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So where’s the outrage?! But just imagine it, especially among Evangelical Christians in the United States, if Palestinians were doing this: Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities said on Thursday. … Israel tightly restricts movements out… Read more.
Even his wife Melania is lost for words to explain this most powerful man in the world trolling a 16-year-old girl. Then again, she knows best that this is just what Donald does even when he’s trying to “Be Best”: ‘So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good… Read more.
As of this posting, there’s still one seat outstanding. But here are the final results for all intents and purposes: Conservatives: 364 up from 318 Labour: 203 down from 262 SNP: 48 up from 35 Lib Dems: 11 down from 12 Of course, this election was a de facto referendum on the Conservatives’ promise to… Read more.
Given preliminary results from today’s general election, it behooves Britons to beware what they voted for. Because the election of Boris Johnson as prime minister might prove a pyrrhic outcome at best. Boris Johnson appears on course to secure a crushing majority of 86, and take Britain out of the EU in January [a.k.a. Brexit],… Read more.
I have been championing women as political leaders in this forum for years. Commentaries attesting to this include “Cracking the Political Glass Ceiling: First Woman Elected President in South America,” December 12, 2005, “Women Make Better Politicians than Men,” October 14, 2010, and “Men Should Be Barred from Politics,” September 25, 2013. Here is an… Read more.
I have been pleading for nearly 15 years for the United States to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan. Because it has been patently clear for at least that long that the United States is fighting an unwinnable war eerily reminiscent of Vietnam. Titles to just a few of my commentaries chronicle and bemoan this fateful… Read more.
I can think of no better overview of this latest development than the following: Russia dopes its athletes to gain unfair advantage in international competitions as readily as it meddles in foreign countries to undermine democratic institutions. I hope that strikes a chord. Because it informed my commentary after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued… Read more.
The FBI is reportedly hunting for several Saudi students from Navy Station Pensacola, after they vanished in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting at the base. Fellow Saudi Mohammed Saeed al-Shamrani, 21, killed three and wounded 12 others in the attack before he was shot dead by police. According to AP, investigators have now detained… Read more.
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Here is how President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously decried Japan’s infamous attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan … (President Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Library of Congress,… Read more.
