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Adjunct Philosophy Lecturer from Lehman College Tried to Set St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fire
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New York – April 18, 2019 Just two days after Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral erupted in flames, a man walked into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with four gallons of gasoline, charcoal lighter fluid, and lighters, according to NYPD Twitter post. Around 7:55pm, a man walked into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with gas cans and lighter fluid, and was subsequently apprehended by @NYPDCT without incident. We thank our partners for their help, and remember - if you see something, say something. pic.twitter.com/qEbmklnqzQ — NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 18, 2019 M...
Homeless America: Find Your Shelter to Sleep
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USA – April 17, 2019 Over half a million Americans are homeless. Homelessness was first viewed as a national issue in the United States in the 1870s, Kenneth Kusmer writes in his book Down And Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History. Since then, many non-profit and government programs have been created to help give more people access to a safe place to sleep. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that the number of shelters throughout the country is going to continue to grow. HUD’s 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress fou...
Alabama “Red Flag Bill” Allows Courts to Remove Guns
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – April 16, 2019 On March 21, Representative Merika Coleman (D – Birmingham) introduced 2019 Alabama House Bill HB265, also known as the Gun Violence Protective Order Act, which would prohibit individuals who are found by the court to be a legitimate threat to themselves or others from owning, possessing, using, or receiving a firearm for up to one year. If passed, the bill would authorize courts to issue ex parte gun violence protective orders and one-year gun violence protective orders, which may be authorized if the court finds that the respondent,...
Perversion Over Utah, or How LGBT Communities Attack the State’s Conservative Values
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UTAH – April 15, 2019 The recent decision made by the Mormon Church authorities in Utah regarding the recognition of same-sex couples and the baptism of their adopted children poses a serious threat for the conservative and unique values the state of Utah has always stood for, and could mean that the perverts have launched another attack against one of the strongest religious organizations in the U.S. Despite having earned the reputation of a totalitarian cult (due to the extreme proselytism of the adepts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), the Mormon Ch...
Girl Fatally Shot by Her Brother in Georgia
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GEORGIA – April 15, 2019 Possessing a weapon is a huge responsibility, and anyone who owns one should obey all possible safety rules. Another testimony to this simple fact comes from Georgia, where a real tragedy occurred when six-year-old Millie Drew Kelly was fatally shot by her four-year-old brother with a gun their mother had forgotten under the passenger seat in their car. The accident allegedly happened when the children were left in the car by their mother who was busy trying to fix the car. Although the girl was immediately rushed to the hospital, she died there...
Oroville Dam Under Threat of Overflow and Collapse
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LOS ANGELES – April 15, 2019 From time to time, Hollywood releases films in which, for one reason or another, some big, symbolic engineering object like a dam, the White House, and so on is destroyed. The bulk of the public never attached much importance to these “ideas”, although that changed to some degree after 9/11: The 9/11 terrorist attack was preventive and shown almost exactly in at least one feature film and dozens of cartoons, comics, and posters. In 2007, another masterpiece on the subject of man-made disasters was released—Evan Almighty, in which the destruct...
There's a Need to Police the Internet: More Than Half of Americans Say That They Have Been Harassed Online
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Don’t get me wrong; I am against online snooping done by governments. I firmly believe that the internet should remain free from government interference. The massive online surveillance program that the US government conducted during Obama’s rule was not just unconstitutional, but it irrevocably harmed the democracy that generations of Americans have toiled to preserve and strengthen. However, I am also very strongly in favor of online policing. While both of these might sound similar, they are in fact two very different things. Let’s look at an analogy to better understa...
Everybody Must Get Stoned!
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Marijuana, fake news, gay Republicans and more: This week’s edition of the USA Really podcast brings you a whole host of interestingly weird and weirdly interesting stories. And don’t forget the Albanians, the Jews, and slavery! Hello again everyone and welcome to our USA Really weekly podcast for April 15, covering everything that went up on our site during the week of Monday April 8 through Sunday April 14. As always, we have a number of thought provoking opinion pieces to discuss, as well as all of our analyses and reports on the latest in your world. It’s always fun...
Unplanned: Just Anti-Abortion Propaganda or “God’s Plan”?
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Censorship comes in many forms. A recent pro-life movie resonated in American society, prompting a national controversy, becoming a real problem for the pro-choice movement. And there’re some compelling reasons for it. Unplanned was theatrically released on March 29, though the preparation for a new nationwide scandal started much earlier. From the very beginning of the secret shooting of the film the creators tried, first, to hide the movie’s underlying political agenda, and, secondly, to widen the target audience of the movie, to not be limited only to “pro-lifers.” T...