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Relish the accidental comedy in a humorless world By Mark Steyn ‘I  don’t want to be emotional but this is one of the greatest mo...

The Futile Search for the Perfect Dry Martini Although she did not drink martinis, she graciously prepared a double for me every even...

How should the money supply be organized in Islamic thought ? By David Kenner The big news in Cairo is that a long-awaited cabinet re...

A dictator with a sense of humor

The European map is outdated and illogical. Here's how it should look By The Economist PEOPLE who find their neighbours tiresom...

It's All 'Voluntary', Honest Injun! by  Pater Tenebrarum We  recently discussed  that the mooted Greek debt buyback was ge...

Another Default? Greece's international creditors are calling for a new debt haircut for the country so as to bring down its massiv...

There are words one can use to describe what is going on, but "peaceful" isn't one of them By Iain Martin Has the comm...

There was nothing wrong with my weight, I just wasn’t tall enough by Mark McHugh My Doctor’s an idiot.  A few years ago, he started exp...

You can thank the bureaucratic tyrants of the nanny state By B. Obama Look, if you’ve been unsuccessful, you didn’t get there on yo...

Waving the Default Threat by Pater Tenebrarum Alexis Tsipras continues to throw spanners into the works, or let's rather say he se...

Reflections on Europes financial woes  

Mussolini, Mugabe, Ceausescu, Blunt—none of them ever got it up again after losing their knighthood by Taki Theodoracopulos At ten min...

The Word "Sustainable"

Explaining Modern Finance And Economics Using Booze And Broke Alcoholics From  reszatonline Helga is the proprietor of a bar. She reali...

OWS & Crony Capitalists vs. The Real 99%

Signs in English   around the world In a Bangkok Temple : IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN. C...

Enter the Kiambu Municipal Fire Brigade  to the rescue …"  Oh dear.

Green "Jobs" By Lisa Benso n More than a decade ago, Paul Gigot of the WSJ pointed out that "ethanol is produced by...