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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ US Attorney General Loretta Lynch indicted Fifa officials for taking bribes in return for scheduling the World Cup in particular countries.  Fifa attempted to strike a plea deal to drop the charges if the organization changed its name to Fee For.  Although it is not known whether Lynch is a

Lesser Known Summer Blockbusters Part 2 By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Mad Blacks: Fury Road:  Heavily-armed figures prowl the apocalyptic landscape of ruins and rubble in strange-looking armored vehicles shooting at anyone who threatens them.  No wonder the residents of the African American neighborhoods of Baltimore, Cleveland, and Ferguson view them as the enemy. *

Summer Blockbusters By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Summer is upon us, and, so are summer blockbusters.  Here’s a preview of some independent films that contain less special effects and receive less publicity. * Holdergeist   Although officially retired, the spirit of Eric Holder continues to haunt congressional Republicans.  It features lots of chills and thrills as

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Saudi Arabia posted an advertisement for hiring eight new executioners.  If it does not receive enough applications, it may outsource beheadings to ISIS. * Nine people were killed and one-hundred seventy arrested following a shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco, Texas.  The US government is offering amnesty to those

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The new coalition formed by Benjamin Netanyahu is the most right-wing government Israel has ever had.  It is so right-wing that if Israel were a ship of state sailing West on the Mediterranean towards the Atlantic, it would run aground on Cyprus the first day. * B.B. King died this

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It was announced that Covenant Journey will provide subsidized trips to Israel for Christian college students.  It will be just like the Operation Birthright tours except no drinking, sexual relations, and kvetching. * Benjamin Netanyahu formed a coalition government of 61 Knesset Members out of 120.  Although many observers doubt whether such

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The Senate voted 98-1 to grant Congress 30 days to review the nuclear accord with Iran and pass a resolution of disapproval prohibiting President Obama from lifting congressional sanctions on Tehran.  Only Senator Tom Cotton voted against the bill because it didn’t include his amendment to bomb Iran even if

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Ethiopian Israelis clashed with Israeli police to protest the beating of an Ethiopian Israeli soldier by the police.  The demonstrators carried signs saying, “If we wanted to be treated like this, we would have moved to Baltimore” and “Black Jewish lives matter.” * When the news that American Pharoah won

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Muslim groups welcomed the announcement by Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald Luzier that he will no longer draw the prophet Muhammad.  They apparently didn’t read the end of his statement saying he was now trying to figure out how to depict Allah.  In a related story many authors who belong to

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Jeb Bush revealed that he is on the Paleolithic diet to lose weight.  To one-up Bush, Ted Cruz disclosed that he is on the Neanderthal diet and only eats raw meat from animals he has shot himself while exercising his second amendment rights. * Russian hackers not only broke into

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.  Turkey continues to deny that the genocide occurred.  Doctors from the World Health Organization have dispatched a research team to Turkey to study the cause of collective amnesia. * Political pundits are abuzz that Marco Rubio is leading among the Republican

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Kim Kardashian toured Armenia to visit the home of her ancestors and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.  Who would have thought that President Obama and Congress would be challenged to keeping up with the Kardashians? * Volunteer police deputy Robert Bates apologized to the family of Eric

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Marco Rubio announced his candidacy for president by criticizing the President “for looking backwards” and having “forgotten that when America fails to lead, global chaos inevitably follows.”  To set an example of how he will break with the past and restore American power, he promised to invade Cuba. * Responding