Thursday, January 04, 2018

Almost £1 billion of the NHS budget goes to waste each year, says Britain's top nurse, because patients fail to turn up for appointments

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Patients have rejected accusations that they are wasting £1 billion of public money by missing hospital appointments writes Chris Smy...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Conservatives in Hollywood: Celebrities who lean right

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A Washington Times Photo Galleries presents Conservatives in Hollywood: Celebrities who lean right , from Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Sell...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

What We Would Like to Hear When a Flight Is Overbooked

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The New Yorker's Colin Stokes presents "A Travel Slide Show" called Cartoons for the Road . Related: What Lies Behind the E...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

What Lies Behind the Ever-Worsening Treatment Passengers Get at the Hands of Airlines?

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This Fox News report is one of the most ludicrous things I have read in recent times. Four hours into its flight across the Pacific Ocean,...

Did Donald Trump Read Lao Tzu Early in His Life?

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Lao Tzu does not seem to have been a leftist, a Democrat, or a communist… Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 57 Rule a nation with j...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Star Wars VIII: A Disturbance in la Force

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When, at minute 1:10 of the Jimmy Kimmel Live special on the eighth Star Wars film , the host asks Rian Johnson, "Is Jedi in the t...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Police Corruption in the UK: Manchester force ‘took bribes from organised crime gang’

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No good news for the police and the authorities of the United Kingdom days after the breaking of the scandal of an innocent student almost...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Confirmation bias in this alarmed age says that because some teachers have been abusers, some men have raped, and many victims weren’t believed, it follows that assuming guilt is the safe bet

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The ordeal of Liam Allan must not have been in vain writes Libby Purves in the Times (see Teach British Women Not to Lie About Rape ...

Betrayed by the UK System of Justice: The case of an innocent student put on trial for rape because police withheld evidence is just the “tip of the iceberg”

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At the Times of London, Ben Gurr has more on the UK man — nay, the UK men — who are betrayed by the UK system of justice : This must b...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Teach British Women Not to Lie About Rape — Accused man who went through “mental torture”: "I feel betrayed by the system which I had believed would do the right thing"

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A judge has called for an inquiry after the trial of a student accused of rape collapsed because police had failed to reveal evidence ...

Is it really true? Are these “sexual orientation” nondiscrimination laws really aimed at no one in particular?

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Over at the Constituion website and in spite of Neil Gorsuch, Benny Huang is not optimistic. The American people probably won’t learn th...
Friday, December 08, 2017

Johnny Hallyday: Good-Bye, Friend

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The beloved French mega rock star who passed away at 74 Wednesday, Johnny Hallyday (see Adam Gopnik's New Yorker profile), is to ha...
Friday, December 01, 2017

The Bright Future of European Health Care: Britons Face Longer Waits Along with Rationing of Treatment

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As Bernie Sanders, in a CNN debate between him and Senator Maria Cantwell on the one hand and Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott on the oth...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Meghan Markle Joins Foreign Minister Boris Johnson as Individuals Hounded, Previously Hounded, or To Be Hounded, by the IRS

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The TaxProf 's take on Prince Harry's bride-to-be, via Instapundit , namely that Meghan Markle’s U.S. Citizenship Could Cause T...

The toxic sludge of victimology: There’s no way Americans could have landed on the moon, much less prevailed at Iwo Jima and Normandy, if we had been a nation of pants-wetting victims

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Just when I thought I’d heard everything sighs Benny Huang , along comes a new phenomenon called self-cyberbullying. Apparently it’s “...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Who Represents the Biggest Threat to Women?

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A cartoon by A F Branco . More on Roy Moore: • Following Leftist Sex Accusations Against Conservative Politicians, Conservatives Join ...
Monday, November 27, 2017

While the East Coast Élites Mock the Superstition of Conservatives Americans (i.e., Religion), the New York Times Prints Articles Treating Subjects like Astrology Seriously

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Here’s what the feminization of the news room looks like writes Heather McDonald (thanks to Instapundit ): The New York Times — tha...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

The Gettysburg Address: One of the Greatest Speeches in U.S. History

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An Abraham Lincoln cartoon by Kaamran Hafeez in the New Yorker
Saturday, November 25, 2017

"1917, La Fayette, nous voilà !"

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Le musée franco-américain de Blérancourt accueille jusqu’au 22 janvier 2018 une exposition intitulée 1917, La Fayette, nous voilà ! (me...
Friday, November 24, 2017

Respect Matters: What Does Consent on the Dance Floor Look Like?

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If, according to the drama queens' new rules for "horizontal dancing," consent must be given regularly and at all times, the...