Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The progressives of the Victorian era would be proud, but the old fashioned liberals are rolling in their graves: Independent schools are to be made to open their doors to more children from poor homes under guidelines announced to stop them being run as “exclusive clubs”. Schools failing to meet
Continue readingOne of the most striking things about the Jewish Bible is the respect it demands for dead bodies. As a result, Jewish ritual holds that the dead cannot be mutilated in any way and must be interred as quickly as possible — preferably within 24 hours of death. Desecration is
Continue readingThe phrase “honor killing” doesn’t show up anywhere in this article, but it sound remarkably as if a much-abused young British woman was murdered because she refused to marry the Pakistani man her parents had picked for her: A coroner this morning returned a verdict of unlawful killing on a
Continue readingBritish mosques are not simply preaching religious morals: Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood” for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found. Riyadh ul Haq, who supports
Continue readingIs he an hysteric, a prophet, or a tragically doomed Cassandra? Time will tell if Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England, is correct to warn of the end of the Christian faith in that country, something he already sees happening in various British communities: In
Continue readingYesterday, I read that the British health care and ambulance services had been devastated by New Year’s drunkenness, a self-inflicted illness for which I, as a tee-totaller, have little sympathy. If you vomit because you got blitzed, serves you right. Today, however, I read something that caused me to feel
Continue readingBloody Mary — or Mary I, her more official title — was Henry VIII’s oldest daughter by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Raised by staunchly Catholic parents, she too was staunchly Catholic. By the time she was about 16, however, Henry VIII was troubled by Catherine’s inability to bear
Continue readingI won’t quibble with the need to distribute health care more evenly across America. I will fight, though, against putting health care in the government’s hands. Think of the DMV, think of airport security, think of the IRS, think of any interaction you’ve had with a government entity that has
Continue readingThis story, out of England, is depressing. It’s about the lamentably high rates of teen pregnancy in England, the fact that more government intervention in sex education is not paying off, and the ease with which pre-teens can get morning after pills without their parents being any the wiser. I
Continue readingNewest figures out of the UK: One in five babies born in Britain last year was born to a woman from overseas, according to the first official analysis of the impact of migration on fertility. Immigrant mothers are having far more children than their British counterparts – fuelling the biggest
Continue readingI’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting. The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really
Continue readingI used to admire the BBC. It’s role during WWII was stellar. In the 1960s, it brought us Monty Python and other cutting edge, very silly comedies. In the 1970s, it began making a series of marvelous historic dramas, many of which still represent the finest viewing TV has offered.
Continue readingLondon, one of the greatest cities in the world for the last 1,000 years or so, continues to slide down, down, down. If you’re unlucky enough to live in the wrong section of London, this is what it’s like to do business: A corner shop run by an Asian couple
Continue readingFrom 9/11 forward, it appeared that the British Left — which encompassed most of the British intelligentsia — was implacably hostile to America and viewed Islamism through rose colored glasses. Certainly, to the extent that the BBC represents a low brow form of intellect, that statement is true. However, things
Continue readingBritain’s Anglican Church seems to be waking up, not just to the terrorists within England’s borders, but to the fifth column as well. Thus, the second most senior Anglican in England has launched a full frontal, no holds barred attack against the BBC for being (a) anti-Christian and (b) afraid
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