A 17-year old dual Turkish and German citizen is in custody for a reported "Islamic terror plot" in Frankfurt after an already tense week of anti-migrant riots...
The Trump success was fueled not so much by resentment as by a pervasive sense of irrelevance. It expresses itself politically, but its root may be with the isolation felt by those who have to deal with monopoly businesses from the cable company to the online retailer.
Polish 'gray cardinal' Jaroslaw Kaczynski reaffirmed Poland’s commitment to remaining in the EU, though with the important caveat that this "doesn’t mean we should repeat the mistakes of the West and become infected with social diseases that dominate there."
"Normally when one wages a war, he strives for victory. But no one ever defines what victory in the drug war would look like. The feds seem satisfied to simply engage in the same cycle, over and over again, into perpetuity."
"The rioters are seen as not really at fault for the violence and disorder they create; instead, they are seen as a symptom of the decay of law and order, where the only solution is to give the rioters what they want..."
Emanuel is smart, and the smart reason for leaving is glaring: He doesn’t want to risk becoming “mayor bankruptcy.” Chicago is a ticking time bomb and Emanuel is jumping ship just in case it goes off.
The three pieces of proposed legislation would make permanent lower individual rates, eliminate the maximum age for some contributions to retirement accounts and allow new businesses to write off more start-up costs.
"Leading European politicians and economists argue that the influx of immigrants is an economic necessity... Basic economic indicators, however, show that the opposite is true."
"...we see what is going on in this country, and around the world, and we want to be prepared, but instead of getting ahead we just get more and more behind... just a hopeless downward spiral that’s going to get worse and worse till we are living under a bridge? "
