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Jeb Bush RetweetedComing 2 America was great, I don't know what everyone is bitching and moaning about. Terrific cast, nice balance of 80s nostalgia and new jokes. Just a dumb, fun movie with no agenda other than to make you laugh. I got exactly what I expected from it. pic.twitter.com/nbHGIAjZNe— John Noonan (@noonanjo) March 25, 2021

As we wait for theaters to open up again and studios to stop dragging their feet, 'Coming 2 America' is a passable distraction.To paraphrase Lavelle Junson, people don’t want to see a sequel to an old movie from 30 years ago that no one asked for. Yet, other than standard-issue Disney/Marvel/DC and the occasional sleeper indie hit, we’ve been fed a steady cinematic diet of sequels and reboots to properties from the Reagan-Bush era. “Coming 2 America” is merely the latest entry in the never-ending lineup of stale nostalgia bait. Although occasionally amusing, like its soulless siblings, the follow-up to...

Plundering the possessions, lives, and dignity of Christians in the Islamic world: is this a random affair, a product of the West's favorite offenders—poverty, ignorance, grievance—or is it systematic, complete with ideological backing? Consider the very latest from the Muslim world: Pakistan: Muslim landowners used tractors to plough over a Christian cemetery in order to seize the land illegally. A young Christian mother was raped by six men. "In both cases, police covered up for the culprits."Iraq: A Christian youth was kidnapped and decapitated: his family could not pay the €70,000 ransom demanded by his abductors. "The murder was meant...

Thursday, 9 June, 2005, 23:59 GMT 00:59 UK Guatemala's epidemic of killing By Adam Blenford BBC News In Guatemala, a small country not long emerged from three decades of civil war, women and girls are being murdered faster than anyone in authority can cope. Deborah Tomas Vineda, aged 16, was kidnapped, raped, and cut to pieces with a chainsaw, allegedly because she refused to become the girlfriend of a local gang member. Her sister Olga, just 11 years old, died alongside her. The raped and mutilated body of Andrea Contreras Bacaro, 17, was found wrapped in a plastic bag and...