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Charlie McKenna | July 28, 2016
Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas stated in a piece by Crux news on Tuesday that policies calling for the deportation of illegal immigrants is morally equivalent to “driving someone to an abortion clinic.” “In diverse ways each [party] promotes a power structure that leaves the vulnerable and defenseless aside,” Flores said. Even so, Flores said, it is still important for Catholics…
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Charlie McKenna | July 28, 2016
Michael Daly, a writer for the Daily Beast, added his own take on Michelle Obama’s DNC comment that the White House was “built on the backs of slaves.” According to Daly, government ought to pay the descendants of slaves the just wage that was denied to their ancestors for their labor. Daly's calculations bring the reparations owed to the slaves to $83 million, basing that figure off the wage…
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Charlie McKenna | July 27, 2016
Here’s a voice the media aren’t promoting: Sister Danielle, the nun who slipped out during the terrorist attack on a church in France on Tuesday. Sister Danielle alerted the police of the terrorist attack at the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy, and although her swift action could not save Father Hamel, she saved the lives of the other four members of the congregation. She gave…
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Charlie McKenna | July 27, 2016
Terry Wayne Washington, a 55-year old-man from Austin, has been charged with cruelty to non-livestock animals, hunting without a license, and improper disposal of a carcass, after he beat a turtle to death with a hammer in June.   Washington and a friend were fishing when the unfortunate turtle got caught on the line. Washington then proceeded to reel the turtle in to unsnag it from the line.…
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Charlie McKenna | July 27, 2016
There seems to be a pattern these days. Just Google “police denied service at restaurant” and you’ll get hundreds of thousands of results. On July 14, an officer was denied service at Lucky Teriyaki in Sedro-Woolley, Wash. On July 16, an officer was denied service at a Taco Bell in Phenix City, Ala. On July 19, an officer was denied service at Genghis Grill in Dallas. Most recently, on Monday…
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Charlie McKenna | July 26, 2016
While we were all absorbed by the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bengaluru was telling the Times of India about their amazing (and kind of disgusting) new discovery. The researchers found that the milk of a certain strain of roaches, Diploptera Punctata, contains three times more nutriants per crystal than…
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Charlie McKenna | July 25, 2016
1. The Polls A recent CNN poll shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton, 48 percent to 45 percent. Trump’s bounce is attributed to the Republican National Convention. The poll is early in the election cycle, but it's the first major poll to show Trump in the lead. Clinton will probably be angling to close the gap during her time at the Democratic National Convention. 2. The Emails The…
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Charlie McKenna | July 21, 2016
A video of Syrian rebels beheading a young boy has been circulating on social media since Tuesday. In the video, the rebels threaten terror. One yells, “We will leave no one alive in Handarat!” as they proceed to slit the boy’s throat with a knife. They claim the 12-year-old fought for a pro-Assad Palestinian militia. Liwa al-Quds (Jerusalem Brigade), a Palestinian Syrian pro-government…
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Charlie McKenna | July 20, 2016
One of the best reactions to the Melania Trump's plagiarism scandal by far is from "Ebony Magazine," a publication for African-Americans. The summary for Michael Harriot's article, “Melania Trump and the Gimme Culture,” begins by saying Trump’s alleged plagiarism is "just the latest in a long line of instances where White folks have stolen Black people’s work.” Quite a promising start.…
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Charlie McKenna | July 19, 2016
An Israeli Orthodox Rabbi in charge of a prestigious premilitary academy is under fire for comments he made about gays. The Times of Israel reports Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, one of the heads of a religious pre-army academy in the West Bank was filmed calling homosexuals “deviants." He was also caught saying, “There is a crazy movement of people who have simply lost the normalcy of life. This…