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Socking It To Soccer

This was for a game that ended in a tie. Yes, a TIE – an exhilarating 1-1 final score. … So in a 100-minute game, something happened two times and nothing happened 98 times. … Watching people run 62...

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Germany Scores Twice

Germany’s first victory this week is to have threatened to expel the top CIA official from the country. Via DER SPIEGEL: Initially, there had been talk of a formal expulsion of the CIA employee, who is...

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Putin’s PR Quagmire

Opines Tom Piatak of Chronicles magazine: Most Ukrainians do not want to be part of Russia’s “near abroad.” In this they resemble most Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Finns, Czechs, Slovaks,...

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UPDATED: ‘New Anti-Semitism’ Is As Old As Islam (‘Did Mohammed Invent...

Jewish leaders, reports the Washington Post, “are talking of the rise of a ‘new anti-Semitism.'” Not again. Following the lead of these self-anointed “leaders,” the WaPo tells of a French Muslim...

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UPDATED: Masada on Mount Sinjar (ISIS Crisis Continued)

“Masada on Mount Sinjar” is the current column, now on WND. An excerpt: Purportedly, forty thousand refugees, among them 25,000 children, were said to be stranded on the parched terrains of the Sinjar,...

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UPDATED: ISIS Is Islam

“ISIS Is Islam” is the current column, now on WND. An excerpt: “ISIL” is how President Barack Obama refers to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He pronounces it as one would the last syllable...

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NATO’s Worth Nothing

Why doesn’t he provide a solution to the siege by the Islamic State (ISIS) of Kobani (or Ayn al-Araba in Arabic), a Kurdish city in the Kurdish regions of northern Syria? He is Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...

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EU Government Is A Monopoly, Not Google

The economic sluggards of Europe don’t much like competition; it’s too much like hard work. Competition means that a business has to please the only real boss: a picky customer with many options....

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Only Dutchman Geert Wilders Edifies

It is to be expected. The only edifying words to come from a politician, worldwide, in response to the craven, yet characteristic massacre, today, of staff at the French satirical newspaper Charlie...

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Best Commentary So Far About Charlie Hebdo Headache

Penned by friend and fellow paleolibertarian Sean Gabb of the British Libertarian Alliance, the following piece is simply the best commentary so far on the Charlie Hebdo headache. Hot Air and the Paris...

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In Paris, A Parade Of Parasites; Charade Of Charlatans

President Barack Obama was a no-show at the showy and meaningless parade of parasites in Paris, where world leaders united against murder, an insight that was already well within the ken of leaders of...

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Heresies About The Hebdo Headache

“Heresies About The Hebdo Headache” is the current column, now on WND: WINNING IN THE WEST. A French “documentary maker”—a title everyone with a camera assumes these days—told CNN’s Anderson Cooper...

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The-Camel-Ate-My Homework Theory Of Culpability

“The-Camel-Ate-My Homework Theory Of Culpability” is the current column, now on WND. An excerpt: … Disaffected, disadvantaged, disenfranchised is how progressives prefer to depict the Muslim murderers...

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UPDATED: Merkel’s Ironic Comment About European ‘Territorial Integrity’...

On the matter of the Ukraine crisis, and in particular, on whether to arm Ukraine, keeping in mind the dangers of “sparking a proxy war with Russia”—German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who met with Barack...

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Land of Moussaka And Moochers

Greece is “in a world of its own” when it comes to debt as a percentage of GDP (165%, last I checked). The Greeks’ route to solvency has been … to elect a socialist, Alexis Tsipras, as their new prime...

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In The Media, It’s All About The Angle, The Spin

You ought to take note of the media’s meta-narrative on the issues, by which is meant the overarching theme that infests each and every news story. You’ll discover that there’s an angle, a spin. Thus,...

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More Thematic, Media Spin From CNN

A previous post, “In The Media, It’s All About The Angle, The Spin,” alerted you to the need to be aware of the overarching themes that generally infest each and every news story in mainstream media....

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UPDATED: Walking In Paris While Jewish

Not so gay is Parie if you’re visibly Jewish. Watch this Jewish reporter as he records his experience while walking the streets of Paris. Remember that the “new anti-Semitism” is as old as Islam. There...

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Europeans Are Germanophobic!

The word for the hatred/fear of Germans is Germanophobia. Europeans are certainly guilty of this anti-German sentiment. It is rooted in, I believe, their jealousy of the workhorse of Europe: Germany....

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‘Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France’

A day after the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, in what is proving to be a speedy and professional investigation, the New York Times has it on good authority that the Germanwings “jet with 150 people...

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