Free Republic

President Barack Obama complained that Fox News made him “look scary” during his first run for president, and suggested that his race was part of the network’s attempt to slant the presidential election. Obama made his remarks during a conversation with author Marilynne Robinson which was published by The New York Review. While discussing a book she wrote about Iowa, Obama recalled his own experiences with the people there as he was running for president. “I wasn’t viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media, and making me scary,” he said, adding that it was easy for him...

In Milford, Conn., 350 parents have signed a petition requesting that the local school district restore the observance of Halloween, banned because officials say there have been several incidents of children being excluded due to "cultural beliefs." EAG News: Victoria Johannsen, a mother of a third-grader at Live Oaks School in Milford Public Schools, says she received a letter stating the school’s decision to no longer recognize Halloween “arose out of numerous incidents of children being excluded from activities due to religion, cultural beliefs, etc.,” the Connecticut Post reports. The school is discontinuing a popular costume parade, banning students and...

FULL TITLE: New Jersey Halloween Display Sparks Outrage, Homeowner Defends Display by Stating What’s More Terrifying than ‘the Real Threat Among Us?’ A New Jersey resident has sparked outrage with his graphic Halloween display depicting the atrocities of ISIS at the hands of Barack Obama himself.The display which many calling are “tasteless,” features Barack Obama dressed as a Jihadist standing in front of a dead U.S. soldier hanging from a tree and a Jordanian pilot in cage. While the home’s owner understands why people may be offended by his holiday display, he defends his First Amendment right to express himself....

That would be a truly scarry costme.

A couple of these facts, and many more can be found here. ---- The first Jack-o-lanterns were made from turnips. Full moons on Halloween are very rare: 1925, 1944, 1955, 1974, 2001. According to this we are scheduled to have them in 2020, 2039, 2058, 2077, and 2096. Houdini died on Halloween. The top candy of choice is...Source: Thrillist Barack Obama dresses up as a real president.

A female high school student awaits a disciplinary hearing and could face expulsion for wearing a Halloween costume to school that prompted officials to lock down the building Wednesday. An unnamed female student was spotted in the hallway at Pueblo County High School early yesterday morning wearing a gas mask and trench coat, and a classmate reported her to school officials, The Pueblo Chieftain reports. The teen was hauled to the office where she was interrogated by the police, who also placed the school on lockdown for about an hour.

MIAMI — You don’t have to go to Japan to try Burger King’s black-bunned Whopper. Burger King is bringing it to the U.S. just in time for Halloween. “Something wicked is coming,” the burger chain on Twitter, with a brief promo video featuring thunder and lightning and a lunar eclipse, with a burger standing in for the moon. But it’s not just the color, insists Burger King. It’s also the flavor, with A.1. sauce baked into the bun. According to Burger King, it’s the sauce that turns the buns black. “While the pitch-black bun gives the Halloween Whopper sandwich a...

From September 28 through Halloween Day, the burger giant is offering its popular patty sandwich inside a pitch-black bun that's flavored with A.1. sauce and sprinkled with white sesame seeds. The burger comes loaded with the usual Whopper fixings (melted American cheese, pickles, white onion, tomato and mayonnaise) but this one also has a dash of A.1. sauce—something I don't think I've tried in over 20 years. The verdict: it's kinda, sorta...well...okay, really good. The black bun has the squishiness of a Martin potato roll and a tiny hint of black pepper that's a good complement to the smoky charcoal-broiled...

RC Broom Flyer Witch for Halloween by Otto Dieffenbach ( 0:30 )Published on Sep 25, 2013 ... This video is of the Witch variation of [ Otto Dieffenbach's ] Broom Flyer. This was the first day of flying and it was quite windy, 20 mph plus. ... A build log is posted in rcgroups titled RC Broom Flyer Wizard Witch at http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showth.... RC Witch Broom Flyer Part 2 by Otto Dieffenbach ( 0:54 )Published on Oct 10, 2013 ... This video is a better cut of the Witch Broom Flyer. This was the first day of flying and it...

I've already written about the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume before, but that was before we got a chance to see the actual costume! For just a moment, look at what the LGBT reaction shows about the radical Left. After educating us that men can "feel" like a woman at any time in their lives you would think they would support such an effort on Halloween. Think of it as a one-night trial run! But liberals are incensed even by the very description of the product: The Jenner costume comes with a white padded top, matching shorts, a brunette wig,...

While it’s probably too early to be dreaming up your next Halloween costume, the people behind the seemingly unlimited supply of All Hallow’s Eve garb are well underway making a new batch of offensive, trashy and just plain stupid disguises. Among this year’s “trendy” costumes is one depicting Caitlyn Jenner in her iconic Vanity Fair cover. “You probably won’t break any Twitter records when you wear this outfit like Caitlyn did,” the costume description reads, “but you’ll be sure to get a few laughs out of your friends and the other guests at the get together.” The “I Am Cait”...

With homosexual and transgender issues always at the forefront, whether we like it or not, it's a relief to know that now your kids will have a gender-fluid option for this coming Halloween: Halloween probably isn’t the best time to deal with an incredibly sensitive subject like gender reassignment. But that hasn’t deterred a major company from conjuring up a Caitlyn Jenner costume in time for Oct. 31. Spirit Halloween, the company behind the pop-up costume stores that appear all over the city every fall, has exclusively confirmed to Confidenti@l that it will be carrying the insensitive getup this year....

There is no moral world in which any of this is okay.

An ongoing lawsuit has pried loose new records linked to a family of Sarasota Saudis who left home in a hurry just before 9/11. It was Halloween night, 2001. The horrors of 9/11 were still fresh on the the minds of Americans. At a time when everyone was on edge, the sight of a man disposing documents in a dumpster behind a Bradenton storage facility aroused suspicion. Summoned to the scene, Manatee County sheriff’s deputies confronted the man, who had a Tunisian passport. According to FBI records, authorities searched the dumpster and found “a self-printed manual on terrorism and Jihad,...

This long-anticipated follow-up to Cemetery Dance’s original “Celebration of Halloween” (from way back in 2000!) proves to be a worthy companion volume, filled with fiction that captures the essence of the haunting season alongside essays and remembrances that recall the favorite Halloween memories of a talented roster of horror authors. The editors ...

SANTA ANA – Police today identified the suspected driver in the Halloween hit-and-run that killed three teenagers as a 31-year-old Orange County man with a history of traffic offenses. Jaquinn Ramone Bell has a previous conviction for driving under the influence and hit and run charges in August, court records show. Bell was arrested around 11:30 a.m. Sunday near a Stanton motel, where he was staying with his two children, on suspicion of felony hit-and-run causing death, Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas said during a news conference. - snip- Bell has a history of reckless driving in Orange County,...

Pumpkin sculpture of Kim Jong-un on display in Ohio 2014/11/02 14:45:36 Washington, Nov. 1 (CNA) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has appeared in the United States, but not in person. He has shown up in the U.S. state of Ohio in the form of a pumpkin sculpture by American artist Jeanette Paras. In an e-mail to CNA, Paras said she decided to create a pumpkin version of Kim for Halloween this year because the North Korean president is often the subject of media stories in the U.S.

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2001 Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it. In the 1970s,...