Archives for the ‘Global’ Category

Georgia and Russia risk war over South Ossetia

I’m not too familiar with the history of South Ossetia. I don’t know too much about Georgia either. What’s very clear is that the current conflict in South Ossetia could easily explode into a larger problem, drawing in neighbors.
TBLISI, Georgia (CNN) — Russian television Friday showed a convoy of Russian tanks and said they were [...]

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The state owns your children. And you too.

I like freedom. I like liberty. I like choice. To have these things, a society must be willing to tolerate a variety of activity and behavior that might be described as odd, eccentric or weird. Unfortunately, most of the world does not have freedom, liberty or choice due to petty men in robes and their [...]

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The most irritating tourists

And the award goes to the French, who have apparently felt the need to compete with our fat, opinionated travelers from places like Hoboken and St. Louis for the most irritating travelers award.
According to a recent international survey, the French are now considered the most obnoxious tourists from European nations, and behind only Indians and [...]

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UK gun ban is working, criminals now use knives to kill

Instead of using guns to commit murder, some British crime victims are now tortured with knives and then set on fire. Crime does not go down because of rules. In some cases, it goes up instead. While we are not yet being told the reasons for this horrific crime, we do know that:
Laurent Bonomo and [...]

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Campaign against guns, get stabbed to death

Social crusaders and their first counsins the do-gooders love to tell the rest of us what is wrong with us. They’re usually completely ignorant of root causes involved and attack the symptoms instead. Got a gun violence problem? It’s the guns we should take away, not the violence.
Great Britain prohibits firearms but still has major [...]

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