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Ice, Ice Baby – Iceland’s people give cold shoulder to paying for acts of...
Note to the reader… Just in case you’re not all that interested in Iceland, I would encourage you to remember that it’s me writing this, and therefore it might not be entirely about Iceland. Just a...
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Landslide: Islamists on track to dominate Egyptian parliament
Winter. The Journal says the unofficial split is 50 percent for the Muslim Brotherhood and 15 percent for the even more radical Salafists. The Times says it’s more like 40 percent for the Brotherhood...
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Gallup: 71% of Egyptians oppose further U.S. foreign aid
Oh well. Looks like we just saved $1.3 billion. About 7 in 10 Egyptians surveyed by Gallup in December 2011 oppose U.S. economic aid to Egypt, and a similar percentage opposes the U.S. sending direct...
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Video: Daniel Hannan’s warning to CPAC — and America
Do not follow. Yesterday, I had a chance to interview an honored CPAC guest, Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan. Unfortunately for me and for all of us, the audio did not record properly...
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Muslim Brotherhood: You’d best keep the aid money coming if you want that...
Ransom. Regimes come and go but the bribes remain the same. US aid to Egypt is guaranteed by the Camp David Accords and stopping it would be a violation of that treaty, a high-ranking Muslim...
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Egyptian parliamentary report: Israel is our “number one enemy”
Spring fever. I saw something about this at Iran’s English-language house organ, Press TV, and figured it was propaganda aimed at driving the wedge between Israel and Egypt a little deeper. Not so....
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Egyptian parliament considering bill legalizing, er, sex with spouse after...
Farewell. Reminds me of that story in 2006 about Iran supposedly requiring its Jewish citizens to wear yellow badges: Hard to believe, yet not nearly as hard to believe as it should be. In fact, blogs...
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Counter-revolution: Egyptian court invalidates parliamentary elections,...
“Egypt just witnessed the smoothest military coup.” Critics are calling it a de facto military coup and … yup, that’s pretty much what it sounds like. If you can spare five minutes, the NYT’s story is...
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French businesses responding to new Socialist regime with about as much...
“We fear a systematic strangling.” Over the weekend, the citizens of France elected a new socialist majority into the lower house of parliament, completing the trifecta of socialist governance along...
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France willfully setting itself up for failure
No, this time, socialism will work! France’s socialists recently gained a sizable majority of their parliament, as well as electing the ultimate champagne socialist to the presidency. I’m enjoying...
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Standoff: New Egyptian president defies military, orders parliament back to...
Power play. Looks like this is coming to a head tomorrow so let’s start paying attention now. What’s a newly elected president to do after he’s been stripped of meaningful power by a ruling military...
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Socialist France is “fixing their economy” by raising taxes on the wealthy....
…that sounds oddly familiar. As I’ve recounted before, France recently ousted former “right-wing” President Nicolas Sarkozy in favor of Socialist President Francois Hollande, and they elected a...
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