Nanny State of the Week: NYC bans hoverboards

HoverBoardThe future is here, but New York City nannies won’t have it.

The hoverboard — a mash-up between a razor scooter and a Segway, sans handles – is a self-balancing two-wheeled personal transportation device, which has made a splash with kids and seems poised to be a huge seller this holiday season.

Sure, they might not look exactly like the hoverboards we were promised in a “Back To The Future” view of life in 2015, but the movie got the year right.

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Ted Cruz rising in Iowa

TrumpCruzThe Hill is reporting that Donald Trump has company on the Iowa GOP presidential podium, as Sen. Ted Cruz has moved within the margin of error at the top of a new Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.

The real estate magnate wins one-quarter of likely Republican caucus-goers, compared to the Texas senator’s 23 percent. Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon who edged Trump out for the lead in last month’s Quinnipiac poll, sits in third with 18 percent while Sen. Marco Rubio rounds out the upper-tiers of candidates with 13 percent.

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Tulsa falls to Navy 44-21

TUvsNavy1Navy amassed 469 rushing yards en route to a 44-14 victory Saturday night in front of 22,749 fans at H.A. Chapman Stadium. The Midshipmen took advantage of good field position early in the game to take a 21-0 lead with just under 20 minutes gone off the clock, and then scored 21 second-half points.

Navy improved to 9-1 overall and 7-0 in the American Athletic Conference, and took sole possession of first place in the West Division with Houston’s loss to UConn earlier in the day. The Hurricane fell to 5-6 overall and 2-5 in league play.

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Rep. Trey Gowdy on Syrian refugee challenge

TreyGowdyRefugeeWhen Rep. Trey Gowdy speaks, people listen, or at least they should. And what is so very infuriating is that Gowdy is saying what the sitting U.S. President should have said.

But rather than grave concern for America and her citizens’ safety and security, King Obama sticks doggedly to his formula for transformation. The President is remaking this great republic into just another failed, socialist, third-rate country under siege by an invasion of Muslim (and other) immigrants.

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Black Friday: 31% no savings

RetailBlackFridayWith 63 percent of American consumers saying that Black Friday doesn’t offer the best deals of the year, the personal finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2015’s Best & Worst Items to Buy on Black Friday.

To find out whether shoppers are really getting the best deals, the WalletHub research team compared the “Pre-Black Friday Price” and the “Black Friday Price” of a broad selection of items and isolated the offers that are truly worth the hassle of participating in America’s biggest shopping craze of the year.

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