This is the guy whose wife sent out a fundraising letter on his behalf lamenting "the rise of conservatism in this country", and the terrible possibility that "the so-called partial birth abortion" ban might not be ruled unconstitutional.
Hugo Chavez gets the coveted award
Parsing--but not quite praising--Obama's Latin America policies
Via Eneas, when Evo Morales arrived to the Mercosur summit in Tucuman, Argentina, the airport didn't roll out the red carpet.No, siree.They didn't even find the stairs for the aircraft. He had to come down a painter's ladder.
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Barack Obama's unsavory associations with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
Yesterday Hugo Chavez threatened to stop selling oil to European countries if they apply a new ruling on illegal immigrants: European Union lawmakers ruled on Wednesday that illegal immigrants can be detained for up to 18 months and face a reentry ban of up to five years.Accordi …
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Two Christ-professing Englishmen warning us from the early 20th Century, that to give up our freedom "for our own good," is not freedom. It is acquiescing to tyranny with thumb in the mouth, iPod buds in the ear and the tv set on an endless loop of Sex and the City reruns.
In western societies, old age is a badge of failure and decline- and in every society that equates old age with irrelevance, older people will fight nature and reality. Entire industries today are predicated on the idea that old age can be put off.
If true, the Iranians can confront the Saudis on two fronts. They would be in a position to help destabilize Egypt and cozy up to the Muslim Brotherhood
This video documents a drive across the entire width of Israel from the West Bank wall to the Mediterranean Sea. The point is to illustrate how small and intrinsically vulnerable it is.
Any nation that restricts information and the flow of that information is an oppressive nation. That truth more than any other, distinguishes free nations.
Word from Paris is that the court dismissed rance2/Charle Enderlin's charges against Philippe Karsenty today in the al Dura trial
The Republican brand has lost its way. I believe that it's time for citizens to rise up and demand a new Republican Party! I'm calling it GOP 2.0. And I'm perfectly willing to throw out those "Republicans" who are stuck on stupid -- and are stuck in the GOP 1.0 world.
Brazil's Bovespa stock index jumped to a record after Standard & Poor's unexpectedly raised the country's credit rating to investment grade.
Bruce Bawer, in a City Journal article entitled "An Anatomy of Surrender", argues that Europe is slowly surrendering to Islam: "call it a cultural surrender.
Redefining aging and retirement must have two components.
As we age, we made to feel as if we are barely tolerated. A lifetime of struggles, acquired wisdom and learned skills and talents are suddenly worthless.
A recent 27-count indictment of Acevedo and 12 allies capped three years of political turmoil, further dividing an already fractious political scene.
Real heroes hold open the door to progress. They show us that we can be better, we can do more and that there are no limits to what we can accomplish if we so desire.
The cowardly start more wars than the courageous. Nancy Pelosi's craven altering of House rules to kill off Colombia's trade pact brings that danger to the Andes. If war breaks out, her name will be on it.
In a modern, progressive society, failure is the most accurate predictor of success. Where failures are understood to be instructive and corrective in nature, societies flourish.
Why do some cultures and societies progress while others do not? Why does it appear that progress is inevitable in some societies and virtually unlikely in others?
If we allow or excuse terror elsewhere, it is only a matter of time before that terror will manifest itself on our shores. What is terror here has to be regarded as terror everywhere, no matter what one might think of the 'cause.'
"What happens when evolution fails? What happens, when despite all efforts, some members of a species fail to adapt?" Capitalism, freedom, and the influence of capitalism and the corresponding evolution of the societies.
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