Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward I Can’t Stop Watching The Crazy Way This Israeli Cook Serves Falafel
An Israeli man has turned serving falafel into a performance art. Brightening up the internet on what is otherwise a bleak news week, a longtime falafel shop owner is seen in a YouTube video masterfully throwing the ground-chickpea balls in the air so fast, you can barely see them land in the pita bread he’s…
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Fast Forward Trump Accuses George Soros Of Paying For Kavanaugh Protesters
President Trump accused billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros of planting two women in an elevator with Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, where they shared with him their stories of sexual assault as part of an effort to get him to vote against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Trump tweeted on Friday morning that the “very…
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Fast Forward Illinois Governor Candidate Removed Mansion’s Toilets To Dodge Taxes
To avoid paying taxes on his second mansion, Illinois gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker had the toilets removed to make it “uninhabitable,” NPR reported. He said Tuesday he will pay Cook County back. Pritzker, the Democratic nominee, is a venture capitalist and heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, worth $3.2 billion. Nevertheless, he looked to save…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Saves Woman From Getting Hit By Car
Sen. Bernie Sanders to the rescue. It was just an ordinary day Wednesday when Sanders stepped outside his office for a break. But in that time, according to a Facebook post, he stopped a woman from getting hit by a car on her way to a guitar lesson. She thanked him with a selfie. Bernie…
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Fast Forward Jewish Physicist, Who Sold Nobel Prize To Cover Medical Expenses, Dies
Leon Lederman, a physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles, died Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. He was 96. Lederman, who directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1978 to 1989, invented the term “God particle” and wrote a book by the same name. It refers to a…
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Fast Forward GOP Distances Itself From 9/11 Truther Candidate Ron Cohen
The California Republican Party and two county Republican parties are distancing themselves from congressional candidate and 9/11 truther Ron Cohen, Media Matters reported. Cohen, running in California’s 17th district, claims that “Bush staged 9/11” said the collapse of 7 World Trade Center was a “pre-planned demolition.” He backed up his views using a video by…
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Fast Forward From George Carlin To Bari Weiss: What Are The New ‘Seven Dirty Words?’
New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss is coming out with a book, as reported by CNN’s Reliable Sources. The oft-controversial Jewish columnist will publish “The New Seven Dirty Words” with Holt in winter 2020. The book appears based on a discussion she gave at the Chautauqua Institution in July, with the same…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Supreme Leader Victim-Blames Aly Raisman Over Sexual Assault
In the wake of the #MeToo campaign, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran offered Western women a suggestion: Why not try a hijab? Khamenei tweeted on Wednesday a dramatic video of prominent women who have experienced sexual abuse. It begins with a shot of Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman testifying against Larry Nassar, the former…
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