Maybe this type of thing hits closer to home for me because I’m a dad and I know my little boy will be in the American public school system in just a year when he goes to kindergarten but, this new trending hashtag on Twitter, #IfIDieInASchoolShooting, is about the saddest and most sobering thing I’ve…

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 Is Trump still president? Has there been a nuclear holocaust? Has someone FINALLY cancelled The Big Bang Theory? I ask because in the UK for at least the past week, the news has been entirely consumed with the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. It was the top eight stories on the BBC news…

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Okay, so yesterday we wrote here about how Trump’s North Korean summit was delayed. Today, we learn that it is canceled. Full Stop. End of story. Nothing to see here, folks. And, of course, we all saw it coming. You saw it coming. I saw it coming. Hell, my dog saw it coming. But once…

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Editor’s Note: this story has been now out of date as a result of Trump’s abrupt cancellation of the summit entirely. Like we didn’t see that one coming…     Okay, Trump now says there is a “substantial” chance that his summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un will be delayed. That sound you just heard…

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The other day, I saw the above meme on the People For Bernie Instagram feed. I did a search for the picture itself, and discovered there is, indeed, a back story. Something about two celebs having a “bromance.” And the image has become a general meme symbolizing pride before a fall. But what I found…

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Following this past week’s tragic school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, Oliver North – the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) decided to try and blame the school shootings that have been happening in the US on boys living in a “culture where violence is commonplace” and where they are all…

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By Rabbi Yeshaia Charles Familant Senior White House Advisor, Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, stood next to the dedication plaque at the newly declared – and illegal – U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. At the same time, in Gaza, the bloodiest single day for Palestinians since 2014, where currently 60 protesters have been killed…

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 Whilst we normally credit writers at LR as best we can, this piece was sent to us and is being published anonymously for fairly obvious reasons – it’s an account of some family issues with those involved potentially quite obvious. Names etc have been changed. On a recent trip out of state, my boyfriend and…

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By Michael Jay Tucker So, I read something short but significant the other day. It was just a few lines, really. Not even a full paragraph. But powerful… and terrible… all the same. Something that hints at our destruction. The passage in question is from Steven Simon’s essay, “Powder Keg In Syria,” in the current…

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It’s been a busy week, unfortunately. Among the many things we’re watching on the web are: There’s been another school shooting, this time at a Texas high school. At the moment, we’re hearing that there are eight dead, but it could go higher or lower. That noise you hear in the background is the NRA…

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