Month: August 2017

Leftist online magazine, Salon.com, went on the attack against the playing of America’s national anthem at sporting events, calling the tune an example of “neo-Confederate” ideology despite Francis Scott Key writing the words to the song almost 50 years before the existence of the Confederacy.

Uber’s Board of Directors has offered the vacant CEO job, formerly occupied by founder Travis Kalanick, to current Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.

“Harvey is What Climate Change Looks Like” claims activist Eric Holthaus in Politico… “In all of U.S. history, there’s never been a storm like Hurricane Harvey.”

JERUSALEM – A song depicting all of sovereign Israel as “my country Palestine” that will see “all its people return” was aired this week on a children’s program on official Palestinian Authority television, watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch repor…

The parents of a five-year-old Christian girl forced to live with a fundamentalist Muslim family begged the council to allow her to stay with her grandmother as she became increasingly distressed.

African and European leaders on Monday backed proposals to screen asylum seekers in Africa as a way to prevent thousands from taking perilous journeys across the Mediterranean. Hosting the talks in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested setting up “fully safe areas” in Niger and Chad — key transit points for migrants — where asylum-seekers would be processed by the UN refugee agency UNHCR. The leaders signed a roadmap on the proposal, though there were as yet few details on how it might work. A joint mission will be sent to Niger and Chad soon, they said in a statement after the mini-summit. The seven heads of state or government, who included Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Libya’s political stalemate was a central obstacle to resolving the crisis that has seen nearly 1.5 million people arrive in Europe since 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration. “As long as the crisis in Libya is not resolved, I don’t think we can find a definitive solution to the issue,” said Chadian President Idriss Deby. Two competing governments and dozens of armed factions are jostling for power in Libya, which plunged into chaos after the overthrow of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi

The left-wing British newspaper The Guardian has announced that it has registered as a charity in the United States, as part of a plan to encourage people to donate to their flailing financial position and register for tax exemption.