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Fox News host comes out against Trump's airstrike
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 5 Likes • 6 years ago
“During his show on Friday, host Tucker Carlson delivered a lengthy monologue criticizing the escalation of tensions with Iran sparked by the...”
Chip Somodevilla/Getty One of the most prominent figures on Fox News isn’t joining in on the cheerleading of President Donald Trump’s assassination of Iran’s most important military leader. During his show on Friday, host Tucker Carlson delivered a lengthy monologue criticizing the...
Trump's old tweets about Obama attacking Iran come back to haunt him
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 21 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
“Despite his evident pride regarding the attack, many on social media seized on old tweets, in which, Trump had condemned the idea of military...”
Photo: The Great American Disconnect Tweets from 2011 and 2012 in which Donald Trump predicted that President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran to secure his reelection have gone viral, after the U.S. assassinated a top Iranian general, dramatically escalating its confrontation with...
Did Donald Trump Just Start a War with Iran?
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 121 Comments • 5 Likes • 6 years ago
“People who assumed that America’s Middle East headaches couldn’t get any worse likely are in for an unpleasant surprise.”
Photo: Two American political leaders The U.S. drone strike that killed Major General Qasem Soleimani, one of Iran’s top military leaders, is an extremely provocative incident. It triggered immediate vows of retaliation from Tehran, and there is every reason to assume that the clerical...
Iran faces dilemma in avenging general's death: To strike back without starting a war
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 47 Comments • 3 Likes • 6 years ago
“Because of Soleimani’s iconic stature, it will have to be seen to strike back itself, rather than merely through proxies, he said. But . . . ”
A boy in Tehran carries a portrait of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq early on Friday. (Photo: Vahid Salemi/AP) WASHINGTON — Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, vowed to exact “severe revenge” for the Thursday night U.S. airstrike...
Words & Phrases Trending Right Now on Urban Dictionary!
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
Just for fun-- and a change to return to your Millennial roots! Here's a sample (there are 30 in all at the linked listing). But the list updates frequently): TRENDING RN - DECEMBER 30, 2019 1. Clemsoning 2. yikers 3. milk enema 4. Mr. Hands 5. Choke and Stroke 6....
Geert Wilders revives contest for cartoons that mock Muhammad (PBUH)
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 21 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
““Freedom of speech must prevail over violence and Islamic fatwas,” the leader of the largest opposition party in the Dutch parliament wrote.”
In a Twitter post, Wilders called on people to send in their Muhammad cartoons. Photograph: Eva Plevier/Reuters Wilders cancelled a similar contest in August last year after police arrested a man who had threatened to kill him over his plan. At the time, plans to hold the contest prompted...
American Indian Joy Harjo – 2020 Special Guest at Palm Beach Poetry Festival is Named U.S. Poet Laureate
By: Krishna • Famous Americans in the Arts • 18 Comments • 6 Likes • 5 years ago
“Joy Harjo Becomes The 1st Native American U. S. Poet Laureate.”
Joy Harjo – 2020 Special Guest and U.S. Poet Laureate I hadn't spoken to Susan Williamson in some time. She is one of my oldest and dearest friends but we don't speak often, so she was one of several friends from years ago that I phoned on Christmas Eve to "touch base". She is a poet and...
MS-13 arrests deal blow to gang leadership on Long Island
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
“ Authorities said Friday they have dealt an unprecedented blow to the violent MS-13 street gang, announcing charges against nearly 100 of the...”
Photo: AP via Yahoo News Authorities said Friday they have dealt an unprecedented blow to the violent MS-13 street gang, announcing charges against nearly 100 of the group's members and associates on Long Island. Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini revealed a sweeping indictment...
'Brave' Londoners armed with narwhal tusk, fire extinguisher, take on terrorist
Via: Krishna • The Lighter Side/ Humor • 9 Comments • 3 Likes • 7 years ago
“Sky News commentator Scott Emerson has noted “the bravery of Londoners” after two men, one armed with a narwhal tusk and the other with a fire...”
