At 8:07 a.m. local time, residents of Hawaii were subjected to an alert about an incoming ballistic missile, which turned out to be a false alarm. The alert was sent out to cell phones and televisions, and appears to have been caused by a human error.
Read more at USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Vox and CBS News.
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The convicted and pardoned leaker formerly known as Bradley Manning has decided to go into politics. And to my surprise, she (in the Caitlyn sense of the pronoun) wants to be my Senator. That's right, she has filed in Maryland. I don't know where his/her legal residence was during his/her seven years of confinement, but I don't recall anything about him/her ever living in Maryland. But as we've seen with a certain woman from Arkansas who became Senator from New York, the candidate must only inhabit the state from which he or she is elected, without any specific length of time therein being required. (Perhaps ironically, there are often time-specific residency requirements for anyone wanting to vote in a given state.) Since Manning is a Democrat, she will have to run against the incumbent Senator Ben Cardin.
Read more at The Washington Post (via HotAir), The Hill, WBAL TV and NBC Washington.
In the above paragraph, I use the slashed pronouns, such as "his/her", because the period in Manning's life to which I refer, the confinement, includes time both before his sex-change operation and afterwards. Both The Hill and WBAL refer to the article in The Washington Post. WBAL also cites the Associated Press, and refers to Manning as a "former Army officer". I'm not sure that this term is accurate, since the highest rank he held was the Specialist (E-4), according to Wikipedia. This rank is a junior enlisted rank, which is not even regarded as being a type of NCO. (Yes, there is some irony in citing Wiki, since Manning gave his leaked information to a place called Wikileaks.)
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Here are some more items:
From Voice Of Europe, for the second year in a row, the most popular baby boy's name in the Netherlands is Mohammed - if you include several known spelling variations. (How many boys named Hans or Pieter are there in Egypt, Syria or Saudi Arabia? Just wondering.)
From the Express, an Italian candidate for prime minister calls E.U. treaties "unfair".
From the Evening Standard, some vintage photos of the London Underground.
From Breitbart London, Czech President Milos Zeman wins the first round of his country's election.
From Deutsche Welle, Germany fears that E.U. reforms will bring in even more refugees.
From the Times Of Oman, Turkish President Erdoğan says that his country's forces will "crush" the Kurdish militia in the Afrin region of Syria.
From the Daily Mail, two protesters at a fracking site in Yorkshire, U.K. are arrested after a guard dog is poisoned.
From WISN, a previously-deported illegal alien hijacks a bus north of Chicago. (via Twitchy)
From the New York Post, as seen in El Paso, Texas, walls can work.
From Townhall, the current winter and the climate alarmists' hypocrisy.
From Al Arabiya, torture and death in Iranian prisons after the protests.
From Fox News, Iranian protesters thank President Trump and want more sanctions.
From News18, a fatwa against marrying bankers is denounced by (as you would expect) bankers.
From The Malaysian Insight, academics in Malaysia say that self-censorship among non-Muslims is unhealthy.
From Newsday, after a cow is killed by a car, a bull runs people off. (via the New York Post)
And from ESPN, sportscaster Keith Jackson 1928 - 2018.
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