NYTIMES (Padma Lakshmi) - Padma Lakshmi: What America’s Food Tells Us About Birthright Citizenship
President Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.
NYTIMES (Clay Risen) - Slava Tsukerman, Who Directed the Cult Classic ‘Liquid Sky,’ Dies at 86
A Russian-born director, he created a film about New Wave models and killer aliens in 1980s New York, helping to reshape independent filmmaking in America.
STRIPES (Rose L. Thayer) - Fort Hood medics go underground to train for emergency combat care | Stars and Stripes
The training intends to prepare troops for future wars that could be fought underground because munitions targeting has become so specific.
STRIPES (Gary Warner) - USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, 2,500 Marines arrive in Hawaii on way to possible Middle East mission | Stars and Stripes
The Boxer arrived Sunday at Pearl Harbor, accompanied by the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland and the dock landing ship USS Comstock.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Jack Hunter) - Lindsey Graham Crosses Rubicon With Iwo Jima Comments
Conservatives piled on the neocon senator over his apparent disregard for the lives of American soldiers. The post Lindsey Graham Crosses Rubicon With Iwo Jima Comments appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Lindsey Graham Crosses Rubicon With Iwo Jima Comments Conservatives piled on the neocon senator over his apparent disregard for the lives of American soldiers. “He’s one of the worst people in all of congress and that includes the Democrats.” This was conservative Matt Walsh’s assessment last week of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Walsh, a pundit at the Daily Wire, was responding to an interview the same day in which Graham was asked if American ground troops might be needed to invade Iran’s Kharg Island, which has a major oil terminal and is considered to be that country’s lifeline. …Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Spencer Neale) - Trump’s War Makes Obama Look Presidential
Every day, America slips further under Trump’s leadership. The post Trump’s War Makes Obama Look Presidential appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump’s War Makes Obama Look Presidential Every day, America slips further under Trump’s leadership. President Donald Trump’s Thursday press conference began the way many of his press conferences do these days: with a predictable jab at former President Barack Obama. “Barack Hussein Obama gave Iran a nuclear deal,” Trump said , emphasizing, as he often does, Obama’s middle name. “Basically he chose Iran over Israel and others that didn’t want him to do it.” After railing briefly against the Democrats, Trump turned the conference over to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who explained that the United…Open
DAILYCALLER (Mariane Angela) - Jonathan Turley Sees One Great Irony In Colorado’s Ban On Conversion Therapy
'They keep on trying to curtail free speech'
NYTIMES (Lizzie Dearden) - In UK Prisons, Drones Fly In Contraband ‘As if by Uber Eats’
Decades-old prison buildings were designed to be secure from the ground but not the air. Experts say that makes a lucrative smuggling trade hard to tackle.
NYTIMES (John Eligon and Joao Silva) - Where Million-Dollar Coastal Homes Glitter Near Metal Shacks
A shortage of affordable housing in the coastal city in South Africa has forced many people to live far outside the city center, while tourists occupy prime real estate.
NYTIMES (Aie Balagtas See) - The Sailors Stranded in the Persian Gulf
Thousands of civilian sailors have been stranded for more than a month in waters surrounded by a conflict zone because of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.