Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Tuesday Links

As 2016 gets going, here's some of what's going on:

From BBC News, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expresses her disgust at the sexual assaults committed by gangs around the railway station in Cologne.

From The Daily Caller, while the American Pacific fleet dwindles, China continues its activities in the South China Sea.

From Wired, some volcanoes to watch out for this year.

From The Blaze, the British Parliament debates banning Donald Trump from entering the U.K.

From American Thinker, what the establishment doesn't grasp about Trump.

From Bloomberg Politics, President Obama claims that his new expansion of background checks does not infringe anyone's rights.

From The Daily Signal, Obama's action "is all poltics".

From The Texas Tribune, Texas' elected leaders give their opinions on Obama's actions.  (via High Plains Daily News)

From CNS News, Obama's rules about anyone selling firearms are "vague".

From Gizmodo, scientists have an idea how Pluto's "weird, bumpy plains" were formed.

From Medical Press, when mothers care for babies, they should put down their cell phones.

From Town Hall, Senator Bernie Sanders, although in Congress for 25 years, says he's "not exactly a career politician".

From Arutz Sheva, an Israeli NGO finds that Facebook has an anti-Israel bias.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani clerics press for the release of a man who had killed someone for blasphemy, and a girl in Pakistan is killed by her brother for making her own choice of someone to marry.

The Gatestone Institute asks if the U.S. is "criminalizing free speech".

From WLWT, Turkey releases a jailed journalist.

From CNN, the story of a young woman killed by ISIS.

From France24, an American company claims to have destroyed all of Syria's declared chemical weapons.

From TechSideline, Virginia Tech upsets #4 Virginia in basketball.

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Shane Beamer, most recently an assistant football coach at Virginia Tech under his father Frank, has been hired by Georgia.

And from WUIS, snowboarders being rescued from a stalled gondola get an "insane" ride.

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