The end result of the welfare state
I was going to write about the French riots, the British spending cuts and layoffs, and the German budget but Monty at Ace’s did it better than anything I can come up with: This is our future This is...
View ArticleDoes this sound like a man with Alzheimer’s?
President Ronald Reagan – June 12, 1987 General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this...
View ArticleNigel Farage goes to it
While the Crisis Ensnares [the European] Central Bank in Desperate Bid to Save Euro, the man who said, “If the EU ever had any intention to democratize itself it would have done so in the...
View ArticleCuba: Fidel and the Nazis
Fidel Castro ‘recruited Nazi SS members to train troops during Cuban missile crisis’ Fidel Castro recruited former members of the Nazi SS Waffen to train his troops at the height of the Cuban missile...
View Article“72 is the new 30″? Only if you compare to cavemen
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany found that Those primitive hunter gatherers, at age 30, had the same odds of dying as a modern Swedish or Japanese...
View ArticleParaguay: Nueva Germania, and Nietzsche’s sister
What did Nietzsche’s sister do in Paraguay? Simon Romero reports,
View ArticleEichmann’s true nature: 2 reviews of “Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The...
Bettina Stangneth shows that Adolf Eichmann acted out of genocidal anti-Semitism, and challenges Hannah Arendt’s claim that he was “terribly and terrifyingly normal.” Gerald Steinacher at the WSJ:...
View ArticleHow a German trial relates to the #Nisman case
Roya Hakakian explains Germany’s commitment to justice: Iran’s Assassins in Berlin The determination of the prosecutor, the press, and the Iranian exile community made all the difference in Germany,...
View ArticleWhich LatAm countries are at the G-20?
Three: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Here’s the class of 2017 picture, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri (#6), Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto (#4) and Brazil’s Michel Temer (#11) are in attendance.
View ArticleDe Blasio rushes off to G-20
De Blasio, a former sandalista Sandinista supporter who honeymooned in communist Cuba, may have to travel across the Atlantic to Show Attitude, but you can’t expect him to show spine anywhere Read my...
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