2014年12月30日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


LIBERALS: IF THE SHOE DOESN'T FIT, MAKE EVERYONE WEAR IT

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 03:31 PM PST

It is a common practice of the left to stage an incident and then demand enormous legal changes to respond to their hoax.Griswold v. Connecticut was a scam orchestrated by Yale law professors to challenge the state's anti-contraception law. The case was a fraud: The law had never been enforced and never would have been enforced, until the professors held a press conference announcing they were breaking the law.But we still got the new constitutional "privacy right" which, less than 10 years later, transmogrified into a constitutional right to kill an unborn baby.The premise of that case, Roe ...

Journalists' killings rise to 118 in 2014, press group says

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 03:02 PM PST

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The number of journalists who died in targeted killings, bomb attacks or shootings around the world rose to 118 in 2014 from 105 the year before, the International Federation of Journalists said on Tuesday. Another 17 died in accidents or natural disasters while on assignment, according to the Brussels-based IFJ, which says it is the world's largest journalists' organization. Pakistan was the most dangerous country for the media, with 14 journalists killed. Next was Syria, where 12 died. ...

2015: A LOOK AHEAD

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:35 PM PST

Ahhhh ... 2015. Nobody knows for certain what the new year will hold. That's probably for the best -- if we did know what was going to happen this year, we might be less inclined to even follow through on all those resolutions we've made. Like you, I too just have to be patient and hope for better days ahead.As Americans, we can safely predict that many of the problems that afflicted us in 2014 will still be with us in the coming year, if only because many of them -- like disease -- have afflicted humankind for all of recorded history. In the U.S. ...

Looking back on Afghanistan: a US soldier remembers

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:04 AM PST

Former U.S. Army Special Forces captain Douglas Livermore discusses his experiences in Afghanistan at his home outside Washington D.C. on December 20, 2014The Taliban couldn't have given Douglas Livermore a more memorable welcome when he landed in Kabul in June 2013 to begin his Afghanistan deployment.


US off war footing at year's end, but wars go on

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking America off a permanent war footing is proving harder than President Barack Obama may have suggested.

IS group claims suicide attack in Iraq

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 06:26 AM PST

Mourners carry the coffin of retired Brig. Gen. Abbas Hassan Jabr, a senior member of the Badr Brigades, a Shiite militia, who was killed during a battle against the Islamic State extremist group, during his funeral in Baghdad Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a funeral tent north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad the day before that killed 16 people and wounded 34 others.


U.S.-led coalition air strikes hit Islamic State in Syria, Iraq

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:57 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Tuesday, hitting several units of fighters and buildings, the U.S. military said. In a statement from the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force, officials said seven strikes hit in Syria and eight in Iraq. (Reporting by Washington Newsroom; Editing by Eric Beech)

Will Clinton run? She needs to decide in 2015

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 11:18 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2014, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Georgetown University in Washington. A still undeclared candidate, Clinton sits atop the prospective field of Democratic presidential candidates for 2016. But as she has said before, if Clinton runs again, she'll work as hard as any underdog. Clinton's 2008 presidential bid stumbled against President Barack Obama, undermined by anti-war activists who opposed her vote to authorize the Iraq war, infighting among her staff and a large entourage in the early states where retail politics matter. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — A still undeclared candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton sits atop the prospective field of Democratic presidential candidates for 2016. But as Clinton has said before, if she runs again, she'll work as hard as any underdog.


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