Foreign Affairs

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• So You Want to be an Engaged Citizen II

  
  An Ordinary Person — Authority: 108
  A common complaint among many people is that government, politicians and government entities are not responsive to the needs and concerns of average, ordinary citizens. That there are no easy, direct routes for ordinary people in order to have meaningful communications and relationship with government and the people ...
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• Australia Saying Canada Is Taking In Asylum Seekers Aboard Oceanic Viking

  
  Crooked in Canada — Authority: 127
  So Canadian taxpayers, how many of you are aware that there is a rumor being floated here in Oz that says the Tamil refugees refusing to disembark from an  Australian Customs ship, will be resettled in Canada, some of them anyway. You hear about that, has the Harper government made any mention of that during ...
  7 hours ago

• Fort Hood Massacre - Terrorist Attack or Act of War?

  
  Liberally Conservative — Authority: 119
  Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot, killed and wounded fellow military personnel at Ft. Hood, Texas, Friday. Many are making excuses for Hasan because he is Muslim, many are being careful not to jump to conclusions about his motives, his religion and any connection his religious beliefs have with the Friday massacre. My ...
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• How The Wall Really Fell

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 690
  On the anniversary of that momentous occasion, I’d recommend checking out the following On Point podcast (from which the name of this post is derived) on the fall of the Berlin Wall. I listen to a lot of podcasts from Ashrbook et al, they run a tight, quality ship, and I found this one fascinating beyond my ...
  8 hours ago

• One minor quibble

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 690
  Andrew Sullivan on his intellectual consistency : I was appalled by the anti-Semitism buried within ANSWER – the left-wing equivalent of the Tea Party peeps – their paranoia and their ad Hitlerum daffiness. I railed against “the intolerant, extremist and reactionary forces behind an unhealthy amount of the ...
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• Monogamania: Then and Now

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 690
  Over at the Amercian Scene, Conor Friedersdorf penned a post challenging Rod Dreher on the idea that allowing same-sex couples to marry represents a “radical change”. I liked the post itself and, in fact, thought that the comments that followed were pretty interesting reading and really added to the original ...
  9 hours ago

• More Please!

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 690
  I have no idea whether this is Conor Friedersdorf taking our recent criticisms to heart or if this is something he’s been working on for awhile, but his debate with John Hawkins at Right Wing News – on Right Wing News’ turf, I might add – is precisely the sort of thing reform-minded conservatives should be ...
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• Friedman Redivivius

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 690
  The old (and good) Tom Friedman was on display in yesterday’s op-ed. The guy who knows and can communicate The Middle East.  Key quote: Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly not feeling enough pain to do anything hard for peace with each other — a mood best summed up by a phrase making the ...
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• This Is What Freedom Looks Like

  
  QandO — Authority: 139
  T wenty years ago, the Berlin Wall, erected by the totalitarian DDR to keep it’s citizens in, fell.  Not long after that, like dominoes, the totalitarian communist regimes of the East, to include the USSR, fell as well.  Watch the video and remember what freedom really looks like: And where is American ...
  15 hours ago

• Janet Napolitano: Muslim Americans Could Be Victims

  
  The Admonition — Authority: 137
  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is worried that the Fort Hood Shootings will lead to more acts of terrorism. Okay not really, she’s worried that it will lead to the “victimization of Muslim Americans”. Pushing the talking points of the Obama Administration, Napolitano said that “anti-Muslim ...
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• What happened to that peace dividend?

  
  A Progressive on the Prairie — Authority: 127
  With the Cold War being waged for more than half my life, I was among the many millions fascinated with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years ago today, the East German government — intentionally or not — opened up its borders. For most, it is also perhaps the most substantive symbol of the beginning of ...
  16 hours ago

• David Cameron and Margaret Thatcher reflect on the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 683
  Greg Hands MP wrote his personal reflection on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as this mornings Platform piece, whilst Dan Hamilton has also reminded us today of Ronald Reagans famous speech calling on Mr Gorbachev to "tear down this wall". Here follow statements from David Cameron and ...
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• Looking for Freedom, Or at Least a Jacket That Flashes.

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 132
  Greetings from Germany. . . This evening marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In remembrance of the occasion, British performance maker Martin Butler has organized a wide-scale happening, the Mauer Mob . The project will create  a human chain of 33,000 people in order to recreate the path ...
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• A Speech I gave over 19 years ago…

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 426
  Still reads well: “ Why Socialism Collapsed in Eastern Europe ” (I gave it as a lecture at a Cato University summer seminar on political economy in California during the summer of 1990, after having spent a good bit of 1989 and 1990 in Central and Eastern Europe.)
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• Give professional tests to OFWs, Arroyo orders

  
  Pinoy News and Blogosphere Buzz — Authority: 428
  MANILA - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered a government agency to give special professional licensure exams to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) deployed in the Middle East, a senior Malacanang official announced.    
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• Chavez: Prepare For War, Here Come The Americans …

  
  QandO — Authority: 139
  A pparently peace, love and the Obama magic have a 9 month shelf life. Hugo Chavez has determined that the US is up to its old tricks again – and besides, things aren’t going particularly well in the Bolivarian socialist paradise, so it is time to gin up the usual existential threat – the US: Venezuelan ...
  18 hours ago

• Shouldn’t He Like Us By Now?

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 432
  America’s troubles on the world stage were the result of being disliked – disliked because George W. Bush was such a terrible president.  That’s what we were told.  So why hasn’t a year of Barack Obama’s enlightened foreign policy leadership, promised as the antidote to Bush’s cowboy ineptitude, made the ...
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• Promised Land, Crusader State

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 113
  I’m a big fan of historian Walter McDougall . In my opinion, McDougall is in the midst of writing the best series of histories about these United States. The two volumes he has completed thus far are Freedom Just Around the Corner : A New American History: 1585-1828 and Throes of Democracy: The American ...
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• Report: Obama Likely To Send 34,000 Troops To Afghanistan

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 690
  It’s less than General McChrystal recommends, but still a substantial increase in the American commitment to a questionable war: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults ...
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• Racists Protest Outside The White House

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 432
  Just don’t expect any hyperventilating from Chris Matthews : Decrying Barack Obama as “white power in black face,” hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he bring US troops home. More than 200 people gathered for ...
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