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Brexit leader Nigel Farage urges Trump to combat ‘pure obstructionism’ with national speech
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Nigel Farage, co-founder of the UK Independence Party and leader of the Brexit movement to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union, told Colorado Politics it could be time for President Donald Trump to address the American people in order to counteract what he called “pure obstructionism” by establishment forces in the wake of…
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Sloan: Has Colorado found its Jeremy Corbyn?
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Britons dodged a bullet last week, only inasmuch as they managed to merely shoot themselves in the foot rather than in the heart. Prime Minister Theresa May’s failed gamble to expand her Conservative Party’s parliamentary majority – resulting instead in the Tories being reduced to relying on the tender mercies of a handful of Democratic…
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May: The battles of Britain and Egypt
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Jihadis aspire to ‘cleanse’ the Islamic world and force the West to submit The slaughter of 22 concert-goers in Manchester May 22 was followed four days later by the murder of 29 Christians traveling by bus to a monastery in the desert south of Cairo. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for both attacks. In an internet…
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May: How Obama is like Ike
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His dalliance with Iran mirrors Eisenhower’s courtship of Egypt The Islamic Republic of Iran is, according to no less an authority than the U.S. government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, suicide-bombed U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983. Iranian-backed Shia militias killed hundreds of American troops in Iraq more recently.…
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May: The ideals of 1776
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Should we return to them – and can we? Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task just over one week ago. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they – or rather we – are doing to these United States during an election season that often seems like a…
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May: Rule Britannia
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For better or worse, Britons reject post-democratic governance Whether you think the United Kingdom exiting the European Union is cause for alarm or celebration, you have to concede this: Britons engaged in an open, lively and mostly peaceful debate, they turned out in droves, they cast their votes freely and fairly and, by so doing,…
