It's the Chicago way. For all intents and purposes Hitler was democratically elected as have been many dictators and tyrants. Islam is so horrible because this snake doesn't have just one head that you have to out live.
#3
Its interesting to note that the youngsters who did most of the work in unseating Mubarak the ones whose idealism led many naifs in the West to refer to The Arab Spring won 3.5% of the vote.
Says it all, really.
#5
Does the new regime still subsidize the average Egyptian's food and energy? (really its a good question)...
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young men fight old men's wars
How so, 746, when the old men were satisfied with the status quo? The young men were the ones unable to find jobs and therefore marriages -- this war, such as it was, was theirs alone. And even then, only a few want Western-style democracy and individual freedom; the majority, if the balloting is to be believed, prefer to restablish the caliphate.
#1
Yet one more wake-up call that will go unanswered.
The politico-economic elites that are our masters look at all this kind of thing with a "What do I care? It won't effect me." attitude and go merrily along accruing more power to their beloved oligarchy.
Interview with Robert W. Schaefer, a Green Beret specializing in the Russian-speaking world, and author of "The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad."
#4
The black market is, in effect, the Laffer Curve for people who are not wealthy.
For the wealthy, once taxation becomes intolerable, tax revenues go down, because they change their means of income and investments to either less taxes or untaxed sources.
For the not wealthy, who cannot change either their source of income, or their investments and purchases, once taxes are raised, they can only be avoided (legal) or evaded (illegal).
One example is cigarettes. When taxes were raised, not for revenue, but to discourage the use of cigarettes, the first response of many was to buy untaxed cigarettes on Indian Reservations, which is legal, thus avoiding both the taxes and the government social engineering behind them.
Then when efforts were made by some to choke off this supply, there was no other option but to buy black market cigarettes.
The critical lesson in all of this is not just about taxation, however. It is about government control. When government creates means of control that are seen as oppressive or unfair, or are done for other "illegitimate" reasons, the natural response is to defy the government.
So, in being oppressive, the government is not only trying to defy market forces, but human nature, which between the two will creatively win the struggle.
#2
Tune in to NPR or MSNBC each day for your recommended daily allowance.
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#3
Humanitarian racism is huge among American liberals. I remember when songbird Tracy Chapman came out with her first big single. The liberals adored her, because she was everything they admired in a black person: stereotypical in appearance, downtrodden, beaten and most of all, inferior.
As long as she played that role, they adored her. Yet the instant she showed any independence, strength, intellect, pride or joy, they completely lost interest.
Most blacks are far too "uppity" as far as liberals are concerned. But liberals pride themselves in demeaning them and keeping them down.
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Just for the record NATO ally Turkey, liberated Iraq and liberated Afghanistan aka the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (members of the OIC all) officially support imposing these Sharia restrictions on non-Muslims in the West.
As they're not content with peaceful coexistence with the West their official diplomatic position towards us is more hostile than the Soviet Union's post Krushchev.
With these friends and allies there's no need for enemies.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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