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The 2016 Global Peace Index has been released , with the bad news that the world is slightly more violent this year than last. But much of the increase of violence happened in the greater Middle East, in Syria, Libya, Turkey, etc.
When I was a boy and lost just about every sporting event I tried, my father told me, "What counts isn't whether you win or lose but how you play the game." Most parents told their kids this.
The funeral of Muhammad Ali , attended by a throng of 20,000, was the first national funeral for a national hero of the United States that was also a Muslim ceremony or janazah . Muhammad Ali crafted it as a interfaith event, but obviously Islam was central.
"In 1947, when the UN was discussing the plan to partition Palestine, I was a member of the sub-committee dealing with Jerusalem. One day, the Jews sent a new representative.
Crumpled oil tankers lie beside the railroad tracks after a fiery derailment on June 3 prompted evacuations from the tiny Columbia River Gorge town in Mosier, Ore. Railroad officials say at least one broken bolt holding a rail in place caused the fiery derailment of a Union Pacific train moving volatile crude oil through the Columbia River Gorge on the Oregon-Washington border.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to members of the media as his wife Jane looks on after an Oval Office meeting with President Barack Obama. June 9, 2016, in Washington, DC.
At some point, something has to give. The New York Times Washington Editor has announced on Twitter that he is leaving the social media site in favor of Facebook, due entirely to Twitter's weak handling of anti-Semitic threats to reporters and others.
Donald Trump has been caught in the middle of a firestorm of his own making once again. His attacks on the Mexican heritage of American born Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, have caused many Republicans to drop their support of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Back in the Bush Administration, Dubya created the "Office of Faith Based Initiatives," which was a sop to Christian ministries to get them some federal dollars for their food banks and other social welfare type activities. It was supposed to be part of Bush's "compassionate conservatism," but it quickly became mired in controversy.
A random thought on corporations after finishing the book: This has become, or perhaps it has always been, about power, with profit as an excuse. At least, that's the only way I can explain corporations' constant assault on their consumer base.
The decree, issued the night before the California primary in which polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a very close race, was based on the media organization's survey of "superdelegates": the Democratic Party's 720 insiders, corporate donors, and officials whose votes for the presidential nominee count the same as the actually elected delegates. AP claims that superdelegates who had not previously announced their intentions privately told AP reporters that they intend to vote for Clinton, bringing her over the threshold.
Not so long ago, Social Security was endangered by a "bipartisan" consensus that sought to cut its benefits - already lower than those of comparable countries - as part of a "grand bargain." President Obama even put a slow-motion benefit cut into one of his proposed budgets, in the form of a reduction in cost-of-living increases.
Both the AP and NBC News were accused of journalistic malpractice by ignoring the explicit intstructions of the DNC about how delegates should be counted and for declaring Hillay Clinton the Democratic Nominee on Monday. The Bernie Sanders campaign and progressives across the nation expressed mixtures of frustration and contempt Monday night after major news outlets-following declarations by the Associated Press and NBC News -ignored the explicit instructions about how primary delegates should be tallied and declared that Hillary Clinton has won the nomination of the Democratic Party.
I've long had a weakness for commencement addresses, or at least for what they might be rather than what they usually are, which is why I've written them relatively regularly myself. Since no actual college or graduating class has ever asked me to give such a speech, I've addressed the graduates of 2015 and other years Graduates of 2016, don't be fooled by this glorious day.
The prediction is likely to stir controversy among Sanders supporters and critics of the superdelegate system, which has been branded "anti-democratic." The race between Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is not even over yet, but the latter has already won the Democratic nomination, according to the Associated Press.
Samantha Bee takes us back through the debates, reserving her evil laughter for the media who all laughed at a Trump ticket while giving him $3 billion in free advertising. And oh, the denunciations they made.