Category: Aggregated

Meet the Abusive ‘World’s Largest Company’ You’ve Never Heard Of

Russia Has Not Seen Such Amassing of Hostile Military Forces on Its Borders since 1941

Leakers Down Under: The Australian Federal Police Raids during Election Campaign

Israeli forces nab 10 Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast

Hypnotic animation: 200 years of US immigration in one minute

82 dead & 500,000 homeless as floods & landslides decimate Sri Lanka

‘In about the year 3,000’: British PM rules out Turkey joining EU anytime soon

Iraqi premier orders ‘liberalization’ of Fallujah from ISIS

Greek parliament passes fresh austerity measures amid public protests

Netanyahu to Israelis: Stop crying, I lead operations now Ya’alon is gone

Banned UK-made bombs used against Yemenis

Philly is blessed with a generous allotment of public space at its very center. On any day of the week, weather permitting, there are throngs of people at Love Park, Dillworth Park and near the Clothespin. Around this 45-foot-tall sculpture by Claes Oldenburg, I’ve seen an assortment of petty hustlers selling everything from loosies to oddball T-shirts, such as the one that said, “IF YOU SMELL SOMETHING STINKING… IT’S ILL-ADELPHIA BECAUSE WE’RE THE SH!T. Black Israelites can often be found nearby. Wearing studded wristbands, studded belts and studded vests over studded, knee-length, fringe tunics, they rail against white people and … Continue reading →

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It has long been held that a diet high in salt is dangerous to the heart, raising the risk of heart attack and stroke. But, in a dramatic U-turn, the scientific evidence has suggested the opposite can also be true. A global study has found that contrary to past belief, low-salt diets may not be beneficial. Rather, they can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and death, compared with average salt consumption. The study, published in the reputable Lancet journal, has garnered a strong reaction, with one expert declaring his ‘disbelief’, while others are critical of the study’s methods, and … Continue reading →

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Some background: there is an American football team with a team nickname that has been the target of Social Justice Warriors for a few decades – sometimes with more intensity, sometimes with less.  The Washington Redskins – a nickname deemed racist and offensive to Native Americans (well, I don’t know that they were native)…er…American Indians (they aren’t from India)…er…well, you know what I mean. There has been a big push lately regarding the name – legal battles over the trademark, a push by the city of Washington, DC (the team would like to build a new stadium in the city) … Continue reading →

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The war on human beings who use, sell or possess drugs (private property), is, from the perspective of reason or morality, dead. Yet, it survives in political backwaters such as Buffalo and in the intellectual backwater of progressivism. The drug war is the classic progressive policy failure. The progressives invented it. They defend it. They sustain it and they prosecute it while often blaming Republicans for it. Since it is a progressive program, progressives can never bring themselves to admit its failure.  Any evidence of its failure is simply reinterpreted to justify even greater force, effort, and expenditure.  As I … Continue reading →

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