Don’t know if you’ve read about the scandal involving the expenses of MPs in Great Britain, but this quote pretty exemplifies how they feel about the “commoner.” “Once you have given a scalp to this kind of [media] lynch mob, it will encourage them to ask for more, and who is next? MPs are next, [...]
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What lessons can we learn from Britain’s banning of Michael Savage from their shores? The list of high-profile banned visitors was released by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who published 16 of the 22 names of people banned from the country since October. They include Muslim extremists, jailed Russian gang members and an Israeli settler. Smith [...]
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How miserable must life be in Britain, where traffic cameras wait for you to make mistake. Making every action we take in our daily lives a possible criminal action surely not only diminishes our freedom, but our very quality of life. Live free or die! Or Live Watched, Miserably? What direction will we, as a [...]
A Portuguese Cardinal issued the following warning to women considering marrying Muslim men. “Be careful with love. Think twice before marrying a Muslim, think seriously because it brings loads of hassle - and even Allah can’t say where all that will end,” Jose Policarpo, the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, said during a public debate. “When you [...]
The Labour government of Great Britain has adopted a new policy, that will in effect, discriminate against the successful in favor of the less motivated. This will work out well…. The plan, described by a Cabinet Minister as ‘socialism in one clause’, will raise fears that the better-off could see a squeeze on their access [...]
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Maybe we ought to learn something from this week’s crisis de jour. There are some cold hard truths that America must wake up to. The world isn’t cotton candy and lollipops. Debt must someday be repaid. The U.N. isn’t a brotherhood of peaceful nations. The Palestinians are the cause of their own misery and depending [...]
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I thought Europe was all green, all the time, yet the EU voted, in reality to increase the catches of the already overfished Blue Fin Tuna. At a meeting that began in Morocco on 19 November and is still on-going, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) – composed of the EU [...]
Michael Totten has written an “everything you need to know” post about the beginning of the Russo-Georgian War. Essentially, the Russians engineered the conflict to reassert their place in the world. Read this interesting piece here. I myself, had thought the charismatic Georgian President had overplayed hand, but instead, it seems the Kremlin is up [...]
Unable to directly confront the Russians, sending American warships to the Georgian port of Bat’um is definitely the next best thing. BAT’UMI, Republic of Georgia — US Navy destroyer, USS McFaul (DDG 74) pulled into port here today delivering humanitarian relief supplies to the country as part of the larger United States response to the [...]
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Look’s like the Russians are going to drag out their “withdraw” from Georgia proper to gauge the West’s response. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2008 – Although some movement of Russian troops in Georgia has occurred, it’s difficult to determine whether it’s an indication of withdrawal or just a repositioning of forces, a Defense Department official said [...]
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Way, way back, when I was taking classes on Soviet foreign policy, our Polish born instructor required us to read numerous books about Russia’s medievel, 17th, and 18th century interal politics. One book’s author described Russia as having centrifugal tendencies. As it result, Russia goes through cycles. As Russian society deteriates or is threatened by [...]
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Georgia, as I said previously, assumed that its impending NATO membership and close relationship with the U.S., would deter any Russian response to its attempt to retake South Ossetia. Simply put, that wasn’t a good bet. It seems that I’m not the only one to think this way. First, diplomacy. President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia [...]
