Ben Carson Fabricated West Point Story

Berger's Beat
November 6, 2015

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Ben Carson’s campaign: His inspirational comment that his application and acceptance by the U.S. Military Academy in West Point was fabricated.

NEW POLICY OF THE MORMON CHURCH: Same-sex couples banned from the church and their children can’t join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints until they become 18 and move out of their parents’ homes. . .Traveling over the holidays? Get ready for additional fees for checked baggage between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Spirit and Frontier airlines are already poised to do it despite the downturn of petrol prices. . .Small victory for Barbara Dorris and David Clohessy of SNAP that new House Speaker Paul Ryan’s first day on the job, in response to the group’s prodding, Ryan quietly removed the portrait of ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert taken down. Hastert pled guilty to financial misdeeds stemming from alleged child sex crimes he reportedly committed years earlier. For months, SNAP argued that honoring Hastert was hurtful to victims of sexual violence. . .AMC theater in Carbondale’s University Plaza has requested a new liquor code classification allowing it to sell alcoholic drinks. The company presently vends booze at 11 other Illinois locations.

MADIGAN POWER: ILLINOIS A.G. Lisa Madigan has joined the legal effort to support power plan, according to the A.P. “Illinois has joined 17 states supporting new domestic power plant limits being challenged in court by more than two dozen other states. The motion to intervene was filed this week by Madigan in D.C. . .DANIEL CRAIG FOR THE FOURTH TIME AS 007 IN “SPECTRE” ‘does himself proud,’ reports Rolling Stone. “The plot is a 148-minute minefield of distraction.”

MENNONITE BARBARA & STEVE BAETJE, owners of Bloomsdale Farms (about 42 miles from our town), are creating velvet rounds of American goat cheese. Milk from the goats is creating French-style cheeses, winner of the World Cheese Awards and beating out 2,600 competitors.

GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES in Columbia, MO. Former House Speaker Catherine Hanaway: a ban on abortions after 20 weeks and defunding Planned Parenthood by revoking its status as a Medicaid provider. Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder: For right-to-work.