Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Nikki Haley Resigns, And Other Stories

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has announced her resignation, effective at the end of this year.  She has also indicated that she will not run for office in 2020.  President Trump has accepted her resignation, and says that she would be welcome to rejoin his administration.  Haley had previously served as governor of South Carolina and in that state's House of Representatives.

Read more at The Hill, USA Today, NBC News, CNN and CBS News.
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In other stories:


From Russia Today, pro-Putin activists want warnings to be put on "extremist" web posts.  (In which case, how will "extremist" be defined?)



From Voice Of Europe, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a stable Turkey would help keep Hungary safe from overland migration.











From the Greek Reporter, the number of tourists visiting the island of Rhodes rose nine percent in September.  (In other words, the original Rhode Island is doing well.)



From Arutz Sheva, who wants coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and who doesn't?  (I originally left out the prefix "co" with "existence".  There are some Palestinians who reject Israel's existence, co- or otherwise, altogether.)








From National Review, "stop apologizing for our history"

From FrontpageMag, Alan Dershowitz's analogy about a hypothetical Muslim appointed to the SCOTUS by President Hillary Clinton falls flat.  (Thankfully, President Hillary Clinton is also hypothetical.)

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. paid more in 2014 for the babies of illegal aliens than is appropriated for President Trump's wall.  (This would mean that if the wall is ever built - which I currently regard as rather doubtful - it would cut down these "anchor" births, and thus pay for itself.)

From The Daily Caller, ExxonMobil sends money to a group campaigning for a national carbon tax.  (Why do proposed solutions to the problems of man-made carbon dioxide and its effect on the climate always seem to include a new tax?)

And from Breaking Burgh, cockroaches say that reported climate change is "nothing to worry about".  (I have long believed that cockroaches will survive a nuclear holocaust, or whatever we humans do to destroy ourselves, and afterwards evolve to become the earth's next sapient species, so I'm sure that an extra degree or two in the earth's average temperature won't bother them.)

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