The Journal
Politics
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Ron Silver Died a Week Ago
He was a great actor and a brave man. From an article by Daniel Finkelstein: The night after he spoke to the 2004 Republican convention .. Ron said that he expected many of his Hollywood liberal…
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What the West Needs to Know
I have Muslim friends, but am convinced that while there are reasonable and moderate Muslims, there is not and cannot be a reasonable and moderate Islam. For Muslims, Mohammed is the perfect example of a life…
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Debate Must Be Stopped. ‘Honour’ Killings? Sorry, No Time.
Via Kathy Shaidle, this story from the Toronto Sun. The Ontario Human Rights Commission has time to investigate and comment on stories published in national magazines over which it has no jurisdiction. It has time to condemn writers…
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Tinkering Won’t Make This Pig Fly
Via Dissecting Leftism, this article from The American Spectator, saying what I have been saying for the last several weeks. See here and here, for example, that the proposed US economic stimulus package will not and can…
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The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum
Via Andrew Bolt, this story of the banning of Geert Wilders from Britain. ‘It seems that in Britain the public debate has already been smothered to the extent that a democratically elected politician from another EU…
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Read This Reuters Article
For an idiotic comparison of the division between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, who spend their spare time killing one another, stealing aid (largely given by Israel) and plotting against the ‘Zionist entity’, and different parties in…
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Just Stop Palin
And don’t let the truth get in the way. Via Michelle Malkin, this story of Ashley Judd’s appearance in a Widlife Action Fund video, complaining about the culling of wolves in Alaska. The video portrays Sarah Palin as…
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Hostage Beheaded in Pakistan
This is a tragic waste of a life and a tragic loss for Piotr Stanczak’s family. Piotr Stanczak was an engineer. Thank goodness for the courage of people like him, who in spite of the dangers, continue…
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600,000 Jobs Lost
In the US in January. Too soon to blame Obama? Well maybe. This crisis is a direct result of intervention in domestic lending markets by the Carter and Clinton administrations. Bush’s attempts to get more accountability from…
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Obama – Winging It On Foreign Policy
In this case, on Afghanistan. As with Gitmo, and his cabinet candidates, and … and … it might have been better to have done the research and asked the questions before stating the policies which were…
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Villainous Capitalism to Blame – Not
Greedy or stupid policiticans, probably… Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gets one thing right in his 7,000 word reiteration of the destructive Whitlam era philosophy that big government, big spending and high taxes are good. The thing he…
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And Now Solis
After Geithner, Daschle, Richardson, Killefer, et al, further consideration of Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis has been postponed because her husband ‘only yesterday paid off tax liens, some of which had been pending for up to…
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Obama Charges World Into Debt
I was in the airport in Auckland the other day and saw this headline. Well, it didn’t actually say that. The magazine was upside down, and that’s what it looked like. It actually read ‘Obama Changes…
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Just Don’t Offer to Pray for Anyone
A community nurse in England has been suspended because she offered to pray for an elderly woman during a home visit. That’s just crazy. I am neither a muslim or a hindu, but if a member of…
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Peaceful Elections in Iraq
Peaceful, free and fair elections in Iraq, infrastructure being developed, business investment helping to rebuild the economy, people feeling safe in their homes. Now how did that happen? And why doesn’t the mainstream media consider it worth reporting?