The Republican National Convention By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The convention logo is supposed to symbolize the GOP elephant standing on an electric guitar from Cleveland’s Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, but if you cut off the guitar’s tuning headstock, it profiles a big weasel getting ready to bite the elephant. * Make […]
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAWASHINGTON — Almost 50 years after he braved enemy fire to help rescue 44 of his fellow soldiers surrounded by an ambush, retired Army pilot Lt. Col. Charles Kettles was awarded the Medal of Honor on Monday for his acts of “conspicuous gallantry” during the Vietnam War. President Barack Obama presented the military’s highest decoration
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International, USAFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the Bushes, who will not be attending the Republican National Convention, are behaving “childishly” and need to “get over it.” “Frankly, the Bushes are behaving, I think, childishly,” Mr. Gingrich said on ABC’s “Good Morning America. “Jeb lost. Get over it.” Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and one-time
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USAAn unknown armed assailant charged into the office of Cemil Candas, Deputy Mayor of Istanbul’s Sisli district, and opened fire, leaving Candas in critical condition, according to Turkish broadcaster NTV. It is as yet unclear if the shooting of the Jewish politician is connected with Friday night’s failed coup against Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan,
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Middle EastMilwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke penned an op-ed Monday saying Americans are witnessing “guerrilla urban warfare” against law enforcement following the slayings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. “Americans watching the news of the murders of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are observing a civil war unfold within our borders. A war
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USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After 20 children were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 12, 2013, gun-control legislation was shot down in the Senate five months later. The filibuster was the opponents’ weapon of choice. The House of Representatives adopted a “public option” to administer health-care coverage in 2009,
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USAOn Sunday, Donald Trump and Mike Pence appeared on 60 Minutes in their first joint interview since it was announced that the Indiana governor was going to be Trump’s running mate. style=”display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-5626295912827181″ data-ad-slot=”4169069414″> And, wow, this was one of the most awkward things I’ve ever watched. This Trump/Pence team might rank up there with
A decade after being critically wounded in the second Lebanon war, Yonatan Levin visited President Reuven Rivlin at his residence today (Monday). Levin had contacted the President through his caregivers, speaking of his admiration for the President and his values, and saying that he’d be glad to come for a visit. The President happily greeted
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Middle EastChaos erupted at the Republican National Convention on Monday afternoon after the leadership bypassed a call for a full floor vote on the rules of the event. Just three hours after the four-day convention kicked off in Cleveland, anti-Donald Trump delegates and those supporting the presumptive Republican nominee shouted at each other on the floor
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USAThe Donald Trump campaign has found a new Rabbi. After Rabbi Haskel Lookstein – who’s been the subject of much recent controversy in Israel over the Rabbinical Court’s decision not to recognize his conversions – backed out of an engagement to deliver and “invocation”, or prayer, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland tonight (Monday),
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Jewish Religion, USABy Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO — It took just one “yold” driving a truck with a bomb into a crowd to do atrocious things, as happened last week in Nice, France. (Note: The word “yold” is specifically chosen since it is a Yiddish derogatory term loosely translated as “jerk.” (If I have hurt the “yold’s”
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International, Middle East, USASome of our younger readers may not remember or only have a very faint recollection of the 1964 presidential campaign. I, for one, remember. I especially remember a television ad released by the Lyndon B. Johnson campaign. The ad, referred to variously as “Daisy,” “Daisy Girl” or “Peace, Little Girl,” depicts a lovely 3-year-old little
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USARussian President Vladimir Putin phoned Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to voice his support following an attempted armed coup by a faction of the Turkish military over the weekend, the Kremlin reported. Putin and Erdogan put a seven-month-long rift behind them last month, when the Turkish leader apologised for his forces downing a Russian jet
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International, Middle EastBATON ROUGE, La. — The gunman who shot and killed three officers here, wounding three more, was deliberately attacking law enforcement, officials said Monday. “We do believe that he was targeting police officers” in the shooting, said Major M. Doug Cain, spokesman for the Louisiana State Police. “This incident was an ambush.” The gunman was
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