Sunday morning talking heads
A long string of Sunday programming devoted to impeachment and the 2020 race is broken today by this week's news out of Baghdad, with the morning shows turning their attention to the killing of Qassem...
View ArticleThe assassination debate and implications
One of the bigger questions for observers since the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Major General Qasem Soleimani is whether the United States carried out its first blatant act of assassination...
View ArticleCruz trolls Democrats with Senate resolution praising Soleimani mission
Senator Ted Cruz is promoting a resolution commending the Trump administration for its mission to take out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. In doing so he is daring the Senate Democrats to oppose it....
View ArticleDo you know what I know? Sunday reflection
This morning’s Gospel reading is Matthew 2:1–12:When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king...
View ArticleNFL wild-card playoffs Sunday thread, the Pats Go Marching Out edition
Ed: I may have lost the regular-season contest, but at least I got off to a good start in the playoffs ... barely, at 1-1. Houston staged a comeback from a sixteen-point deficit to beat Buffalo in OT,...
View ArticleIraqi parliament votes to end U.S. troop presence after Soleimani killing....
Imagine trying to punish Donald Trump by making it easier for him to withdraw American troops from a Middle Eastern country.Next they'll penalize him by greenlighting construction of a new Trump hotel...
View ArticleNY police chief: rapper who was no-billed by grand jury still guilty
A couple of years ago, a rapper in Greece, New York decided to make a music video called "School Shooter." The video itself features school property but the content and the lyrics do not reference any...
View ArticleJane Fonda, Daniel Ellsberg join with Code Pink's anti-war protest
It's enough to bring on flashbacks to the early 1970s - Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg joined in with others in Washington, D.C. to protest the attack that killed Iranian General Qassem Suleimani. The...
View ArticleKaepernick: Soleimani death is American Imperialism against black and brown...
Colin Kaepernick has some thoughts about the death of Iranian General Soleimani, and it's quite the hot take, really. Instead of noting that the evilest man alive is no longer plotting the deaths of...
View ArticleIran: we're completely done with the nuclear agreement
You had to know this was coming. Iran is done with the nuclear agreement it negotiated with the Obama Administration and the European Union. Via Islamic Republic News Agency aka the official Iran news...
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