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The Times - Mexican Crimewave America’s southern neighbour is succumbing to bloody anarchy

President Calderón will deliver his annual address on the state of Mexico today - a state that millions of Mexicans now see as terrifying. Murders, shootings, kidnappings and gang violence have turned the country’s main cities into battlegrounds. Almost every day policemen [...]

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Categories: People and Current Events

Hey, guess what! I have a whole bunch of stuff to do! So here, mea culpa, me and my blog: love did tear us apart.

The Times - How Chairman Mao led China to humiliation The Great Helmsman’s mishandling of the nuclear crisis with the Soviet Union was a turning point in world history, by George Walden

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Ezra Levant - Punished first, acquitted later

My lawyers have just received a copy of a letter from the Alberta Human Rights Commission dismissing the complaint of “discrimination” filed against me by the radical Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities. They had complained that by publishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in the Western Standard [...]

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We had a heated conversation about this this morning. I’m not kidding.

The Sunday Times - Et voilà, France has a better way of justice, by Simon Jenkins

I got a sunburn today.

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The Times - Blame the rich for feeding the drug industry The police will never be able to win the war against drugs. It’s the culture of tolerance that is the real problem, by Melanie Reid

Bear with me, if you will, while I skim through a random selection of people who in one way [...]

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The Times - I don’t want to be treated by a dyslexic doctor She is not being discriminated against. She is being weeded out, Stephen Pollard

But a 21-year-old medical student, Naomi Gadian, takes a different view. Ms Gadian is dyslexic and is suing the General Medical Council because it uses multiple-choice tests as part [...]

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Telegraph - Houses are now homes - not gold mines, by Lesley Thomas

Along with the economy, the conversation at the average metropolitan social gathering has suffered a downturn. There is an awful lot to moan about if you are unfortunate enough to be part of a demographic category that has to put petrol [...]

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The Times has been all over the story about the murder of a newly-wed couple (the husband turns out to be brain dead so I’m counting them both as murdered) on their honeymoon in Antigua. That she was young, pretty, a doctor, and one of the few remaining Welsh speakers in the country just adds [...]

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The Telegraph - By George

Sadder news comes from Cosham, Hampshire, of 14 tortoises, including eight young, being rustled from a schoolmistress’s garden - a despicable crime, worse than taking lead from a roof. Tortoises, now no longer legally imported, are popular in Britain, and even the underworld should cold-shoulder tortoise-nappers.

Augh [...]

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Headline: Identical twins marry, give birth to identical twins

EW!

Subheadline: When identical twin sisters Diane and Darlene Nettemeier met identical twin brothers Craig and Mark Sanders a decade ago…

Oh thank god.

Then I noticed the Telegraph redesign: Ew!

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Daily Mail - Your fawning offends Islam Archbishop… not your Christianity, by Peter Hitchens

This prelate [Rowan "Guess Who?!" Williams] whimpered last week that Christianity was ‘offensive’ to Muslims. Offensive? I know we have been urged to stop being horrid to this inept, terrifyingly well meaning man - and it really [...]

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The Times - ‘I felt no hatred and I did not fear death’ Last month, just before the Zimbabwean election, this farmer wrote a dramatic article in The Times describing President Mugabe’s intimidation campaign. Here he recalls what happened afterwards, by Ben Freeth

A lot of prayer features in there. Besides all the guns and fleeing women, [...]

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A bit of entertaining journalistic stock-phrasing over at Wheat & Weeds

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The Australian (from The Spectator) - Each rat his own cat, by Theodore Dalrymple

I have always found it worthwhile to talk to people whose work many intellectuals would dismiss as uninteresting. For example, I have found that insurance loss adjusters have the deepest insight into human nature this side of Shakespeare. One of [...]

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