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Update: Yes, I know there’s a cat in the picture; I took it from Slate, “The Cats of War.” I’ve used that image before, to lighten things up slightly. Apparently I didn’t succeed. Conventional wisdom on the politics of terror seems to be faring just as badly as conventional wisdom on the politics of everything….
Great news! Nobody was murdered when a big crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters got shot at by three white guys in Minneapolis last night. Five people were injured, with one having surgery on his stomach overnight, but nobody died. And that’s it for good news, all, because this story is rage. First up: Above…
On the list of things New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has a problem with: menstruation. On the list of things it’s apparently totally chill about: Nazis. Well, I guess that clears that up. Just a mere month ago, the MTA was the center of a controversy over its rejection of a campaign created by…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two Italian journalists who wrote books detailing Vatican mismanagement go on trial Tuesday in a Vatican courtroom along with three people accused of leaking them the information in a case that has drawn scorn from media watchdogs around the world. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the OSCE,…
A hundred years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: You walked across it. Today, if there’s traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there’s a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green. IN…
You may have heard of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman who died in a raid carried about by French police in the days after the attacks in Paris. Or you might have seen her on the website of the Daily Mail, which said it obtained exclusive photos of her, or the New York Post, which…
Ben Carson’s campaign is walking back his support for Donald Trump’s controversial assertion that there was news footage showing “thousands of people” cheering the 9/11 attacks from New Jersey. Doug Watts, Carson’s communications director, said Carson confused protests in the Middle East after the 9/11 attacks, which were documented at the time, with the New…
Five people were shot at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis late Monday night. The Associated Press spoke with Minneapolis police who confirmed the shootings. Police spokesman John Elder told AP all five have injuries that are not life-threatening. The local newspaper The Star Tribune reported that the five people shot were protesters. Black…
Walmart is selling an Android smartphone for $9. Technically, the phone costs $9.82, but the important thing here is that it’s a functioning smartphone for less than ten American dollars. It’s terrible, but it’s also fantastic. Here’s how it can be both of those things at the same time. I’ll get straight to the point:…
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