Last week, with little notice, a federal judge here tossed out Delta Air Lines’ longstanding claim that the government’s export credit agency — which, among other things, provides loan guarantees to overseas airlines for the purchase of Boeing jets — was helping international competitors at the airline’s expense.
Delta offered only a shrug. Judicial opinions aside, the continued existence of the Export-Import Bank turns more on bare-knuckle politics than on legal niceties. MORE
President Barack Obama during his speech at the African Union Headquarters today took his time to scold African leaders who refuse to give up power.
The scolding came in the course of his address on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to the 54-member continental bloc.
“Africa’s democratic progress is also at risk when leaders refuse to step aside when their terms end,” Obama said. “No one should be president for life.”
Obama said he himself was looking forward to handing over to his successor.
The US President said, “I have to be honest with you: I just don’t understand this. MORE
The Presidents of Kenya and Nigeria rebuffed President Obama’s attempt to impose acceptance of the LGBT lifestyle and “gay marriage” on Africans. We must stand in solidarity with these African leaders and their rejection of cultural imperialism. Sign our letter of support! MORE
After three shocking videos caught Planned Parenthood doctors discussing and arranging the sale of body parts of aborted babies, a fourth video has been released today catching a Planned Parenthood vice president discussing how to break or get around the law to sell aborted babies. MORE
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It still boggles my mind that people don’t realize that the animal die offs are from the radiation from Fuk and the methane release because the earth is being destabilized, Seal Man
More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures.
Federal and state fisheries biologists say the warm water is lethal for the cold-water species and is wiping out at least half of this year’s return of 500,000 fish. MORE
A volcano has erupted on the island where suspected MH370 wreckage was found, sparking fears it could hamper the investigation. MORE
The massive tornado that roared across the Canadian province of Manitoba late Monday was on the ground for nearly 3 hours — likely one of the longest-lasting on record in Canada and perhaps the world. No injuries or deaths were reported. MORE
It has been submerged in water for more than 80 years. But now, following this summer’s record drought, Lake Mead has almost completely dried up, revealing entire towns that disappeared decades ago.
And tourists are flooding in. MORE
First, what about the other five nations? Do we go back to the heavy sanctions. If so Iran will only increase it’s guerrilla warfare. This could threaten the worlds oil supply and cause us to take in more refuges. Or we could wind up in an all out war bringing Russia into it against us?
Israel is the third or fourth biggest military nation in the world. It has at least 200 Atomic bombs to Iran’s zero to date and still has us as their allies.
A peace plan would demoralize the terrorists and help bring peace and prosperity to the area, not to mention possible lower oil prices.
Let’s not let the politicians kill the peace plan. They have done enough damage to us as it is.
Peace at any price?
The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Saudi Arabia of $5.4 billion in additional PAC-3 missiles built by Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the sale would benefit a key U.S. partner in the Middle East. Notification to Congress was sent on Tuesday and follows a major nuclear deal with Iran. The missile sale approval could help reassure Saudi Arabia about the U.S. commitment to its security. MORE
Can’t say I blame them.
Since the July 14 announcement of the deal, the question of McDonald’s return to Iran — a possible byproduct of the anticipated lifting of Western economic sanctions — has stirred a storm on social media and in dueling reformist and hard-line newspapers. MORE
Mexican officials said Tuesday they have filed a criminal complaint after villagers in the central state of Tlaxcala bulldozed a chapel from the 1700s.
Arturo Balandrano, the head of the historical monuments for the National Institute of Anthropology and History, said he doesn’t know why people in the township of San Pablo del Monte tore down the Chapel of Holy Christ late Saturday and early Sunday. MORE
I would never have guessed that speaker Boehner is Catholic.
Reps. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), fierce and frequent critics of leadership, thought the move was ill-advised. Some of Meadows’ friends didn’t even see it coming. But just before 6 p.m. Tuesday — a day before the House was set to leave town for its five-week summer recess — Meadows offered a motion to vacate the chair, an extraordinarily rare procedural move that represents the most serious expression of opposition to Boehner’s speakership. If the motion were to pass — most Republicans say it will be hard to cobble together the votes — Boehner would be stripped of the speaker’s gavel, potentially plunging the House of Representatives into chaos. MORE
After 400 years in the Virginia dirt, the box came out of the ground looking like it had been plucked from the ocean. A tiny silver brick, now encrusted with a green patina and rough as sandpaper. MORE
Bogota-based Caracol, which is producing the 24-episode mega-production “Laura, the Colombian Saint,” is known as one of the most-thriving telenovela factories in Latin America. But most of the network’s productions, with names like “Without Breasts There’s No Paradise” and “Cartel of the Snitches,” tend to follow more sinful story lines that are popular with audiences but often criticized as inappropriate. MORE