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Say What These Attacks Are: Not Just Islamophobia, but Anti-Palestinianism - March 18 2024, 5:00 a.m. - "From Joe Biden on down, liberals denounce anti-Muslim bias to avoid mentioning the scourge of hate against Palestinians." I agree that lots of people seem to suffer from Paliphobia, for lack...

Police Unions, GOP Want Reform DA Removed from Cop’s Case - March 22 2024, 1:34 p.m. - "Reform-minded district attorneys like Minnesota’s Mary Moriarty are facing backlash for prosecuting police shootings and misconduct." Seems plausible. Consider: California AG Ends San Francisco’s First...

Intercepted: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza - March 23 2024, 5:00 a.m. - "“I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” said Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto." Gaza Humanitarian Worker: Biden Is on Board for Ethnic Cleansing - March 23 2024, 6:00 a.m. -...

Also among ex-Soviet republics, Armenians throng center of the capital to demand the prime minister's resignation | AP News and Protests shut streets in Armenia's capital, roads in other parts to demand the prime minister resign | AP News Because of Armenia and Azerbaijan move closer to...

Turning to another ex-Soviet Republic, Eurasian Georgia, not the US state, it is having a big kerfluffle over a foreign-agents law. Georgia parliament overturns veto on foreign agents law The bill was passed in May 14: Civil Georgia | Majority Passes “Foreign Agents” Bill 83-23 in Second...

'It's All Lies': Supporters Say Petty Politics Lies Behind Treason Conviction Of Ailing Russian Scientist - June 29, 2023 15:57 GMT Was Zelenskiy Right About Central Asian Leaders 'Fearing' The Kremlin? Russia Declares Barred Presidential Candidate, Soldiers' Wives Group 'Foreign Agents'...

Putin Boasts Of Russia's Hypersonic Weapons, But A Dozen Scientists In The Field Face Treason Charges Is this related to Vladimir Putin's interest in hypersonic weaponry? What a theory. Or Vladimir Putin could be suffering from Stalinist paranoia about his underlings. Finding these...

How Putin's Police State Leaves Russia Vulnerable To Terrorist Attacks - March 23, 2024 10:54 GMT and and Then mentioning the sinking of nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea in 2000, and the bungled official responses, responses which caused more casualties, responses to the attack on...

Ronald Reagan first ran for President in 1976, challenging fellow Republican Gerald Ford, who was running for re-election. RR argued that GF was not conservative enough, and he described a supposed "Chicago welfare queen" who got a big income from welfare fraud, and he claimed that GF gave away...

Ronald Reagan stuck it to millennials: A college debt history lesson no one tells | Salon.com - "Dramatic, awful changes occurred on my generation's watch -- and it amounts to a fiendishly successful conspiracy" Opinion: Here's how Reagan created the homelessness crisis - The San Diego...

He married his first wife, Jane Wyman, in 1940, and the two had two children, Maureen and Christine, and adopted one child, Michael. Jane divorced him in 1949. He married Nancy Davis in 1952, and they had Patti and Ron. Patti prefers her mother's original last name to her father's, which is why...

I'll now turn to Ronald Reagan himself. He was born in 1911 in a small town in NW Illinois, and in his high-school years, he had an interest in drama and football. He went to a small nearby college, and he was a mediocre student, being interested in sports, drama, and campus politics. He even...

The Sixties Era started in the early 1960's, and it lasted into the mid to late 1970's, and Samuel Huntington liked to call it Sixties & Seventies: S&S. Toward the end, it was evident that it was slowing down, with the Equal Rights Amendment almost but not quite getting ratified. But the...

Let's look over US history. Revolution and Constitution - liberal period, of course - also a Samuel Huntington creedal-passion period. The American creed of governance: "In terms of American beliefs, government is supposed to be egalitarian, participatory, open, noncoercive, and responsive to...

I used Mathematica for the solution, and you might want to try it with your favorite computer-algebra software. For the coordinates being {horizontal, vertical} and the circle having radius r, it has center {r,1-r}. To find the intersection with the parabola with the tangents having the same...

Yes, that's why US leaders have been reluctant to endorse such strikes.

It's not just Ronald Reagan, it's the sort of people who got into seats of power: the Reaganites, as I call them. What they did was to start Gilded Age II, though there were some trends in that direction in the previous administration, Jimmy Carter's Presidency. I like to take a long view...

Evidence: {} -- I don't see the value of making such claims. There are plenty of bad things that the Reaganites did, but that does not seem to be one of them.

I mentioned that proposal some years ago: Eastern Oregon and Washington States Seceding? | Internet Infidels Discussion Board Also a proposal of Eastern Washington State to secede as the state of "Liberty".

Survivors say Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often the victims | CNN