Monday, December 22, 2014

Monday Links

Three days before Christmas, here are some things that have been stirring, in the United States and elsewhere:

From The Washington Post, North Korea, recently accused of hacking Sony, has been experiencing some technical difficulties with the Internet.  (via Legal Insurrection)

From ABC News, the Cuban government claims to be open to all parts of President Obama's detente.

From Fox News Latino, a court in Argentina rules that an orangutan in a zoo is entitled to certain legal rights.

From Campus Reform, the Dean for Religious Life wants the church to focus more on art and less on religion.

From CBS Chicago, 3 people were killed and 25 wounded in shootings in Chicago over the past weekend.

From Real Clear Politics, Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post claims that the protesters who called for "dead cops" drowned out the more numerous peaceful protesters.

From the New York Daily News, the New York Yankees will pay for the education of the children of Officer Rafael Ramos, who was killed in the line of duty along with Officer Wenjian Liu.  (via Time)

From The Roanoke Times, Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster has signed a new five-year contract.

Breitbart's Big Journalism remembers the "climate of hate" that was blamed on Sarah Palin and other conservatives for allegedly inspiring Jared Loughner to shoot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

From CNS News, Obama has declared upstate New York a disaster area, in response to the snow storm that recently hit the area.

From CNBC, the Dow and S&P close at record highs.  (via World Net Daily and Rino Blog Watch)

From Townhall, a former FBI assistant director says that police are under attack "from those who seek to evade responsibility".

From My Fox Memphis, the FBI has warned of a possible terrorist attack in Memphis.

From WHIO, a woman in Dayton, Ohio claims to have been injured because a pizza deliveryman gave her the wrong pizza.

And from The New York Times, singer Joe Cocker has died of lung cancer at age 70.  Here is his rendition of a famous Beatles song.


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