I learned long ago that compared to Europe and Canada and other countries I’d assumed had freedom of speech, only in the US is there a serious commitment to it. Of course, that commitment in the US is sometimes compromised, … Continue reading →
There’s a lot of this “we must become tyrants in order to save democracy” stuff going around. In Germany, for example, the latest salvo in the German war against the AfD: By longstanding tradition, the AfD should have been allotted … Continue reading →
… were pretty much as expected. That indicates that opinion polling still seem to work in Germany: With vote counting finished, preliminary results show the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and its sister Christian … Continue reading →
How symbolic: German police arrested a suspect after a stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial left a person seriously injured on Friday evening local time. Police haven’t yet given a motive or made any connection between the stabbing and the Holocaust … Continue reading →
Germany is planning to curb the number of knife attacks in that country by a new law: After laying a white rose at the site of the Diversity Festival slashing that left three dead and eight wounded, Chancellor Olaf Scholz … Continue reading →
Or rather, they’re not buying what the globalists are trying to force down their throats. The result of EU elections in France was that Marine Le Pen’s party eclipsed that of Emmanuel Macron, and the latter has called for a … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I thought it might be time to revisit the topic of how Hitler came to power. I know a lot of you are history buffs and are well aware of his path to dictatorship, but I keep seeing references … Continue reading →
Germany announced yesterday: Germany is planning to intervene in the ongoing genocide case against Israel at the UN’s top court, a government spokesman said on Friday. “German government firmly and explicitly rejects the accusation of genocide that has now been … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a reposting of an old piece of mine that I think could use another go-round. The reason is that I often see people reference the idea that the Jews of Germany ignored or rationalized or denied or … Continue reading →
Young people probably have no idea about that happened back then. But those of us who are older certainly remember. It was stunningly shocking at the time, and even worse because it occurred in Germany at what was supposed to … Continue reading →
Back and forth, back and forth: Nuclear exit 1 began in 2000. The government back then consisted of the center-left Social Democrats and the Greens. The latter were in power for the first time, having grown out of the hippie … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This ties in somewhat with the post I just published, about China buying US land.] It was obvious that Europe’s dependence on Russia for energy would be a bad thing. But for some reason it doesn’t seem to have … Continue reading →