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Shane Battier, Vasily Alekseyev and the Cuban Embargo

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Jorge Costales

As the supposed death watch on the Cuban Embargo unfolds, fear not my fellow reactionary bitterly exiled heartless souls, all is not lost. In fact, given octogenarian and nonagenarian actuarial tables, the probabilities still favor the Embargo being in effect … Continue reading →

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When Trump invokes William F Buckley Jr

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Jorge Costales

When Donald Trump invokes the memory of my hero, William F. Buckley Jr. — the image to the right is on my mouse pad — my first reaction is a vague recall of the gag, ideally voiced with a Southern … Continue reading →

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If it’s not the Crusades, it’s the cartoons

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Jorge Costales

“If it’s not the Crusades, it’s the cartoons,” was the reaction of President Bush back in 2006 as to possible motivations of Islamist jihadists. Cartoons which depicted Muhammad were published by a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in September of 2005 with … Continue reading →

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Why our Civilization could fall to Islamists

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Jorge Costales

Historian Niall Ferguson does not look away from the weakness being exploited by *Islamists: I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I am not going to say that what happened in Paris on Friday … Continue reading →

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Christians on the rack, Brooks on the couch

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Jorge Costales

David Brooks on ISIS: The ISIS atrocities have descended like distant nightmares upon the numbed conscious of the world. The first beheadings of Americans had the power to shock, but since then there has been a steady barrage of inhumanity: … Continue reading →

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The Schilling effect

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Jorge Costales

Curt Schilling got in trouble with his employer [ESPN] for tweeting a comparison of the number of Muslim extremists that might exist today vs the number of Nazis in 1940. [May I suggest Stalin or Pol Pot for future attempts … Continue reading →

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