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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. ...And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehe...

I've been making the point that the unreasonable and even poisonous rhetoric regarding BP and the gulf gusher should be fought, not feted. Blind hatred and the craven need to blame someone underlies that rhetoric, and Obama wallows in it in the smarmiest hypocritical fashion imaginable. The US meets England in their first-rou...

Excellent! The Canadian children are taught to be losers, which will ensure American domination of Canada for future generations. Except... our kids are now playing 'baseball' where no score is kept. The strike zone has disappeared, everyone swings until they hit. The children are told to chatter it up "batter batter b...

Since I was a young boy, I've loved the game of soccer (football, to most of the world and certainly to the rest of you former British colonials). In the last 30 years, the degradation of play and fan behavior have shocked and saddened me. Once famed for the "Joga Bonito" (Beautiful Game) exemplified by Brazil's Pe...

So there's no reason to stop Muslim immigration to the US? A number of jihadis are coming over our unsecured southern border disguised as Mexican illegals, who are routinely successful at negotiating the Border non-Patrol of late. Others got here more obviously, like the two New Jersey residents just arrested. New Jersey terr...

This is craziness. Being "abducted" in international waters will create a huge incident. What will be the outcome of this incident is up for debate; a debate I my humble opinion, has gigantic geo political repercussions. Could this change U.S. foreign policy against Israel? Any kind of strong words by the White House, whic...

If you didn't already know, one of the blessings of Sharia law is the right, even the duty, to kill any Muslim who converts to Christianity. This is already Afghani law, so the Parliament broadsides are not strange, nor are they new. Tuesday, AP reported that Abdul Sattar Khawasi, deputy secretary of the Afghan lower house in p...

For years we have been told that Turkey became "secular" after the defeat of the Ottomans in WWI. Women don't have to wear burkas or even scarves. The atrocities like the Armenian genocide and numerous massacres of Christians and seizure of property and churches of non-Muslims was a "thing of the past." Yet ...