Paralipomena (1)

Simon de Bruxelles
For hundreds of years the dwindling band of surviving Cornish-speakers have been so divided that they could not even agree what their language should be called.
Now after protracted and delicate neogtiations, Cornwall’s hardy linguistic scholars have set aside their differences to settle a standard written form for the language they treasure. [...]

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We read:
“The Dutch authorities have arrested the cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot (a pseudonym. Nekschot means deathblow, litt: “shot in the back of the neck” [An interview with Nekschot here]). The judicial authorities in Amsterdam said yesterday that the cartoonist was arrested as a suspect for the criminal offense of “publishing cartoons which are discriminating for Muslims [...]

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You do normally have to go to a higher court to get such freedom in Sweden:
“A local politician from the Malmo suburb of Burlov has been acquitted of charges of agitation against an ethnic group. Dahn Pettersson of the local Allianspartiet had previously been convicted by the Malmo District Court and fined the equivalent [...]

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The Queen liked us - but her sister and Princess Anne didn’t
Cherie Blair
While the Queen is very approachable, I can’t say the same about Princess Margaret, whom I met several times at Balmoral. One evening I was at the Royal Opera House for some gala performance and was talking to her about what we’d [...]

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England, famous across the world as the country of Shakespeare, royalty, fair play and manners, is a nation of “overweight, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed TV addicts”, according to a new tourist guide.
The “Rough Guide to England”, which was written by four British travel writers, says that there is nowhere “so fascinating, beautiful and culturally diverse, yet as insular, [...]

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Initial comment below by Jonah Goldberg. Follow the various links for more info:
People who’ve read my book know that one of its major themes is how liberals never take ownership of their errors. Rather, they ascribe their errors to the long bill of indictment of America’s sins. They then use these sins to [...]

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Media frauds trip themselves up
North Pole fables: “On the NBC nightly news there was a heart-throb report of an attractive British teen-ager who had skied across the North Pole with her father to demonstrate how the Arctic ice pack is receding in the face of global warming. Oh, horror. Oh, how terrible. The pictures [...]

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By David Leppard in London
IT began with a letter, uncovered nine years ago, addressed by a duke to “Dear Mr Hitler”.
One of the most extraordinary academic detective stories of modern times ended yesterday, when the National Archives, the official custodian of Britain’s history, admitted it had been the victim of a master forger
The public records [...]

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Smith college is an elite Massachusetts liberal arts college for women. We read:
“Last night Ryan Sorba, an “anti-homosexual activist” spoke at Smith College. Sorba, the author of the upcoming book, “The Born Gay Hoax,” (yes, seriously) can been seen in action here. The awesome feminists of Smith forced Sorba out after a mere twenty [...]

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When Leftists say, “There’s no such thing as right and wrong”, they are normally referring to moral judgments. They use that formula when confronted with something as uncomfortable as their unwavering support for murderous Communists and Muslims. And, as such, it is a transparent fraud. They themselves reveal that such talk [...]

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