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Current Affairs and comment

Dwarf Tossing is Cruel

Posted on June 13, 2016 by leslie

Dwarf Tossing is Cruel Ilana Mercer finds that small isn’t beautiful Prominent neoconservative Bill Kristol shared his election-year hallucinations with the nation. From the ashes of the Republican primaries would rise a man to stand for president against victor Donald … Continue reading →

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The Pressing Need for Prison Reform

Posted on June 8, 2016 by leslie

The Pressing Need for Prison Reform Bill Hartley reports David Cameron’s recent speech on prison reform was a welcome entry into the world of criminal justice by a prime minister. The full text of his speech is worth a look … Continue reading →

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Brexit: the Movie

Posted on June 5, 2016 by leslie

Brexit: the Movie Directed and narrated by Martin Durkin, reviewed by Robert Henderson As an instrument to rally the leave vote this film is severely flawed. It starts promisingly by stressing the loss of sovereignty, the lack of democracy in … Continue reading →

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Hail, Caesar!

Posted on June 2, 2016 by leslie

Hail, Caesar! Directed by the Coen brothers, reviewed by Dr John K Press  Hail, Caesar! is another Coen Brothers masterpiece. Culturist themes abound in this film (see www.culturism.us). We can take it as a parable asking us to choose between … Continue reading →

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How the Cult of the Kid is Undermining America

Posted on May 30, 2016 by leslie

How the Cult of the Kid is Undermining America  By Ilana Mercer, sociologist manqué There were likely no kids on board Egypt Air Flight 804 that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, on May 19. Had there been kids on board, we’d … Continue reading →

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Left-Liberalism’s Homo-Eroticism

Posted on May 26, 2016 by leslie

Left-Liberalism’s Homo-Eroticism Ilana Mercer highlights the left’s moral masochism A Norwegian man was raped by a Somali asylum seeker. The last term—Somali asylum seeker—is something of a contradiction like the first (Norwegian man). The asylum-seeker honorific is given to practically … Continue reading →

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Trump Addresses America’s Debt

Posted on May 23, 2016 by leslie

Trump Addresses America’s Debt Stephen Michael MacLean’s take on Trumponomics ‘The Open Conspiracy.’ That is what Henry Hazlitt, the renowned New York journalist, called the political effort to ‘monetise the debt’ by inflating the currency so that U.S. government debts … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan, a Guy who Never Built a Thing

Posted on May 22, 2016 by leslie

Paul Ryan, a Guy who Never Built a Thing Mercer macerates mental midget As of May 7, the outgoing neoconservative priestly cast had raised its game. Since Donald Trump has effectively clinched the Republican Party’s nomination, based on his America … Continue reading →

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Jerusalem’s Russian Quarter

Posted on May 7, 2016 by leslie

Jerusalem’s Russian Quarter The peripatetic Bill Hartley reports During the nineteenth century various European powers set out to establish a presence in Jerusalem. For example, Austro Hungary managed to squeeze a post office into the old city just opposite the … Continue reading →

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Government Greed Axes the Golden Goose

Posted on May 4, 2016 by leslie

Government Greed Axes the Golden Goose Stephen Michael MacLean condemns economic illiteracy President Barack Obama mounted the bully pulpit last month, to decry the practice of ‘tax inversion’ and those corporations with the effrontery to believe in private property and … Continue reading →

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