JURIST Contributing Editor, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and author Marjorie Cohn discusses the constitutional violations resulting from the executive order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries …
On January 27, 2017, President Trump made good on his campaign promise to institute a ban on Muslims entering the US. Trump’s executive order (“EO”) is titled “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States.”
Jesus,
The “I have a dream” speech is great.
And the voice of Martin Luther King is both poetic and strong.
I have been thinking about a feminist speech and you lead me to the excellent one.
It widens my heart and mind. Continue reading Prayer 67
File photo of Chinese navy in the South China Sea. (Photo: AFP)
MANILA: Manila expects China to try to build on a reef off the coast of the Philippines, the country’s defence secretary said on Tuesday (Feb 7), adding this would be “unacceptable” in the flashpoint waterway.
In an interview with AFP, Delfin Lorenzana said he believed China would eventually reclaim Scarborough Shoal, just 230 kilometres from the main Philippine island of Luzon.
Giêsu ơi,
Em xin lỗi.
Giêsu chưa ban cho em thẩm quyền chữa bệnh,
nhưng tối qua em đã nghĩ về việc dùng thẩm quyền đó.
Tối qua ba em bị bệnh.
Khi mình ăn, Giêsu nhớ không? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 66 – Prayer 66
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday in Tokyo. “We stand firmly, 100 percent, shoulder to shoulder with you and the Japanese people,” he told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. CreditPool photo by David Mareuil
TOKYO — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described Iran as the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism on Saturday, but he emphasized that there was no pressing need for the United States to beef up its military presence in the Persian Gulf region.
Jesus,
We need to win this.
We have been overcoming many big challenges in the past and present.
Surely, we’ll pass again. Continue reading Prayer 65
Jesus,
Today is the 8th birthday of Dot Chuoi Non.
(We can feel you are smiling with us
and kissing us on the cheek.
We love you, too, Jesus.)
Jesus,
My friends have just sent me a message.
They want to meet in the next 1 hour.
Oh, they should have sent the message earlier. Continue reading Prayer 64
The US president has dismayed the world; Xi Jinping has wooed it. This could be a huge win for Beijing
‘Xi Jinping reminded his audience of China’s contribution to global economic stability since the financial crisis, of an average of 30% of global growth each year.’ Photograph: POOL/Reuters
Friday 3 February 2017 01.30 EST Last modified on Friday 3 February 2017 06.15 EDT
Two years ago, some European and US experts gathered to discuss China in an elegant English country house. The setting was seductive, but the mood was dark. Two years into Xi Jinping’s presidency, China’s politics were turning away from the liberalising trend of the previous three decades, towards a hard-edged nationalism that was discomfiting China’s immediate neighbours and their western allies.
Giêsu ơi,
Bắt chước Giêsu,
như Giêsu cầu nguyện với Cha trong bí mật,
em cũng cầu nguyện với Giêsu trong bí mật. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 63 – Prayer 63
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Philippine Defence Minister Delfin Lorenzana addresses the Fullerton Forum at the Shangri-La Dialogue Sherpa Meeting, organised by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in Singapore on January 23, 2017. (Photo: AFP / ROSLAN RAHMAN)
SINGAPORE: The Philippines Monday (Jan 23) told major global powers that Southeast Asia was not a “proxy” for superpower rivalries, as Washington and Beijing compete for influence in the region.
Giêsu ơi,
Tổng thống Trump là thảm họa với Mỹ và thế giới.
Chúng em nên làm gì?
Chúng em trông cậy vào Giêsu.
Xin giúp chúng em tĩnh lặng
và biết rằng Giêsu là Đức Chúa Trời. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 62 – Prayer 62
After reading this article of mine, a friend once asked me.
– “Is that your real story or you just make it up?”
– “It is my real story”, I answered.
– “Why didn’t you add some imaginary detail to make it more dramatic?”, added my friend.
– “I simply wrote what I experienced”, I said. Continue reading A reality drama
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, which had been agreed to under the Obama administration, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 23. | AP
Reuters Jan 29, 2017 Japan Times
BEIJING – China is calmly mapping out global leadership aspirations from trade to climate change, drawing distinctions between President Xi Jinping’s steady hand and new U.S. President Donald Trump, whose first days have been marked by media feuds and protests.
