The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

Scalia died at a remote resort. Who pays for these trips and what do justices have to disclose? Wednesday February 17 th , 2016  at  10:37 AM 1 Share The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new  stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! Justice Antonin Scalia’s  sudden death over the weekend  at a West Texas ranch spawned  a host of questions  about how authorities in the area responded. It also raised questions about the nature of his travel, who paid for a Supreme Court justice to visit the remote resort and whether justices are subject to the same disclosure guidelines as other judges or federal officials. Here is a guide to these questions. Where did Justice Scalia die? Scalia was at the  Cibolo Creek Ranch , a resort tucked away in the Big Bend re

“The pope wanted to come to Juarez to make public the suffering of the migrants,” the Rev. Roberto Luna, a priest in Ciudad Juarez, said. “The pope says that this world is a house for everyone. He’s convinced that we should treat migrants as brothers.” Take them all to your house in Vatican, Pope Francis. They will keep you a nice company there. And stare straight across the borders of Europe. Rev. Anti-Luna. Pope Francis will finish his Mexico tour looking straight at the U.S. border Wednesday February 17 th , 2016  at  10:19 AM 1 Share The inside track on Washington politics. Be the first to know about new  stories from PowerPost. Sign up to follow, and we’ll e-mail you free updates as they’re published. You’ll receive free e-mail news updates each time a new story is published. You’re all set! Jose Guardado, a pilgrim from Oklahoma, views souvenir T-shirts a day before attending a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in Ciudad Juar

Behind many Russian hookers there are some other Big Hookers with tangled and complicated but obvious connections...  " Eliot Spitzer’s Russian-hooker scandal   has horrified the ex-girlfriend..."  Spitzer’s ex urged to get tested in wake of hooker scandal Wednesday February 17 th , 2016  at  9:16 AM Carl Campanile – New York Post 1 Share Eliot Spitzer’s Russian-hooker scandal  has horrified the ex-girlfriend he claims “is the love of my life” — and friends are urging her to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, sources said Tuesday. Democratic political operative Lis Smith was shocked and disgusted to learn that the infamous “Client 9” may have been with admitted ex-call-girl Svetlana Travis for at least two years, sources close to Smith said. Spitzer, 56, reportedly was seeing Travis at the same time he was shacking up with Smith, 33, in his Fifth Avenue apartment. Smith didn’t know about Spitzer’s ties to the Russian,

Hypocrite Erdogan, the mad sultan, the Hague is waiting for you too! - M.N.  ______________________________________ Turkey’s president responded angrily to calls for his country to halt its cross-border shelling of Kurdish positions in Syria, saying Ankara “has no such plans.” Addressing local officials Wednesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said Turkey would not allow the Syrian Kurdish forces to establish a stronghold at the Syrian-Turkish border. Turkey regards the Syrian Kurdish forces as a terror group because of their links to its own outlawed Kurdish rebels who are internationally recognized as a terrorist organization. Turkey has been shelling Kurdish Syrian forces since Saturday, saying it has been responding to provocations. The United States and others have called on Turkey to hold its fire. Erdogan insisted Wednesday that Turkey’s shelling was “self-defense.”  The Latest: Merkel pushes again for no-fly zone in Syria Wednesday February 17 th , 2016  at