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‘Arab Spring’ Sequel: ‘Arab Anarchy’

Here is the headline stack from the Drudge Report: BLOODBATH IN CAIRO; 51 DEAD… Massacre at Muslim Brotherhood sit-in… Sexual assaults rampant… **WARNING GRAPHIC** Gang throws rivals from top of building… Law requires Obama cut off Egyptian aid… Cairo seeks Gulf help as unrest continues… Gunmen attack Sinai checkpoints close to Israel border… Hundreds of […]

University of Toronto Education Professor Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

“Canadian education,” IYKWIMAITYD: Police have arrested a University of Toronto professor and member of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s transition team on several charges, including making child pornography. Benjamin Levin, 61, was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of distributing child pornography and one count each of making child pornography, counselling to commit an indictable […]

Is John Kerry’s Yacht Named ‘Failure’?

Things are going badly in Egypt, although it’s hard to say just how bad they’re going. The latest trouble sign: [The office of interim President Adly Mansour] said pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei had been named as interim prime minister but later backtracked on the decision saying consultations were continuing. A politician close to ElBaradei said […]

Are We Paranoid Enough Yet? FEMA’s Russia ‘Protocols’ Raise Serious Questions

Oct. 8, 2012: Russia’s EMERCOM Minister Vladimir Puchkov (left) and U.S. Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness and Protection, Timothy Manning, sign the protocol of a bilateral meeting in Vladivostok, Russia. Have FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security signed a deal that would permit as many as 15,000 Russian troops to be deployed in the […]

‘Authentic Frontier Gibberish’

The best comedy ever made? That’s a tough call, but if it’s not Animal House, then surely it must be Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles — and not just because I first saw it as a 15-year-old with my dope buddies Mike and Dave after we’d toked up some fine Colombian gold bud. Even without the […]

Russia Says ‘Nyet’ to Gay Adoptions

Vladimir Putin signed a law yesterday that prevents gay foreigners from adopting Russian children and, in the course of researching a news article about it, I was somewhat surprised: The government says the law aims to protect children from “dictated non-traditional sexual behavior” and cites “psychologists’ research” about stresses it says “are often experienced by children […]

Was the CIA Involved in Egypt’s Coup?

Anyone who knows the Central Intelligence Agency’s history in orchestrating the overthrow of governments must be wondering whether the agency played a role in the collapse of the Morsi regime. My hunch? Certainly they did, and we should be glad for it. Morsi’s government was a dangerous proto-fascist Islamic thugocracy. Think about this: President Obama, […]

Egyptians Say Good-Bye to ‘Arab Spring,’ Say Hello to New Military Dictatorship

It tells us a lot about the Obama administration’s foreign policy “success” that, after his encouragement of pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, the Egyptians actually rioted to demand that the military take over and relieve them of the “democratic” government they had elected. Ben Shapiro reports at Breitbart.com: On Wednesday, Gen. Abdel Fatah Said […]

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