Virginia Right!

I have been derelict in covering the Young Turks of the Tory Party:  Rory Stewart, Louise Mensch (formerly Bagshawe), Savid Javid and Kwasi Kwarteng. So let’s catch up a bit:  MP Rory Stewart joined the Tory rebels on Lords reform (so did Mensch) and was solid in the debate on the alleged reform of the [...]

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Today is a very solemn day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. It is observed on the 27th day of the month of Nisan, which marks the day when Allied troops liberated the first Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, in 1945. The full name of the day is Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah, [...]

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Once again, the votes have been cast, the Council has spoken and the results of this week’s Watcher’s Council contest of are history. This week’s winner was Joshuapundit for Turkish PM Erdogan Consolidates His Islamist Regime By Purging The Military, my look at what’s going on under the wire in Turkey while the West’s eyes [...]

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General McChrystal hit Barack Obama with a preemptive strike today when he resigned. It is easy to see that the General was sick of Obama’s failures as Commander-in-Chief. So, why not take a few pot shots on the way to retirement? In what can only be seen as an admission Obama’s skills at picking military [...]

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