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Fox News host Laura Ingraham criticized the backlash against the Trump administration for separating immigrant families at the border as part of its “zero tolerance” policy, comparing the detention centers, where children can be seen being kept inside chain-link cages and heard wailing for their parents, to summer camp. “More kids are being separated from their parents and temporarily housed in what are essentially summer camps, or as The San Diego Union Tribune described them today, as basically looking like boarding schools,” Ingraham said Monday. “The American people are footing a really big bill for what is tantamount to a...

The summer holidays are just around the corner, and there’s nothing quite like the buzz of knowing that there are at least six weeks ahead of homework-free fun. However, with so much time on your hands, it can be all too tempting to lounge on the sofa, rather than doing something a little more energetic. Consider stepping away from TV for a few days and see all the amazing things around town to inspire you to get out n’ about!

Again freepers are the smartest people I know so I thought I would ask here. I am looking for a good summer camp in the Science/Math/Tech field to send my daughter (16) to this summer. I was wondering if any of you freepers know of any good summer programs/camps in the US.

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

PMW has been reporting on the repeated Palestinian Authority [PA] naming of children's camps this summer after terrorists, including suicide terrorists, and it seems from the mention of "UNICEF" in the PA papers that the UN is a significant supporter of these camps. The summer camps, are often named after specific terrorists or just the general term “Shahid”, meaning "Died for Allah", the term the PA uses to honor the terrorists, as well as others who died in the conflict with Israel. A girl's summer camp was named after Wafa Idris, a woman suicide terrorist. Beyond the act of naming...