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Little Red Riding Hood

Paul Wesley to return for Tell Me a Story season 2

Paul Wesley essayed the role of Eddie, a bartender and drug dealer in the previous season of Tell Me A Story. (Photo: Paul Wesley/Instagram) Paul Wesley is coming back for the second season of anthology series Tell Me a Story. According to the Entertainment …

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Protectionism

Quotation of the Day…

Tweet … is from page 303 of Columbia University economics professor Arvind Panagariyas excellent 2019 book, Free Trade and Prosperity: dvocates of protectionism have provided no compelling evidence that interventions ubiquitous in the 1980s or 1990s were…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Julian Assange

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is 1 big step closer to being extradited to the U.S.

Stephen Colbert began his interview with Beto O'Rourke on Wednesday's Late Show by pointedly asking why he decided to run for president after narrowly losing to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last year, and why he isn't challenging Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) instead…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Animal Protection

German court: Breeders can keep killing male chicks for now

BERLIN - A German federal court has ruled that hen breeders can continue to kill male chicks after they hatch, a practice that results in the death of some 45 million birds annually. The Federal Administrative Court was ruling in a case involving a hatchery …

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Greta Thunberg

How Germany and the United States See the World

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The iconic Reichstag building in Berlin Getty Two allied organizations committed to sustaining the transatlantic relationship cultivated after World War II, the American Council on Germany and the Atla…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Julian Assange

UK signs order for WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange to be extradited to the US

It’s the first step in what could be a lengthy legal battle over whether the WikiLeaks founder should face prosecution for espionage and hacking. British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has officially signed an extradition order to send Julian Assange to the Unite…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Obama is in Stockholm – but good luck getting a chance to meet him

Obama and his family landed at the capital's Arlanda airport shortly before 2am on Thursday, the Expressen newspaper reported, and the Obamas were driven to the prestigious Grand Hôtel under a police escort. The former president is in Sweden to speak at the …

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Julian Assange

British Home Secretary signs extradition order to send Julian Assange to US

Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Sajid Javid said that he signed and certified the papers on Wednesday, with the order going before the UK courts on Friday. He’s rightly behind bars. There’s an extradition request from the US that is before the court…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Yellow Vests

Alabama’s Ashes Enlarge On Flint’s Lead

Coal is mostly carbon. When burned it turns into carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that merely heats the planet and sends the climate into a gradual, though accelerating, death spiral. But the parts that don’t burn can attack you quicker. Mercury: can poison …

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Christianity

Death to the Meritocracy with Andrew Yang

Background Reading: Ive been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect. Im a Catholic and a conservative, in that order, which means that Im against abortion and critic…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Paul Wesley to return for Tell Me a Story season 2

Quotation of the Day…

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is 1 big step closer to being extradited to the U.S.

German court: Breeders can keep killing male chicks for now

How Germany and the United States See the World

UK signs order for WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange to be extradited to the US

Obama is in Stockholm – but good luck getting a chance to meet him

British Home Secretary signs extradition order to send Julian Assange to US

Alabama’s Ashes Enlarge On Flint’s Lead

Death to the Meritocracy with Andrew Yang

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