As I wrote about the other day, *virtually all news, information and entertainment that Americans consume is controlled by just six monolithic corporations. * And today,* Americans are more “plugged in” than ever before.*  The average person watches 153 hours of television a month in addition to spending countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the Internet.  In the end, all of that “programming” turns many of us into virtual zombies, and that is the way that the elite like it.

*Just think about it.  What was the biggest news story in the entire country over the holiday weekend?*

It was the fact that some hackers had taken down the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox networks and millions of kids could not log in and play the video games that they had just received for Christmas.

Sadly, most parents don’t even bother to pay attention to what those video games are actually teaching their children.

One of the most popular video games this holiday season is Grand Theft Auto V.  In this game, our kids do things that none of us would ever want them to do in real life…



*The game contains scenes where players can have virtual sex with prostitutes then beat them up and steal their money, and a scene of torture where the player is expected to remove a gang rival’s teeth one by one using the joy pad, which vibrates as the victim begs for mercy.*

 

It also includes scenes where the player smokes marijuana, and takes the dangerous hallucinogenic drug peyote. There is also a brief instance of necrophilia. Yet GTA V is one of the top-selling computer games in the world.



If you put garbage in, you are eventually going to get garbage out.

And we can see the consequences of this all over the country.

Meanwhile, Americans are becoming increasingly disinterested in things that really matter such as faith, family and the U.S. Constitution.

Instead, many of our spoiled young people are self-obsessed narcissists that loudly complain on social media when they don’t get the electronic gadgets that they were expecting for Christmas.

It isn’t the end of the world if “Santa” doesn’t bring you the latest iPhone.

But Americans today, especially our young people, have such a warped view of reality.  It begins at a very early age, and one of the biggest culprits is our public school system.

For instance, the Blaze recently reported that children down in Texas are being taught that the pilgrims were “essentially America’s first terrorists” and that they should listen to their teachers more than they listen to their parents…



Cassidy Vines was so horrified by what a teacher in Texas allegedly told her that she is planning on home-schooling her daughter after Christmas break.

Vines told Glenn Beck on Monday that she recently began noticing a change in her daughter’s behavior. Her daughter — who is in kindergarten — started to “snap” at her when she corrected her homework, saying “I’m her mommy, not her teacher.”

 

Vines said a few days after her daughter first snapped at her, she started pronouncing a word incorrectly. Vines corrected her daughter “in the most gentle way possible,” but she said her daughter broke down crying, saying “that’s how she was taught, and I can’t tell her something different because I’m a mommy, not a teacher.”

 

Vines said she was horrified and asked, “Is somebody telling you this at school?”

 

*“She said, ‘Yes, I’m only allowed to learn from my teacher,’” Vines remarked.*



In this day and age, our public schools have essentially become government indoctrination centers that train our children to let “the matrix” do their thinking for them.  They are taught that they are just highly evolved animals that are here only as the result of a giant cosmic accident, and that morality and values are all relative.

*As a result, many of our young people just do whatever is right in their own eyes, and at this point many of them have consciences that have been seared beyond recognition.*

For example, how far gone do you have to be in order to sing a “Christmas carol” that includes the line “Deck the halls with rows of dead cops”?…



The brave Portland #Ferguson demonstrators were back at it again Saturday evening, as they blocked the busy intersection of SE 39th and Belmont as a way of stickin’ it to the man.

 

They blocked buses and cars, and got into arguments and physical altercations with several people, including: elderly drivers, disabled bus passengers, a black woman who was trying to pick up her son, and anyone else who dared voice their dissent.

 

After about 20 minutes of tying up the intersection, the protest moved to nearby Peacock Lane, which is well known for its rows of large Christmas displays. *The demonstrators sang parody Christmas carols, which included a brief rendition of “Deck the halls with rows of dead cops.”*



*Our society is breaking down in thousands of different ways, and we can see the evidence of this all around us.*

But instead of coming together as a nation, anger, hate and division just continue to grow.  And all of this anger, hate and division is being fueled by the talking heads on television.

It has become exceedingly apparent that most Americans no longer think for themselves.  Rather, most conversations in America today consist of an exchange of sound bites, phrases, ideas and talking points that the “matrix” has fed us.  Most of us are just zombies that spend our days searching for the things that we are desperately craving.  For fictional zombies, that usually consists of brains.  For American zombies, that usually consists of something that will feed our addictions.

*So is there any hope for our society, or are we destined to become even more zombiefied?* Reported by Zero Hedge 3 days ago.

Brett & Tracy back together on 92.3

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Envision is relaunching 92.3 FM with the help of a popular Wichita morning show duo. The organization is reuniting Brett Harris and Tracy Cassidy to be the station's morning anchors. The long-time radio personalities are perhaps best known for their work on B98-FM. Members of Cassidy's family told the Wichita Business Journal in December the move was coming. The morning show of Harris and Cassidy will kick off Jan. 5. The station will be referred to as Q92. Station changes were announced Tuesday… Reported by bizjournals 3 days ago.

Centaur Chess Shows Power of Teaming Human and Machine

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The story of IBM's Deep Blue computer defeating world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 has been told so many times that it's practically shorthand for the philosophical debate over man vs. machine.

But the story lacks subtlety and perhaps the right moral. Deep Blue was only the beginning; and out of Kasparov's defeat grew a type of chess player that more richly illustrates the interplay between man and machine in 2014: All hail the centaur.

Yes centaur -- and Kasparov was apparently the first. Rather than half-horse, half-human, a centaur chess player is one who plays the game by marrying human intuition, creativity and empathy with a computer's brute-force ability to remember and calculate a staggering number of chess moves, countermoves and outcomes.

The centaur story is an elegant example of the way visionaries see the optimal interplay between humans and machines. Teaming the two in chess, experts say, produces a force that plays better chess than either humans or computers can manage on their own.

Centaur chess is all about amplifying human performance.

The human plus machine style of play is called Freestyle (often played online) and the rules of the game allow chess players to consult outside sources -- books, other humans and most importantly computerized chess engines that are stocked with the moves and results of thousands or millions of chess games that have been played through the years. The Freestyle games are timed, forcing players to think on their feet while managing the clock.

"If you merge millions of games played by computers with high-caliber human games, you get something that is quantitatively and qualitatively superior to any commercial product," says Nelson Hernandez, a suburban Washington D.C. data analyst who is a member of one of the most successful Freestyle teams in history.

The three-member team is led by Londoner Anson Williams, a reserved engineer and software developer, and is rounded out by Williams' girlfriend, Yingheng Chen, a math whiz who has become an expert at analyzing Freestyle chess.

None of the three consider themselves accomplished chess players and with the help of the machine they needn't be. In fact, you could argue that chess experts -- grandmasters -- are at a disadvantage when it comes to Freestyle. It isn't that the same computer-based fire power isn't available to grandmasters. It's that they sometimes fall prey to the very human belief that as experts in their fields, they know better than the machine.

George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen covered the syndrome in his book, "Average is Over." In it, he tells of U.S. grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, "who was not a huge hit when he tried Freestyle chess. His problem? Not enough trust in the machines. He once boasted," Cowen continued, "'I use my brain, because it's better than Rybka on six out of seven days of the week.' He was wrong."

Rybka is a top chess engine, part of the machine.

The flip-side to Nakamura's hubris, of course, is placing too much trust in the machine. Nicholas Carr, author of "The Glass Cage: Automation and Us," has said humans risk being seduced by automated programs because they carry out work in a "black box." Questions in; answers out.

But centaurs understand that the machine has limitations. Chess is too complicated a game, with too many possible moves leading to a slew of other possible moves, for today's computers to solve. What they can do is push players toward perfection by charting out a series of proven opening moves and then providing recommendations the rest of the way.

Not all machines are created equal, however. And different machines will provide different answers to the question: What's my best next move? Then the human -- who by the rules of Freestyle must physically make the move -- has to decide not just what's the right move, but what's the right move against a specific opponent at this particular point in the match.

"That's where someone like Anson really shines. He's augmenting the computer with his own native abilities," Hernandez says. "A chess player has got a certain set of cognitive equipment. An almost superhuman memory is what's required, a tremendous ability with spacial concepts and to be able to look ahead, a great strategic sense of when you should exchange this piece for that."

Think of it as something like a trip to the moon: A pilot has the skill to land a spaceship on the lunar surface and he or she can use his or her eyesight and human experience to determine whether a landing area is suitable. But the pilot would never be in the position to be making those decisions without a big boost from the rocket that got him or her to the moon's orbit in the first place.

The rocket for Team Anson Williams (The trio plays in different tournaments by different names to make it harder for opponents to scout them.) consists of the team's massive database of tens of millions of chess games, called an opening book, that have been played by computers and humans -- every move, every outcome, billions of unique chess positions.

Hernandez says he's spent more than 10 years compiling the data, which he says the team uses to rank the best moves after analyzing the game situation with custom, proprietary software.

"I hardly ever take a day off," he says. "I have this incredible talent for dull, repetitive tasks. Who else would spend 10 years of their life, every single day, collecting chess games for their database? It's almost borderline crazy."

As much as he loves data, Hernandez is well aware that as with data in so many fields, it's not just having lots of data that matters, it's what you do with it.

"As important as the opening book is in launching a game, it isn't what sets us apart," Hernandez says. "What Anson does, probably as well or better than anyone else, it's his secret really, is you need to be able to process real-time data sets more efficiently, more rapidly than anyone else. That's a cognitive skill. You need incredible nerve, really. You're under a clock playing against someone else with a similarly powerful computer array and the slightest error is almost invariably punished."

The combination of Williams' cool under pressure and the machine's vast catalogue of chess moves works. Cowen's book recounts a four-tournament run in which Williams' team won 23 games and lost one while playing 27 to a draw.

Williams did not respond to requests for an interview. Reserved, remember?

So which is more important in the world of centaur chess? The human or the machine?

"It's absolutely more important to have good hardware and software," Hernandez says. "In Freestyle, we have competed against grandmasters two times and we have defeated two grandmasters. And we're not ranked chess players, you know. To me, that tells the story. Is chess knowledge useful? Of course it is. It's not that it's useless. I'm just saying that if that's your main strength and not a lot of other things, you're going to lose. It's simply not enough."

In other words: Back in the Deep Blue days, at least Garry Kasparov on his own had a fighting chance. Today, not so much.

Photo of chess pieces by Ina Centaur and centaur by Anders Sandberg published under Creative Commons license.

Mike Cassidy is BloomReach's storyteller. You can reach him at mike.cassidy@bloomreach.com; or follow him on twitter at @mikecassidy. Reported by Huffington Post 2 days ago.

How Louisiana Blogger Lamar White, Jr. Landed The Steve Scalise White Supremacist Scoop

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NEW YORK -- In early December, Lamar White, Jr., a third-year law student and liberal political blogger, got to work on a tip about Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican.

White learned there might be evidence that Scalise, the third highest ranking Republican in the House, had associated in the past with David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and Louisiana state representative. White, by his account, simply Googled “Steve Scalise” and “David Duke” and immediately found a couple posts on a white supremacist site that have since consumed the sleepy holiday political news cycle and rocked the Republican House leadership.

Through his search, White noticed a commenter on Stormfront, a white supremacist site, describing how in 2002 Scalise spoke to Duke’s group, the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. In a later post, the commenter again noted Scalise’s presence at the event.

White was convinced of Scalise's association with white supremacists based on those posts, telling The Huffington Post that there “was no conceivable way that somebody would have planted this story 12 years ago.” White didn’t officially seek comment from Scalise's office before posting his story Sunday morning about the congressman's 2002 speech at a Marriott hotel in Metairie, Louisiana.

White said he was motivated to pursue the Scalise story because “even though it was 12 years ago, it is important because this man was 36 years old, a state representative, an elected official. He knew exactly what he was getting into.”

Scalise has claimed otherwise. "I didn't know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group,” he said Monday. “For anyone to suggest that I was involved with a group like that is insulting and ludicrous."

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) defended Scalise Tuesday, saying the congressman “made an error in judgment."

Since the revelations broke on White’s site, CenLamar.com, journalists have been digging into Scalise’s past comments and affiliations. Scalise told Roll Call in 1999 that he agreed with some of Duke’s “conservative” views. On Monday, Duke -- who wasn't present at the 2002 gathering -- told HuffPost that Scalise is "a good person" and that the two agree on many issues.

Several news outlets have also resurrected a May 2002 report from the Des Moines Register about how the Iowa Cubs, a minor league baseball team, refused to stay at the Marriott because of the conference, showing the group had received some media attention prior to the event.

The still-unfolding story is the biggest scoop for White in the nearly nine years he's been blogging at CenLamar.com. White, 32, has maintained the blog as a sideline while working and attending school. He worked as an assistant to the mayor of his hometown of Alexandria, Louisiana, from 2007 till 2011. He then enrolled in law school at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School in Dallas.

While writing for CenLamar.com isn't a full-time job by any stretch -- White’s last post before his Scalise scoop was an entry four days earlier on top movies of 2014 -- the liberal blogger has recently been involved in two other political controversies, in two states.

In October, White, who has cerebral palsy, expressed support for Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis after she was criticized for a campaign ad highlighting Republican challenger Greg Abbott’s disability. Abbott, who went on to win the race, was injured by a falling tree in 1984 and uses a wheelchair. After White spoke at a Davis press conference, staffers dragged him seated in his chair to the side of the stage, a move which prompted Abbott to label Davis’ supporters as “props.”

White told the Houston Chronicle that he asked be slid over by staffers because he feared falling on camera if trying to walk himself. He also tweeted: "I am a human being. Not a campaign prop."

The next month, White and another blogger reported that Republican Congressman Bill Cassidy, then in a runoff Senate election against incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu, had improperly billed an LSU hospital for work while serving in the House.

The billing story got pickup from local media and some national media, and White’s reporting earned him a profile earlier this month in The Town Talk, a daily newspaper in Alexandria. But Cassidy disputed the allegations and handily defeated Landrieu days later.

White said that it was while reporting on the Cassidy story that Robert Reed, who was campaign manager for his mother, Gilda Reed, when she ran against Scalise in 2008, passed along the tip about Scalise associating with Duke. From there, White said, he Googled and landed the scoop in about 35 seconds.

On Sunday, White posted the story on his site and on his Facebook page, and sent it in an email to his roughly 2,000 subscribers. It quickly got significantly more attention than a typical post.

White said he noticed the Scalise story had been viewed 21,000 times through Facebook within a matter hours. A typical blog post, he said, may get around 8,000 views in its entire lifespan. By Sunday night, White said, his site had registered over 50,000 hits, which was much higher than his daily readership of around 1,110 hits. The post, he said, was also given prominent placement on Reddit.

"Almost immediately, it went viral in a way that the Cassidy story didn’t," White said. "I was surprised, in many ways reassured, that folks are still uncomfortable with the idea of a congressman hanging out with a group of white nationalists under any circumstances." Reported by Huffington Post 2 days ago.
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