HUFFPOST - Bill Maher Slams Conditions Aboard USS Lincoln: 'It Just Makes My Blood Boil'
The “Real Time” host maintained that the Iran war was originally a “mission worth fighting” but that the Trump administration “f**ked it up.”
HUFFPOST - ‘Typical From A Draft Dodger’: Dem Combat Veteran Rips Trump Downplaying The Toll On USS Lincoln Sailors
“The president, the commander in chief, is more worried about his golf game this weekend,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said.
HUFFPOST - Lala Strengthens Into A Hurricane And Bears Down On Hawaii’s Big Island With Heavy Rain, Winds
Hurricane Lala formed Saturday on a path to make landfall on Hawaii’s Big Island, the National Hurricane Center said.
STRIPES (Rose Thayer) - Grab a beer at the dining facility: Fort Hood bistro begins alcohol sales | Stars and Stripes
42 Bistro offers a menu of beer, hard seltzer and cider from a bar separate from the food stations. It is also available in the bistro’s coffee shop.
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NYTIMES (Anupreeta Das) - After Women in India Joined Protests, Online Harassment Followed
Widespread online abuse and visits from the police show the added risks women take standing up for their beliefs in a patriarchal society.
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NYTIMES (Motoko Rich, Josephine de La Bruyère and Alessandro Grassani) - With Priests Scarce in Rural Italy, an African Pastor Is Filling the Void
Immigrants have long eased labor shortages on farms and factories in Italy. But churches also need foreign-born priests, like the Rev. Vincent Souly of the Ivory Coast.
In addition to religious roles, how have immigrants historically impacted the Italian workforce?
Immigrants have long helped to ease labor shortages within Italy's farms and factories.
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Why are foreign-born priests like Rev. Vincent Souly from the Ivory Coast being utilized in Italy?
They are being used to fill the void caused by a scarcity of priests in rural Italy.
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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (David Gornoski) - The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr.
Funk was one of a kind—a wrestling champion who built bridges between America and postwar Japan. The post The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr. appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr. Funk was one of a kind—a wrestling champion who built bridges between America and postwar Japan. Photo by WWE/WWE via Getty Images Dory Funk Jr.—pro wrestling champion, trainer, and international icon—died earlier this month at 85. Although less famous here, perhaps, than some of his colleagues, Funk’s life provided an object lesson in the power of sport and spectacle to win hearts around the world. And for those who knew him personally, as I did, the news of his passing landed with the sudden finality of one of his famous spinning toe holds. He was the last of a breed that understood how to make another man look like a million bucks without diminishing himself—never flashy, never…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Something Doesn’t Look Right
What emergency could possibly justify omnipresent bureaucratic hectoring? The post Something Doesn’t Look Right appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Something Doesn’t Look Right What emergency could possibly justify omnipresent bureaucratic hectoring? TakiMag Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images One might think that a severely alcoholic Stalinist could never be a good writer, let alone a fine novelist, but the case of Patrick Hamilton refutes this commonsensical opinion. His novel of an English boarding house during the war, The Slaves of Solitude, published in 1947, is a beautifully observed and completely non-ideological study of the character of the residents of just such an establishment. If one had to guess the political opinions of its author on the basis of the book alone, one might even suspect him of having been a libertarian. There is a passage…Open
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Ted Snider) - What the Mecca Defense Pact Means
The agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan may herald a new Middle East. The post What the Mecca Defense Pact Means appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs What the Mecca Defense Pact Means The agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan may herald a new Middle East. On August 7, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in the holy city of Mecca to sign a new trilateral defense pact . The birth of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is a significant geopolitical event. It brings together into a security alliance three of the largest and most influential countries in the Middle East. Turkey has the second-largest army in NATO. Pakistan is the only Muslim nation to possess a nuclear arsenal. And Saudi Arabia is a leading oil producer with near-limitless wealth. Though the full text of…Open
JUSTTHENEWS (Claire Harrington) - ‘Perfectly in line with Constitution:’ Right defends Bible in Texas public schools after lawsuit
The state of Texas is being sued for the second time this year over Senate Bill 10 requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.