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War is the perfect setting for roughly 100 percent of our Call Of Duties and our Rambos. It is a less-than-perfect setting for the civilians who happen to live in those war-torn countries. Cracked sent a writer, a photographer, and a translator near the front lines of the war in Ukraine (yes, seriously — why…
Subway Restaurants’ former spokesman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison, three years more than the maximum sought by the government, after pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a deal that imposes lifetime supervision on the fallen sandwich pitchman. His sentencing Thursday in Indianapolis federal court largely ends a scandal…
“I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama,” Gov. Robert Bentley said in a statement.Photo by Sutherland Boswell Alabama Republican Gov. Robert Bentley announced late Sunday that his state would refuse to allow any Syrian refugees to be relocated there. “After full consideration of this weekend’s attacks of terror on innocent…
It is long past time for the oligarchies of the Gulf states to stop paying protection to the men in the suicide belts. Their societies are stunted and parasitic. The main job of the elites there is to find enough foreign workers to ensla…er…indenture to do all the real work. The example of Qatar and…
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PARIS — I walked through the 10th arrondissement about an hour and a half before the attacks. It was a beautiful fall evening in the city. Despite a mid-November chill that arrived Friday afternoon, restaurant terraces and sidewalks were bustling when a wave of terror attacks killed at least 120 people. Now, President François Hollande…
Reports of several horrifying attacks in France’s capital began surfacing on Friday evening: In addition to news of a reported shooting in Paris at the Cambodge restaurant in the 11th arrondissement and civilians reportedlybeing taken hostage at Paris’ Bataclan Arts Center, there have also been reports of three explosions at Paris’ Stade de France, and a dismembered body also…
Video close media-action-overlay Scene of Deadly Attacks in Paris Police in Paris confirmed on Friday that several people were killed in multiple acts of violence in and around the city. Publish Date November 13, 2015. Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Watch in Times Video » PARIS — Shootings and explosions erupted in…
The Associated Press said French police claim Friday’s shootings and explosions to be the deadliest violence France has seen in decades. A Paris police official said there were at least 100 hostages in Paris’s Bataclan theater. Multiple officials, including one medical official, put the number of dead at between 35 to 40 people.All officials spoke…
There are two ideas that people on the internet love to hide behind when they get in trouble, despite the fact that they have absolutely no understanding of what those ideas actually mean. The first is freedom of speech, which countless assholes have used as justification for death threats, rape threats, and other things that…