Less than 24 hours after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a new healthcare plan, the plan’s detractors have found the saddest possible way of protesting. Thanks to a new website, you can ship your cremated remains to a Republican lawmaker should you die as a result of the plan. Continue reading ‘Nobody dies Read more
Posts Tagged ‘President Trump’
Ordeal of an American Muslim
Thursday, April 27th, 2017
One of the happiest days in my life was the day in 1999 when I became an American citizen. Born in Italy while my Syrian father, then a medical student, was doing his residency there, I had later met and married a Syrian-American U.S. citizen, Rashid Jijakli, the father of my three American-born children. Three Read more
Is the Pope the anti-Trump?
Monday, March 6th, 2017
One emerged from a crisis conclave, the other was elected after the strangest campaign in recent American history. Both have upended traditions and reached outside the usual channels to speak to the concerns of ordinary people. Donald J. Trump and Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the president and the pope, are the world’s most famous populists. But Read more
Hexing President Trump is dangerous say exorcists
Monday, March 6th, 2017
Hexing President Trump and all those who abet him, so as to drive Trump from office is not a good idea, warn exorcists. Witches from around the US say they will be casting a mass spell every night of a waning crescent moon until he is no longer president. They began their mass hex programme Read more
Why Muslims could thrive under President Trump
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
This feels like the worst of times for Muslims in America. While hatred for and visceral fear of Muslims began long before President Trump’s campaign hatched, his odious rhetoric and reckless decisions promise a potentially horrifying climax. Given Trump’s intentions for a “Muslim ban” and the fury his followers harbor for Islam, the backdrop for Read more
New White House administration cruel
Monday, February 20th, 2017Archbishop of Los Angeles Jose Gomez said the new White House administration is cruelly playing with people’s lives, at a Vatican-sponsored conference last Friday. Gomez said fears surrounding deportation are not new and many people were deported when Barack Obama was president. However, he said the administration under President Donald Trump has set a harsh Read more
Bishop Tamaki backs President Trump
Monday, February 13th, 2017Destiny Church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki has revealed himself as a passionate Trump supporter and hopes New Zealand will have a leader “like him” one day. Tamaki took to Facebook to blast United Future leader Peter Dunne, calling him a “rat” and a “pathetic specimen of a man”, following Dunne posting an open letter to Donald Trump Read more
Iraqi archbishop caught by US ban on visitors
Friday, February 10th, 2017
An Iraqi archbishop has been caught by President Trump’s temporary ban on citizens from several Muslim countries from traveling to the US. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq, was due to visit the US at the invitation of New Jersey politician, Chris Smith. He intended visiting Washington DC and New York. He was Read more