My essay on lactose tolerance and its relationship to the Indo-European expansion triggered some discussion. As I mentioned in my previous history of beer , according to authors J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams the Proto-Indo-European lexicon which has …
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Yoghurt and the Indo-Europeans
George Handlery on the week that was. The fundamentals behind our daily debates. Washington and safe PC. Stalin’s revival: Guilty of useful crimes. What is behind a statistic? 1. Indirectly and somewhat unnoticed, behind our daily debates a fundamental controversy about the necessary and legitimate role of the state is being waged. Alas, this is …
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Restoring Stalin’s Reputation
Dear Mayor Margareta Ritter (margareta.ritter@stadt.monschau.de), I have had the pleasure of visiting your exquisitely beautiful German town, the second member of my family to do so. The first was my dad, who, as a member of the 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron in Gen. Bradley’s Army, had, with time out to recuperate from wounds incurred at …
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Dear Mayor of Monschau
George Handlery on the week that was. Hand-outs that undermine the economy. Sovereign debt and politics’ inability to stop the bleeding. How to use science to generate hot air for politics’ balloon? How to get accused of hate speech without an effort? 1. Social policy likes to spend on the governors’ favorites. Reelection is in this case more important than is the project into which the money is funneled. Predictably, the temptation produces …
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Duly Noted: Damaged States
Chapter 4: We are all pigs now
David Cameron, has made it clear that the Conservative party , of which he is the head, has changed. Win or lose the upcoming election, there is no going…
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Elections, Islamist Infiltration, and the Politicians’ Blind Eye
A quote from Diana West, interviewed by Alyona Minkovski on the English-language Russian TV channel RT, March 5, 2010:
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Tolerance vs Intolerance
George Handlery about the week that was. It is smart to help folks vote for you. The constitutional right to disrupt speeches. The nuclear bomb clock is ticking. The Euro in hot water. The EU in trouble. …
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Duly Noted: The Germans Pay, The Others Receive
When the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders recently addressed voters in Almere, a Dutch city of 200,000 where his party handily won elections this week, he told them what to expect as his once-tiny, anti-Islamization party started flexing its new political muscle. Aside from lower taxes and other political staples, his plans for this city not far from Amsterdam include a ban on Muslim headscarves. Wilders’ ban …
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Anti-Islamization Proponents Should Take Cues from Europe
Every so often I stumble upon something obscure yet dead-on to explaining the contribution of the Flemish to the discovery and settlement of the New World. A while back it was the piece by Professor Verlinden . Today it is this superb article that has been hidden in dusty tomes for more…
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The Flemish Influence on the American Pilgrims – Part 6
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The Flemish Influence on the American Pilgrims – Part 6
Yesterday’s local elections in the Netherlands resulted in a victory for the Freedom Party (PVV) of opposition leader Geert Wilders. On June 9 th the Dutch will again be called to the voting booths for the general elections…
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The Wilders Momentum
A quote from the UKIP website, 2 March 2010 UKIP MEP Leader Nigel Farage was informed this afternoon by Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament, that he had decided to fine…
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€3000 Fine for Insulting Belgium
There is terrorism and there is Islamophobia. Of these two the latter is apparently the more serious misdemeanor. Europe is introducing draconian measures to monitor the internet for so-called “racism,” but at the same time the European Parliament has decided to deny America access to servers with international banking data that relate to terrorist organizations. Last January, the French Inter-ministerial Committee on Racism and Anti-Semitism met to discuss measures to ban from …
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Europe Cracks Down on Bloggers, Not Terrorists
George Handlery about the week that was. Withdraw if they shoot back. Words do not always suffice to defend democratic values. The new, stylish way to commit suicide. Climate-gate and good intentions that redeem bad deeds. …
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Duly Noted: Withdraw If The Enemy Shoots
A quote from Nigel Farage MEP in The
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Quite Right, Nigel
