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Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of fake Mullah Akhtar Muhammad…
Continue reading →The Drifting Capital of Terror
The printer cartridge bombs which nearly blew up U.S.-bound commercial jets have turned Sana’a, Yemen, into the new world terror…
Continue reading →Why Libertarians Should Support the Palestinians
Israel is at it again, caught by its own free press with its hand in the till-not so much the…
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Congress shall make no law…abridging…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress…
Continue reading →Let it Leak: Wikileaks and Patriotic Whistle-Blowing
Spare a kind thought for my old friend Michael Morrell’s oldest son, Geoff, the Pentagon’s Press Secretary. The Defense Department…
Continue reading →Lord Acton: Hereditary peer who was instrumental in ending the inherited right to vote in the House of Lords
Although a hereditary peer, Richard Acton was one of the prime movers of Lords reform that in 1999 led to…
Continue reading →Israel’s Great Loyalty Oath Crusade
Captain Black from Catch-22 is back, but this time he’s Israel’s Foreign Affairs Minister. Although Avigdor Lieberman only rose to…
Continue reading →Do we stop caring after the miners are free?
At last men came to set me free; I ask’d not why, and reck’d not where; It was at length…
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