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Power and Betrayal

In Vice, director Adam McKay takes a hatchet to Dick Cheney, joining a long line of detractors of our 46th Vice President. This is too bad. Not because Cheney deserves better.

The Pope and the Art of Self-Deception

Srdja Trifkovic

Pope Francis, the first Pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula, attended a hugely publicized interfaith meeting in the United Arab Emirates on February 4 as part of what the Vatican described as his “outreach to the Muslim world.”

Winter of Our Discontent

Tom Piatak

As fall turned into winter, there were unmistakable signs of paleoconservative dissatisfaction with President Trump.

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Letter From Serbia: Kyle Scott, America’s Bolshevik Ambassador
Srdja Trifkovic | February 22, 2019
On February 19, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic received Venezuela’s Deputy FM Ivan Hill and reiterated Serbia’s position of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs.
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On to Caracas and Tehran!
Pat Buchanan | February 22, 2019
In the Venezuelan crisis, said President Donald Trump in Florida, "All options are on the table." And if Venezuela's generals persist in their refusal to break with Nicolas Maduro, they could "lose everything."
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The Labour Crackup
Ralph Berry | February 21, 2019
Britain today presents the exhilarating spectacle of its two main political parties facing imminent collapse. If there is No Brexit, the Tories will split, says Charles Moore, the doyen of Conservative commentary.
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The Treasury of Virtue
Clyde Wilson | February 20, 2019
"Contrary to widespread belief, evidence is accumulating that Western democracy is in continuous and serious decline," writes Claes Ryn in the opening of this eloquent, concise, and hard-hitting manifesto that goes immediately to the heart of our times.
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