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The Times – ‘Stop the stoning’

The execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has already spent five years in prison and received 99 lashes for alleged adultery, would “disgust and appal the watching world”, the British Government declared, as Sir David Hare, Robert Redford, Emma Thompson, Juliette Binoche, Katherine Hamnett, the fashion designer, [...]

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The Times – Sometimes peace does more damage than war

The other point is this. At the end of the Korean War, we agreed that the division of Korea should persist. Despite North Korea’s aggression — including blatant acts of war, including the possession of nuclear weapons — the West does not plan military [...]

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I’ve always thought that the FBI Wanted posters for Osama bin Laden should skip the photo of the man and have a picture of what $25 million will get you.

WANTED USAMA BIN LADEN MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY TO MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; [...]

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The Times Leader today:

“Christian convictions that deal only with ultimate principle and exclude strategic issues”, wrote Reinhold Niebuhr, the great Protestant ethicist, “tend to become wholly irrelevant.”

I think RC2 might enjoy that line. Seems to me she’s blogged on the subject a few times already.

It would be a mark of Christian [...]

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Telegraph – New Zealand mountain village for sale for £470,000

Included in the deal are the hotel, fire station, town hall and 18 houses. Otira, population 44, perches at 3,445ft high in the Southern Alps of South Island. Among the town’s attractions are spectacular snowcapped mountains and a [...]

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It’s Gerry!

Spectator – Germany’s eurozone dilemma: should they stay or should they go? By Gerard Baker

As the euro continues to dance on the brink of calamity, the people responsible for the deepening debacle have finally come up with a scheme that will save it once and for all. It’s a cunning plan that [...]

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Proving the West cares only about the world when it means admiring itself, in the Guardian.

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I love this:

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National Post – Pressure to bolster North Korean leader makes war inevitable, analyst says

“It’s actually a racist worldview that should be seen on the far right of the ideological spectrum and which is actually completely incompatible with the basic ideas of Marx and Lenin,” said Mr. Meyers [professor of international studies at Dongseo [...]

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Telegraph – France considers plan to abolish French Revolution département legacy

France’s parliament is considering a plan that could stealthily abolish the country’s historic “départements”, created after the French Revolution to unite the nation and break with the country’s aristocratic past.

Hurrah!

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Awwww.

A house around the corner (not a pun) had a big Norwegian Flag in their yard last week. This is The House in the neighborhood that does itself up for all the big holidays, but I’m thinking Norwegian Constitution Day isn’t one of them.

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Liberals should like this argument tho. It’s all about interconnectedness:

PJM – VDH: The New Old German Problem

[W]hat will happen with Germany, when it is lectured by the French, insulted by its debtor dependencies in southern Europe, and starting to become angry that only its own work ethic and productivity—not some grandiose platitudes about [...]

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A tale of two borders:

The Corner – Mark Steyn: That Ain’t Hay, It’s The USA

In effect, the sovereignty of the United States of America no longer applies in this territory – and John Morton and the Department of Homeland Security are entirely cool with that.

That’s the southern border. The northern one, the [...]

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NRO – Mark Steyn: What Arizona Must Live With Gordon Brown called Gillian Duffy a “bigot,” then got into his limo and drove away. Remind you of anybody?

I’m skipping some rather good lines, here. It was a struggle, but I overcame.

Gillian Duffy lives in the world Gordon Brown has created. He, on the other [...]

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Telegraph – First flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years ends in farce with plane impounded

The first flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years has ended in farce with the plane impounded at Gatwick airport after Kuwait went to the High Court demanding £780 million for planes stolen by Saddam Hussein.

Ouch.

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