Maggie's Farm

Hispanics moving to GOP: Newsmax

The Times Online says it straight: We (Brits) are "useful idiots." Here.

An objective look at global warming, at TCS

On Normblog:

Human rights are an indispensable part of a morally decent society (though the eager embracing of victimhood is not, and there's no doubt that the discourse of human rights has, along with multiculturalism, encouraged many to regard the status of victim of rights-violation as the most attractive one going, and hence to reach for it at the slightest provocation). But protection from those whose direct intention is to kill the innocent is also indispensable. Such protection may require us to be more ready to accept defensive policies which constrain, or in emergency infringe, individual rights than we've hitherto been accustomed to.

Read the whole thing here.

Tourism in Turkey surges: for good reason too - what a great country to visit.