45 have become president what d you think when you think of those 45 individuals we have called president? how many do you think did a goo job? what do we want in a leader? do we even expect the president to be a leader? do we want to present leaders who will tell us what we want t hear, do we want leaders who will tell us the truth, even if it s not what we want to hear? there is some consents and slightly like george, washington,. probably the same with john adams and i ve always admired abraham lincoln in large part because everything come of the failures them of the self doubt he overcame it to lead us through the most divisive time in our country s history. lincoln, a government of the people, by the people, for the people. i liked ronald reagan because h was hopeful. he also lost he lost the nomination, he came back to become one of the more popular presidents we ever had. my grandmother spoke highly of franklin roosevelt. folks still mourn what could ve been with john
One springtime night a decade ago, bearded men wearing flip-flops kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school dormitories in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. They forced the teenagers onto lorries and drove them deep into a vast forest in the savannah. "My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls," says Glory Mainta, who was abducted that day. "We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force us to marry them, what they did to us was w
A German court has sentenced a 43-year-old Islamic State terrorist to five and a half years in prison, a court spokeswoman said on Friday. The man joined the terrorist group in Syria in 2013 and continued to support it in Germany, procuring money for the group until he was arrested in 2021. Prosecutors in the western city of Dusseldorf called for a prison sentence of six and a half years, while the defence called for two and a half years. The man from Algeria was found to have joined combat oper
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) has arrested a citizen of the Russian Federation suspected of aiding Islamist terrorist organisations. Source: European Pravda, citing RMF FM Details: The National Prosecutor's Office has reported that the detained individual is a citizen of the Russian Federation from the Caucasus.
Last Wednesday was a dark day for our democracy. After steady deterioration, the Islamist threat reached a severe water mark, with the Speaker asserting that the high risk of physical violence towards MPs led him to bend parliamentary procedure. Even then, the debate ended with a respected colleague of mine pleading with the Speaker to hold a formal vote, fearful that his family’s security was still in jeopardy.