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Those cheering on the demonstrators in Iran, what would be and is your view of student demonstrations in your own country? All sorts of ideas circulate in universities, so these people could be anything, not least since all manner of people could be, would be and are opposed to the current government of Iran. Being [...]
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China took to its furthest extreme the ludicrous view that the problem with the world is that it has people in it, doing human things. No wonder, therefore, that China is proving the first to snap out of it. The Chinese have seen where it ends up. They could yet save the rest of us [...]
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Here we go again. “Jewish groups”, answerable to no one but themselves of course, are screeching and screaming because Pius XII has been declared Venerable. As with the partial rehabilitation of the Lefebvrists, this is their business how, exactly? Anyway, as someone once said, “Tell a lie big enough…” In fact, Pius XII was first [...]
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People often mistake being named Time‘s “Person of the Year” as an honor, but that men as sinister as Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and Rudy Giuliani have all been given the title suggests otherwise. According to Time, the award is primarily a recognition of influence and by that measure the 2009 selection of Federal Reserve [...]
We will leave aside (because, on this happy occasion, we can) NATO’s Turkey. We will leave aside the EU’s Cyprus. We will leave aside Lebanon. We will leave aside Iran, where, because they can, they voted against the instructions of the BBC, so the ballot must have been rigged. We will leave aside the Palestinian [...]
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Much merriment over the year’s six thousand arrests for indecency on Dubai’s beaches. Kissing, holding hands, bearing the midriff, you know the sort of thing? Oh, yes. We know the sort of thing, all right. And there is a lot more to it than kissing, or holding hands, or bearing the midriff. In Arabia, of [...]
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Imagine if every Thanksgiving, displays of Pilgrims were increasingly forbidden, retailers refrained from making references to the Mayflower or Plymouth Rock in their advertising, and schoolchildren were no longer allowed to draw turkeys by outlining their hands. After all, Thanksgiving offends some, particularly native Americans. Also, not everyone has reason to be thankful. Imagine if [...]
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Once upon a time, there were the Two Conservative Parties. One was Tory: agrarian, socially conservative, staunchly Christian (especially Protestant, and most especially Anglican in England and Wales, Presbyterian in Scotland), patriotic, highly cautious about intervention abroad, at least skeptical about an American influence so often very far removed from anything to the taste of [...]
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It is somehow not a story when the present British Defense Secretary says that he would not have supported the Iraq War if he had known then what he knows now. But it is a story when the new Anglican Bishop to the Armed Forces says that not all “Taliban” are necessarily the Spawn of [...]
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For eight long years under George W. Bush, conservatives endorsed a don’t ask, don’t tell foreign policy–they did not really ask why their country was at war and Republican leaders did not tell, or bother, Americans with any of the gory details. Missions were accomplished, we fought them over there so we didn’t have to [...]