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The Queen of England came and went, and most of the comment was about her hats and how to curtsey to her. A pity. The Queen is by far and away the best Head of State in the world. She has been at the job since 1953, conscientious and uncomplaining. She has met and talked …
"The world boils down to a savage desire for status". A comment attributed to Tom Wolfe. The world boils down to…"a never-ending contest to make others submit to your partisan view of the good, all deriving, ultimately, from the thumos, the force that connects our base needs to our intellect, and unites men in factions …
An opinion poll taken in 1947, just before India and Pakistan became independent, found that three quarters of the British public did not know the difference between a dominion and a colony, and half could not name a single possession. One man even nominated Lincolnshire as a possible colony……….This public indifference to the intricacies of …
The World Health Organization and the Harvard Medical School have conducted a study, which found that 9.6% of Americans suffer from depression or bi-polar disorder, the highest of all the 14 nations surveyed. This represents a higher level of depressed people than Lebanon (6.6%), currently partly obliterated by Israel, Mexico (4.8%),where there are so few …
To those outside the United States it is simply common sense that US handgun laws facilitate handgun crime (handguns including semi-automatics!). It is so obvious to everyone else that the logic behind the opposite view is regarded with amazed fascination. Why, if handgun ownership is such a good thing are shootings elsewhere in the world, …
