A traveler holds his laptop and iPhone that he travels with at a security checkpoint at San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif. (AP/Paul Sakuma)
In line with the so-called “extreme vetting” urged by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Department of State is proposing tougher scrutiny of visa applicants’ private affairs, including questioning applicants about their social media accounts.
Luke Skywalker’s heroic victory was that he resisted terror, renounced hate, and rejected aggression. Inspred by his son’s example, Anakin finally turned back from the dark side, and so was redeemed.
If we would but be similarly inspired, America could be redeemed as well. And we would finally step off the dark path.
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(MPN) With plans to step up its grotesque war in Yemen and the first major meeting of defense ministers for the 41-nation military alliance it leads fast approaching, it’s no wonder the Saudi government has called upon public relations firm Burson-Marsteller for its services.
Abrams battle tanks from the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division on rail cars as they arrive at the Gaiziunai railway station in Lithuania, Feb. 10, 2017.(AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Corporal Mark Hickok, a 23-year-old combat engineer from North Olmstead, Ohio, patrols through a poppy field during a clearing mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John M. McCall)
(ANALYSIS) — Safety of the people and security of the nation should be priority number one for any leader who wishes to have a successful tenure in office, perhaps even multiple terms — and the President of the United States is no exception to this model.
Tsarist police director TC Zubatov: "We shall provoke you to acts of terror and then crush you."
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With Brexit under way (kind of), many in Britain are feeling more nationalistic and even more isolationist in their outlook.
It is widely known that the arrival of cheap flights from the UK to Europe in recent decades, has seen a boom in UK tourism to countries like Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy, but it seems the current British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to put an end to all that. Or perhaps she just wants to stop people from visiting Britain?
In a speech she said that it is her goal to make Britain a leader in ‘preventing tourism’.
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