One of the best things about living in an international city like The Hague is meeting and socializing with people from all over the world. I recently attended an informal gathering of such a group, and, unsuprisingly, the conversation turned to the upcoming US Presidential election. One man, an Australian, casually remarked that if we […]
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Is it just me, or is Sarah Palin getting the greatest praise from Fred Thompson supporters? I started thinking that she’s probably the closest thing to a female John McClain that’s ever graced American politics. And of course, she’s running with his virtual namesake.
I feel that’s a connection worthy of pictoral celebration.
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Maybe McCain has been listening to the blogosphere, because I haven’t heard the mainstream media or the Republican machine pushing for Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, and, until yesterday, it seemed likely that McCain would choose his Vice President from a short list of solid, yet uninspiring candidates.
I’m pretty lukewarm about McCain, but Palin is a […]
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I’ve posted before about what ”helpful” allies we have, but the Germans are at it again. Ahead of Barack Obama’s visit to Berlin, the German Social Democrat Party (SPD) cautioned him against calling for greater German participation in Afghanistan.
“Obama should only ask of us what we are able to deliver,” Niels Annen — a member of Germany’s federal parliament, […]
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So said Saudi marriage officiant Dr. Ahmad al-Mu’bi last week on Lebanese television.
“You can have a marriage contract even with a 1-year-old girl, not to mention a girl of 9, 7 or 8,” he said. “But is the girl ready for sex or not?” What is the appropriate age for sex for the first time? […]
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Via Instapundit.
These days, with environmentalism elevated to the status of a new age religion, it’s hard to fight the central dogma surrounding climate change and still be heard at all with respect to the environment. To the True Believers, those of us who, like me, don’t believe that man-made CO2 is causing global warming, cannot, […]
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Via Gateway Pundit.
My husband has been raving about Lt. Col Alan West, U.S. Army (Ret.), a candidate for Congress in Florida’s 22nd district, since he stumbled on this video of West on the stump.
He made me watch the video, and I was duly impressed, but I was even more impressed with the statement he issued to […]
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It appears that I was right to be concerned about the EU overruling the Irish “no” vote on the Lisbon treaty.
European leaders met last Thursday to discuss how to proceed. They apparently concluded that the solution is to lay the effort on Ireland’s lap, and push them to make the “correct” choice.
This is my favorite […]
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So gas is at $4.00 a gallon.
Cry me a river.
With the dollar’s slide and the rise in oil prices, I just filled up at $9.52/gallon here in The Netherlands. And guess what? That’s not enough to get me out of the car and onto a bicycle, despite the fantastic bike infrastructure here (bike lanes with […]
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You can count on the Irish to call a spade a spade.
Irish voters have soundly rejected ratification of the Lisbon treaty, foiling the plans of the powers-that-be, who would have crammed the EU constitution down their public’s throats despite their vociferous objections. The proposed constitution was rejected in 2005 by public referenda in France and The […]
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