Exclusive: U.S. Drone Fleet at Breaking Point, Air Force Says
The U.S. Air Forces fleet of drones is being strained to the ���breaking point,��� according to senior military officials and an internal service memo acquired by The Daily Beast. And its. But it takes more than just pilots to operate the drone fleet.
Hollywoods Liberal Heartbreak - The Daily Beast
First Barack Obama turned out to be a raging moderate, then the public option collapsed, and then this: Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon announced their separation after 23 years of non-marriage. The politically vocal but personally private pair, who stubbornly declined to take wedding vows after meeting and mating on the set of Bull Durham and adding two sons to the daughter Susan had with ex-lover Franco Amurri, have long occupied a special place in the��.
A Modern History of Free-Speech Martyrs
Its been 10 years since the world first witnessed the fervor created by offensive cartoons with Islamic themes. In 2005, a Danish newspaper called Jyllands-Posten published a sketch of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. The cartoon was .
Does Obama Embody the Best of MLK? - The Daily Beast
The first two projects have been noted by historians as marking Kings ascendancy to leadership of the civil-rights movement. What is remarkable, however, is the almost complete silence among chroniclers of Kings career on��.
Amy Winehouses Marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil: Dark Love.
In his exclusive 2008 interview with News of the World, Fielder-Civil indicated he broke off their relationship in order to stop being her enabler���in an effort to short-circuit the substance abuse he feared and that many predicted would... Led by Arvind Kejriwal, a former civil servant turned activist, the party first emerged in late 2012 as a political offshoot of the popular ���India Against Corruption��� movement, which mounted a series of protests and demonstrations against��.
Archer Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to.
���We quietly did,��� Reed previously told The Daily Beast of removing ISIS. ���We were waiting for it to go away���at least I was. Back in Season 5, FX said, This might be a thing, and I thought, Maybe it wont be? Maybe itll be the mole that Im gonna.
NYPD Springs to Action to Save Vacations
The purported slowdown within the NYPD ranks gripped Gotham for two weeks, plunging the city wide number of summonses in the first week of January from 29,599 last year to a mere 2,128. And.. But in an op-ed for the New York Daily News a few months.
Facebook News Feed Settings: Random or Not, Biggest.
The social-networking giant promises to keep us connected with our friends in exchange for pumping a steady diet of advertising at us���but the algorithms Facebook uses to decide what news to pass along can seem capricious or altogether. Poor Phil spent his first week shouting his updates, posted several times a day, yet most of his ready-made friends never noticed a peep on their news feeds.. (At least, not until we took additional steps to up Phils visibility.)��.
Battle of the Brontes - The Daily Beast
Stewart took some swipes at his pal, but saved his fiercest jabs for the media. A number of Williams fellow news personalities, from Fox News to CNN to local news, seem more than eager to unhinge their jaws and devour the��.
What It?s Like to Be an Atheist in Palestine
Led by Arvind Kejriwal, a former civil servant turned activist, the party first emerged in late 2012 as a political offshoot of the popular ���India Against Corruption��� movement, which mounted a series of protests and demonstrations against the endemic.
Sarah Palins Lost Speeches - The Daily Beast
The clash between the McCain and Palin camps became so heated, we reveal, that McCains aides literally turned the lights out on Palin when she retook the stage later that night to take pictures with her family, fearing that she would give the concession speech after. ���And I said to my husband Todd that its not a step down when hes no longer Alaskas First Dude... Scott Conroy has worked as a campaign reporter and is currently a digital journalist for CBS News.
Why AAPs free water promise in Delhi is careless populism.
For Arvind Kejriwal, keeping the promise of 700 litres of free water (it is going to be 670 litres per day) was always going to be easy.. Fulfilling the promise of 24��7 water supply to every household in Delhi would have tested Kejriwal... I somehow expected better from the author, to atleast provide an effective analysis of the key fundamental issues with Delhis water access and pricing problems and outlining a sustainable approach and plan of action to achieve both the objectives in��.
The Case for More Low-Skill Immigration
Immigrants free up natives to take more valuable positions.��� Take women, for. One step would be to lift the federal requirement imposed on state and local governments to provide services to individuals regardless of their immigration status. For.
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
But this takes it to another level���the only ���joke��� with something like the ���Boko Haram sex slave welfare��� cartoon is the fact that they ���went there.��� We laugh because were shocked and titillated. Its doing something just to prove you can get away.
50 Druggiest Colleges - The Daily Beast
When the news broke last Tuesday that five Columbia University students were arrested for selling drugs���including cocaine, ecstasy, and LSD���to undercover cops, the campus was stunned. Known as ���Operation. To rank the colleges and universities, we first turned to College Prowler, the largest student review database, to see which institutions had ���drug scene��� grades, which illustrate how students rate the prevalence of drugs on campus. A high grade, i.e. an��.
Why the Left Loves Warren, But Won?t Swoon for Sanders
Some of this political capital should be Sanders for the taking. He first rose to national prominence during an eight-hour filibuster on the floor of the Senate in 2010, in which he railed against a deal that the Obama administration cut with.
Dems, It?s Time to Dump Dixie
A vet who takes pleasure in gassing it is not. And that is what Louisiana, and almost the entire South, has become. The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, trans-racial.
Bobby Jindals Anti-Muslim Jihad - The Daily Beast
Jindal added that Muslims, even American ones like me, ���want to use our freedoms to undermine that freedom in the first place.��� I would typically make some snarky comment ridiculing Jindal for this type of idiocy. But I cant.
Michelle Rhee: My Break With the Democrats - The Daily.
I had bought into the arguments that Democrats and others use in opposition to vouchers: vouchers are a way of taking money away from public school systems and putting them into private schools; vouchers help only a handful of the kids. I promise.��� If someone said that to me, Id have said, ���You may need more time to fix the system but my kid doesnt have time. She has only one chance to attend first grade, and if she cant learn to read by the end of first grade, her��.
Will give more evidence against Satish Upadhyay today: Kejriwal
New Delhi: A day after alleging that there is a nexus between Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay and power companies here, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that he will give more evidence to substantiate his claims against .
Beach Resort Cocktails Suck. Lets Make Them Brilliant
The company owns and operates several Florida resorts, including the Marker in Key West, which I visited with my mother when it opened last month and where I imbibed at The Other Side. Theyre ���owning��� the original drinks meant to represent their piece.
When Writers Pick Their Favorite Books
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Book Review editor Pamela Paul talks the about By the Book the weekly feature, By the Book the book, the process for picking the recent 100 Notable Books of the year, and how the New York Times Book Review.
The Common Man Party Shaking Indian Politics to Its Foundations
Led by Kejriwal, a former civil servant turned activist, the AAP first emerged in late 2012 as a political offshoot of the popular ���India Against Corruption��� movement, which mounted a series of protests and demonstrations against the endemic cupidity.
Terry Jones: Inside the Koran Burners Church - The Daily.
In early September 2010, the Dove World Outreach Center, a tiny Christian congregation from Gainesville, Florida, commanded the attention of the world media for several news cycles, with their plan to burn a pile of Korans on the anniversary of... He went for a walk to think it over. Kept changing his mind. Shall we both speak? Should we take questions? Maybe only I should speak? Maybe Id prefer to have a press conference today, and take questions tomorrow.
First Anglican Woman Bishop A Return to Christian Roots
Its true that Lane will become the first female bishop in the Church of England, but many people consider womens leadership to be a return to the Churchs foundations, rather than a new epoch in religious history. In the New Testament. Kate Cooper.
States with the Smartest Kids - The Daily Beast
In other words, Florida steps up its hold-backs as they are on the cusp of taking their first NAEP assessment tests. Methodology. Stonebergs analysis of NAEP results shows that a side-by-side ranking of states would tell us very little about how the states stack up against one another. The NAEP.. A few days later, she reversed course and said Nisman did not take his own life, but that he had been killed by her political opponents in an attempt to smear her. Or maybe it��.
Juiciest Bits From Michael Hastings Book on Stanley.
The story described how McChrystal and his staff loathed key members of the Obama administration���and the colorful language they used to describe their superiors.. At the beginning of 2009, when President Obama first takes office, Gen.. Petraeus had largely triumphed in Iraq���with McChrystals help running the special-operations show���but many speculated that he believed the war in Afghanistan was a loser and was happy to let McChrystal take the fall.
Delhi Election Results As They Happened
The state poll turned into a battle between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis Bharatiya Janata Party and the anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party. AAP declared a wholesale victory on Tuesday spelling the first major.
Inside Whitney Houstons Violent Marriage to Bobby Brown.
But on Saturday, the New Edition frontman reportedly contacted many of their mutual friends with news of Houstons passing before the announcement had been made public... Stewart took some swipes at his pal, but saved his fiercest jabs for the media... Led by Arvind Kejriwal, a former civil servant turned activist, the party first emerged in late 2012 as a political offshoot of the popular ���India Against Corruption��� movement, which mounted a series of protests and��.
Dont Call Them Hermaphrodites - The Daily Beast
But now, perhaps for the first time ever, an intersex person is making the evening news, and intersex activists think this just might be a defining moment for their movement. Many are using the. ���Were trying to take a lot of the alarm out of it, just by saying to everybody���even people in the medical community���to slow down and not rush to fix something right away,��� says Green.. (Meaning, in fact, he would create anarchy for a politician who opposed him.) Kejriwal��.
50 Shades of Grey - The Daily Beast
At this point, E.L. Jamess erotica novel was a bestselling e-book, and my brothers wife���a new mom who spends most days taking care of her 4-month-old son���had immersed herself in some pleasure reading in between changing diapers.. Led by Arvind Kejriwal, a former civil servant turned activist, the party first emerged in late 2012 as a political offshoot of the popular ���India Against Corruption��� movement, which mounted a series of protests and demonstrations��.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of Selma
Fortunately, Daniels was unable to raise the money to produce the film and in 2013 it fell to an African American woman, DuVernay, to take on the project. As she. We see the Southern segregationists who threatened his life and that of his family on.