Links For The King Holiday

Today is the holiday which commemorates the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King.  It is also Dr. King's actual birthday.  This holiday, like several others, is observed on a designated Monday, which this year coincides with his birthday.  Here are some things going on:

From Philly(dot)com, the U.S. military has a new retirement plan.

From Fox News, a very young patient no longer needs a ventilator.

From LiveMint, a timeline of the meetings between the Israeli and Indian prime ministers.  (via Legal Insurrection)

From The Daily Caller, a Puerto Rican columnist blames the Jews for the island's problems.  (I wonder what Juan Epstein, the fictional Puerto Rican Jew from Welcome Back, Kotter, might think of this development.)

From Deutsche Welle, almost half of rejected asylum seekers in Germany are winning their cases on appeal.

From the Express, Italy's house prices have dropped 23 percent in 10 years.

From Russia Today, the British party UKIP "is a mess".

From Reuters, seven migrants die trying to go from Morocco to the Canary Islands.

From Radio Poland, Poland offers humanitarian aid where it's needed.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From The Courier, France's new "fake news" law raises concerns about censorship.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Voice Of Europe, an Italian politician is worried about his country's "white race".  (If you read Italian, read more at Varese News.)

From Sputnik International, in Austria, 45 people have been arrested for alleged drug dealing involving smuggling by minor asylum seekers.

From the NL Times, 22 percent of Dutch women have been victims of sexual violence.

From FrontpageMag, some foul language that the left seemed to have no problem with.

From Townhall, how Democrats contributed to Haiti being a [bleep]hole.

From the New York Post, several cars in Brooklyn, New York have been damaged by exploding manholes.

And from CBS News, three reasons why the current stock market rally is weird.