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How not to get better results in school. Get “schooled” at Townhall — and come back here for more.

• NPR: What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College
• Washington Post: D.C. plans probe of Ballou High School following report questioning standards
• Washington Post: There’s something familiar about the Ballou allegations
• Common Sense: Only Make Believe
• Common Sense: Ugly Scrutiny
• Common Sense: Cheaters Never Prosper
• WAMU (NPR): Weekly Politics Wrap: Ballou Graduation Rates and Virginia Recounts
• Washington Post: This high school graduation won widespread praise. Was it a fraud?
• Washington Post: A struggling D.C. high school notches a landmark achievement
• Washington Post: One D.C. school lost more than a quarter of its teaching staff this year.

The sex abuse hush money/slush fund story just gets bigger and bigger. And so does our responsibility. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for . . . more abuse?

• Politico: Congress’ sexual harassment system, decoded
• CNN: Lawmakers . . . don’t know how widespread sexual harassment is on the Hill
• Washington Post: What’s the point of sexual harassment training? Often, to protect employers.
• Atlantic: Is the dam of sexual harassment allegations breaking?
• Detroit Free Press: Conyers’ Accusers — He showed up to a meeting in his underwear
• Washington Post: When it comes to sexual harassment, why aren’t members of Congress naming names?
• NPR: Rep Joe Barton Apologizes After Lewd Photos Become Public

One needn’t rake the muck to access it, these days. The further we go in, the deeper it gets. It just sort of pours forth from the nation’s capital, as from Hollywood. Our “cup” seepeth over.

Click on over to Townhall for an analysis of the muck’s consistency. Then click back here.

• Washington Post: How Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct
• The Hill: Congress owes taxpayers answers about its harassment ‘shush’ fund
• Politico: Capitol Hill consumed by sexual harassment issue
• NBC: Congresswomen say sexual harassers are still in Congress
• Washington Post: I’m a feminist. I study rape culture. And I don’t want Al Franken to resign.
• PBS: All the assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped
• Vanity Fair: Clinton and Women – Lowering the Bar
• The Atlantic: Bill Clinton: A Reckoning
• Washington Post: Abuse allegations have revived scrutiny of Bill Clinton — and divided Democrats
• New York Daily News: President and pariah
• Washington Post: NOW Won’t Back Jones

What should Congress do? Legislate anew every tragedy, atrocity? Or maybe . . . something else?

Click on over to Townhall to obtain the full context. Come back here for more:

• Common Sense: “A Hero, In His own Words,” interview with Stephen Willeford by Steven Crowder
• Reason: “Gun Control Failures Allowed a Criminal to Carry Out the Texas Church Shooting,” by Christian Britschgi
• Associated Press: “Pentagon has known of crime reporting lapses for 20 years,” by Robert Burns
• National Review: “Government Action Is Not the Answer to Mass Shootings,” by Ben Shapiro
• NBC News: “Texas Church Shooting: Democrats Demand Gun Control,” by Aden Edelman
• The Guardian: Trump says tougher gun laws would have made Texas church shooting worse”
• Dallas Morning News: “Dear Sutherland Springs, you deserve an apology from the news media,” by Lauren McGaughty

O, what a horror show our lives have become! So of course Halloween is now a battleground. Click on over to Townhall; come back here for the joys of the season.

• Washington Post: A Halloween display or a faux lynching? A hanging figure creates tensions in one neighborhood.
• Townhall: Hate Is Our Business, by Paul Jacob
• Wikipedia: Doxing

Congress has flaked out. But Sen. Jeff Flake, preparing to take leave of Congress, has not.

There is hope for him yet.

Click on over to Townhall for this weekend’s long-form Common Sense. Then back here for the back-up.

• Daily Caller: Jeff Flake On Retirement—‘Couldn’t Run A Campaign I Could Be Proud Of’
• Common Sense: Sic Transit Gloria Flake
• Washington Post: “It’s all about the president now,” by Greg Weiner
• YouTube: Sen. Flake won’t seek reelection (Full Speech)
• Washington Post: “Trump may awaken a slumbering Congress,” by George Will
• Politico: “Why Congress Keeps Losing,” by Michael Lind
• New York Times: High Court Blocks Term Limits for Congress in a 5-4 Decision
• Common Sense: Power & Responsibility
• Common Sense: Meet the Moots
• Common Sense: Drunken Sailors