StandWithUs Israeli Soldiers’ Stories IDF res. Ashager gives a shout out to her little brother currently serving in the IDF in honor of #NationalSiblingsDay: “I want to give a shout out to my little bro serving in the #IDF Protecting the citizens of Israel”[...]
Archive for April, 2015
LSU drafting ‘academic bankruptcy’ plan. Would fire faculty but continue to recruit football players.
“We don’t say that to scare people. Basically, it is how we are going to survive.” LSU President (The Times-Picayune , READMORE ) Moody’s Investors Service announced that it was lowering LSU’s credit rating in response to an 82 percent funding cut if no extra state [...]
CHINA: A Communist Approach to Affordable Housing In a Capitalist Real Estate Market
While Seattle approaches its housing issue by building dormitories s for workers podments, — Last year Beijing made nearly 1,880 affordable commercial apartments available to buyers, rekindling average income-earners’ hopes of having a house of their own. BEIJING, June 23 2014 (Xinhu[...]
April 23rd, 2015 - 4:17 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
What Israelis Did to Themselves and the Jewish People
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April 22nd, 2015 - 1:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Chicago judge acquits cop who shot at pedestrians and killed girl
If you needed more proof that it’s virtually impossible to convict killer cops in this country, here it is: “In March 2012, 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was walking to a store with three friends near Douglas Park. Prosecutors said that Servin, who was off-duty, was upset over the noise and tol[...]
April 22nd, 2015 - 12:51 pm § in Misc.
“This isn’t over”
On April 9, San Bernardino sheriff’s deputies were caught on video by a news chopper beating up out of Francis Jared Pusok, who fled on a horse that kicked a deputy. (Pusok’s attorney says the deputies were trying to serve a warrant that had nothing to do with him.) Yesterday, the county[...]
April 22nd, 2015 - 10:38 am § in Misc.
Deputy U.S. Marshal caught on video grabbing and smashing cellphone
Unfortunately for the cop, a neighbor caught the whole thing on her cellphone, and the cop’s actions are now under investigation. The woman, who frequently records police activity, is no stranger to police abuse. She has hired a lawyer and is going to sue. As usual, taxpayers will pay, and lit[...]
April 22nd, 2015 - 10:12 am § in Uncategorized
Sen. Rand Paul self-destructs again
“Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul derided Republican critics of his foreign policy as ‘lap dogs for President Obama’ during an interview on Tuesday, launching an early salvo in the war of words that could reverberate through the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Paul … was aske[...]
April 22nd, 2015 - 9:58 am § in Misc.
Another Salaita? The Witch Hunt at Northwest Nazarene University
Last March, the day before April Fools, Tom Oord got an email saying he was fired. Karl W. Giberson , a former professor at an evangelical Christian college. reports of evangelical colleague whose tenure was terminated fired because of a conflict not with other faculty or students but because[...]