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Telegraph - China shows a human face with earthquake rescue mission By Con Coughlin

Far from being a member of the remote and autocratic regime that is normally portrayed as governing the world’s most populous country, Wen Jiabao, China’s personable prime minister, has appeared repeatedly on television lending comfort and support to the survivors, making […]

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Ooh, police brutality in Britain.

Watch the police allow themselves to become encircled by the mob and backed against a wall as the mob cries out “You wanna hit a Muslim”.

Curtsy: Damian Thompson, who says it went up on “a leading anti-Islamic website today” and that it’s about three years old, probably from the 2005 election.

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Apparently certain cults believe this dancer-sacrifice will extend their lifespan, given the average age of the congregation.

Curtsy: Holy Smoke.

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NRO - THE MOD SQUAD, by Mark Steyn

There are, to be sure, millions of Muslims who just want to get on with their lives, raise their families, do their jobs, get a nice house in the suburbs, and practice as much or as little Islam as they can get away with. But there […]

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The Times - Experts reveal that one in six girls in Austria abused at home

The unfathomable crime of Josef Fritzl has prompted experts to reveal that incestuous abuse is a regular occurrence in Austrian families. Charlotte Aykler, the head of Violence Prevention Centre, an NGO dealing with victims of family […]

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Peter and I were watching the Oscars. They were doing the video clips for Best Supporting Actor. There’s Hal Holbrook, crying, and Peter says “Oh lord a little old man crying,” and turns his head to look at me and sure enough I already had tears rolling down my cheeks. Half a box of kleenex […]

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The Sunday Telegraph - Autumn Kelly, still a long way from the throne, by Melanie McDonagh

Monarchists of a nervous disposition can breathe again. Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne, will not now have to give up his right of succession to the throne - he’s 11th in the queue, since you ask. […]

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Hmmm.

The Corner - Brand X, by Mark Steyn

The mainline Protestant churches have long been beyond parody. America gave us the first Episcopal minister who’s also a practising Muslim. Now Canada gives us a minister from the United Church (the merged Congregationalists, Methodist and Presbyterians) who wants to move beyond the whole Jesus thing:

Read […]

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Telegraph - Rev Jeremiah Wright to retire in ‘white suburb’

Grateful parishioners of Rev Jeremiah Wright, 66, are building him a $1 million, 10,400 sq ft mansion, next to a country club and golf course in the prosperous Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. In the 2000 census, just two per cent of Tinley Park’s […]

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Macleans - Chirpiness that’ll be the death of us If you no longer know what you stand for, how can you know what you stand against? By MARK STEYN

“Multiculturalism” is a unicultural phenomenon. It exists only as a Western fetish, and we don’t believe in it, not really. Most people, given the choice, want […]

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The Times - Austria: Josef Fritzl victims ‘face eight years’ intensive therapy

Never in modern Europe has there been a case of such sustained sensory deprivation. Even Natascha Kampusch, who escaped from her kidnapper 18 months ago, spent part of her captivity upstairs, was allowed occasionally into the garden and was even taken on […]

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Ooh, this one’s a hum-dinger!

Telegraph - The Queen cannot be equal with anybody, by Andrew Roberts

Only last week [Vera Baird, Solicitor General] was opining that “what we have to do with the Royal Family is to integrate them as far as possible into the human race”. Her intention was to achieve this by […]

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(Originally an update to a previous post):

Okay so, I kept thinking, “Are they going to track down anyone who can say what happens to a person if they go through their entire growing years without seeing the sun?” Well they finally tracked that person down…

The Times - Austria: scale of the physical scars from Josef […]

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The Last Days of the CHRC

Curtsy: Brett McS.

(The audio track isn’t completely orphaned. If mein ears don’t deceive me, the “like TRUDEAU!” line went over the line “mitt STALIN!”)

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I was going to ignore this story because I thought it was just really sad and not worth making harder for everyone involved to get away from later, but but but:

The Times - Austria: ‘We have to ask what’s going wrong’

But we should save our pity for the 18-year-old youth and his two […]

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