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Posted: Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
Result? An explosion in commerce, and apparently near-zero homelessness. Walk anywhere in a Taiwanese city and the streets are alive, all day and all night, with a rotating cast of pop-up businesses that employ mainly low-skill labor while making life a joy for consumers.
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Posted: Saturday, April 30th, 2016
Puerto Rico's woes as a result of the minimum wage should be a warning for the mainland, and island residents should worry about what the current momentum over here means for it in the future.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
US Stirring up Trouble with China, NHS Wants to Harvest Organs From Newborns, Parents Face 5 Years In Prison for Giving Their Own Child Natural Medicine, and U.S. Foreign Policies Push Homosexual Lifestyle across the Globe
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Posted: Saturday, February 27th, 2016
War-grade Weapons Found in Some
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Posted: Saturday, January 30th, 2016
"Diverse" Swedish School out of Control, Contact Lens May Correct Vision in Children, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
Putin Strengthens Military Power, Will Smartphones Be Around 5 Years From Now?, and more...
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Muslims, Europe, and the Future
Posted: Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Some time ago a former student emailed me a video clip that I now show my Major European Governments course. It's a five-minute news piece by Dale Hurd of CBN News, a conservative Christian outlet-the rare kind of place where you see reports like this.
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The Myth of Socialist "Success" in Scandinavia
Posted: Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Supporters of Big Government and the nanny state everywhere have for decades glorified the imagined success of Scandinavia's massive welfare states, citing Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland as alleged proof that drastic restrictions on economic liberty can co-exist with prosperity.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
In April, Hillary Clinton's campaign released a statement assuring supporters that their candidate had "fought children and their families all her career." The typo was soon detected and corrected, reassuring the public that the former senator and secretary of state did not plan to brawl with visiting families on the White House lawn. But typographical errors have caused much bigger and costlier problems than a few embarrassing moments for a politician.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Last week Europe saw one of its worst crises in decades. Tens of thousands of migrants entered the European Union via Hungary, demanding passage to their hoped-for final destination, Germany.
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Posted: Friday, August 28th, 2015
Uprising against Autocrats Sweeps Latin America,Japan Develops Emergency Bridge that Assembles in Minutes, and more...
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Posted: Thursday, July 30th, 2015
Tired of filling your tires with air? South Korean company Hankook has developed an airless tire that fits onto any traditional rim. The Hankook iFlex is a non-pneumatic tire (NPT) that relies on geometric shapes instead of air pressure to give bounce to the tire. According to Digital Trends, these inovative tires were tested for durability, hardness, stability, slalom (zigzag), and speed.
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Posted: Thursday, June 25th, 2015
In Africa, people born with albinism are treated with great disgust and are highly stereotyped wherever they go in the society. Families to whom albino children are born are generally regarded as cursed, and the children go through loathing from childhood to adulthood. The condition of albinism starts when a child is born without genetic pigmentation of the skin, eyes, and hair. In this case, the colour of skin is usually white with green eyes and suntanned colour hairs.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Just three months ago, over the course of just a few hours a mob of hundreds of Muslim radicals destroyed almost 70 churches, killed ten people and injured hundreds more. Today, the Christians living in the area are trying to move on, preaching the Gospel and forgiving those who've done them such great harm.
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World Headlines
Posted: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Tanzania Censors Criticism by Banning Private Statistics, Political Murders in Kiev, US Troops to Ukraine, and more...
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Worsening Refugee Situation Hits West Africa
Posted: Friday, April 24th, 2015
The West African countries of Chad, Niger, and Cameroon (Nigeria's closest West African neighbors) are facing serious refugees' crisis due to the influx of Nigerian families fleeing from the war zones in Nigeria's North East. The poor nations, who have been grappling with the problem of feeding their own populations, will have to contend with the double jeopardy of catering for the teeming refugee population within their territories.
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, April 24th, 2015
Most Spectacular Marathon in Nature, The 1,000-Year-Old Once-Secret Medicine That Kills Superbugs, and more...
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Sailing Around World A Better Education
Posted: Thursday, February 26th, 2015
One of the real downsides of living under a socialist system for a long period of time is that people lose their faith in freedom and free markets. One of the best examples of this phenomenon involves public schooling, the governmental program to which American children are required to submit when they reach six years of age.
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US Policy Increases Terrorism
Posted: Friday, January 30th, 2015
If I Were an ISIS Recruiter
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, January 30th, 2015
G20 Group Plots World-Wide Bail-Ins,Ebola Epidemic Hyped By the Media, and mmore...
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World Headlines
Posted: Saturday, December 27th, 2014
Man Buys Sex Slaves from ISIS... to Set Them Free, Homeschoolers Reduced to Criminals in Germany, HSLDA Fights Back, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, November 28th, 2014
ISIS Expresses More Monetary Sanity Than Federal Reserve, Catalans Vote for Independence from Spain, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, September 26th, 2014
British Independence Party Gaining Popularity, To Battle ISIS Jihadists, Obama Will Arm more Jihadists in Syria, and more...
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10 Wild Facts About The Amazon Rainforest
Posted: Friday, September 26th, 2014
With so much land being deforested, it was only a matter of time before something unexpected was unveiled. As trees continue to be cut down, more and more mysterious ditches have been found across Brazil and Bolivia. The square, circular, and linear ditches are up to 5 meters (16 ft) deep, and left archaeologists baffled as to who built them, how, and why.
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
Obama, Media, Mislead on Gun Crime Statistics in U.S., Australia, Denmark Pays Turkish Immigrants to Return to Turkey, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, June 27th, 2014
Scientific Find Challenges Global Warming, UN "Programme of Action": Track & Destroy Small Arms and Ammo, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, May 30th, 2014
After Obama/UN "Liberation," Libya Collapsing into Civil War Israeli Inventor Reinvents the Wheel
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Liberal Blind Spot on Islam
Posted: Friday, May 30th, 2014
Ask a liberal what he or she thinks about Islam and you'll probably get an answer like this: "We need to respect everyone's religious choices and be tolerant of different cultures." I agree.
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North Korean Prisoners' Drawings Reveal Torture
Posted: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
According to BBC News, a UN panel has accused North Korea of "crimes against humanity, including systematic extermination, torture, rape, forced abortions, and starvation." The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) has no regard for justice or the protection of human life. North Korean officials, who have the power to torture, kill, and destroy people, possess nearly limitless authority with no accountability or laws to follow.
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
Kerry Urges Israel to Give Up Jordan Valley, Old Coin Discovery Could Challenge Canadian History, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Thursday, February 27th, 2014
World's Largest Cave Open for Tours, Sweden Rejects Low Fat Diet, Canadians Retiring in the US and more...
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Mexico Disarms Militias that Defend Citizens from Drug Gangs
Posted: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
There is one rule to citizen defiance that, in my opinion, surpasses all others in strategic importance; and it is a rule that I have tried to drive home for many years. I would call it the "non-participation principle" and would summarize it as follows:
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, January 3rd, 2014
Brazil's Government Regulating VW Vans Out of Production, World's Largest Ship Produced in South Korea, Pharmacist Follows Regulations; Child Dies and more...
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A History of South African Apartheid
Posted: Friday, January 3rd, 2014
"Workers of the world unite, keep South Africa white." - Slogan of early twentieth-century South African Labor Unions
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
China Relaxes One-Child Policy, Pro-Israel Leader Asks, What Other Country Releases its Worst Killers?, Pope Francis Denounces Market-based Capitalism and more...
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Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Now Starting To Happen All Over the Globe
Posted: Friday, November 1st, 2013
Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again. In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world.
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
Saudi Gov't Pardons Death-row Inmates to Fight Syria, Man Lost in Andes Mountains Rescued, Study Shows Music Aids Recovery for Heart Disease Patients and more...
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Fed Judge Declares Anti-Gay Sermon a "Crime Against Humanity"
Posted: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
A federal judge ruled that a biblically based denunciation of homosexuality was a "crime against humanity."
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What We Have Learned from Afghanistan
Posted: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
Last week the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar with the US government's blessing. They raised the Taliban flag at the opening ceremony and referred to Afghanistan as the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan"-the name they used when they were in charge before the US attack in 2001.
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Top 10 Countries with the Tallest People
Posted: Friday, June 21st, 2013
Do you want to find a towering husband or wife? Then you should focus your attention on the following ten countries.
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The Evil of Humanitarian Interventionism
Posted: Friday, June 21st, 2013
American statists sometimes justify U.S. military interventionism in foreign countries by saying that it's necessary to save people from the tyranny and oppression at the hands of their own government.
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Reconsidering Trade with China
Posted: Friday, June 21st, 2013
As America grew in the 1800s from a republic of a few millions, whose frontier stopped at the Mississippi, into a world power, there were constant collisions with the world's greatest empire.
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Brit Wakes from Coma, Escapes Organ Harvest
Posted: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Four medical specialists declared 17-year-old Steven Thorpe brain dead after he suffered devastating injuries in a 2008 car accident, and prepared to harvest his organs. But Thorpe's family had second thoughts, refusing to give the okay to end his life. And it's a good thing because Thorpe woke up from his "irreversible" brain damage and five years later is making, by his own estimation, a "full recovery."
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Posted: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
European Commission Proposes Seed Registration; Is US Next?, Bangladesh Christian Children Still Missing, Enslaved, Remaining Support for EU Crumbles, Poll Shows ... and more
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Is War With North Korea Inevitable?
Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
"If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you," said Calvin Coolidge, who ever counseled patience over the rash response.
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Destroying the Switzerland of Central America
Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Leave it to the U.S. national-security state to destroy another country, this one being Costa Rica, known as the "Switzerland of Central America" and whose national slogan is "pura vida"-"pure life."
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The Future of Israel and Western Civilization
Posted: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
The West is in retreat. The European Union is beset by seemingly insolvable economic problems, a burgeoning, indigestible Muslim population and a near total loss of confidence in its Christian foundation.
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When You Ban the Sale of Ivory, You Ban Elephants
Posted: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Elephant poaching is rampant throughout Africa. Unfortunately, Western nations have exacerbated the problem by banning the sale of ivory. Elephants are dying as a result. The West should reopen the ivory trade.
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The Great U.S. Crisis in Pakistan
Posted: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Karzai's public denunciation yesterday of the U.S. collusion with Taliban forces in Taliban attacks on his government forces in Afghanistan to lead the U.S. forces to stay in Afghanistan longer may be true or false, but they miss the point of U.S. military strategists who want to stay in Afghanistan with massive bases and forces.
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Why Are We Still in South Korea?
Posted: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
North Korea has just pulled off an impressive dual feat -- the successful test both of an intercontinental ballistic missile and an atom bomb in the 6-kiloton range.
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How Private Schools Are Good for the Poor
Posted: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Last fall the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly brought together more than 170 heads of state-"the largest gathering of world leaders in history"-to review progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.
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Rand Paul in Israel: End All Foreign Aid Gradually
Posted: Thursday, January 31st, 2013
On his first trip to Israel, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Monday that all U.S. foreign aid should be gradually eliminated, including the roughly $3 billion sent annually to the country he was visiting.
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World Headlines
Posted: Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Amid Federal Land Grab in Brazil, Whole Towns Evicted at Gunpoint, In Mali, Forces Backed by UN, France, and Obama Slaughter Civilians, China Builds More Bullet -Train Routes, Women 'Caste'-Aways - India's Covert Genocide, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Dogs Detect Lung Cancer - German Officials Threaten Homeschoolers: 'We'll be back' - Pro-life Activist, 81, Persecuted in U.K. as Liberty Wanes - Indian Jews Migrate to Israel - What about Hagel's issue with Israel? - Obama Surrounds Syria with U.S. Troops; Regional War Nears - Euthanasia by Dehydration - and more...
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Mexicans Celebrate New President
Posted: Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
On December 1st, 2012, Enrique Pena Nieto became the president of Mexico, replacing Felipe Calderon, who had been president since 2006. The president of Mexico has a six-year term, and cannot be re-elected.
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How to End the Gaza Tragedy
Posted: Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
As of late Friday the ceasefire in Gaza seems to be holding, if tentatively. While we should be pleased that this round of fighting appears temporarily on hold, we must realize that without changes in US foreign policy it is only a matter of time before the killing begins again.
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Scottish Independence Vote Holds Important Lessons - And Possibilities
Posted: Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
In 1998 the people of Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, gained a considerable measure of self-government. For the first time in almost three centuries their parliament met in Edinburgh, the capital, after a referendum among Scots in the previous year resulted in 74.3 percent of voters answering "Yes" to the statement, "I agree that there should be a Scottish Parliament."
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Negotiations - or War with Iran?
Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2012
"It would be unconscionable to go to war if we haven't had such discussions," said Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state in the Bush administration, of reports the Obama White House has agreed to one-on-one talks with Tehran over its nuclear program.
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Swiss Military Preparing for EU Meltdown Scenario
Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2012
As the growing economic crisis continues to wreak havoc throughout the European Union, the armed forces of tiny Switzerland are preparing to deal with a potential EU disaster that could see refugees flood across the borders amid widespread unrest and chaos. Top Swiss officials have warned that if escalating turmoil were to spill across the border, Switzerland, which is not a member of the EU, will be ready to tackle it.
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Japan's Private Highway Makes a Profit without Government Help
Posted: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
The Tokyo Expressway, owned and operated by Tokyo Kosoku Doro Co., is Tokyo's first and only privately owned highway. The highway stretches from Ueno to the north and Haneda Airport to the south and is funded by 100,000 square meters of rental properties beneath the roadway. Over 40,000 vehicles pass through the Expressway every day.
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Has Obama Called Bibi's Bluff?
Posted: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
What is Bibi Netanyahu up to? With all his warnings of Iran's "nuclear capability," of red lines being crossed, of "breakout," of the international community failing in its duty, of an "existential threat" to Israel, what is the prime minister's game?
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Why Do We Fear Iran?
Posted: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world.
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South Africa Facing White Genocide
Posted: Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
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Bartering Bypassing Corrupt Governments
Posted: Thursday, July 26th, 2012
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Could Syrian Civil War be Preview of World War III?
Posted: Thursday, June 28th, 2012
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Remembering the Korean War and those who Fought
Posted: Thursday, June 28th, 2012
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Ambassador to Israel: U.S. Ready for Attack on Iran
Posted: Thursday, May 31st, 2012
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Potential Bank Runs in Greece
Posted: Thursday, May 17th, 2012
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High Youth Unemployment Undercuts Global Stability
Posted: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
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Egyptians' Dislike for United States Grows Even as U.S. Aid Flows
Posted: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
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Japan's Sun is Setting
Posted: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
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Should America Support Israel?
Posted: Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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Obama "Brainwashes" Public on Afghanistan
Posted: Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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Who Wants War With Iran?
Posted: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
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The Bizarre Portuguese Flintstones House Built Amidst Boulders
Posted: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
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David Cameron's Finest Hour, UK resists Euro taking of Sovereignty
Posted: Friday, January 6th, 2012
"Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to veto Germany's demand for a new European fiscal union will define his premiership."
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From 7 Billion People To 500 Million People
Posted: Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger...."The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
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Will the GOP Bring War With Iran?
Posted: Monday, December 5th, 2011
Are we being lied and stampeded into yet another war by the same propagandists who gave us the yellow-cake-from-Niger forgeries? Bibi calls Mahmoud Ahmadinejad another Hitler and says we are all in 1939 again. But is this credible? True, Ahmadinejad hosted a Holocaust conference featuring David Duke and said Israel should be wiped off the map, but he does not control Iran's military, has lost favor with the ayatollah, and has been threatened with impeachment.
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"Space Tourism" Company Partners with Airline
Posted: Saturday, November 19th, 2011
"The decision last year by aerospace giant Boeing to enter the "space tourism" market offered a sense of seriousness to the field that many observers may have thought lacking prior to that point; now, the action of KLM, a major international airline, partnering with SXC offers a similar perception of credibility."
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Candidates Should Be Talking About China
Posted: Monday, November 14th, 2011
"Communist China is a tremendous national security issue. The only cut President Barack Obama is willing to make in federal spending is in our military power, which means he will be ceding our military superiority to China and other hostile totalitarian nations."
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Singapore Rising
Posted: Thursday, October 13th, 2011
"Unnoticed by the rest of the world, something significant happened in Singapore on Saturday: former Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan has, not surprisingly, won victory in a field of five candidates to become the country's seventh president. But it was a narrow victory, with Mr. Tan getting about 35 percent of the 2.1 million votes cast."
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Is the Window Closing on Israel?
Posted: Saturday, October 1st, 2011
"An Israeli officer told us that in the hospital was an Egyptian officer he had captured in the 1956 Sinai campaign, and that he had asked the Egyptian: 'We have fought three times now, and three times you have been defeated. Why do you keep fighting us?' The Egyptian replied, 'You may have defeated us three times, and you may defeat us 11 times. But the 12th time we win.'
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Politics: the Religion of the Liberals
Posted: Friday, September 16th, 2011
"I was amazed. He used his final opportunity to speak to Canadians as a forum to take pot shots at political opponents and advance partisan policy. It was directed toward all Canadians, but really those who share one particular vision of governance. You'd think we could put politics aside for one second to address a human issue that goes beyond party lines."
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Libya's Uncertain Future
Posted: Monday, September 12th, 2011
"World leaders have already begun planning for Libya's future without the man who held power there for 42 years. After six months of fighting, premiers throughout Europe have welcomed the rebels' advances into Tripoli, the Libyan capitol. Meanwhile, several countries have already recognized the rebels' National Transitional Council as the sole representative of Libya's people."
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Catching Bigger, Stronger and Faster Prey
Posted: Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
"Despite their apparent simplicity, these insubstantial creatures make their living by capturing and eating fish and crustaceans that could easily tear them apart. To accomplish this seemingly impossible task, the jellyfish trails out its long thread-like tentacles. Each tentacle can have millions of capsules loaded with tiny harpoons."
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The Legal Kidnapping of a Child
Posted: Saturday, August 20th, 2011
"In December 2009, the Stockholm Administrative Court found that the government workers had been correct in seizing Domenic since he was neither schooled nor vaccinated. The Court conveniently dismissed the fact that neither schooling nor vaccination was compulsory at that time in Sweden. It was this court that limited the visiting schedule to one hour every five weeks."
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Flash Mobs: Sign of the Times
Posted: Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
"Not only the trends over the years leading up to these riots but also the squeamish responses to them by officials -- on both sides of the Atlantic -- reveal the moral dry rot that has spread deep into Western societies."
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Mexican Drug Gangs Increase Power in Central America
Posted: Saturday, August 6th, 2011
"Cocaine is brought up from South America. There are several routes - by air, land or sea - to bring it up to Mexico and then to the U.S. Most of the routes pass through or by Central America."
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The Myth That Democracy = Freedom
Posted: Thursday, August 4th, 2011
"One thing that Into the Cannibal's Pot demonstrates is that democracy alone is not at all desirable if it is not attached to a culture that highly values the protection of life, liberty and property. The new rulers of South Africa do not."
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Extortion, Private and Public: The Case of Chiquita Banana
Posted: Friday, July 29th, 2011
"United Fruit once employed the US government to do its bidding in Latin America. This is imperialism. Also unjust is a government that persecutes American companies that are doing their best to get by. Chiquita is not only the victim of private terrorists, but of violent public-sector extortionists in the name of the war on terror."
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Troubled South Sudan Officially Independent
Posted: Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
"South Sudan is easily one of the most troubled nations in the world despite the fact that it came into existence only a few days ago. But if the people can succeed in permanently throwing off the Northern chains, analysts say the new republic will be in a much better position to develop and prosper in the coming years."
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American Sponsored AIDS Research Kills Africans
Posted: Monday, July 18th, 2011
"The latest horror is a joint project of the British government, the U.S. government and population-reduction advocate Bill Gates. The victims in this experiment are black women in South Africa. Here's how it works. Some 2,200 young women are given a microbicide gel incorporating the drug tenofovir and told to apply it to their sexual organs 12 hours before sex with their HIV-infected male partners and 12 hours afterward."
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Switzerland: An Example to Follow
Posted: Saturday, July 9th, 2011
"This is a very dangerous trend that can't go on forever. Actually, I think we are witnessing the turning point right now and that coming years will bring huge changes to these economies. This will most likely result in a severe devaluation of their currencies and socioeconomic tensions. Remember, the euro and the U.S. dollar make up almost 80 percent of the world's currency reserves, a percentage that will have to drop significantly in coming years."
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How to Snap Photos of a Lion
Posted: Saturday, June 25th, 2011
 "Amid sweltering heat, buzzing tsetse flies, baboon droppings and pee - not to mention sitting in the middle of a dirty, 25-meter-square watering hole in the Rift Valley for months on end - photographer Greg du Toit went through a lot to get these photographs."
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Democratic Dawn - or Darkness?
Posted: Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
"As for a U.S.-British belief in diversity and democracy as the world's  model, as President Obama preached in London, our own democracy is proving incapable of balancing its budgets, or winning its wars, or defending its borders. Our politics are poisonous, and tribalism is rising not disappearing."
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A Very Special Woman and Her Horse
Posted: Saturday, June 18th, 2011
"What is even mo re compelling than the fact that she can brush her horse with her feet, is that she competes, very well, at the Paralympics in dressage. Bettina didn't just overcome her disability, she walloped it!"
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The Right's Inconsistent View of Israel
Posted: Monday, June 13th, 2011
"Congressman Ron Paul was also critical of Obama's Israel policy, but from a different perspective: 'While President Obama's demand that Israel make hard concessions in her border conflicts may very well be in her long-term interest, only Israel can make that determination on her own, without pressure from the United States or coercion by the United Nations. Unlike this President, I do not believe it is our place to dictate how Israel runs her affairs.'"
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Israel in a Post-American Era
Posted: Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
"While the United States vetoed a recent Security Council resolution condemning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's continued expansion of settlements, we have no veto in the General Assembly. If Obama opposes the U.N. resolution, we and Israel will stand virtually alone."
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Is It Safe For Americans to Visit Mexico?
Posted: Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
On the one hand, some talk as though the whole country of Mexico is an anarchic shooting gallery, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That's certainly not correct. On the other hand, there is danger in Mexico and a potential traveler should be aware of it.
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Conservatives Win Big in Canada
Posted: Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
"Harper's government has pursued policies that have kept the Canadian dollar sound and the nation's economy on solid footing."
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The Incredible Rock Climbing Catfish
Posted: Saturday, May 14th, 2011
"The rock-climbing catfish's climbing equipment begins with a powerful sucker mouth. Once it attaches itself to  a rock, it can stay stuck despite any torrent. The rock-climbing catfish also has a bony plate on its belly that helps it hold its place while it repositions its sucker a little further up the rocks. The plate has fins with tiny, backward-pointing teeth. These teeth dig into the rock and prevent slipping. The catfish's third special feature is a set of powerful muscles to control the plate."
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After America Withdraws from the Middle East
Posted: Saturday, May 14th, 2011
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Abducted Homeschooler's Case Advances
Posted: Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Donnelly has expressed alarm at the family's treatment. "The  inhumanity of Swedish authorities in retaining Domenic Johansson in foster care with virtually no visitation from his parents remains a grave concern for our organization," he said. "The failure by provincial and national authorities to investigate and rectify a scandalous abuse of power on the part of Gotland municipal authorities and social workers makes Sweden look more like a former Soviet totalitarian state than a Western free and democratic one."
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The Orange Revolution: The Amazing Story of How a Deaf Interpreter Made Honesty Prevail in the Ukrainian Elections
Posted: Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
"Deaf people, inspired by their translator Natalya Dmitruk, led the Orange Revolution. They text-messaged their friends on mobile phones about the fraudulent elections, and soon other journalists took courage from Dmitruk's act of defiance and likewise refused to broadcast the party line. Over the next few weeks as many as a million people wearing orange flooded the capital city of Kiev to demand new elections."
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How the Middle East May Fall Apart
Posted: Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
"If democracy means rule by the people, ought we not to inquire  a little more closely what it is these people, down deep, really want, before we bleed and bankrupt ourselves to win it for them?"
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Swiss Model of Gun Control and Military Service
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
"Swiss reservists keep their fully automatic military weapons in their homes along with a small q uantity of ammunition. In addition, they are required to practice regularly and the government encourages citizens to engage in recreational shooting. The government also subsidizes the sale of ammunition for military caliber firearms. When a Swiss reservist is discharged from the military, they have the option of keeping their issued weapons. If they choose to do so, the weapon is modified to not fire full automatic."
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Is Poverty Due to a Poor Education?
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
"What about the word poverty? I am convinced we think of poverty in a skewed way. The lack of povert y means we have two vehicles, a modern home, and all the amenities that go with that. Of course, the average couple in their twenties or thirties don't own the cars and house they are using. They borrowed and are paying for them. Even couples in their forties and fifties are doing this. Have them use only what they actually own, and most would appear to be poor! What is wrong, though, with the couple in their twenties or thirties living within their means? That means they will probably have one older car and be renting or living in trailer park. So what?! Does that mean they are poor? Hardly! But we give that impression to our children. It results in extreme social pressure that results in them trying to 'keep up with the Jones,' whether we want to admit it or not."
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Heroes Emerge in Wake of Japanese Disaster
Posted: Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
"British teacher Robert Bailey, 27, who had a day off on the Friday of the earthquake, had elected to appear at the high school where he teaches in the coastal town of Ofunato to teach a group of 42 students how to play cricket. When the emergency sirens sounded to warn of the impending earthquake, Bailey immediately led his students to safety, onto a baseball field and out of danger. He is being touted by local residents as a hero for his quick and calm response to impending disaster."
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Is War in Libya Worth One American Soldier?
Posted: Friday, April 1st, 2011
President Obama addressed the nation on March 18 to rationalize putting U.S. military pilots in harm's way in Libya. Do his arguments stack up? Obama's arguments should be judged on whether it's "worth it" for a mother to lose her only son toward attaining the stated goal. Sadly, it's not difficult to envision at some not-too-distant time Obama attending the funeral of one or more Air Force pilots and giving a tightly wrapped flag to the mother of a pilot who dies in the line of duty in Libya.
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Tsunami Aftermath - Japan Still in Danger
Posted: Thursday, March 24th, 2011
"The greatest threat still lingers as the Fukushima Daiichi nucle ar facility's reactors are in danger of melting down and releasing radio-active material into the atmosphere. The No. 1 reactor blew the roof off of the inner structure last Saturday and a similar explosion occured at reactor No. 3 on Monday morning."
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Eight Reasons not to be Optimistic about Egypt
Posted: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
"You have not been getting the whole truth about Tahrir Square. To this day, the print edition of The New York Times has not reported the sexual assault on Lara Logan, the chief CBS TV foreign correspondent, by 200 Egyptian men in Tahrir Square yelling "Jew, Jew" while they assaulted her. CBS News itself did not report on the incident until others exposed it. Likewise, few mainstream news media have reported or shown the depictions of Mubarak as an Israeli agent or attacks on other Western news teams accused of being agents of Israel."
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Abortion Doctor Killed Healthy Full-Term Babies with Scissors
Posted: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
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UKIP Leader Resembles Tea Party Leaders as He Rips EU
Posted: Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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England Rejecting European Socialism
Posted: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
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Fewer Firearms, More Crime
Posted: Monday, October 11th, 2010
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Hypocrisy: Mexico Building Security Fence Against Guatemala
Posted: Monday, September 27th, 2010
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Mexico Celebrates its Centennial and Bicentennial
Posted: Monday, September 27th, 2010
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Europe's Lightbulb Socialism
Posted: Monday, September 13th, 2010
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Stop Helping Pakistan!
Posted: Monday, September 13th, 2010
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Tell the Terminally Ill to "Trust God", Get Yourself Fired By
Posted: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Injured Pastor Given Food and Water
Posted: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Departing Europe
Posted: Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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What Jerusalem Means to Israel
Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
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What Price Afghanistan?
Posted: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
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The End of Democratic Socialism
Posted: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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Incensed and Outraged Over World Reaction to Israel
Posted: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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Gendercide: China's Massacre Of Unborn Girls Means There Will Soon Be 30m More Men Than Women
Posted: Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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The Military and the New World Order
Posted: Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
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Posted: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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SCIENCE vs ALARMISM
Posted: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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Uganda Confronts "Loud-Mouthed Homosexual Lobby"
Posted: Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
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Posted: Sunday, July 31st, 2016
The effort to merge this diversity at the expense of a nation's purpose and perimeters results in the opposite effect. Just look at America's attempt to promote diversity. It has resulted in division and conflict. It is destroying relationships, cities, and our own nation.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
The vast majority of Africans, in other words, never had reliable means of calling a doctor or a loved one.The rise of the cell phone changed all that. In 2014, 84 percent of Africans had a cell phone
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Posted: Saturday, February 27th, 2016
French Butcher Buys Meat Vending Machine to Skirt Laws, Woman Fined for Scaring Away Rapist with Pepper Spray, and more...
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Posted: Saturday, January 30th, 2016
A gun-rights activist is not surprised that firearms are flying off the shelves in some European countries.
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Never-Ending U.S. Hypocrisy on Cuba
Posted: Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
In a visit to Cuba to improve relations, U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker dutifully lectured Cuban officials on what they need to do to improve conditions in Cuba. According to an article on ABCNews.com, Prizker said,
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What Caused ISIS?
Posted: Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
In Buddhism, it is taught that things do not simply happen. Causes and conditions lead up to them: This is because that is, and that is because this is. Even something like a hurricane doesn't just happen; a series of weather causes and conditions leads up to it. This is a universal truth. The Bible tells us that whatsoever a person sows, so shall he reap. And: A man does not pick figs from thistles.
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World Headlines
Posted: Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Electric "Skin" May Improve Prosthetics, China Critic Sees Problem With 'Birth Permit' Change, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, October 30th, 2015
Israeli Restaurant Offers Discount for Jews and Arabs Who Eat Together, Israeli Restaurant Offers Discount for Jews and Arabs Who Eat Together,and more...
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Posted: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Children Who Spend Time Outdoors Have Better Vision, Canadian Government Says Doctors Must Assist Suicide,and more...
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Posted: Friday, August 28th, 2015
Advocates of ending child labor need to gain some respect for unintended consequences.
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Posted: Thursday, July 30th, 2015
Last week's successfully concluded Iran agreement is one of the two most important achievements of an otherwise pretty dismal Obama presidency. Along with the ongoing process of normalizing relations with Cuba, this move shows that diplomacy can produce peaceful, positive changes. It also shows that sometimes taking a principled position means facing down overwhelming opposition from all sides and not backing down. The president should be commended for both of these achievements.
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Posted: Thursday, July 30th, 2015
ACLJ: Obama Ignored Jailed Americans for Iran Deal, Welshman Lifts Ancient "Stone of Strength",and more...
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Posted: Thursday, June 25th, 2015
Self-Defense in the UK Is Illegal, UN Health Target Neglects Care to Elderly, and more...
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"Overpopulation" Solved by Unlimited Resources
Posted: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
The world is bigger than you think. That's the strange conclusion that follows from some basic economic principles, as explained by Professor Don Boudreaux.
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'Homeschooling is a Right'
Posted: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
More than a dozen homeschool organizations and advocates will be proclaiming "Home education is a right" to the world at the second Global Home Education Conference, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next March.
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Magatte Wade and the Answer to Africa
Posted: Friday, April 24th, 2015
Senegalese entrepreneur provides the development blueprint for poverty's last stronghold
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World Headlines
Posted: Monday, March 30th, 2015
Nigerian Soldiers Defeat Boko Haram, Wales Hospital Lets Baby Die Because He Was Born Before Abortion Cut-Off, and more...
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World Headlines
Posted: Thursday, February 26th, 2015
Abortion-Pushing West Can Learn from Africa, Says Pro-Lifer, Ukrainians Rebel Against War,and more...
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Man Spends 12 Years Trapped in Vegetative State
Posted: Friday, January 30th, 2015
A perfectly normal boy at age 12 in the late 1980s, Martin Pistorius found himself drifting into a vegetative state - one he would disappear into for a dozen years, then through love and faith emerge from to celebrate a life reclaimed.
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Open the Door to Cuba and Get Out of the Way!
Posted: Saturday, December 27th, 2014
President Obama today took a bold and surprising step toward ending the futile 50 year US embargo of Cuba.
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The Markets of Lagos, Nigeria
Posted: Friday, November 28th, 2014
A market is a place where people go to buy and sell goods and services. And in Lagos, Nigeria, there are so many of these markets. Some of these markets are very big in size and content while some others are usually very small.
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World Headlines
Posted: Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
U.K. Launches War on "Non-Violent Extremism," Seeking UN Help, Swiss Reject Government Health Care, and more...
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Scotland: May We All Live Free
Posted: Friday, September 26th, 2014
The important cultural analysis by Geert Hofstede, conducted in the 1970s and 80s, and impacting many research paradigms since, concluded that the United States is the most individualistic culture in the world. However, there are a handful of Western countries that approximate our American rugged individualism, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Along with the U.S., these countries share a legacy of freedom and liberty. The state of New Hampshire tells us, "Live Free or Die," but this motto reflects the heritage of our entire Western experience.
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World Headlines
Posted: Thursday, August 28th, 2014
Australia Justifies Police State Because of 125 Terrorists, Entrepreneur Builds Road When Government Drags Its Heals, and more...
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The Economics of Scottish Secession
Posted: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
Not all secessionist movements are created equal, because some secessionist regions are more economically independent than others. In the case of Venice and its region, secession in the medium- to long-term appears rather plausible because of Venice's long history of economic success, political independence, and its current status as a wealthier region of Italy.
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Fighting Worsens in Ukraine; Russian Troops Massing on Border
Posted: Friday, June 27th, 2014
Recent battles in eastern Ukraine have grown increasingly bloody, even as authorities in Kiev continue to seek an end to the conflict. Ukrainian soldiers and Moscow-backed insurrectionists have been engaged in pitched battles, with casualties now numbering in the hundreds.
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Kudos to Equador for Evicting US Troops
Posted: Friday, May 30th, 2014
Good for Ecuador's President Rafael Correa for kicking USAID out of his country. If only every nation in the world would do that. While part of USAID's activities ostensibly relate to helping "the poor," that's just a cover to disguise the real mission of the agency: to act in tandem with the CIA to engage in political activity designed to effect regime change in foreign countries.
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, May 2nd, 2014
World's Tallest Building Planned in Saudi Arabia, Economic Freedom Leads to Cleaner Air, Study Shows, and more...
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Homosexuals and Muslims Vie for Canada's Most Oppressed Class
Posted: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
As the world's governing classes hunt down liberty and kill it, the murder is often performed in the name of someone's "rights."
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Ghost Ship Adrift for a Year
Posted: Thursday, February 27th, 2014
The 40 year old cruise liner, the Lyubov Orlova, was lost at sea early last year while being towed back to the Dominican Republic. The 4,000 ton ship had previously been impounded at a port in Newfoundland, Canada due to debts owed on the ship.
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
ESL Textbook Omitted Israel from the Map, Spanish Engineer Designs Giant Passenger Airplane, and more...
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Texas Oil Changing the World
Posted: Friday, January 3rd, 2014
The virtual explosion in Texas' production of natural gas and oil, thanks to fracking, caught even Citigroup off-guard. In February it apologized for so widely missing the mark in its report the previous year entitled "Energy 2020: Independence Day":
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The American Century is Over Time to Restore the Republic
Posted: Friday, January 3rd, 2014
"Neo-isolationism is the direct product of foolish globalism. ... Compared to people who thought they could run the universe, or at least the globe, I am neo-isolationist and proud of it."
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Global Warming Deceives America
Posted: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
It should be clear that teaching Americans we are now part of a global economy and teaching schoolchildren they are citizens of the world is a deceitful message to con us into a plan to add the poor countries around the earth to our list of welfare handout recipients.
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Is America Afraid of Iran?
Posted: Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
"Iran's Nuclear Triumph" roared the headline of the Wall Street Journal editorial. William Kristol is again quoting Churchill on Munich.
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, November 1st, 2013
Missing da Vinci Painting Discovered, Sugar: A Dangerous Drug?, Sugar: A Dangerous Drug?and more...
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Australia Votes to Crush Carbon Tax and Big Government
Posted: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
Voters in Australia delivered a landslide victory for a more liberty-minded coalition on September 7 that ran on a market-friendly platform and vowed to abolish the deeply unpopular "carbon tax," reportedly winning the biggest parliamentary majority in about a decade.
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Pan American: The Golden Airline
Posted: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
Pan American Airways began in 1927 with Juan Trippe, a true visionary, as its ambitious president. It started as a simple air service for carrying mail between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba, but within a year, they progressed to carrying passengers.
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
Israeli Plane Turns Around to Pick Up Cancer Patient, Man Born Blind Receives Sight After Injury, Greeks Take Care of Their Own as Government Fails and more...
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Can Men Like Tommy Robinson (EDL) Save Britain?
Posted: Friday, June 21st, 2013
In the immediate aftermath of the recent Islamic butchering of a British soldier in broad daylight on a London street, Twitter was awash in outrage - but not so much against the Muslim terrorists. The massive outrage and hatred was directed against the controversial protest movement known as the English Defence League.
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World Headlines
Posted: Friday, June 21st, 2013
Riots in Sweden as Welfare Fails to Create Utopia and more...
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Who Are the War Criminals in Syria?
Posted: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Last week, several polls came out assessing U.S. public opinion on intervention in Syria. According to the Huffington Post poll, Americans oppose U.S. air strikes on Syria by 3-to-1. They oppose sending arms to the rebels by 4-to-1. They oppose putting U.S. ground troops into Syria by 14-to-1. Democrats, Republicans and independents are all against getting involved in that civil war that has produced 1.2 million refugees and 70,000 dead.
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Russian Bombers Perform Simulated "Strikes" on Sweden, U.S.
Posted: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
On May 6, Russia received its first shipment of Sukhoi Su-34 twin-seat fighter-bombers (known by NATO as "Fullback"). The Su-34 is the newest generation of fighter-bombers intended to replace the outdated Soviet-era Sukhoi Su-24s.
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Lies About Libya
Posted: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
There can be honest differences of opinion on many subjects. But there can also be dishonest differences. Last week's testimony under oath about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 makes painfully clear that what the Obama administration told the American people about those events were lies out of whole cloth.
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The Great U.S. Crisis in Pakistan
Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Karzai's public denunciation yesterday of the U.S. collusion with Taliban forces in Taliban attacks on his government forces in Afghanistan to lead the U.S. forces to stay in Afghanistan longer may be true or false, but they miss the point of U.S. military strategists who want to stay in Afghanistan with massive bases and forces.
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Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Obama-backed Egypt Forging "One Nation" With Sudan Terror Regime, Coptics Under Siege at Egyptian Cathedral, Drone Strike in Afghanistan Kills Eleven Children, and more...
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Atheist Countries Idolize Their Leaders
Posted: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
The gushing, almost angelic praise for Hugo Chavez by the left in America and around the world has been shocking to behold, but hardly surprising. I will not bother repeating the litany here. Rather, I'd like to focus on another surreal aspect of Chavez's death-namely, the rush to preserve and display his body, so the faithful may pilgrimage and pay homage for decades to come.
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The Answer for Africa's Poverty
Posted: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
We will always have the poor among us (Matthew 26:11), but over a billion living on less than $1 a day? It is natural for well-meaning individuals to work to change this situation. Intellectual entrepre
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World Headlines
Posted: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
British Scientists Estimate 8.7 Million Species of Animals, Listing African Lions as Endangered May Place Lion Population at Risk , Mega Basements Banned in London Area and more...
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On Russia's Adoption Ban
Posted: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Vladimir Putin has sparked international outcry by banning adoptions of Russian children by American families. His action immediately halted the departure of hundreds of Russian orphans about to board planes to journey to a new life. It was a cruel move, widely condemned as "callous" and "vindictive."
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Greece's Depression Becomes Real
Posted: Thursday, January 31st, 2013
For Greece, 2012 was an...interesting year. You can see more clearly the effects of the ongoing economic crisis in this country, chiefly through the closed shops and the explosive growth of dumpster divers which formerly was the exclusive territory of enterprising gypsies. But still and all...it's a weird sort of crisis.
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Al-Qaida in the Heart of Africa
Posted: Thursday, January 31st, 2013
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction" is Newton's third law of physics. Its counterpart in geopolitics is "blowback," when military action in one sphere produces an unintended and undesirable consequence in another.
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Ship Them to Asia!" Germany's Solution to Care for the Elderly
Posted: Thursday, January 31st, 2013
Now here's a cost-effective solution. When it costs too much to care for the elderly, and you're a government official, what can you do to help balance the budget? Ship them to Asia.
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Middle East Democracy?
Posted: Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Here's the first paragraph of my last year's column "Democracy Is Impossible": "After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and 'experts' in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the end of 42 years of tyranny and the beginning of democracy in Libya. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Gadhafi's death represented an opportunity for Libya to make a peaceful and responsible transition to democracy.
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Sweden Pursues Homeschoolers... Again
Posted: Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
It makes homes more comfortable with IKEA, driving safer with Volvo, and communication easier with Skype -- but when it comes to homeschooling, the country of Sweden makes parents' life as difficult as possible.
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Uganda's President Leads in National Repentance
Posted: Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
The African nation of Uganda has done something that would horrify most politicians and bring out the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation in record numbers.
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Ethanol Mandates Plague Developing Countries with Rising Food Prices
Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2012
The expanding use of ethanol in U.S. oil production, prompted by government mandates that require the use of biofuel in gasoline, is escalating the price of corn while plaguing poor countries with rising food prices. Critics worldwide are now questioning the federal government's ethanol mandates, as the use of American-produced corn for biofuel has added more than $6.5 billion to the food import bills of developing countries, particularly in North Africa and Central America.
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How Many Muslims are Terrorists?
Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2012
I read that 23 percent of the world's population is Muslim, or 1.6 billion people. Whatever the number is, it's large. How many are terrorists out to terrorize westerners and push them out of areas they consider to be Muslim areas? How many are terrorists who attack other Muslims? How many are terrorists who attack people of other religions? One source says that Muslim attacks worldwide and against all targets, failed and successful, add up to 18,000 since 2001.
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In Spain and Elsewhere: Separatism Is Alive and Well
Posted: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
The New American Spain has long battled Basque separatism. That separatism may become more powerful as the Spanish economy melts.
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Welcome to the Great Depression-Greece
Posted: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
With its latest reported unemployment rate of 24.5%, Greece entered, this summer, Great Depression territory. The worst year for unemployment in the US was 1933, at 24.9%. Things are expected to get worse here. A chief problem is that Greece has one of the most closed, sclerotic business climates in Europe.
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Time to Leave the Middle East?
Posted: Saturday, September 15th, 2012
If they will not protect our embassies from mobs who come to burn our flag, let us lower the flag ourselves and bring Old Glory home.
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China Constantly in Political Danger
Posted: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Two major events in China are sure to shape the world's newest superpower: the sensational murder trial of Madame Gu Kailai, and the top secret leadership conclave at the seaside resort of Beidaihe.
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Has the Day of the Islamist Arrived?
Posted: Thursday, July 26th, 2012
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Canadian B&B Closes Over Discrimination
Posted: Thursday, July 26th, 2012
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Chinese State Infanticide
Posted: Thursday, June 28th, 2012
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Is This the End of 'One Europe'?
Posted: Thursday, May 31st, 2012
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Don't Let UN Take Over the Sea
Posted: Thursday, May 31st, 2012
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Israel, Obama, and the Iranian Dilemma
Posted: Friday, May 4th, 2012
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Canada Moves Closer to Cashless Society With Digital MintChip Currency
Posted: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
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Miracle in Thessaloniki
Posted: Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
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Homeschool Leader Flees Swedish Persecution
Posted: Friday, March 16th, 2012
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Global Positioning Lobsters
Posted: Thursday, March 1st, 2012
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What to Do in a Crisis
Posted: Thursday, February 9th, 2012
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I Give Up- Things are Bad
Posted: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
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China's Economic Implosion Accelerates
Posted: Monday, January 9th, 2012
"On Monday, Gordon Chang, the author of The Coming Collapse of China and regular contributor at Forbes.com, was interviewed on Yahoo's Daily Ticker, where he observed, "If you look at all of [China's] indicators, they all point down." In the United States the real estate bubble was blown up with paper money financing totaling approximately 50 percent of the country's GDP. In China, the total paper money financing, on- and off-book, totals about 200 percent of that country's GDP. The popping of the China bubble will be heard 'round the world."
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Economic Liberty? Cuba's baby steps toward liberty
Posted: Monday, January 2nd, 2012
"Starting on October 1, 2011, some 52 years after Fidel Castro shot his way to power in Cuba, it finally became legal for some poor guy in Cuba to sell the 1965 Russian-made Moskvich piece of junk he's had sitting up on blocks in his front yard for the better part of half a century."
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Why I Deny Global Warming
Posted: Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
I'm happy to be known as a "denier" because the label of "denier" says nothing about me, but everything about the person making the charge. Scientific theories are never denied or believed, they are only corroborated or falsified. Scientific knowledge, by its very nature, is provisional and subject to revision. The provisional nature of scientific knowledge is a necessary consequence of the epistemological basis of science. Science is based on observation...
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All Roads Lead to Rome
Posted: Monday, December 5th, 2011
"Everything we are we owe to Greece," said the desk manager at the hotel we were checking into. "All that we were as an empire, and are as a nation, has its roots in Greece. Some of our greatest cities, like Naples, were originally Greek colonies." It was passing strange for an American to hear a citizen of a nation that predates his own by a couple thousand years thus sing the praises of a civilization older still...
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Empowering Dependency for 10 Years in Afghanistan
Posted: Thursday, November 17th, 2011
"Ironically for Afghanistan, creating a centralized state and a modern, professional military will perpetuate the dependency on foreign patronage that has plagued that country for centuries. Therefore it seems fitting that military and civilian planners in Washington have made clear they never intend to abandon Afghanistan."
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Small Italian Town Bids to Become Sovereign, Prints Its Own Currency
Posted: Friday, October 21st, 2011
"Luca Sellari, mayor of Filettino, had different ideas: he decided to create an independent monarchy with himself as prince, and a new currency, the fiorito (which means small flower) with an exchange rate of two fioritos to the Euro (about 72 cents each)."
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UN Troops Accused of Sex Crimes Worldwide
Posted: Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
"Outrage is mounting around the world against United Nations "peace-keeping" soldiers as sex-crime allegations, ranging from charges of rape and exploitation in Haiti to wide-spread sexual abuse of children in the Ivory Coast, have exploded into the headlines this week."
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Russian Village Defends Itself from Criminal Gang
Posted: Saturday, October 1st, 2011
"For all of its problems, Russia clearly is no longer the land of Lenin. For all of our advantages, it's just as clear that the United States of America is no longer the Land of the Free."
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Nelson Mandela and Volunteerism
Posted: Thursday, September 15th, 2011
"If someone is actually getting paid to do work, he or she knows that at least one person values it. In contrast, volunteer work may or may not be useful, because it lacks the feedback of market prices. My point in this article isn't to denigrate volunteer work, but rather to rehabilitate paid work."
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Why Provoke Russia?
Posted: Friday, September 9th, 2011
"In co-sponsoring S.R. 175, Sen. Lindsey Graham contended that 'Russia's invasion of Georgian land in 2008 was an act of aggression, not only to Georgia but to all new democracies.' This is neocon propaganda."
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The Forgotten Failures of the Peace Corps
Posted: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
"A 1980s Peace Corps recruiting brochure proclaimed, 'Most people talk about world problems. The Peace Corps solves them.' The Peace Corps's world-saving pretensions were a joke on American taxpayers and Third World folks who expected real help."
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Living Stones and Flying Flowers
Posted: Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
"If, of all the millions of living things on Earth, a few creatures happened to look like something they are not and this helped protect them, we might put it down to chance. However, the creation is filled with too many creatures who practice look-alike deception to put it down to chance."
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Tough Immigration Controls Save Denmark $10 Billion in 10 Years
Posted: Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
"Denmark has imposed tough measures to stem the flow of Third World immigrants, and those stricter laws have saved the taxpayers about $10 billion during the past decade. The country now boasts the strictest controls in the European Union."
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A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway
Posted: Friday, August 5th, 2011
"Breivik is evil - a cold-blooded, calculating killer - though a deluded man of some intelligence, who in his 1,500-page manifesto reveals a knowledge of the history, culture and politics of Europe."
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Brazil and Private Property
Posted: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
"Brazil has some of the strictest gun control laws on the planet. As you might expect, it means the only people to have guns are the criminals and cops, sometimes the same thing. In a land where money talks and corruption talks louder, the line between punk and police can be a thin and arbitrary one."
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Roman-era Wreck May Hold Key to Cures for Modern Disease
Posted: Thursday, July 28th, 2011
"Pills found on board a 2nd century B.C. shipwreck were packed with crushed carrots, parsley, onions, alfalfa, and other vegetable matter, conforming to the recipes contained in ancient medical treatises."
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News in Short - World 0212
Posted: Friday, July 22nd, 2011
News in Short - World 0212
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Will Turkey Be the Next Middle East Power?
Posted: Friday, July 15th, 2011
"The first thing that the West must understand concerning the concept of the caliphate is that it is somewhat of a blank canvas for Muslims. To the Muslim socialist, it is through the concept of the caliphate that a socialist utopia will become a reality. For the moderate Muslim, it is in the idea of the caliphate that a tolerant Muslim empire will arise."
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Hungary's Pro-Life Constitution Draws Ire
Posted: Friday, July 1st, 2011
"As pro-life efforts in the United States have been gaining momentum, similar endeavors have garnered some success in European nations as well, most notably Hungary."
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Puerto Rico, Canada: Two Conservative Examples
Posted: Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
"Fortuno is governor of Puerto Rico. Two years ago, he fired 17,000 government workers. No state governor did anything like that. He cut spending much more than Walker did in Wisconsin. In return, thousands of union members demonstrated against Fortuno for days. They clashed with police. They called him a fascist."
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Officially-Sponsored Gun Smuggling Harmful to Mexico - and Hypocritical
Posted: Monday, June 20th, 2011
"Both Mexico's Calderon administration and the U.S. Obama administration blame U.S. gun shops for the proliferation of guns in Mexico. This concerns American firearms owners who think it may be used as an excuse to take away their gun rights."
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Myths of the Middle East
Posted: Friday, June 17th, 2011
"There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc."
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Perfect Financial Storm Shaping Up for Europe, U.S.
Posted: Friday, June 10th, 2011
"We are back t o Greece, the little economy whose collapse set the European crisis in motion. As we warned at the time, the original Greek bailout and accompanying sigh of collective relief from the world financial markets would do little besides postpone the evil day."
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Zimbabwe Looks to Gold Standard
Posted: Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
"The government there 'ditched the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009 after it had been rendered worthless by record inflation levels and adopted multiple foreign currencies with the US dollar, the South African Rand and the Botswana being the most widely used,' the report said.
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Canadian Judge Reveals Bias Against Homeschooling
Posted: Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
"Faris also noted that the family was denied access to a fair trial: 'The judge refused to hear expert witnesses and evidence regarding the value of homeschooling over public schools. Unfortunately, the judge placed excess weight on protect service experts who found that one child's hearing impairment 'indicated' that the parents could not be trusted."
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Why the Royal Wedding Fascinates Americans
Posted: Monday, May 16th, 2011
"There is an underside to our distant fascination that has nothing to do with our politics and a lot to do with our culture. Here in the States, the popular culture has little to glorify beyond the numerous antics - sex, drugs, decadence - of Bradgelina, Lady Gaga and The Donald. No wonder we live in an age where relationships, especially among the young, boil down to discrete sexual encounters, convenient hook-ups, and on-line chats. No wonder one in four Americans think that marriage, which once gave meaning to all our other institutions, is old-fashioned."
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Palestinians Pushing for Declaration of Statehood
Posted: Saturday, May 14th, 2011
"Until Friday I believed that the Israeli government did not know what to do about the threatened Palestinian statehood declaration in the UN and was doing nothing. However, an article in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot (not available online) reveals that in fact the government is not sitting on its hands. In an article entitled "Hoping For Netanyahu's Initiative," Nehama Duek notes three lines of foreign ministry logic on the matter:"
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Has Bin Laden Won?
Posted: Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
"Following Sept. 11, 2001, the George W. Bush administration had no choice but to topple the Taliban and smash al Qaeda. But Mr. Bush made the greatest mistake of his presidency - one that will haunt America for years to come. After the fall of the Taliban, he embarked upon nation-building. The Muslim world was to be made safe for democracy. America was pushing a 'freedom agenda' for Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon."
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When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?
Posted: Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
"With the fall of the Mubarak regime in Egypt have come Islamist attacks on Coptic Christians. How will the Copts fare if the Muslim Brotherhood wins the September election and writes Shariah into Egyptian law? In 'The Price of Revolution' a half-century ago, D.W. Brogan inventoried the costs of the revolutions that so often intoxicate secular Western man."
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Mexican Drug Cartels Operating in at least 1,286 U.S. Cities
Posted: Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
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The Militarization of Compasion
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
"The language  of disaster and recovery efforts is one of centralization - a military effort is required to tackle the urgent problem. But the militarization of compassion is not very effective in achieving improvement."
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The London Rioters and Their Targets
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
"Spokespersons for the marchers seemed angrier at 'the media' for  covering such violence than those who were violent, and one can see from the coverage of the event that for every small gang of violent thugs, there was a much larger crowd of leftists behind them cheering them on."
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Japanese Nuclear Scare: A Reality Check
Posted: Thursday, April 7th, 2011
"First, let's put the accidents in context: the Fukushima reactors survived one of the worst earth quakes in the historical record without breaking down catastrophically. This is a compliment to the designers (GE, in case anyone was wondering), the construction crews, and the operational teams. If the same had been true of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the accidents that occurred at those sites would have been of interest only to specialists."
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Where Have All the Children Gone?
Posted: Monday, April 4th, 2011
"The fertility trends in the United States mirror global trends. Jonathan Last pointed out that our  fertility rates have been falling ever since our Founding. From an average of over 7 children per female in the late 18th Century to a nadir of less than 2.1 during the Great Depression, it was only the period 1945-1965 did our TFR's actually increase. During the Baby Boom years the TFR reached a peak in 1960 (3.6 children per female). But by 1980 our TFR sank to 1.8 . It currently stands at just over 2.0 (2.06) thanks in large part to immigration (both legal and illegal)."
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Afghan Government's Crime, Corruption Creates More Terrorists Says British Think-Tank
Posted: Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
"'The Talib an have played on the deep desire of Afghans for security and rule of law, and nostalgia in some quarters for the 'harsh, but just' period of Taliban rule - a nostalgia which exists despite the Taliban's many abuses,' said Kate Clark, the report's co-author.'"
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Why Being Hunted Is Good for Africa's Lions
Posted: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
"P lacing African lions on the Endangered Species List will effectively end hunting of the animal. When the conservation and financial incentives that hunting provides are lost or mismanaged, the value local communities place on the sustainability of lion populations greatly diminishes. This leads to humans killing lions as a result of human-lion conflict."
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Libya: It's Their War, Not Ours
Posted: Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
"What would be the purpose of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya? According to advocates, to keep Moammar Gadhafi from using his air force to attack civilians."
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Comparing U.S. Students to Other Students
Posted: Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Every three years tests are given in reading, math and science skills to 15-year-olds in developing and developed countries. The results may suprise you.
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U.S.-Mexico Border Bloodshed Escalates
Posted: Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
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Tribalism Returns to Europe
Posted: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
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Who Is the Enemy?
Posted: Monday, September 27th, 2010
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The Amazing History of America
Posted: Monday, September 27th, 2010
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Was Iraq Worth It?
Posted: Monday, September 27th, 2010
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House Prices Declining from Peaks Around the World
Posted: Monday, September 13th, 2010
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Giethoorn: The Dutch Village With No Roads
Posted: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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No Letup in Iraq for Some Military Forces
Posted: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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No Letup in Iraq for Some Military Forces
Posted: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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The Cycle of Violence in Afghanistan
Posted: Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
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Just What Is America Doing all Over the World?
Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
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Does Obama Hate Black People?
Posted: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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Member of Parliament: Execute Those Christians!
Posted: Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
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A Desperate Battle Pitting Pistols against RPGs
Posted: Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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The Latest Bailout: It's Still Greek to Me
Posted: Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
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Cavalry Arrives for Beleaguered Homeschool Family
Posted: Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
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Greece in the Pressure Cooker
Posted: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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Retrospect on the 2010 Winter Olympics
Posted: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
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