Friday, July 29, 2016

How Khizr Khan Helped Democrats Take Back Religious Liberty

"the government can neither discriminate against certain religions nor license certain religions to discriminate against others"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/07/29/khizr_khan_helped_democrats_take_back_religious_liberty.html

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Thursday, July 07, 2016

Super Typhoon Nepartak approaches Taiwan, threatening flooding


"Thanks to Nepartak's large size and Taiwan's unique geography, some parts of the island could see as much as 52 inches (1,330 mm) of rainfall over the next day or so."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/07/super_typhoon_nepartak_approaches_taiwan_threatening_flooding.html

Tuesday, July 05, 2016

NYTimes: A Reading List of Tell-Alls, Strategic Plans and Cautionary Tales in Finance

Here's a story from The New York Times I thought you'd find interesting:

Books to get you caught up on influential deal makers, activist shareholders, the failings of the modern economy and the habits of highly successful people.

Read More: http://nyti.ms/29rBrdi

Saturday, July 02, 2016

NYTimes.com: Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim Countries

From The New York Times:

In Europe and the West, Islamic State operatives have been instructed to kill at random, but more care is seemingly taken to plan attacks in majority-Muslim nations like Bangladesh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/world/middleeast/isis-muslim-countries-bangladesh.html

""It's a very stark difference in approach," says Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who studies jihadist groups. "Al Qaeda wants Muslims to believe that its terrorism is morally justifiable, whereas the Islamic State argues that only its followers have moral legitimacy.""