“On the 19th September 1946 Winston Churchill delivered a famous speech at Zurich University which proposed the formation of a united Europe. Prescient though Churchill was about the need for political unity to replace conflict in Europe, there was some ambivalence about the part that Britain was, in his view, to play in this development. [...]

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Check this out: Natural Gas,via TPMBarnett’s webpage: natural gas deals are proceeding internationally: the flow out of North America alters things, regionalizing flows more as Japan and Germany move off nukes and seek to ramp up their use of gas to generate electricity, and as emerging markets in general ramp up their gas use… (cheap [...]

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My husband as a young teenager joined his older brother’s guerilla group to help rid Luzon of the Japanese in 1945. Alas, the story of the terrible fight, first in the city of Manila, and later against the fleeing Japanese hiding in the jungles and mountains of Luzon, is too often forgotten, overshadowed by those [...]

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On Facebook, some friends noted they watched the “Day of the Dead” celebration in California and Tuscon. This is a Mexican custom which not so much “celebrates death” as it mocks death, and in most Latin American countries, it now coincides with All Saints day (November 1) and All Soul’s day (November 2), the days [...]

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Last time, after the health care ‘summit’, he continued on with his own plans despite every good idea and point made by his opposition. This time, it was “get to the people and announce a border guard surge before McCain gets to the Senate floor.”

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Obama, in yet another speech last Friday, failed to apologize for not having been any better than his predecessors in taking action to protect the border, and blamed Congress, (who he had forced into a year long pre-occupation with health care) for failing to enact ‘comprehensive reform.’ He then made another ‘promise’ that if Congress continues to waste its time pandering to his agenda, “We will continue to see misguided efforts opening up around the country.”

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The father of the “green revolution”, Norman Borlaug, has died. Some of use are old enough to remember when famines in Asia were common, and when the “Population bomb” types were predicting mass starvation of millions of poor people. The famines didn’t happen, because Borlaug, and other agricultural scientists, developed high yield wheat and grains, [...]

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President Barack Obama today announced his choice of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, as his first selection for the Supreme Court. Citing Christ’s judicial wisdom, impeccable knowledge of the law, and “empathy,” Obama proudly presented his nominee in the East Room of the White House. Rush Limbaugh wasted no time in seizing his microphone to condemn [...]

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To those out there desperately trying to paste together scraps of enthusiasm by singing the poetic praises of VP Dick Cheney, please don’t expect the average conservative out in flyover country  to join your little Republican booster club.     Certainly, there is not much to disagree with in what the former VP says.  No doubt, we’re [...]

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Upon hearing that Chris Simcox had decided to take on John McCain in the AZ 2010 Senate race, I’ll wager many a good conservatives thought, “oh. Cool!”    Nothing would be better than to see John McCain become as positionally irrelevant within the GOP as he actually is.  Wouldn’t it be sweet to see someone come [...]

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One gets the impression from many news stories that the so called “Swine Flu” is going to wipe out humanity. Calm down and take a deep breath. One reason that “swine flu” has such an ominous echo is because the last time it threatened, back when Gerald Ford was president, it was believed that swine [...]

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Yesterday was Palm Sunday, and I am happy to report that our “palms” are eco friendly: we had one of our workers climb up the wall to one of our smaller palm trees and cut a couple branches. These workers then showed our granddaughter Ruby how to weave them into several designs, including one that [...]

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Here in the Philippines food poisoning is a common problem. We eat local veggies, and grow organic veggies that use a chicken manure based fertilizer. So when we heard that the US was having a Salmonella outbreak from Tomatoes, my husband Lolo ordered our cook to wash the tomatoes well. No use taking a chance. [...]

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Obama’s been in the news courting faith voters, talking to evangelical leaders. McCain? He’s been visiting Colombia and Mexico. Ho hum. Yawn. I was bemused when one political writer wondered if the hostage rescue in Colombia had been “timed” for his benefit. Tres estupido.  What if the rescue had gone wrong? But of course, the [...]

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In the largest workplace raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to date, 389 workers were detained at the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville, IA, on May 12th, and during the following week 297 of them were tried on – and pled guilty to – charges of document fraud. Twenty-seven immigrants received [...]

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End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!! End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents  Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!   The impoverished nation of The Gambia, is currently witnessing untold human rights, social and [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog.  Hilarious and nauseating at once is mankind’s chronic inability to retain wisdom acquired at the cost of much blood, toil, tears, and sweat. This tragicomedy was played out for us in no uncertain terms upon our recent Stateside pilgrimage to one of the more forgotten shrines to the cause of Liberty: [...]

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Since May 2007, Absolut Vodka has been running an ongoing ad campaign created by TBWA/Chiat/Day/New York, “In an Absolut World,” described by The New York Times as: [A] fanciful, even surreal, place where common sense prevails and just deserts are always on the menu. On Planet Absolut, for instance, men can get pregnant, the Curse [...]

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This article is a second release of this musing. It was published last June, but should have another revisit by Catholic readers. In light of the recently listed “sins” that include those against the environment. HJMN There are always ways that the Catholic Church can join in the environmental movement in small but yet effective [...]

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The Wall Street Journal calls AZ “a laboratory for new ways to crack down on illegal immigrants.” Spurred in large part by “transplants” from other parts of the country, The Journal notes that AZ enacted 13 laws aimed at curbing illegal immigration, many of which triggered lawsuits or have yet to be enforced. These include [...]

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The Failed War on Drugs Combined Edition for January-February 25 Links to stories about Corrupt Cops, Reforms, Botched Drug Raids, News, This Week in Drug History and More The USA’s Second Longest Running “War”–After the “War on Poverty”  Corrupt Cops, This Week in Drug History, Reforms, News, More! Our January-February Special Edition of the “Failed [...]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday [...]

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Autism Campaigners around the world are appealing for greater support on Autism Sunday 2008 – the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. Churches of all denominations will be remembering over 60 million people worldwide who are on the autism spectrum, in prayer.Parents groups and charities have been calling for more support and [...]

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Three months to the day after the Dem presidential candidates gathered at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, for the “Univision” debate, the Republican candidates did the same. For those who were watching the Pittsburgh Steelers get their asses kicked by the New England Patriots and tuned in late or not at all, [...]

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Dog to Appear on Larry King LIVE on CNN Dog the Bounty Hunter: Mexican Charges Finally Dismissed Dog and Wife, Others Land at LAX: Video “Have you made up with Tucker? Have you guys made up?” Finally. The Bounty Hunter got a bit of good news yesterday: he will not be extradited to Mexico to [...]

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At the beginning of September, Channel 5 News revealed a shocking story in Roma, Texas. As their cameras chronicled, each morning dozens of Mexican kids are crossing the border from Mexico into the Texas border town of Roma to attend an American school, free of charge. You read that correctly. American tax money is funding [...]

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    The world has lost its most famous and best-loved mime. Marcel Marceau revived the art of mime after World War II and his “Compagnie Marcel Marceau” performed as the only mime troupe glabally until the late 1960s. Many performers were influenced by Marceau and he directed the Ecole Internationale de Mime before beginning Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame in Paris [...]

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On Sept. 13th, Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McCraw announced in a speech to the North Texas Crime Commission that Texas authorities had apprehended terrorist suspects who were sneaking across the Mexico/U.S. border. Shouldn’t such a report be running through the MSM like wildfire? Yet, the MSM seems to be ignoring this explosive report with [...]

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When it comes to enforcing immigration laws, the federal government’s right hand is in a bare-knuckles fistfight with the federal government’s left hand. And We the People are getting bloodied and bruised in the fight to stop enabling and rewarding illegal immigration. A new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative announced last month by the [...]

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Mexico’s president Felipe Calderón used the occasion of his first state-of-the nation address to declare war on the United States (AKA Azatlan), proclaiming that, “Mexico does not end at its borders,” and “[w]here there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.” El gato is out of the bag. The 400,000 illegal aliens who cross our southern [...]

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