ESPN posted its OTL Extra web-only segment continuing the television debate on football safety between Against Football author Steve Almond and Daniel J. Flynn, author of The War on Football and editor of Breitbart Sports.
Month: September 2015
Islamic State Terrorists Caught Crossing Into Europe Posing As Refugees
Five men have been arrested as they attempted to cross the Bulgarian-Macedonian border with decapitation videos and Islamic State propaganda on their phones. The terrorist suspects had been posing as refugees. Bulgarian authorities near the Gyueshevo border checkpoint detained the five men, aged between 20 and 24, late on Wednesday, Bulgarian broadcaster NOVA TV reported. The men were stopped by a border guard, who they attempted to bribe with a “wad of dollars.” However, they were searched and Islamic State propaganda, specific Jihadists prayers and decapitation videos were found on their phones. In a move that suggests how seriously authorities are taking the case, the Bulgarian State Agency for National Security (DANS) has now taken control of the investigation under the supervision of the regional prosecutor’s office in Kyustendil. The men chose to cross in a wooded area, local media have reported, and took a car from an accomplice who
Watch: ‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Jase Robertson Struggles Hitting Golf Ball in Pond
A&E’s hit show “Duck Dynasty” has many scenes of the famous duck call family playing golf, so it is no surprise to see Jase Robertson hitting the links. What will come to surprise is that he is trying to hit a ball while knee-deep in a pond but, like this pro golfer, things did not go well him as the ball barely went anywhere. Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent
Glenn Beck Draws 20,000 to Unity Rally and Media Ignores
A hugely successful event drawing an estimated 20,000 people promoting racial harmony this past weekend that was put on by talk show host and The Blaze creator Glenn Beck has been met with stony silence by the mainstream media. The event, Restoring Un…
What I Saw in Alaska
This week, President Obama is visiting Alaska to experience firsthand how climate change is affecting Alaska and the greater Arctic, and to meet with Alaskans across the state – in locations as diverse as Anchorage, Seward, Dillingham, and Kotzebue – who are dealing with the consequences of climate change.
In support of the President’s trip, I spent the past weekend making my own stops in Alaska to learn more about how climate change is already affecting local communities and ecosystems, and to engage with Alaskans working to tackle climate-related challenges.
I was joined on the trip by three other senior officials from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): Tamara Dickinson, the leader of OSTP’s Environment & Energy division; Ambassador Mark Brzezinski, Executive Director of the U.S. Government’s Arctic Executive Steering Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden; and Beth Kerttula, Director of the National Ocean Council, as well as a native Alaskan and former minority leader in the Alaska state legislature. I wanted to share a few observations with you about what we saw.
On Saturday, we visited the Cold Climate Housing Research Center, a nonprofit corporation that develops sustainable, cost-effective building technologies tailored to Alaska and other polar regions. We also toured the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility. Studies conducted at this underground laboratory (one of only two permafrost tunnels in the world!) help us better understand how climate change is accelerating permafrost thaw, and the associated impacts on communities and ecosystems.
We kicked off Sunday by hearing from participants in the Fulbright Arctic Initiative about the research that Initiative scholars from the United States and other Arctic nations are doing on critical topics like energy, water, and health and infrastructure. In the afternoon, we met with scholars who are younger, but no less impressive: students in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program, which supports science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for Alaska Natives from sixth grade all the way through college and graduate programs.
During our trip, we also participated in roundtable discussions with students and faculty at the University of Alaska (UAA) Fairbanks and UAA Anchorage, researchers who are working on the cutting edge of Arctic climate science. And we met with the mayors of Anchorage, Fairbanks, the Northwest Arctic Borough, and other Alaskan municipalities, as well as with officials of Federal departments and agencies with office in Alaska, to talk about their efforts to prepare for and adapt to climate change, and the ways in which the Federal government can best support them.
Alaska represents the frontlines of our fight against climate change. What my OSTP colleagues and I saw and heard over the weekend has powerfully augmented our understanding of the range of dramatic impacts that climate change is having on ecosystems and communities in the far North. I believe that the stops that President Obama is making in Alaska this week – including a historic visit to the Alaskan Arctic –will further underscore for the Nation the importance of taking strong action to combat climate change now.
So I encourage you to follow the President’s trip at WhiteHouse.gov/Alaska, and to join this Administration in working together to #ActOnClimate.
Dr. John P. Holdren is Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the Office of the Science and Technology Policy, and Chairman of the U.S. Arctic Executive Steering Committee.
Sweden’s Anti-Mass Migration Party Declares, ‘We Will Run the Country’
The Sweden Democrats – arguably Sweden’s answer to the UK Independence Party – has confidently declared that they expect to the run the country against a backdrop of increasing immigration tensions, and after taking the outright lead in a number of national polls. The party’s leader, Jimmie Åkesson, made the bold claim during his summer keynote speech, alongside a claim that the party would put the immigration issue to a national referendum. “We have come a long way – but we’re going even further. We’re about to show how we’re able to run the country,” Åkesson said. “Sure, it’s a long way to the election, but it is obvious that we need to start planning to be prepared to take real responsibility for the country. We should be the establishment. We should dominate the public debate.” “What is it that causes people to risk their own and their children’s lives to come here?
John Daly Hospitalized with Collapsed Lung on Saturday, Makes Sunday Tee Time
John Daly, no stranger to adversity, proved miraculously resilient by teeing it up on Sunday at Deerfield Country Club only 24 hours after passing out on the same course with a collapsed lung.
Pope Francis Tells Priests to Pardon Women Who Have Abortions
Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis on Tuesday called on priests to pardon women who have abortions, and the doctors who perform them, during the upcoming Jubilee year — overruling hardline traditionalists within the Catholic Church.
Divided EU Member States Turn On Each Other As Migrant Crisis Deepens
In the latest flare up of the migrant crisis engulfing Europe, hundreds of migrants have been protesting outside a train station in Budapest this morning after police sealed off the terminal and refused them passage through the EU. The crowd chanted “Germany! Germany!” and waved their tickets. Around 1,000 migrants, mostly Syrians, Eritreans and Afghans, congregated outside Keleti station to the east of the Hungarian capital city this morning as the station was evacuated, according to the BBC. Public announcements declared that no trains would be leaving and the station was briefly closed, before being re-opened to non-migrant passengers. Police lines held back the migrant crowds who were demanding the right to travel across the continent within the Schengen area to Germany, in line with the hundreds of thousands of fellow migrants who have made the same journey this year so far. But the incident was just one flash point in