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Mining Coal Is Good, But Burning Coal Is Bad? Struggling To Understand The Left
By Daniel Hannan ~ This isn’t another blog about the Iron Lady. There have been quite enough of those already: we have, so to speak, reached Thatcheration point. Rather, it’s an attempt to get to grips with why so many people react with venomous rage to her name. Some of the abuse, of course, is […]
Before There Was Thatcher, There Was Churchill
By Alan Caruba ~ An older generation of Americans who lived through World War II recall the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who John F. Kennedy said, “In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone and most men save Englishmen despaired of England’s life, he mobilized the English language and sent it into […]
No, Margaret Thatcher Was Far Smarter Than The Global Warmists Claim
By Andrew Bolt ~ Here in Australia, the sad passing of Baroness Thatcher is major news, and is across all of the media outlets, and while most of the news is similar to what it is in most Countries, Andrew here mentions one point that she received little praise for, her scepticism of the Climate […]
Britain Pips Australia For Green Madness
By Andrew Bolt ~ Just when you think Australia takes the booby prize for global warming madness, along comes Britain: …the giant Drax power station in Yorkshire… is one of the biggest and most efficiently run coal-fired power stations in the world… and it supplies seven per cent of all the electricity used in Britain… […]
Italy Votes Against The Elites – And The Hairshirt
By Andrew Bolt ~ A big comeback in Italy’s election for Silvio Berlusconi, foe of Italy’s intelligentsia, and a massive blow for Euro bureaucracy and the technocrat they installed as Italy’s unelected Prime Minister. Plus, of course, chaos: But the result this time around is a baroque one: Prime Minister Mario Monti relegated to a […]
Turning Off Britain’s Lights
By Andrew Bolt ~ Christopher Booker on the madness of the green zealots running Britain’s energy supplies: Alistair Buchanan, retiring head of the energy regulator Ofgem, [warned] that next month we will see the closure of five major coal-fired power stations that between them contribute nearly a sixth of the UK’s average electricity needs. Over […]
Spending Time In The Tenth Century
By Alan Caruba ~ For the past week, I have been spending time in the tenth century—the 900s—that led ultimately to the concept of “Europe” as nation-states we know today as Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. Across the Channel, England, Ireland and Scotland were besieged by the Vikings who also attacked Europe along with the Magyars […]
London Lord Mayor Boris Johnson Dares Doubt Warmists
By Andrew Bolt ~ Very, very few senior politicians dare to challenge the global warming “consensus” – even now, after 16 years of no warming. It seems political suicide to challenge the latest faith of the cultural elite. Ask the Australian Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott. (Leader of the (Conservative) Coalition) One exception has […]
Another UK Health Care Horror Story Which U.S. Press Will Ignore
By Tom Blumer ~ The UK’s National Health Service has been around since the late 1940s. Despite over 60 years of trying to get health care right, it still doesn’t come anywhere close. This long-term failure has done nothing to deter the Obama administration and Democrats from attempting to replicate the horror here in the […]
Save Syria Now!
Save Syria Now! Press Release Join us at SaveSyriaNow.org Syrian internet shutoff and isolation spells impending catastrophic humanitarian disaster for Syrian citizens West needs to act to protect Syrian people from homicidal regime PHOENIX (November 29, 2012) – Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a devout Muslim and the co-founder of the Save Syria Now! issued the […]
‘Wind Farms Cure Cancer, Save Kittens, Create World Peace’ Says New Wind Industry Report
By James Delingpole ~ Wind energy is great says a new report commissioned by the Labour think tank Institute For Public Policy Research. Among the report’s findings are that large scale industrial wind farms can: Boost GDP growth by up to 3,000 per cent Cure all known forms of cancer Rescue drowning kittens from sacks […]
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming
By Chet Nagle ~ In 1966, a Soviet captain ran his submarine aground on a Massachusetts beach in the comedy film, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. In 2012 a Russian captain took his submarine into the Gulf of Mexico and did not run it aground. Instead, he proved the United States could […]
No Nukes Means More Coal For Germany
By Andrew Bolt ~ Thanks to Fukushima, one absurd green fear campaign smashes into another, leaving Germany having to choose: More than a year ago, Germany decided to opt out of nuclear and fossil based energy. It was replaced by “cleaner” energy sources, namely solar and water power. Until 2020, 35 percent of German electricity […]
The Quadrennial Sportsgasm
By Alan Caruba ~ This is for all the boys and girls, men and women, for whom sports plays little or no role in their lives. As a lad the only sports in which I engaged were those required by “gym class” which for me involved trying to avoid any activity that displayed my lack […]
London Olympics: Anti-Gang Operations Intensify
By Jim Kouri, CPP. ~ Besides anti-terrorism operations by Scotland Yard and MI5 to make London safer for the anticipated throngs of 2012 Olympic Games athletes, staff and spectators, the Yard is also attempting to prevent the city from being overrun by street gangs. This month scores of suspected gang members were targeted in a series of coordinated operations as part […]
A Potential Olympic Bloodbath
By Alan Caruba ~ A foretaste of what is likely to occur in London when the Olympic games open on Friday, July 27, occurred on July 20 when a Muslim youth shouting in Arabic, “God is great”, attempted to seize the Olympic torch as it was being carried through Maidstone toward Redhill. I was reminded […]
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- American Minute for May 20thMAY 20, 1927, at 7:52am, one of the greatest feats in aviation began as 25-year-old Charles A. Lindbergh left Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, in his silver monoplane named "The Spirit of St. Louis." Thirty-three and a half hours later he landed in Paris, completing the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was decorated b […]
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