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Published on Jan 16, 2015 The year 2014 now ranks as the warmest on record since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. Eric West 1 year ago the global warming deniers are looking sillier and sillier each year.  · 23 View all 85 replies Juzzy K 1 week ago (edited) +rockribbed rushy​​ Ask any average person to tell you how Greenland got it's name and the majority won't know without looking it up. What I was saying was why are you asking me this instead of asking google. Here's the main search result: The name Greenland comes...

These fascinating photographs from Afghanistan in the 1960s are a far cry from the war-torn images in the news today. The eye-opening collection was captured by university professor Dr Bill Podlich from Arizona, who swapped life in America to travel to Kabul with his wife, Margaret, and two teenage daughters, Jan and Peg. Using his Kodachrome film, his images show a peaceful Afghanistan making strides towards a more liberal and Westernised lifestyle - a stark contrast to harrowing sights seen during Taliban regime.

Anyone viewing "13 Hours: the Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" looking for the names "Hillary" or "Obama" will be disappointed. They aren't there. That said, this is the best Michael Bay movie since "Bad Boys II" and atones for at least two of the "Transformers" films. Most people know the basic story: on September 11, 2011, the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, where Ambassador Christ Stevens had arrived, came under a planned attack by Islamic radicals. The attack had nothing to do with a video, as the film makes clear. Stevens only had two bodyguards with him, wanting to keep a...

I love Donald Trump. For all of his faults, he has done this nation an extraordinary service that it seems no other politician has been able to do for a quarter century. He put the single, most important issue facing our nation at the top of the heap in terms of what voters are concerned with: Immigration. Illegal immigration is literally undermining our nation, and without control of our borders there is simply no way our country will survive as a constitutional republic. That love, I suppose, is really more appreciation. While I thank Trump to the high heavens for...

Today, we honor a man whose words agitated, illuminated, inspired and liberated millions. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights warrior with weapons, not of blade or bullet, but of ideas. In 2016, those ideas are spoken by many, yet followed by few. We're a nation still obsessed with the hue of our skin (hello #BlackLivesMatter movement), while ignoring the more valuable substance that lies within. To our own detriment, we often judge a book by its glossy cover. Martin Luther King Jr. was no different. He became enamored with the facade of Planned Parenthood and its glossy cover...

My letter to Jason Savage, the executive diretor of the Maine GOP ... There is evidence that Cruz is a naturalized citizen of the US. He was born in Canada, and the SCOTUS case of Rogers v. Bellei, if applied, would assign Cruz the status of naturalized citizen of the US. I understand that certification of his qualifications emanates from the RNC, and that the Maine GOP is powerless to challenge the certification. A certification that is clearly false, as any competent court would find, if it found it had jurisdiction. I also understand that I am voting, in the...

A POST-CHRISTIAN era has dawned in Britain, with most white Britons now saying they have no religion, according to a new survey. The increase is most pronounced among those aged under 40 and comes amid claims that they feel alienated from the church’s conservative social values. The poll, conducted by YouGov last month with a sample of 1,500 across the whole population, including recent immigrants, found almost half (46%) have no religion, up from 42% in February 2015 and from 37% in January 2013. This rises to more than 50% among white British.

“Plastics,” Mr. McGuire tells Ben Braddock in the 1967 film “The Graduate.” He was impressing on the young man the importance of one of the chief branches of the oil industry: Virtually every item available at the time contained plastic, or was packaged in it. So a career in plastics meant you always had something to sell. That’s just as true today, despite many changes in societal priorities. Plastics are still ubiquitous, whether they’re made from oil or recycled from scrap. But a major change has come over the past 19 months, and there’s no telling how long it will...

Friends of Tulip Siddiq, the MP leading the campaign to ban Donald Trump from Britain, have said she will be “tearing” his reputation to “shreds” during today’s parliamentary debate on the proposed ban.

A 13-year-old German/Russian girl was kidnapped on her way to school by three Muslim "refugees" and raped for 30 hours. No word in the Merkel-media, of course. But these horrors are daily now in the daily social fabric of Germanlife. German police says there was no rape. Of course. Just like New Year's Eve was a "normal, uneventful night." Above screenshot: The APB issued after the girl was kidnapped. Google translate: Berlin: 13-year-old migrant kidnapped and raped for 30 hours Epoch Times, Sunday, January 17 2016 (thanks to Jen): A 13-year-old German-Russian was kidnapped these days in Berlin and held...

Maybe Donald Trump needs some of that "free" mental healthcare that the Democrats were talking about last night. If you are like most ordinary Americans, you probably spent the weekend watching the NFL playoffs, or spending time with your family, or trying to avoid the freezing cold that gripped most of the country. You know, anything other than watching the Democrats "debate" or the political nonsense on Twitter and the cable shows. Which is regrettable, because people who were paying attention finally got to see what The Donald is like when he's off his meds. It all started, as most...

If you ask me, President Obama is being way too hard on himself. "It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," the president said during his final State of the Union address last week. He added, 'a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide." While I'm all for humility, the president is not to blame for the rancor and polarization that have characterized his presidency.

NFL Live Thread 2016 Conference Championships Sunday, January 24 Patriots Vs Broncos 3:05 EST Cardinals Vs Panthers 6:40 PM EST

"My concern is that the negligence of a few will adversely affect the majority. I've long been a believer in the "look at the solution, not the problem" theory. In this case, the solution is clear. We will have to leave borders behind and go for global unity when it comes to financial stability."

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". ChimeraNoun 1. Greek Mythology A fire-breathing female monster usually represented as a composite of a lion, goat, and serpent. 2. An imaginary monster made up of grotesquely disparate parts. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... Review Threads: Review...

The phrase is just vague enough to suggest Trump doesn't care about this or that issue that voters do, but not lock Cruz into any one attack. How it played at a tea party convention in South Carolina over the weekend.MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — What are New York values? That’s been the subject of much discussion among the political class since Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz started using the phrase to jab ally-turned-rival Donald Trump, igniting a controversy that led to an unexpectedly stirring Trump defense of his home city during Thursday’s debate and a winking non-apology from Cruz the...

Police have detained a man suspected of murdering Ashley Olsen, a 35-year-old American woman, in Florence last week. The detained man is Cheik Diaw, a 27-year-old undocumented Senegalese migrant known to the police for drugs-related issues. He has admitted being responsible for her death, but said he did not intend to kill her, sources said. Prosecutors said the man was held on the basis of DNA evidence taken at the crime scene. ... Diaw said he had sexual relations with Olsen after meeting her in a club and going to her home, according to the sources. He said they subsequently...

You get Congress, you get them together, you get everybody together in a room, you cajole, you get along, you have dinner and you make deals.

The President of the United States is a K-Dot fan. Barack Obama has chosen Kendrick Lamar's "How Much a Dollar Cost" as his favorite song of 2015. In an interview with PEOPLE, Obama says that he can't get enough of the powerful song, which appears on Lamar's Grammy-nominated album To Pimp a Butterfly.

Do people really like Donald Trump? Like, real people? The kind who would make their own signs and T-Shirts and show up at Trump's 2016 presidential campaign launch to watch him slowly descend an escalator to the sounds of "Rockin' in the Free World"? After a day of swirling rumors, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the consulting firm Gotham Government Relations & Communications sought to hire paid actors to attend Trump's much-talked-about campaign kickoff on Tuesday morning. Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, denied the allegation to the site, noting that he had never heard of Gotham GR nor the...