Swimsuit Hillary and other disturbing images of the 2016 Presidential campaign
(Warning: disturbing nudity. Proceed at your own risk, and only if you have a strong stomach.) …
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Looking for love in all the wrong place, the Convention Edition
Forget the boring party Conventions with their overhyped and hyperventilated rhetoric and the ugly divisions between the Trump and Never Trump forces on the one hand and between Hillary and …
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The bomber will always get through
Even before all the horror of World War Two, the pessimists used to say “the bomber will always get throughâ€. How right they were, as millions of residents of London, …
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Ten signs the American political system is broken and we’re all going to hell
1)The Democrats have succeeded in stopping a Socialist who has never been a Democrat from becoming a Democrat presidential nominee. The Republicans have not succeeded in stopping a Democrat who …
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Make Russia Great Again
I simply love waking up to headlines like “Russia Could Invade Poland ‘Overnight’”: The Atlantic think tank warns: “Even if Moscow currently has no immediate intent to challenge NATO directly, …
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Is Islamophobia rational?
Islamophobia can be defined as dislike or hatred of, or prejudice against, Islam or Muslim. The phobia part of the word, however, originally refers to fear. Mayo Clinic defines phobia …
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$19,400,000,000,000
While all the children in both the Republican and the Democratic Parties are throwing sand around, pulling faces at each other and pissing in the sandpit, the US federal debt …
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The Audacity of Melania Trump (UPDATED)
Update: And now this: Original post: A word, or two, as a …
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Return of the Manchurian’s candidate
It’s obviously my inferior Polish genes talking, but I have been consistently worried about Donald Trump’s history of playing footsy with Vladimir Putin and disregarding potential and actual threats that …
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Pokemon Go jumps the shark
OK, so I finally broke and stopped resisting the craze. Downloaded. Started playing. Now I’m disgusted and disturbed. Never again.
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Glocks easier to get than books? Depends what you mean by “easier”
Rightly or wrongly, the most talked about bit of President Obama’s speech at the memorial service in Dallas is his observation “We flood communities with so many guns that it …
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Let’s make all Black Lives Matter
I guess it’s probably just my white privilege talking, but I was never very interested and never wrote a lot about racism and racial issues. As a honkey, born and …
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Democrats – the parallel universe, in 5 easy headlines
There are the known unknowns and the unknown knowns, and then there is the Democratic Party reality.
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The grim cost of no war in Iraq
The left loves fighting wars – against wars. The release of the Chilcot report in Britain has given the anti-Iraq war left the new lease of life in re-fighting 2003. …
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The Great Malaise: First the US and the UK, France next
We are living in the midst of the Great Malaise, the time of cynicism, disenchantment and distrust. The elites are revolting against the masses and the masses are revolting against …
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#AmericaWasNeverGreat isn’t that great
Nothing perhaps gives me shits more in politics than the smarmy and self-satisfied self-loathing of the Western lefties. The “My country, always wrong†attitude is not only self-indulgent and morally …
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Looking for love in all the wrong places
Chalk up another great victory for equality. As a result of a settlement flowing from a class action brought by two gay plaintiffs, a number of Christian internet dating sites …
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Happy birthday America, and please pick up your act
Today, the United States of America is celebrating the 240th anniversary of the original Brexit. Despite some initial reasonable showing from the Remain campaign, the Leave folk did eventually manage …
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Elie Wiesel
While we were busy electioneering in Australia, Elie Wiesel passed away in New York at the age of 87. A Romanian Jew, he was the only one of his immediate …
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Identity politics jihadi-style: you killed the wrong people, Omar
Al Qaeda has posthumously chastised ISIS allegiant Omar Mateen for muddling the message by shooting gay Latinos instead of non-sexuality specific Anglos. In their online magazine “Inspireâ€, Al Qaeda in …
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