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An Unsatisfying Quexit

Freddy Gray

The first problem with Brexit is the word Brexit—one of those stupid portmanteau words, like motel or brunch. It is a joined-up abbreviation of “Britain’s” and “exit from the European Union.”

Ask Jeeves

Christopher Sandford

Some of the best-loved characters in English literature are observed only dimly through the eyes of an unreliable first-person narrator.

Pope Francis is wrong to change the Catechism of the Catholic Church to suit his postmodern, antibiblical leanings, making capital punishment utterly “inadmissible” in civil society, like hearsay evidence in court.

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Farage's Midlothian Campaign
Ralph Berry | August 20, 2018
History never repeats itself but can offer echoes and rhymes. One rhyme coming shortly is Gladstone's Midlothian campaign. The old man had retired, deeply wounded by Disraeli's victory of 1874.
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The Late, Great USA
H. W. Crocker III | August 20, 2018
Is anyone really surprised by New York governor Andrew Cuomo saying, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” The Left has been saying that, if not quite so bluntly, for decades.
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Can America Ever Come Together Again?
Pat Buchanan | August 17, 2018
If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance. He would have been challenged to a duel and shot.
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The Emerging Moscow-Ankara Axis
Srdja Trifkovic | August 16, 2018
The United States has created “chaos” in its management of foreign affairs, Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu said on August 13. “There is confusion in the U.S. administration, and no one knows who is doing what,” Çavusoglu said after meeting his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Ankara.
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