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Slow perception My very first image on "stealth Jihad" where I tried to show a time bomb in the shape of a mosque. I like reading...

Talks of privileged childhood I remember saying a while ago that segregation couldn't have been that bad if Condoleezza Rice grew up ska...

How culture is getting lost I got a card from Starbucks in my mailbox for a free oatmeal snack at participating stores. It was a nice surpr...

On Ingrid Mattson Please note that I have revised my post "Ingrid Mattson's Strange Journey" considerably, including adding m...

Or how we all crave for the same landscape USA's most wanted landscape, from the survey by Komar and Melamid A new book, "The Ar...

Still as paternalistic as ever The Wall Street Journal has an article entitled "Tough Love in the Outback" about how Australia...

Not Obamarap In my recent post about the different takes on Obama, I direct readers to Pat Buchanan's website and his post describing O...