Elections

Responsibility to Protect is the mission and the message for September 20 from 3-4:30 pm at The UN Headquarters Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations will be hosting Ministerial Side Event together with the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.

The Side Event is entitled “Upholding the Responsibility to Protect: The Role of Religious Leaders in Preventing Atrocity Crimes” and will feature keynote speeches by the Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of His Holiness Pope Francis, and religious leaders from Islam, Judaism and religious minorities as well as from the top UN official with regard to the Responsibility to Protect.

The Responsibility to Protect is an international norm that seeks to ensure that the international community never again fails to halt the atrocity crimes genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. It was unanimously adopted in 2005 at the UN World Summit, the largest gathering of Heads of State and Government in history.

Those interested in attending are asked to inscribe at holyseemission.org/RSVPseptember20.

Seriously? Perhaps it is time to re-brand it, Grand Old Tardy. Consider a makeover for the Republican Party of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by socialist minister Francis Bellamy 1855-1931. This was published in The Youth's Companion on September 8, 1892. Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in many countries.

John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, both served as president. So did William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison, and George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush.

Democratic presidential candidates take the debate stage in Las Vegas under the time-honored rules of presidential debating, alone, unaided, defending their candidacies with only their wits and smiles.

While it will not really be a real debate in every sense of the word, because the word describes a clash of ideas and positions, it will be a media competition to see how accurately each candidate outlines his or her talking points, and other than some excursion into originality catch them in a flip-flop or a gaffe.

The last thing you want to convey to voters the day before they go to the polls is desperation, or rage. So why are the candidates saying and doing just about anything, including political flip-flops the day before V Day?

Israel has really strict voter ID rules, only 3 forms of ID accepted. http://www.timesofisrael.com/elections-2015-a-users-guide/ … Polls close at 10pm local, 4pm ET.

Tuesday’s election in Israel may mark the demise of the old factions: http://nyr.kr/1AOHn0W

Israel election: Binyamin Netanyahu rules out Palestinian state if he wins http://d.gu.com/907T5P