The camel caravan limit
TweetGo to Little Green Footballs right this minute. Read about how German judges decided what rules should govern the participation of Muslim schoolgirls in school field trips. Words fail me....
View ArticleWhither Europe?
TweetI was stunned a few days ago when I read about the judges in the German state of Hesse who imposed a bizarre Islamic restriction on Muslim girls in the public schools. Little Green Footballs...
View ArticleA Muslim parallel society
TweetLast week, I commented on a German judge's ruling that the Koran gives a Muslim man the right to beat his wife. A few days earlier, I noted LGF's post on the "camel caravan" rule for Muslim...
View Article“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
TweetTwenty years ago today, the Great Communicator stood at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and delivered one of the most important speeches of the 20th century. Here's a film clip from YouTube and an...
View ArticleWhen squirrels attack
TweetHere in Denver, the phrase "squirrel problem" has lately referred to dead ones, killed by bubonic plague. At least a couple of dozen dead squirrels that tested positive for plague have been found...
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Biting trout
TweetThe other day, I was looking through the online symbol library provided by the German technical documentation firm CPTec. In the warning symbols section, I happened across this amusing posting, a...
View ArticleCelebrating the triumph of liberty
TweetTwenty years ago today, residents of the slave state known as the Democratic Republic of Germany danced atop the Berlin Wall with their West German brethren and rushed through the suddenly open...
View ArticleScamming the carbon credit scam
TweetThe idea behind carbon credits is that you can "offset" the alleged harm done by your CO2 emissions by paying someone else for not emitting an equivalent amount of CO2. Imagine Tiger Woods or John...
View ArticleInterest on German bonds falls below zero
TweetThis just boggles my mind. Investors are paying the German government to take their money and hold onto it for 3 to 12 months: Continuing the schizoid overnight theme, we look at Germany which...
View Article“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” silver anniversary
TweetTwenty-five years ago today, President Reagan stood at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and gave one of the most important speeches of the 20th century. If you’re too young to remember the world before...
View ArticleGermany to immigrants: keep on truckin’!
TweetA couple of years ago, Shikha Dalmia wrote an important column about why immigrants in America are by and large much more likely to assimilate than those in Europe: Immigrants don’t need job...
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