International diplomacy and spanking
It’s an error to think of Gro Harlem Brundlandt as a loner carrying on a one-woman crime wave. It is now clear she has associates: United Nations urges Blair to outlaw smacking.
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News flash: marriage good for women
In a crowded field, one of the dumbest feminist theories has been that the institution presided over by Juno is bad for women. Competent social science normally confirms the obvious, and as to marriage it has now done so, to such an extent that even the lefty Australian paper The Age seems to have noticed: … More ...
WHO’s at it again
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundlandt, notorious enemy of the human race, is at it again, with a report that Violence claims 1.6 million lives a year. The facts cited by the report seem perfectly straightforward: suicide is presently the main cause of violent death worldwide, with murder and war following in that order.… More ...
Fighting terrorism in England
An Englishman who insulted a Muslim neighbour who had hailed September 11 as a “great day”, praised Osama bin Laden as a “great man”, and thought all Americans “deserved to die” was convicted and could get seven years under the new U.K. Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act.… More ...
Quid sit America?
What is America and what is it to us? It’s an odd and difficult question, even more so perhaps than what it is to be British. It’s nonetheless a pressing one in time of cultural transformation and war.
America has defined herself through a shifting combination of things: people, place, ideas, and institutions. People … More ...
Google boggles
A query for any internet whizzes: a Google search for “View from the Right” turns up this blog immediately, and one for “On to Restoration” turns up the main page for counterrevolution.net. Nonetheless, one for “Traditionalist Conservatism Page” turns up first an old address that no longer works and for most of the past year … More ...
Confronting hate in Connecticut
I used to live near Bristol, Connecticut, so I’m glad to see the local paper is doing its part in the war on hate: ethnic backlash in city. Their September 11 front page report detailed 4 “crimes against people of Middle Eastern background” over the previous year:
- Shortly after last year’s terror attacks someone
Contemporary justice
A rather neat tale of unequal justice that turns bad writing to account: And Justice for All.
The new BBC
There will always be an England—or maybe not. The editor of a news program for the new BBC expresses himself, with the British nastiness that we can never duplicate, about the supporters of one of the largest political demonstrations in recent British history a few days after his program failed to report the event:… More ...