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“Negotiate with Iran without pre-conditions. Play along with the charade of a civilian Iranian nuclear industry.”

I’m not quoting this to toot my own horn. Plenty of other people were writing along the same lines back then. The point I’m trying to make is a different one.

The trouble is that plenty of liberals and moderates, and even some Republicans, are acting as if Obama’s Iran deal is something shocking and unexpected. It wasn’t. MORE

It’s difficult to show the spherical Earth on a 2D map, with countries becoming distorted in different ways.

Now two computer developers in Detroit, Michigan, have created an interactive map called ‘The True Size Of,’ which shows how large countries really are compared to one another.

It allows you to search for a country and drag it on top of another one to show how the scale of a country is distorted the closer it gets to the Earth’s poles.

Type in a country below to compare its size to others MORE

It’s only fitting that these countries who opposed the bombing of Syria should take in more of the refugees.

In yet another rather embarrassing event for The White House, just days after President Obama praised the French for helping in the fight against ISIS, and General martin Dempsey noted “the French were our very first ally and they’re with us again now,” French officials have, according to Reuters, ruled out participation in airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. With the fall of France (and Germany already saying “nein”), it appears the broad coalition is now a “coalition of none,” as Obama has stated the US would not go it alone…MORE

With Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) having now announced her support for the U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement, President Obama has thirty-four senators in favor, making the deal all but done.

Beyond its main purpose, the agreement with Iran affords us a historic opportunity to get right what we’ve gotten wrong in Afghanistan ever since September 11. When we went into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the attacks, we chose to rely on the one country least likely to help us win: Pakistan. MORE

Is Francis sending us an undocumented Mexican message?

WASHINGTON —  When Pope Francis celebrates a canonization Mass for a Spanish-Americanmissionary in Washington this month, he will do so in a language that the new saint, Junípero Serra, would recognize: Spanish.

There’s a number of reasons for that, said Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington who will be hosting the pope on the Washington leg of his three-city U.S. visit later this month.

First, Spanish is the pope’s mother tongue; he was born in Argentina. MORE

LOS ANGELES — This city of fast cars and endless freeways is preparing to do what not long ago would have been unthinkable: sacrificing car lanes to make way for bikes and buses.

The City Council has approved a far-reaching transportation plan that would reshape the streetscape over the next 20 years, adding hundreds of miles of bicycle lanes, bus-only lanes and pedestrian safety features as part of an effort to nudge drivers out from behind the wheel. MORE

Nelly Palacios Cofreros:

Happy Birthday Blessed Virgin Mary . Please Pray for the entire World for Peace and Progress. Thank You for Loving us. We Love You too. Glory to God our Father for giving You to us, as our Heavenly Mother. Amen.

The female driver of this car just simply jumps out while its still in drive and casually walk down the side walk as the car careens into on coming traffic

Sky gazers will be treated to a colorful cosmic show this fall.

On September 27, the moon will reach its full phase while also nearing its closest point to Earth in its orbit, creating views of a “supermoon.”  MORE

Brian Peterson’s ‘Faces of Santa Ana’ is an inspirational way to give back to society.

‘Faces of Santa Ana’ is a continuous exhibition of portraits of homeless people, founded by Californian artist Brian Peterson. Brian talks to members of Santa Ana’s homeless community, collects their stories and paints their portraits. After getting a signature from them in the corner of the canvas, Brian then sells the artwork downtown. All the proceeds go to help each subject back on the road to rehabilitation. MORE

However, one may analyze the Iraqi and Syrian disasters, the U.S. plainly shares responsibility for the migrants now flooding into Europe. Two statistics will tell you how deeply this thought sinks in: Of the four million Syrians who have fled the civil war against Assad, the U.S. has accepted 1,500.

Utterly lacking in historical perspective. Parenthetically, so is the prevailing American view of the immigration problem it faces: Few of us seem to grasp the extent to which many decades of bad American policy helped shape a continent ridden with poverty and violence. MORE

He’s pleasing everyone but conservative and Traditional Catholics, for the most part.

The phrase “papal encyclical” isn’t one you’ll commonly find in headlines in the secular world. But that’s exactly where news of Pope Francis’ 192-page letter on climate change landed in June.

The Pope wrote that humans are responsible for climate change, urging all people to do a better job of caring for the environment — and his words resonated far beyond the church. MORE

Move over Jesus, Hillary Clinton is running for president. MORE