Tag: Caliphate

History, Holidays & Observances on January 24

Holiday & Observances: Feast of St. Francis de Sales Major Events: Praetorian Guard Assassinates Caligula, Sunni-Shia Divide, California Gold Rush Notable Events: Fatimid Caliphate, Conciliar Movement, Corvinus crowned King, Cavalier Parliament, Boy Scouts, Income Tax, Goldsboro B-52 Crash, Ted Bundy Born: Hadrian, Frederick the Great, Charles James Fox, Neil Diamond,

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The Bookworm Beat 3/23/16 — the “catching up” edition and open thread

Bush didn’t, Obama wouldn’t, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, “Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and the people in your community practice Islam is irrelevant to us in America. Your faith is your

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The Bookworm Beat — 9/11/14’s “ISIS and other stuff” edition (and Open Thread)

Let the information download begin: Alleged New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief lambastes Obama administration If a Reddit user really is Tim Arango, Baghdad Bureau Chief for The New York Times, it’s very impressive to read his scathing indictment of the administration’s Iraq policy and conduct: it’s not my job to

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