Monday, April 16, 2018

A Marathon, A Sad Observance, And Monday Links

As the Boston Marathon gets underway, and Virginia Tech observes the 11th anniversary of the on-campus shootings, here are some things going on:

From WDBJ, Virginia Tech honors the victims of the 2007 shootings.

From the Washington Examiner, more smugglers trying to bring cocaine and heroin into the U.S. are going through Puerto Rico.

From Philly(dot)com,  the Starbucks where two black men were arrested last week is still dealing with the fallout.  (I understand that they were arrested for using the bathroom without buying anything, in other words, while not being customers.)



From Fox News, after a renegade driver loses the police, he calls them to say that his car was stolen.

From Russia Today, in a propaganda poster, ISIS threatens to bomb the New York subway.

From The Washington Times, the wife of imprisoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is disappointed that the Supreme Court won't hear his appeal.

From The Daily Caller, Dick's Sporting Goods will destroy their remaining inventory of guns.

From Deutsche Welle, while President Trump wants a quick withdrawal from Syria, President Macron wants France and the U.S. to stay longer.


From the Express, the Eurozone heads into an economic downturn.  (I thought that Brexit was supposed to hurt Britain's economy, not the E.U.'s.)

From Voice Of Europe, Swedish feminists want to ban organizations critical of migration.

From Politico, Swedish violence has come to belie its peaceful image.  (Much of it comes from migrants, whom the above-mentioned feminists think should not be criticized.)

From the NL Times, in the Netherlands, a motorist runs an ambulance off the road.

From The Local FR, police and "anti-capitalists" again clash in Notre-Dames-des-Landes as the latter try to re-establish their camp.




From National Review, "striking Syria was the right call".

From FrontpageMag, Trump enforces the red line.

From Sputnik International, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that the missile attacks "won't be left unanswered".

From the New York Post, for the first time since 1985, the women's winner in the Boston Marathon is an American.

From Science News, the book Weird Math tries to explain the connection between math and reality.

And from The Babylon Bee, King David requests that we stop comparing him to Donald Trump.

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