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Australia’s ‘Buxom Bandit’ Busted

Charged with possession of dangerous weapons: After five days at large, Tonee Walker faced Southport Magistrates Court yesterday charged with armed robbery and stealing. The 22-year-old blonde had been wanted for the hold-up of an Arundel service station early last Monday morning. Her low-cut top, exposing an ample bosom, saw her dubbed the “buxom bandit.” […]

In The Radar World, @Nigel_Farage Is What You Call ‘Unfiltered Video’

by Smitty Nigel celebrates the 19th Euro crisis summit in the last two years with a Rolling Stones reference: via Bluegrass Pundit Update: welcome, Instapundit readers!

Fourth Of July Message From A Leader

by Smitty Would that some others one could name were possessed of such clarity: via Brietbart For contrast, via The Lonely Conservative we have:

The Smell Of Voter Fraud In The Making: Recalls The Settling Pond In Kandahar

by Smitty For those who have not had the pleasure of a visit to Kandahar, it’s like some Mad Max setting, with 115° heat, dust everywhere, and an afternoon chife that hits the nose with the subtlety of a hurled cinder block. Oh, and the rocket alerts, directing you to get into the shelters that […]

The Afghanistan War Was A Total Success

by Smitty Insty points to HotAir on the Afghanistan Surge being mishandled. This argument operates under a misapprehension that any of Obama’s Afghanistan policy was ever serious in the first place. Obama campaigned in 2008 on the notion that the unpopular Iraq war was a distraction: Democrat Obama declared that the failed policy in Iraq […]

Two French Female Police Officers Murdered by Adbdallah Boumezr

A 30-year-old North African immigrant is under arrest after French authorities say he confessed to shooting two policewomen, Alicia Champion and Audrey Berthaut. Bare Naked Islam offers this translation of a French news article: The policewomen were responding to a call about an Arab who had robbed a purse from a female neighbor. Abdallah . […]

Hey, Greece: Just Remember, Austrian Economics Don’t Work

by Smitty It looks as though the Greek election is another exercise in playing soccer on a long street with a can, kicking that can down another block. The collapse of the Eurozone has become like the decline of the Warsaw Pact, only more complex and prolonged. Pro-austerity forces have won the latest election in […]

Nigel Farage Sugarcoats The Euro Situation UPDATE: Daniel Hannan Also Has Vague Pleasantries On Offer

by Smitty Here, watch this. See if you can figure out Farage’s real opinion of Brussels under all of the whitewash and indirection: Via American Power. UPDATE, via Zero Hedge, that other famous British MEP also seems unwilling to commit to any tangible opinion on the Euro: I just wish these Brits could somehow communicate […]

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