BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — Barack Obama has thrown a damp towel over warming relations between China and its neighbors with a funny theory about China being a bully in the South China Sea. Visiting Jamaica, the U.S. president said Washington is “concerned” China is using i[...]
Archive for April 13th, 2015
Blackwater guards get prison for Iraq killings
Four Blackwater contractors involved in a 2007 Baghdad shooting incident that left 17 Iraqis dead, including a 9-year-old boy, and 20 wounded were sentenced to prison today. They were convicted in a U.S. federal court last fall after years of legal battles. One got life for murder; three others got [...]
New York Times calls GOP attacks against Obama “disturbing”
From the Sunday, April 12, 2015, New York Times op-ed page: “It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive. “Republican lawmakers [...]
Anti-vaxxer mom has 7 kids with whooping cough.
I guess learning the hard way is better than not learning at all.[...]
The myth of ‘lazy welfare bums’
People who get food stamps, disability benefits, and other government assistance are lazy, unmotivated, and don’t want to work. They’d rather live on handouts, paid for by you and me. Or so the talking point, propagated by the conservative noise machine and endlessly repeated by dittohea[...]