“Perhaps it is possible, especially in strange times such as these, for an entire people, or at least a majority, to deceive themselves into believing that things are in fact going well when in fact they are not, when things are in fact farcical. Most Romans worked and played as usual while Rome fell about [...]

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Maybe we should consider being less antagonistic toward Russia. It’s just my opinion, of course, but I’d rather not see fissile material in the hands of Hugo “Castro Is My Hero” Chavez.

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Things aren’t looking so great in California’s long-term forecast right now.

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Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier:
A 17-year-old Iraqi girl was murdered by her father in an honour killing after falling in love with a British soldier she met while working on an aid programme in Basra, it has been claimed.

Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then [...]

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From the Wall Street Journal this time:

I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You’ve seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they’re a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs operate in a [...]

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We hear it all the time - some variant on the well-worn adage: “With Saddaam out of the way, America and the world are a safer place.”
But are we really? Living and working so close to Washington, D.C., I think all the time about how easy it would be for us to be attacked. I [...]

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My wife went to Sam’s Club today to get some of the big 25lb. bags of bread flour. We’re stocking up on staples so when the economy finishes going to hell, we at least can make some kind of food to eat.
The only problem is, the bread flour was gone. All of it. They typically have palettes and [...]

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I’ve heard on Glenn Beck’s radio program that the Mexican military has been making armed incursions into the United States for some time. This video clip is a year old, but I’ve never heard from a mainstream media outlet that this is happening.
This is an act of war. We need our borders secured, now.

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Automated killer robots ‘threat to humanity’:
Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP. “They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead [...]

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Author Susan Jacoby had a good piece in The Washington Post yesterday about “The Dumbing of America.” The article focuses not just on the increased ignorance of American citizens in the digital age - largeley precipitated by the replacement of reading with various forms of multimedia - but the fact that so much of the citizenry is opposed [...]

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