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November 2018

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 23, 2018 38 Comments
European leaders need to halt mass-immigration to curb the growing right-wing populist movement across the continent, Hillary Clinton warned in an interview with a British newspaper. Europe "must send a very clear message – "we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support" – because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic," she told The Guardian.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 23, 2018 15 Comments
Erik Solheim, the head of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), has been forced to resign after an internal audit report questioning his huge travel expense surfaced in the media. Solheim, a green politician and former Norwegian Environment Minister, had spent almost half a million dollars jet-setting around the world. Solheim stepped down after cerain UN member states threatened to withhold funding over the latest revelations. According to a UK media report: "Countries unhappy with Solheim’s conduct were holding back tens of millions of dollars, threatening a financial crisis at the body."

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2018 35 Comments
I wasn't planning on a "Thanksgiving" post. This is a late in the day inspiration, now that we have returned home from a relative's house and I'm fighting my best to keep from falling asleep.

Posted by Andrew Branca on November 22, 2018 18 Comments
I came across this recent very brief, four paragraph, news story out of Illinois a few days ago of a defendant acquitted in a bench trial on several felony charges after he stabbed someone 10 times with a 2.5” knife during a road rage incident. I noted that it conveniently provided a good basis for discussing several interesting legal points that often arise in cases of self-defense.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 22, 2018 3 Comments
This is one of my favorite pieces of American history. It speaks so much to who we are and who we are meant to be as a people. And that's why I post it every year. George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation written in 1789 is essential holiday reading. The colonies frequently set, "aside days of thanksgiving, prayer, and fasting in response to significant events," according to Mount Vernon's historical sources.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 22, 2018 6 Comments
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an illicit Iranian-Russian network supplying oil to the Syrian regime. The elaborate oil scheme was used to finance the Islamic terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, a department press release said Tuesday. The covert shipment of Iranian oil was run by the aid of the Russian state-owned company Promsyrioimport. The network delivered millions of barrels of oil to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's regime and hundreds of millions of dollars to Islamic terrorist groups, the Treasury Department disclosed.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 22, 2018 13 Comments
Tuesday, President Trump pardoned two turkeys -- Peas and Carrots. This year, voters selected the turkey to be pardoned via a poll on the White House's official website.

Posted by Miriam Elman on November 22, 2018 12 Comments
A very rare stone engraved with ancient Hebrew letters has been discovered in the rubble of a Jerusalem excavation site. The extremely tiny stone, called a “beka”, was used as a counting weight during the First Temple period. Only a few similar stone beka weights have been unearthed in Jerusalem, and according to experts, none of those previously discovered have the same exact inscription as the one that was just found.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 21, 2018 44 Comments
Around this time every year, coastal media trot out a series of articles "preparing" a very particular set of readers for encounters with opinions unlike their own, which says more about them than the subject of their writing, but anyway... This year is no different, except for the fact that their attempts to normalize contentious Thanksgiving Dinner conversation are far less veiled than years past. Once upon a time, there was at least a pretense of impartiality. But this is 2018 and everything with which they disagree is abhorrent and at the very least, racist.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2018 40 Comments
The so-called Kids Climate Change Lawsuit seeks to hold the U.S. government liable for climate change and to compel remedial action. Seriously. It's a ludicrous lawsuit that was supposed to go to trial in late October 2018, after surviving a motion to dismiss.
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