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Monday, February 25, 2008

Foreigners Winning The Oscars Americans Won’t Win

I’m not an Oscar watcher (I like movies, but I couldn’t care less about who the entertainment industry thinks is best), but checking out the list of winners it looks…...

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Sarkozy: “Get Lost Dumbass”

Awesome… PARIS (Reuters) - A video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy telling a bystander to “get lost” has become a hit on the Internet. Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist…...

New York Times: Average Cubans Fearful Of “Savage Capitalism” Taking Over After Castro

In an article filled with testimony from Cubans who are “fearful” for what comes after Castro (fearful, at least, per their testimony given to be published in a public newspaper…...

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Time For That Post-9/11 Election Year Question: Who Would The Terrorists Want As President?

The answer, from the left, is of course “Not a Republican.” Because we all know that fighting the terrorists in the middle east doesn’t work because it just breeds more…...

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

UN Pressures Google Into Banning Critic

The bureaucrats at the United Nations aren’t going to brook any dissent from scrappy internet commentators, and Google is going to help them out with it. ...beginning Feb. 13, Google…...

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Visual Evidence For The Success Of Capitalism

You can actually see that it works. ...

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Obama’s Plans For Global Wealth Redistribution

This isn’t getting as much attention as it should: Unnoticed by most Americans this week, the Obama/Hagel GLOBAL POVERTY ACT was quickly approved by a senate committee and cleared for…...

Thursday, February 14, 2008

A Window Into Anti-Terrorism In The Pre-9/11 World

From an article about the death of Hezbollah chieftain Imad Mugniyah who was responsible for the 1983 bombing of a US Embassy in Lebanon. Lebanese officials, exploiting a monitored telephone…...

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Atheletes Being Forced To Give Up Their Free Speech In Advance Of Beijing Olympics

Pathetic... British athletes who want to compete in the summer Olympics will be required to sign a contract promising not to make statements critical of the communist regime’s human rights…...

Friday, February 08, 2008

China Will Lift Ban On Playboy For Olympic Foreigners

Sadly, though, actual Chinese citizens won’t be able to buy the magazine.  Just visiting athletes and foreigners. All pornographic material is prohibited on the mainland but a temporary exception could…...

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Headline Of The Day: Close But No Cigar For Clinton

You gotta love the British media… It’s so much more entertaining than American journalism. ...

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Would Stopping Illegal Immigration Bolster Socialism South Of The Border?

I’m not sure I buy into the hypothesis, but it may be one way to get the left on the side of border enforcement. Even if stopping the flow of…...

Socialist Dictator Hugo Chavez Is Positively Capitalist When It Comes To Drug Smuggling

He’s not one to let ideology get in the way of making a buck. The varied testimonies I have heard reveal that the co-operation between Venezuela and the guerrillas in…...

Friday, January 25, 2008

Bill Gates Would Like To Revise Capitalism

Of course, he’d like to revise it starting now.  After he’s already made his billions. According to the front-page of today’s Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates is issuing a clarion…...

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

John McCain Forgets Where Vladimir Putin Is From

Not exactly a great mistake to make if you’re trying to cover up your less-than-principled conservative history by saying you’re good on foreign policy. ...

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Canada Removes America, Israel From Torture Watch List

Meh… OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries…...

British Actors Forced To Register Their Fake Guns, Swords

Not because their fake guns and swords are an actual threat to anyone, but because they kind of sort of look real. A Cornish village drama group has had to…...

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Tony Blair, President Of Europe?

It could be so.  It certainly seems as though Blair himself is interested in it. Speaking in Paris this morning, the former prime minister called for a “strong and united…...

Discredited Lancet Study On Civilian Casualties In Iraq Was Funded By George Soros

A rather pathetic and ignominious end to an absolute train-wreck of a study for one of the world’s oldest peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. A STUDY that claimed 650,000…...

The State Of Free Speech In Canada Is Not Good

Here is Ezra Levant, publisher of the Western Standard, appearing in a hearing before a Canadian government “human rights commission.” Levant is being questioned for publishing the now-infamous “Mohammed cartoons”…...

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Iraqi Parliament Passes Benchmark Legislation

Ever since Democrats have had to begin addressing the harsh (for them) reality of the military success that has come in Iraq under General David Petraeus they’ve spun the issue…...

Friday, January 11, 2008

It Turns Out The Protectionists Were Wrong About The Central American Free Trade Agreement

Here’s North Dakota’s own Senator Byron Dorgan, perhaps one of the most protectionist members of the US Senate, reacting to the Senate’s passage of CAFTA back in June of 2005:…...

Separated-At-Birth Twins Go On To Marry Later In Life

The saddest, most bizarre story you’ll read all day. A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister,…...

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Bush Gets A Nice Welcome From The Palestinians

Bush is in the middle east today to give speeches about the hundreds of millions of dollars our country will be giving to the Palestinian people.  How is he welcomed?…...

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Say Hello To France’s Soon-To-Be First Lady

Newly-elected French President Nicholas Sarkozy (who has become something of an American favorite after his rousing speech before the US Congress) has announced his intention to marry girlfriend Carla Bruni:…...

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Iraqi Leader: United Nations Is Responsible For Corruption In Iraq

This would be a hot story if only he’d blamed America for the corruption. Iraq’s culture of corruption stems from the actions of the international community and the controversial UN…...

British Soldiers Returning From Afghanistan Not Allowed To Wear Their Uniforms In Public

Wow... Scores of soldiers flying home from Afghanistan on Christmas leave were ordered to change out of their uniforms on a freezing runway before being allowed into a civilian airport…...

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Dependence Day

On the 4th of July America celebrates its independence.  The day we threw off the shackles on monarchism and became independent not just as a country, but as a nation…...

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Did You Know That Bhutto’s Assassination Was Bush’s Fault?

Apparently, according to Time Magazine, Bhutto was killed because President Bush has tried to shove democracy down the collective throats of middle easterners. Benazir Bhutto’s assassination Thursday should put a…...

Canadian Muslims Versus Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn has long been one of my favorite columnists and authors.  He’s almost always right in his analysis, and he writes in a smart manner that is also so…...

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