By Alan CarubaAll Presidents have had to deal with events around the world that seemed to call for a military response, but it was President Eisenhower who laid down the doctrine to avoid what he called “brushfire wars”, [...]
One down several hundred to go
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Another peer was jailed today for robbing us, though the official version reads falsely claiming £11,277 in parliamentary expenses. Still robbing us who pay tax though, not that the pigs who do this seem to feel any sort of shame over it.BBC.Former Conservative [...]
Global Warming Charlatans Feel the Heat
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By Alan CarubaThe University of Virginia, after vigorously resisting a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request for data related to the emails of Michael Mann, was the subject of a court order to make them available. While [...]
Misleading headlines
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A lot of people when they read the newspapers in the dead tree press and online will simply skim the headlines and only read what they want too. Headline writers know this and will attempt to grab peoples attention by making the headline punchy or relevant [...]
One hell of a day
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I'm very tired today, some of that is because I worked a 12 hour nightshift last night and have just started a second one tonight (yes if it's quiet I can blog from work) mostly it has to do with not getting enough sleep. [...]
Memorial Day 2011
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A poem by Henry Reed from World War Two captures the brutal absurdity of war as it depicts a new soldier listening to a field lecture on the various parts of a rifle and compares it to the beauty of the world around [...]
600 More Days of Obama
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By Alan CarubaAs of May 30, 2011, America has 600 days more of rule by President Barack Hussein Obama.He is the 44th President and, while we have had incompetent Presidents in the past, we have never had one determined to [...]
Compare and Contrast (again)
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Pretty much everyone remembers the Baby P case and the aftermath where the head of Social Services at Haringey Council Sharon Shoesmith was sacked for the lamentable failings of that department. That you would have thought would be the end of it, however [...]
Offended by proxy
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There's a World War 2 re-enactment going on in Bury this coming weekend, I'm sure it will be great fun and everyone will have a whale of a time, save those who wish to dress up in the fancy dress of the Germans, because they have been banned for doing [...]
Boredom
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By Alan CarubaI have this theory about boredom. I think it is the cause of a great deal of mischief in people’s lives and even may underlie why nations go to war. Even the current turmoil throughout the Maghreb and the Middle [...]
A kick in the teeth
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The government recently passed the Military Covenant into law and the Tories always like to present themselves as the party that looks after the armed forces, despite the fact that a close examination of what they say and what they do not matching up [...]
John Wayne's Birthday
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By Alan CarubaIt’s not a national holiday but, for some, it should be. On May 26, 1907 Marion Robert Morrison came into the world in Winterset, Iowa. When he left on June 11, 1979 he was John Wayne, an American icon. Men [...]
The Homosexual Agenda
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By Alan CarubaPeople’s concerns about homosexuality are deeply rooted and even reflected in sacred texts. There is no mystery to this. Opposite sexes are understood and expected to be attracted to one another. When this [...]
Protesting
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I believe people have the right to protest so long as they keep to the law, I also believe that when enforcing the law the police should be obedient to the law as well. That's why I think Muslims Against Crusades had the right to protest against President [...]
Time to Leave Afghanistan
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By Alan CarubaThe Greek philosopher Plato said, “Only the dead know the end of war.” I doubt that in the five thousand years of what we call civilization there has ever been a day when war has not been taking place somewhere [...]
Who Said It? A Fun Quiz
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This is a fun quiz. Listed below are 10 direct quotes. You have to guess which American politician said it. Ready? Here we go!1. "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's."A. Barack ObamaB. Dan QuayleC. Sarah PalinD. George W. [...]
Taking the mickey
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Seems our idiot government has decided that it might be a good idea to pay people who shouldn't be here to go home.Express.FOREIGN criminals have been handed up to £25million of taxpayers’ cash to go home despite having no right to remain here, it emerged [...]
Republican Russian Roulette
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By Alan CarubaI have a friend who thinks the ghost of Bob Dole is stalking the Republican Party and Dole isn’t even dead! What he means, of course, is that, at this point, the present batch of candidates are not that [...]
Can't do the time?
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Yes, it's that saying, "can't do the time, don't do the crime" save only that some pathetic scumbag thinks he might just have come up with a get out of jail card in the Human Rights Act.BBC.A 33-year-old Nottingham burglar has appealed against his sentence, [...]
There is No Palestine
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By Alan CarubaDespite a very forthright speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday in which the President stated his “unshakeable” support for Israel and cited evidence of it, the greatest obstacle [...]
Human wrongs
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There's a guy out there, a Tunisian who has been recruiting Islamists to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.The Home Secretary has already ordered that he be kept out of the UK, however our borders are so porous that he came here anyway and is now going to [...]
Bogus Sex Scares Used to Ban BPA - The BPA File, Part Five
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By Alan CarubaOver the course of the first four elements of The BPA File, we have documented a massive, global campaign to ban bisphenol-A, BPA, a chemical that has been safely used for more than a half century to protect [...]