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The drones are coming. Who could have imagined such a science-fiction tale, a president who could kill, via remote control, anyone he declares an enemy of the state – and on American soil. Until now, the White House refused to close the door on such a scenario, despite pretensions of taking civil liberties seriously. Sen.… Continuă lectura EDITORIAL: Rand against the drones

These are not happy times for the Church of Global Warming, which has been trying to repackage its manufactured hysteria as “climate change” for several years.  But according to the New York Times on Thursday, we’ve actually come full circle to where we began in the Seventies: global cooling. After some flapdoodle about global temperature spikes (in fact,… Continuă lectura “Climate change” cools off

Please excuse the radio silence: I’ve been at my old school Malvern College all week, poisoning the minds of the young with my dangerous views on sustainability, climate change, „biodiversity” and other sacred green cows. But a lot of the time, it has to be said, my work wasn’t necessary. In one geography class specifically… Continuă lectura Sorry global warming. We’re just not that into you.

The European parliament is discussing a „ban on all forms of pornography”, in an attempt to reduce the stereotyping and ill-treatment of women. I dare say it will be unpopular around here, because if anything is likely to make the commenters underneath these blog posts hate the European Union even more, it would be an attempt… Continuă lectura Banning porn: the ins and outs

We can already see the beginnings of an Eva Perón-style death cult. Latin Americans love a martyr, and Hugo Chávez’s early death has sparked bizarre conspiracy theories about CIA plots and biological weapons. Angry, histrionic and megalomaniac, the comandante was none the less popular to the end. There is an old Venezuelan saying that there… Continuă lectura Hugo Chavez: Latin America has chosen rage over progress

There’s a wonderful moment in Radical Chic, Tom Wolfe’s essay about the party Leonard and Felicia Bernstein gave for the Black Panthers in their Park Avenue duplex, when Field Marshall John Cox, who’s addressing the assembled group of Upper East Side socialites, refers to „the merchants” who are „the exploiters of the black community”. He’s… Continuă lectura Reality check for Left-wing opponents of Israel: Hamas bans women from participating in the Gaza marathon because it’s ‘un-Islamic’

This article in the Independent might just be the most dispiriting thing I have read so far this year. It is a long list of tips about “what is and isn’t acceptable in the modern workplace” and how one can avoid finding oneself in the same position as Lord Rennard – that is, accused of… Continuă lectura The obsession with sexual harassment is turning the 21st-century workplace into an emotional deadzone

Various dictators, killers and fruitcakes are fighting back manly tears today. If a leader can be judged by his friends, then the fact that the world’s most brutal regimes have paid fulsome tribute to Hugo Chavez reveals much about the late Commandante. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s regime praised Chavez for his „honourable” support of, well,… Continuă lectura Hugo Chavez and his friends are the axis of absurdity

Nu Germania a dat lovitura de gratie Romaniei, ci USL care a adus tarii doua rapoarte MCV critice consecutive si ii mentine in Guvern pe Fenechiu si Dragnea, ministri cu probleme penale nerezolvate, in loc sa renunte la ei, pentru ca Europa nu are incredere intr-un astfel de Guvern.   Vezi sursa articolului aici.

In a recent interview with the Voice of Russia radio, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari confirmed that Iraq would receive its first supply of arms shipments from Russia before the beginning of the summer, at the latest. Russia is currently waiting for the Iraqi parliament to approve its 2013 federal budget, which has… Continuă lectura $4.2 Billion Russian Arms Sale to Iraq Signals Shift Toward Moscow