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A sculpture, titled “Mother of the Martyr,” depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional artistic representation of Egypt, with her arms outstretched with a helmeted soldier standing behind her. (AP) A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers, which used to have a helmeted soldier standing behind the woman. (AP) Previous Next CAIRO – A provincial goveor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country. The concrete sculpture, titled "Mother of the Martyr," depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional ...

An "arm in arm" decal is affixed to a Dallas Cowboys helmet at the NFL football team's training camp Saturday, July 30, 2016, in Oxnard, Calif. (AP) The NFL denied the Dallas Cowboys’ request to wear a decal on their helmets during the season that would have paid tribute to the five police officers killed last month in an ambush. The team had been wearing a decal with the words “Arm in Arm” since the first day of training camp this summer. Dallas police Chief David Brown and Mayor Mike Rawlings paid the team a visit on that day, according to Fox 4 News. The NFL’s strict rules on uniforms forced the league to deny the Cowboys’ request to wear the decal for the upcoming season. Dallas poli...

Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter looks on during a game against the Utah Jazz. (AP) Turkish politics spilled onto the basketball court Monday when an Oklahoma City Thunder player was disowned by his family in Turkey and responded by changing his last name to show devotion to a controversial U.S.-based cleric locked in a bitter feud with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Enes Kanter, a 6'11" cent...

Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton among white men because guns, gays, and God, according to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “I think that, so many times, white — non-college-educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s, God being the woman’s right to choose,” Pelosi told PBS’s Judy Woodruff in an interview Wednesday. But, Pelosi contended, that’s changing because of Clinton’s “economic agenda to create jobs, good-paying jobs, increasing paychecks.” The opposition from white males “is softening,” she argued. “Some of those people were never going to be voting Democ...

Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton among white men because guns, gays, and God, according to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “I think that, so many times, white — non-college-educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s, God being the woman’s right to choose,” Pelosi told PBS’s Judy Woodruff in an interview Wednesday. But, Pelosi contended, that’s changing because of Clinton’s “economic agenda to create jobs, good-paying jobs, increasing paychecks.” The opposition from white males “is softening,” she argued. “Some of those people were never going to be voting Democ...

(Courtesy of 5 Mile Cafe) Whenever folks in Penfield, New York get a hankering for pancakes for lunch – they head over to the 5 Mile Café. The family-owned restaurant is known in those parts for serving breakfast any time of the day (order their homemade coed beef hash). Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! They are also known for their patriotism. “We are very patriotic here at the café – all year round –not just this time of year,” owner Jeifer Aquino told me. “We have American flags and patriotic things around the café.” So Jeifer decided to ask the town for a permit so she could post a “God Bless America” baer on the front of her restaurant. She...

The bronze mask of Pan discovered near Hippos is unusually large compared to other such bronze masks of the Greek God that date from the same period. (Dr. Michael Eisenberg/University ofHaifa) Archaeologists in northe Israel may have unearthed a sanctuary of the Greek god Pan in the ancient city of Hippos. Excavations by the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa have uncovered a monumental Roman gate, which may have led to a compound dedicated to the worship of Pan, the god of flocks and shepherds, who is depicted as half man and half goat in Greek mythology. The new archaeological find may help researchers better understand previous discoveries in the ancient city. ...

The bronze mask of Pan discovered near Hippos is unusually large compared to other such bronze masks of the Greek God that date from the same period. (Dr. Michael Eisenberg/University ofHaifa) Archaeologists in northe Israel may have unearthed a sanctuary of the Greek god Pan in the ancient city of Hippos. Excavations by the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa have uncovered a monumental Roman gate, which may have led to a compound dedicated to the worship of Pan, the god of flocks and shepherds, who is depicted as half man and half goat in Greek mythology. The new archaeological find may help researchers better understand previous discoveries in the ancient city. ...