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Plagued by bad governance, Europe is losing its shirt

PARIS — As I arrived back home via Charles de Gaulle Airport this week, my taxi was caught up in an Air France layoff-announcement protest in which some executives literally lost their shirts when they were mauled by a mob of angry proles. Granted, this was still more civil than the days when the guillotine […]

Why Obama prefers politicizing to actual politics

President Obama was right. He was right when, just a few hours after the horrible shooting in Oregon, he decried the fact that such slaughters have become “routine.” He was even right, in a sense, when he defended politicizing the tragedy. “Of course,” Obama said Thursday night, “what’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere, will […]

Shooting Victims Say No to Disarming

The gun control nuts are at it again – talking heads and politicians calling for tighter gun laws. And the left is once again spearheading the effort with Obama’s “political” speech and Hillary’s efforts to close gun sale loopholes – as if there are any loopholes left to close.   Hillary also says she wants […]

Charlatans and Sheep: Part II

One of the secrets of successful magicians on stage is directing the audience’s attention to something that is attractive or distracting, but irrelevant to what is actually being done. That is also the secret of successful political charlatans. Consider the message directed at business owners by Senator Elizabeth Warren and President Barack Obama — “You […]

Mysterious creature terrifies villagers in Thailand

Have you ever wondered what happens when you cross a buffalo with a crocodile? Well, wonder no more! Villagers in a remote Thai village have been left bewildered and terrified by the appearance of this bizarre creature. The strange looking animal has dark, scaly skin like a reptile and a crocodile-shaped head – despite being […]

Vanderbilt’s Healthy Masculinities Week Attacks Masculinity

To achieve liberal utopia, it isn’t enough that society be fundamentally transformed. Individuals must be socially reengineered. For example, men must be made less manly: The size of G.I. Joe’s biceps and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s guns in the Terminator movies is proof that the dominant form of masculinity is out of control. That message and similar […]

Forget Illegal Immigrants; Legal Immigration Will Soon Destroy America

People sometimes use the term “existential threat” to describe dangers that are not truly existential because they are unlikely to result in the total eradication of our civilization. Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is a very serious problem likely to result in millions killed and incalculable economic damage, but it is not an existential threat to […]

Furious Roseburg Residents to Obama: ‘The President is Not Welcome Here’ [Video]

This is what I call an absolutely appropriate response. The publisher of a conservative newspaper in Roseburg, Oregon, aptly entitled the Roseburg Beacon, David Jaques, has some advice for Obama, who plans on visiting the Umpqua Community College where a murderous psychotic gunned down nine Christians last week… don’t bother. He’s not welcome there. And […]