The list of species that global warming zealots claim will be wiped out by climate change is long: Antarctic penguins; Arctic polar bears; Australia’s koalas; British dragonflies …   
But in what could be a case of Darwinian evolution in action, the BBC reports that “great tits cope well with warming.” Presumably, great tits won’t do […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
“To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
There is at present but one flag upon Earth’s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful […]

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Proving yet again that you can be a smart and politically-aware German intellectual type and still not have the slightest idea what the Berlin Wall was, photographer Kai Wiedenhoefer and his Left and Green Party supporters in Berlin’s Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district will be exhibiting an exhibition which will equate the West Bank “Wall” with the Berlin […]

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This discussion about lifting the ban on Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Germany, I mean. And although it’s nothing new when foreigners like me are dismayed about the fact that Mr. Psycho Man’s manifesto is still unavailable here (at least not openly and through the “proper” channels), I vaguely remember having read parts of it once […]

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It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw.
Obama was moved to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters in MA and […]

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Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke.
For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry […]

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It was democracy in action again yesterday in Berlin, and it all went terribly wrong. Well, in my view it did. We all know that a government is only as good as the people who elect it (or vote it out of office), but if anybody ever had any doubts about referendums, well, here we […]

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In New York’s Times Square on Sunday afternoon, Armenians, documentary filmmakers, politicians and historians who refuse to allow the nearly successful genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Turks to be forgotten, gathered to mark the 93rd year of the atrocity and of the Turkish denials.
The two-hour event featured the usual speeches – you know, that quote […]

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Well, I guess it’s time to say goodbye. You know, take leave, adieu, farewell, so long, auf Wiedersehen.

Anyway, I had this strange dream last night. It went something like this:
Hermann: Now, you’ve got to listen to me! Do you have any idea what you’d have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances […]

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Everybody has doubts now and again about decisions they have made. Even politicians do, although they are always the very last to admit it. It’s understandable, it could mean your job after all.

And although Berlin’s mayor Klaus Wowereit may haughtily dismiss Chancellor Merkel’s recent comments supporting keeping Berlin’s Tempelhof airport open as being a “transparent party […]

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Taking example from John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI did not scold Americans during his first pontifical visit to the United States. Just like John Paul II, he was also concerned about his public image. Vatican diplomats have admitted as much in their pre-trip media interviews when they suggested that the pope will try to present a moderate tone during his American visit. More […]

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Germans can be einfach kompliziert (simply complicated) sometimes. And they don’t even seem to notice or mind all that much when they are being that way, too; which is kind of what makes all of this so complicated, which is simple enough, when you get down to it, really.

Take Oskar Lafontaine of the Left party, for […]

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In yet another futile attempt to overcome the decades of pacifism they and their fellow Germans have been forced to endure after that unfortunate World War II thing (and those rather unpleasant Nazi atrocities many still associate with it), a renegade and somewhat drunken German special forces unit has taken the initiative and attacked Great […]

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On April 12, 1961, one of mankind’s greatest achievements occurred.
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space, carried there on a Vostok rocket.
In those days, it was an embarrassment for the United states, and led to Kennedy’s aim for the US to be first on the moon. The ultimate result of […]

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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: the […]

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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 of the […]

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Assalamualaikum, Islamic Greetings of Peace
Peace Tv is a household name not only in Pakistan  but also  entire Muslim world.because it has presented a convincing picture of Islam through wise talks, debates and dialogues.
Infact Ijaz ul Haq, son of late Zia ul Haq, a minister in Musharaf’s government is a big fan of Dr.  Zakir Naik. […]

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U.S. audio historians have discovered the oldest-known audio recording, created by a French inventor named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville on April 9, 1860 - 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Up until now, the oldest recorded sound still in existence has been from 1888. This predates it by 28 years.
The recording, which […]

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In his speech last week Barack Obama declared, “race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” In response, the Los Angeles Times asks: “How do we start a national dialogue on race?”  New York Times columnist Bill Kristol advises, “[l]et’s not, and say we did,” because “[t]he last […]

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I was startled to read in the Christian Science Monitor:
It’s the End of Britain as we know it….if ratified, it will become the decisive act in this creation of a federal European superstate with its capital in Brussels. Britain would become a province and its “Mother of Parliaments,” a regional assembly…
The Eurocrat elite in Brussels […]

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With Obama’s recent defense of 1960’s style rhetoric of anti Americanism, perhaps it is time for those of us who remember that era speak up about where that rhetoric of hatred can lead.
So today’s headline reminds us of a ghost from the past:
CNN declares:
’70s radical-turned-housewife out of prison
Sara Jane Olson, a former […]

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The City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County Indiana are experiencing what is called a “100 year rain.” As of 10 a.m, Evansville Regional Airport had received a record-breaking 6.52 inches of rain. The single greatest rainfall on record for Evansville was 6.5 inches, set on Oct. 6, 1910. The Ohio River is at 37 feet […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
The undaunted asininity of the vast majority of the “Anti-War”/ Peace Movement” in regards to Operation Iraqi Freedom necessitates that each year we update and post our IRAQ INVASION ONLINE REFRESHER COURSE.  To this day chants of “Bush Lied People Died” - though fewer in number and lesser in rabidity - can […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
Unrivalled Churchill biographer and dear friend, Sir Martin Gilbert got it wrong in a recent interview with the Jerusalem Post. In it he elaborates upon parallels between the free world’s appeasement of Iran and the free world’s appeasement of Nazi Germany seventy years ago. Sir Martin notes that by the time Hitler […]

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Or at least it seems to me like they have to start up one of these ridiculous German army “issues” every week around here these days. As if German soldiers didn’t have enough to worry about already; weight problems from not doing any combat, psychological problems from not doing any combat. Now these soldiers are […]

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After many experts at first mistakenly assumed that the face actually belonged to that strange old fat broad neighbor lady from downstairs, Scottish forensic scientist Kate Connolly has confirmed that the face she just reconstructed in Germany is none other than the one that once belonged to the legendary and long dead baroque composer Johann […]

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Those discussing the phrase “natural born citizen” in the debate if McCain qualified to run for president under that phrase haven’t investigated to find what that phrase meant to the founders of the United States..
Law, like theological questions, uses phrases that those without experience may reinterpret literally to bolster their own beliefs or agendas. Hence […]

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A wave of broken promises and tactless plans vis-à-vis Berlin (and the rest of Europe, so the Germans claim) by French President Nicolas Sarkozy has led many observers here to wonder if Mr. Sarkozy has maybe not accidentally mixed up Germany with the United States of America.

“Hello? This is Berlin calling,” said one high-level French-speaking […]

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Greg Felton says he doesn’t hate Jews. But at the Vancouver Public Library Monday night, City Librarian Paul Whitney went into damage control mode over the decision to feature Felton and his book, “The Host and the Parasite: How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed America”, during Freedom to Read Week. Whitney explained that the library “must stand […]

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We all know about that poll where 20% of US students thought Sudan was located in Asia, and 63% couldn’t find Iraq on a map.
But one expects a little more knowledge of history and Geography at the New York Times.
Today’s paper has a story questioning if McCain was eligible to be president, because he was […]

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