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Category Archives: Foreign Policy
Grappling With Modi’s India
A few bits of news about India have crossed my path this week, enough to do a little mini-roundup. India is a vast topic, and a vastly important one for the 21st Century, but the news we get about it … Continue reading
LinkSwarm for May 31, 2019
Important traffic notice for Austin residents: Half of I-35 is going to be closed between 290 and Rundberg starting at 9 PM tonight and lasting through 5 AM Monday, June 3, while they take down the St. John’s bridge and … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Obama Scandals, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, Texas
Tagged abortion, Ackerman McQueen, Alan Dershowitz, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, American Indians, antifa, Austin, Austin Police Department, Border Controls, Canada, China, CNN, Dan Crenshaw, Democrats, Donald Trump, Gulf Cartel, Guns, Hidalgo County, highways, Huawei, Iraq, Israel, James Cole, Jews, Jihad, John Cleese, Kirkuk, LinkSwarm, Little Sisters of the Poor, Media Watch, Mexico, Military, Mississippi, MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi, NRA, Obama Scandals, Obituary, Republicans, Rice University, Rio Grande Valley, Samir Jain, Ted Cruz, Texas, Thad Cochran, trade, USMCA
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EU Election Results
From this side of the pond, the EU election results may seem somewhat baffling. Populist parties gained ground at the expense of centrist and traditional parties, but so did the Greens. This doesn’t fit our traditional left-right political schemas. In … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Foreign Policy
Tagged Brexit, Brexit Party, Christian Democratic Union, Conservatives, Denmark, Emmanuel Macron, EU, EU Elections, Five Star Movement, Foreign Policy, France, Germany, Green Parties (EU), Italy, Labour, Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage, Northern League (Italy), Scotland, Scottish National Party, UK, UKIP, Viktor Orban
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Theresa May’s Colossal Failure
Theresa May was hired to do one job and she couldn’t do it, and she managed to screw up a lot of other things along the way. Now that she’s stepping down, the political obituaries are rolling in and they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy
Tagged Brexit, Conservatives, environmentalism, Foreign Policy, Iain Murray, Madeleine Kearns, Theresa May, UK
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LinkSwarm for May 24, 2019
Welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! This week: Texas legislative news, foreign elections, and a surprising amount on analog synthesizers… Theresa May is out as British Prime Minister effective June 7. The only reason she’s not the worst prime minister of … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Communism, Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Obama Scandals, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Waste and Fraud, Welfare State
Tagged 2016 Presidential Race, 87th Texas Legislature, abortion, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, antifa, Austin, Bharatiya Janata Party, Brexit, Brexit Party, Candace Owens, China, Conservatives, corrupt scumbags, corruption, Dan Crenshaw, data security, Democrats, Elections, Elijah Cummings, EU, Facebook, feminists, Florida, Florida Man, Foreign Policy, fraud, Harvey Weinstein, Huawei, Ilhan Omar, impeachment, India, Instagram, Iran, Jihad, John Bel Edwards, Judicial Watch, Laredo, LinkSwarm, Louisiana, Mississippi river, Morganza Spillway, music, Nancy Pelosi, Narendra Modi, Nigel Evans, Nigel Farage, Rahul Gandhi, Scandularity, Semiconductors, Social Justice Warriors, Steve Adler, Texas, Theresa May, UK
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Conservatives Win in Australia (“Unexpectedly!”)
Another national election where polls favored the left-wing party but the right-wing party won, this time in Australia. No-one predicted it, but the Liberal-National Coalition has won. PM Scott Morrison calls it “a miracle”. We don’t yet know if they … Continue reading
LinkSwarm for May 17, 2019
Just been one of those weeks… Are Brennan, Clapper and Comey ratting on each other? (Hat tip: Director Blue.) This is more than infuriating: “Kentucky Judges Pre-Signed Blank Legal Documents So That Child Services Could Take Custody of Kids on … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Budget, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Texas
Tagged abortion, Air Force, Alabama, anti-semitism, B-52, Brexit, Brexit Party, California, cats, Crime, Democrats, Denmark, Dennis Tuttle, Germany, Google, high speed rail, Houston, Houston Police Department, Idaho, James Clapper, James Comey, Jihad, John Brennan, Kentucky, Libya, LinkSwarm, Mali, Media Watch, New York City, Proposition B, Rashida Tlaib, Rhogena Nicholas, Sahel, San Francisco, Sylvester Turner, technology, Texas
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Blogroll Updates
I’ve gotten behind in cultivating my blogroll, so here’s some much-needed planting and pruning: Additions No Lawyers, Only Guns And Money: Gun blog. Karl Rehn recommended them, and they’ve had a lot of good information on the NRA issues I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Guns, Social Justice Warriors
Tagged Blogroll, Foreign Policy, Guns, links, Site Administration, Social Justice Warriors
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Message To Tories: Brexit or Exit
New polls have a message for UK’s Conservative Party: carry through with Brexit, or expect to be replaced with Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party: Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, already polling in first place for the upcoming European Parliament elections, has now … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Foreign Policy
Tagged Change UK, Conservatives, Elections, EU, Foreign Policy, Labour, Nigel Farage, polls, Theresa May, UK
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The War Against Jihad in Africa in 2019
Here’s an interesting look at Jihad in the Sahel, the transition zone between Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa, originally from The Economist: Nigerian troops huddle around their captain for a briefing. Several rest their rifle muzzles in the sandy ground, which … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad, Military
Tagged al Qaeda, Alain Bertoncello, Benin, Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cédric de Pierrepont, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Foreign Policy, France, Islamic State in West Africa, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Jihad, Juniper Micron, Juniper Nimbus, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sahel, Somalia, South Sudan, Tunisia
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