Friday, July 27, 2012

So Long, and Thanks for all the Kleingebäck

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In the town of Breisbach on the Rhein river near the gateway to the Black Forest - in the most prosperous and Cutsie-poo part of Germany...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

“Trying to Make the World Safe for their Volvos”

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That just about sums ‘em up.

Venezuela Cartoonist Compelled to Hire Bodyguards, Risks 30 Months Behind Bars

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While the presidency of Hugo Chavez is denounced in a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) — " The accumulation of power in the execut...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

What’s Yours is Theirs’

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L’Express ’ personal fiance section runs down a list of things that will come under taxation assault in France. Painful and economically st...

“Reagan should have a monument in every city” says Walesa as another Gipper statue unveiled in Eastern Europe

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The Gdansk statue of Ronald Reagan is the second major statue to be unveiled in Poland — this one in the company of fellow Cold Warrior Joh...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Rome’s Pantheon Symbolizes a Remarkable Leap in Human Knowledge

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An article about the Pantheon in the Weekend WSJ provoked me to think about the example it represents to us in the broader context of human...

The Only Good Woman Is a Leftist Woman

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Ellen Barkin tells Jon Lovitz to "shut the fuck up", reports Twitchy (thanks to Instapundit ). In order to get to the bottom of...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

America the Beautiful Sung by Jon Kahn

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Jon Kahn sings America the Beautiful on Troopathon .
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Isn’t Soylent Green a Place Name Somewhere in the UK?

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In eastern Europe, there was a popular joke people told: “if the desert was made a socialist state, there would soon be a shortage of sand.”...
Friday, July 20, 2012

It’s Just Like Obama’s Vision of America

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Translation from original Klingon German: ... “Welfare is sexy” ... In the Brussels Journal , George Handlery decrypts the symbolism of gr...

A lust for power disguised as the phony virtue of “compassion”

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Here it is only mid-July and already the true thuggish face of the Obama Permanent Campaign is emerging for all to see writes Michael Walsh...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Citing Mister Cuddles

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They are fossils, these old-line Marxist-Leninist / Permanent Revolution type Trotskyite variants. They even fall for phony, concocted quo...

Voting rights, voting wrongs

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The Economist ends its article on voter fraud ( Voting rights, voting wrongs , July 14 ) with the sentence: it would be awkward, to say t...

Obama, You're No Ronald Reagan

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Welcome to the Hotel California

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Europeans are learning something is wrong with their long held utopian ideals. When even the slightest difficulty is presented to the Europ...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Like Babes in the Woods

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Free-riding is a problem. Eventually, the free-riders either believe that they are entitled to the position that they’ve put others into, o...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

It Doesn't Matter What Mitt Romney Says at the NAACP, They Are Going to Call It Racist Anyway

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Ann Althouse notes that Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi goes all racial on Mitt Romney's appearance before the National Association ...
Friday, July 13, 2012

To Win at the Communist Monopoly Board Game, Your Piece Must Wait in Line for Hours to Buy a Sausage

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A game can last several hours, during which not a whole hell of a lot is happening. "The most boring game in the world" is how ...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Spoiling for a Fight: French Foreign Legion Versus Jungle Gold Diggers

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Popular Mechanics' Joe Pappalardo goes to South America to find France's elite jungle warriors readying for a deadly new phase of ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Muslim Toulouse Killer: I Dressed and Acted Western to "Fool the Enemy"

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"War amounts to ruse" declared a Muslim terrorist to the French police as he was besieged in his apartment during the last hours o...