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United States President Barack Obama, seen here in this August 15 AP photo, focusing hard on his legacy.
Is anyone else tired of the faux outrage over Ted Cruz being on vacation in Cancun at the same time millions of Texans were without power following a historic freeze? Yet, the same media that ignored Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home scandal for nearly a year is giving endless coverage to the fake scandal of Cruz in Cancun.
A new poll shows that people suddenly feel that politicians should be in their home state during a crisis, and maybe that’s not a bad idea, but let’s not pretend that the outrage is legitimate. Ted Cruz, a U.S. senator, has virtually no power to impact the state or the federal government’s response. As Hurricane Katrina made perfectly clear, it is the responsibility of the state government to request federal assistance. Had Texas Governor Greg Abbott been in Cancun, the criticism would be legitimate.
September 20, 2015
The U.S. will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up from 70,000, and that total would rise to 100,000 in 2017, Kerry said at news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier after the two discussed the mass migration of Syrians fleeing their civil war.
We will take in 100,000 per year each year after.
Many, though not all, of the additional refugees will be Syrian.
Forbes is reporting that Americans overwhelmingly – 51% – favor taking in refugees.
Syrian men fleeing ISIS
Reports indicate that Syrian men are fleeing while Kurdish women stay to fight.
Others would come from strife-torn areas of Africa. The White House had previously announced it intended to take in 10,000 additional Syrian refugees over the next year but Kerry said it would be 100,000. Josh Earnest said Kerry was mistaken. Obviously, he wasn’t.
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“I am a coward.”
Jessica Krug’s confession started ricocheting across screens one brutally muggy afternoon in late-summer Washington. “For the better part of my adult life,” it began, “every move I’ve made, every relationship I’ve formed, has been rooted in the napalm toxic soil of lies.” Krug, a faculty member at George Washington University, had taken to Medium, the online forum, to reveal a stunning fabrication. Throughout her entire career in academia, the professor of African history a white woman had been posing as Black and Latina.
“I have thought about ending these lies many times over many years, but my cowardice was always more powerful than my ethics. I know right from wrong. I know history. I know power. I am a coward,” she wrote. “You should absolutely cancel me, and I absolutely cancel myself.”