Currently some one thousand people are locked away in a football stadium on the Greek island of Kos. They have no food, and very little water. Maybe there are sanitation facilities. Accounts differ. Some say two toilets. Some say six. Some say none.
Black activists and immigration groups have banded together in a coalition called #Rights4AllInDR to protest the Dominican Republic's policy to make people of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic stateless.
Because Americans have come to prefer political echo chambers, it's important to looks at the polls in order to see what Americans truly care about.
It's just as important, after looking at the polls, to understand why.
This will be short.
There are a couple of diaries up on DK about another police shooting of a young black man in Ferguson, with the obligatory leaving him bleeding out while they... I don't know. Check the donuts at the 7-11?
The cops of course are claiming they were fired upon (although according to both diaries that seems plausible in this case). And of course they did the obvious thing; fire blindly while civilians were all around.
One year ago yesterday President Obama ordered the bombing of ISIL.
That's enough time to take stock of what we have and haven't accomplished.
There's been 5,946 coalition airstrikes, almost all of them American, nearly evenly divided between Iraq and Syria.
Wow! There's a good idea. It's one proposed by Jeff Rubin, economist who wrote the book "The Carbon Bubble."
Agriculture, not Energy, Will Fuel Canada’s Economy in Coming Decades: Experts
Not six months passed, after Robin Williams' ashes went into San Francisco Bay, before his terminal wife, and his various earlier children, commenced an ugly and public legal battle over his all and every monified possessions: "photographs, bicycles, fossils, and toys."
All parties, to all suits, screaming "mine! mine! mine! mine!”
Hey everybody! It's hump day Friday! Today's Beastiable is Senator Ted Cruz(mel). He has said and done beastly things for many years now, and so he has earned his turn as one of Les Beastiables.
NOTE FOR NEW READERS: This series features a new Les Beastiables cartoon every Wednesday about 1:45 PM Eastern. We indulge in a little Franglish because the French are tres classy. But I digresse.
For serious discussion of the issues, please join me below the break. Then you'll be able to "cleanse your palate" with a cute photo before you leave.
Today is the one year anniversary of the start of the War on ISIL. To this day Congress has still not voted on an AUMF, and it doesn't appear that it will happen in the near future.
That hasn't stopped Obama from launching a different war.
