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John McCain, typically a supporter of a hawkish foreign policy, told KTAR radio Tuesday that President Trump's threat to rain "fire and fury" down on North Korea was a mistake: "I take exception to the President's comments because you gotta be able to do what you say you're gonna do...In other words, the old walk softly but carry a big stick, Teddy Roosevelt's saying, which I think is something that should've applied because all it's going to do is bring us closer to a serious confrontation. I think this is very, very, very serious…The great leaders I've seen don't threaten...

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Former Governor Mike Hucakbee and Col. Allen West believe it could. Gov. Huckabee pointed out in a tweet last week that repealing the 17th Amendment, which instituted the popular election of Senators, would ensure that Senators work for their states and respect the 10th Amendment. "Time to repeal 17th Amendment," he said on July 28th. "Founders had it right-Senators chosen by state legislatures. Will work for their states and respect 10th amid." Col. Allen West made a similar point in a much longer piece on his website: Imagine if those GOP senators who blocked the repeal of Obamacare could be...

A small village in Haryana has added a new dimension to the festival of Raksha Bandhan. The festival is meant to mark love and bonding, making relationships stronger. This bond was extended to United States President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as girls in the Marora village in Haryana sent threads to the two world leaders. Raksha Bandhan -- as most of us are aware -- involves tying a thread (rakhi) around a brother’s wrists. The rakhi is meant to act as a symbol of a unifying bond, as in return for her love and loyalty, the...

BERLIN (REUTERS) - Former US vice-president Al Gore suggested on Tuesday that the presidency of Mr Donald Trump could end prematurely for "ethical reasons", drawing laughter from a packed movie theatre at the European premiere of his latest film on climate change. "We're only six months into the experiment with Trump. Some experiments are ended early for ethical reasons," Mr Gore said, acknowledging the "provocative" nature of his comment. Mr Gore said he was convinced that US cities, states and business executives would meet US obligations under the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, despite Mr Trump's decision in...

Hindus in certain pockets have often been at loggerheads with sections of Muslims who constitute about 27% of the state’s population. critics say the situation has worsened in recent times under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s tenure. Banerjee has carefully cultivated her Muslim vote bank: she attends iftars and Muslim religious functions covering her head, has announced stipends for clerics, is known to actively promote Madrasas and is often seen sharing the stage at public functions with Muslim leaders. ..Her pro-Muslim imagery has reportedly upset many in Bengal who already feel threatened by the influx of undocumented migrants from Bangladesh.

Psalm 64King James Version (KJV) 64 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They...

Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein tweeted out the White House phone number on Tuesday calling on her following to "prevent WWIII" by flooding the White House with phone calls and urging them to negotiate with North Korea. "Urgent. Prevent WWIII. Flood the White House switchboard now: Negotiate don't escalate with North Korea! 202-456-1414," Stein tweeted. North Korea said on Tuesday that it is examining plans for a missile strike on Guam, just after Trump said that any threat to the United States from North Korea would be met with "fire and fury." Stein also urged the president to...

A Sydney suburb has banned the construction of a synagogue because it could be a terrorist target, a decision that has infuriated religious leaders. The temple was to be built in Bondi, a short walk from Australia’s famous Bondi Beach. But locals worried that the space would pose a security risk to nearby residents, motorists and pedestrians. As evidence of that threat, the council pointed to the synagogue’s own design, which included setback buildings and blast walls. ***In its decision, the court explained that western countries are under threat from Daesh, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and that the...

Has anyone else heard about Malia Obama being fired from her job as an intern at the Spanish Embassy?

For those trips that are a bit too short to justify a plane ticket and just long enough to make driving inconvenient, there's no easy answer. Do you hop on a $5 bus and spend hours stuck in traffic? Or is it easier to cough up the money, hop on a plane and deal with TSA and flight delays? Cabin, a brand-new luxury bus company, offers a solution to this conundrum. Its fleet of high-end buses makes overnight trips between Los Angeles and San Francisco that depart at 11 p.m. and arrive by 7 a.m., which means you don't lose...

For the People's Daily finally in the Sino-Korean relations, said the truth of praise 2017-08-07 China is the energy transfer Click on the top】 【blue font free attention! China - DPRK in the precarious situation Today, the DPRK Central News Agency issued an article titled "Do not do recklessly talk about the rudeness of the DPRK-China relations", and criticized China's policy toward the DPRK and issued a tough threat to China. The Chinese version of the text still left a little face, the DPRK version of the Chinese government and Chinese leaders ridicule and abuse is simply unsightly. The next...

August 9, 2017 Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Nm 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35The LORD said to Moses [in the desert of Paran,]"Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan,which I am giving the children of Israel.You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe,all of them princes." After reconnoitering the land for forty days they returned,met Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the children of Israelin the desert of Paran at Kadesh,made a report to them all,and showed the fruit of the countryto the whole congregation.They told Moses: "We went into the...

Hollywood police arrested four young men, including two juveniles, for vandalizing a city police car and a city code enforcement vehicle one day last month. Investigators said Johnathan Berroa, Zachary Novak and two juveniles were arrested on July 23rd for vandalizing the cars parked outside a Hollywood Police Department substation along N 69th Ave. According to a police report, “The front windshield and rear window of the marked police unit had been shattered. Multiple dents were observed on the vehicle along with melted candy on the hood. A firecracker had been ignited on the hood of the vehicle.” The report...

California is a global environmental leader, but it’s falling behind in one key respect: phasing out gasoline cars. Germany, India, Norway and the Netherlands are moving to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by or before 2030, and France and the United Kingdom by 2040. Here’s why California should join that list. It would: Fight climate change: Every gallon of gas burned emits 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change. Transportation is our biggest source of carbon emissions. Shifting to electric vehicles today would cut tailpipe carbon emissions to zero, and total carbon emissions by 75...

how did a man end up nailed to a tree in the Bosque? It's a mystery police are still working to solve. But for the first time, video has revealed what police discovered that day in May and what the victim said. This case just keeps getting more complicated. In an interview with police, the man nailed to the tree said the Ku Klux Klan was after him. He also told police that it's not the first time he's been attacked. The call came in from a city employee who was picking up trash in the Bosque. The video shows...

A man accused of burglarizing a Southern California home took a bathroom break and left DNA evidence in the toilet that led to his arrest, an investigator said Tuesday. The suspect "did his business and didn't flush it" during the October break-in in the city of Thousand Oaks, said Detective Tim Lohman of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. That allowed investigators to collect evidence to conduct a DNA profile. It matched another profile in a national database and detectives tracked down the suspect at his home in the nearby city of Ventura.

N. Korea: 'All-out War' Against US Preventive War Write : 2017-08-09 09:18:09 Update : 2017-08-09 09:24:46 North Korea has threatened “all-out war” against the United States in response to the U.S.’ recent threat of a “preventive war.” According to the North state-run Korean Central News Agency, the General Staff Department of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement on Wednesday that the U.S. is devising a preventive war against the North and that any plans to execute this would be met with an all-out war wiping out all the strongholds of enemies including the U.S. mainland. The North said...

PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - On Tuesday morning Doyen Elements officially broke ground on a 234-thousand square foot cannabis grow facility in Pueblo. It'll be located at 1900 Freeway Drive in Pueblo, which is the former Pepsi bottling facility. "We've taken the facility and we are retrofitting it into a 234,000 square foot grow facility that will be developed into three separate phases," said Geoff Thompson with Doyen Elements. "Phase one will take 9-11 months and then the next two phases through an 18 to 24 month period of time." Once construction is complete the entire facility will run 24 hours...

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