Muammar Gaddafi

A Flotilla of Troubles

Another week, another mass drowning of miserable people, another ostentatious lamentation from politicians and pontificators, all the way up to The Pontiff himself. As the author ...

Enthusiastic Place Seekers

We shouldn"€™t be irritated when politicians utter absurdities "€“ they are only doing their job, after all "€“ but nevertheless we are irritated. Unfortunately, different ...

The Euro’s Long Agony

And lo, the Lord did smite the followers of Baal and do unpleasant things to the worshippers of false idols and crass ideas. And face it, few belief systems come more stupid than ...

Torc Waterfall in Ireland

The Demand for Perfection

I was in New York when Lehman Brothers collapsed, in Dubai when property lost half its value in a few days, and in Dublin recently when there was a demonstration against the ...

NIgel Farage

A Stick in the Eye for the Soft Invasion

For the first time in 100 years, a British national election has been won by a party other than Conservative or Labor. Conservative: 24%; Labor: 25%; UKIP: 27%. It's an historic ...

George Osborne, MP

Britain’s New Tax Spat

The latest political spat in the UK is over income tax. Well, let me qualify that. It would be terrific if there really were a debate about the existence of income tax. After all, ...

The Hate That the Hatred of Hate Speech Produced

Apparently I was the only Canadian who wasn’t shocked when singer Steven Page was nicked for possessing cocaine back in 2011 (while in the company of a woman not his wife, ...

Marine Le Pen

Something Smells Vichy in France

Can anyone point me in the direction of the far right? How far is it, say, from the center? Is it more “out there” than the extreme right? Is the far right limitless, ...

Nothing Toulouse

If only the Nazis had “come for” Reverend Niemoller sooner. Maybe then we’d never have to hear his stupid “poem” again. “First they ...

To Be or Not to Be in the EU?

Oh, to be in England! The weather is bad, the cities are crowded with bearded Pakistanis, and the law shields foreign criminals from being deported under the dubious right to ...

France Rediscovers Human Nature

Edward Feser, one of my favorite American philosophers, asks: Why the constant harping about the separation of church and state, but not, say, the separation of naturalistic ...

Simeon of Bulgaria, Alexander of Serbia, Michael of Romania, Constantine of Greece

Return of the Kings

A specter is haunting Europe"€”and pace Marx, it is the specter of monarchy. Whenever a ceremony of any sort is performed for or by a deposed ruling family's members"€”as has ...

Castellón de la Plana airport

Monuments to Spanish Insolvency

Spaniards alternate between rage and bewilderment as Europe lurches closer toward the currency implosion that will most likely vaporize Spain's banking sector. Wasn"€™t it ...

European Nationalism: Golden Dawn or Old and Gone?

Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization, seems destined to become either the West's coffin or the site of its rebirth. The nation's debt crisis, combined with the fact that ...

The Magyars”€™ Revenge

All of the chatter about the euro obscures another important news item out of the mother continent: the reaction in Europe and the United States to the new Hungarian Constitution ...

Attikon Cinema

Charge Them With Corruption!

I was sad to read that the Attikon Cinema on Stadiou Street in central Athens was burned down by anarchist scum pretending to protest against the EU Nazis. The Attikon was built ...


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