Good! The British have just shown what they think of the craven “Labour” Government in Britain by comprehensively throwing out large numbers of time-servers and sychophants. The results of the (local) elections are as much about the Iraq and Afghan wars as about the childish incompetence of the national government (average age of Cabinet Ministers …
"The trouble with the idea of the good and generous war (the author here was talking about the Second World War) is that it leads to the launching of wars of choice that can then be "shaped" to benevolent ends. But war is a method of killing people whom you intend to kill and killing …
I unfairly blamed Mrs. Thatcher for closing down all the old British mental hospitals and turfing the inmates out onto the streets, then suggesting to Ronald Reagan that he should follow suit. Wrong! This process started in 1955 in the United States. Prior to the 1960s psychiatric care was run by the States, but with …
Freedom: without freedom one cannot make one’s own choices. Even in the free West most people live imprisoned in their own minds by convention, religion, ignorance and laziness (look at the current Democratic elections!!). One must dare to think for oneself, be autonomous, listen to others, be brave enough to change one’s mind given better …
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Another triumph of liberty over the common man! BPA is found in a host of plastics, including baby bottles and food containers, that have been linked by one hundred independent published studies to adverse health effects. BPA can mimic estrogen and miniscule amounts introduced to fetuses or infants can , according to scientist Frederick vom …
