Monday, December 18, 2023

Reading archive 2012-12-18

How America's harshest immigration law failed: Alabama tried to kick out its undocumented immigrants with the harshest law in the country. Two year's later, the law's in ruins and the immigrants remain. [ed. note: from 2013]

He’s Deeply Religious and a Democrat. He Might Be the Next Big Thing in Texas Politics.: James Talarico confounds Fox News hosts, fights the culture wars by quoting scripture, and has fellow Democrats talking about his statewide future.

The Six Myths Kissinger Created About Himself — That Everyone Fell For: His actual record on China policy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Israel finds large tunnel adjacent to Gaza, raising new questions about prewar intelligence: The army said Sunday that the tunnel facilitated the transit of vehicles, militants, and supplies in preparation for the Oct. 7 attack.

Opinion  Netanyahu is picking a fight with Israel’s best friend: Joe Biden - "'During World War II, Churchill would often howl over policy differences with FDR but never in public. Netanyahu is no Churchill,' Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told me. 'Biden may be the most Zionist president in American history and Netanyahu should be kissing his a--, not kicking it.'"

How a Capitals, Wizards move to Virginia could impact Alexandria, D.C.

Journalist who broke story on decomposing babies in Gaza is shot, injured

Israel’s assault forced a nurse to leave babies behind. They were found decomposing.: A nurse at al-Nasr hospital was caring for premature babies. Then he faced the most difficult decision of his life. - "Then the IDF delivered an ultimatum, al-Nasr director Bakr Qaoud told The Washington Post: Get out or be bombarded. An Israeli official, meanwhile, provided an assurance that ambulances would be arranged to retrieve the patients. 

"The nurse, a Palestinian man who works with Paris-based Doctors Without Borders, saw no choice. He assessed his charges and picked up the strongest one — the baby he thought likeliest to bear a temporary cut to his oxygen supply. He left the other four on their breathing machines, reluctantly, and with his wife, their children and the one baby, headed south.

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"When Al-Mashhad aired the report, it blurred the remains. The channel gave an unaltered copy of the video to The Post, which verified that it was recorded inside al-Nasr’s neonatal intensive care unit by comparing it with images of the facility from before the war. 

"The remains, still hooked up to respirators, bear little resemblance to bodies. They appear as piles of rotting flesh, bones protruding, body parts difficult to make out. Soiled-looking diapers remain wrapped around their middles."

The issue isn’t Hitler. The issue is the right’s shift since 2015.

THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE SPORT: How race, politics, culture and money are shaping which kids abandon tackle football -- and which keep risking its toll.

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