Liberals are more interested in soccer and the World Cup than conservatives. A recent poll by YouGov confirms Ann Coulter’s belief that World Cup viewers tend to be more liberal. The poll found that “24% of liberals say they follow
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — They captured the eyes and hearts of a suddenly awakened soccer nation, who gathered in unprecedented numbers to watch the world’s game. But the end of the ride came at the exact same point as four
The U.S. men’s soccer team survived the “Group of Death,” but after traveling nearly 10,000 miles across Brazil, their run in the 2014 World Cup is over. And it ended in extra time. Again. In the opening minutes of the
Just prior to the World Cup, Time magazine ran an opinion piece titled “How Soccer Is Destroying American Exceptionalism.” Andres Martinez wrote, “It’s hard to exaggerate how much soccer’s incursion into American life threatens to erode American exceptionalism, not to
The UFC holds its biggest event of 2014 in the midst of the biggest global sporting event of the year. So on the conference call promoting UFC 175, the World Cup naturally came up. “I like watching the World Cup,”
(Reuters) – Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo challenged U.S. President Barack Obama to a bet over Belgium’s impending World Cup knock-out match against the United States, offering the prospect of some “great Belgian beers” should the U.S. team win. On Thursday,
Veteran journalist and BBC TV presenter Jeremy Paxman has admitted he is a “one-nation Tory” and complained that his former employers at the BBC2 show Newsnight are “13-year-olds” who foolishly think they can “change the world”, according to the Independent.
Although the generation that experienced and fought through World War I has passed, it is important to keep the memory of the war alive. The War to End All Wars set off the “terrible twentieth” century as Winston Churchill called
Thomas Müller hammered home a rebound for Germany early in the second half to open the scoring, and Germany won the so-called “Group of Death” with a 1-0 victory over the United States on Thursday in a flooded Recife, Brazil.
On June 25 a French court ordered Jewish Museum murder suspect Mehdi Nemmouche to be extradited to Brussels, Belgium. Nemmouche is the suspect in the incident where “four people were fatally shot in [an May 24] attack, in broad daylight
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — A French court has ordered the man suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum to be extradited to Belgium. The Versailles court decided Thursday that Mehdi Nemmouche should be handed over to Belgian
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from two severely disabled men who argued the law should be changed to allow doctors to legally kill them. But five of the nine judges concluded that a ban on
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirms that the Obama administration “unanimously” decided trading the freedom of five high-ranking Taliban officials for the life of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was the right thing to do, and he states that whether the Taliban considers
While investigators in France continue to hold suspected terrorist Mehdi Nemmouche, arrested in Marseille on Friday in connection with the shootings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on May 24, four more people were arrested by French police on Monday
At around 3:50 pm on Saturday, May 24, a man dressed in a blue sweater and baseball cap walked casually into the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium. Pulling a Kalashnikov rifle from a black bag, he shot and killed four
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s King Juan Carlos, who led Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy but faced royal scandals amid the nation’s near financial meltdown, announced Monday he will abdicate in favor of his son, making way for a “new
The shooting dead of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday was “the result of constant incitement against Jews and their state,” according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. “Slander and lies against the State of
Four people were killed in an attack by a gunman at the Jewish Museum in the center of Brussels on Sunday afternoon. The gunman fled, but a suspect was later arrested, according to the Belgian newspaper La Libre. Earlier reports
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected a referendum proposal Sunday to create the world’s highest minimum wage, according to Swiss TV projections. The idea of creating the world’s highest minimum wage of 22 Swiss francs ($24.70) per hour was
A court in Brussels has barred Uber, an international taxi network which allows passengers to summon a private driver by smartphone app, from operating in the EU capital. PCWorld.com reports that the court has threatened a €10,000 for every pick-up Uber
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Rwandans leave Catholic churches for evangelical churches UN Security Council approves 11,800 peacekeepers for Central African Republic France’s Ambassador: Central African Republic has totally collapsed Israel imposes sanctions on the Palestinian Authority Rwandans leave
Paul Rusesabagina became a towering figure in the fight for human rights after using his position at Kigali’s Hotel des Mille Collines to save 1,268 people from the genocide in Rwanda. On the 20th anniversary of that atrocity, Rusesabagina writes that
New York City is set to challenge an epidemic of bootleg tobacco as a result of high taxes on cigarettes. The situation is similar to other areas of the world, where criminal gangs are finding themselves by selling cheaper tobacco
President Barack Obama gave a speech in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday. During that speech, he offered his thoughts on the current turmoil in the Ukraine involving Russia and its annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Obama argued this wasn’t Cold War
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police said they had found a suspicious package on a public bus in Brussels and had called in the bomb squad to investigate on the day of the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama. The package
