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Thread: Project 2025: Heritage or Heresy?
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"Today, the American family is in crisis. Forty percent of all children are born to unmarried mothers, including more than 70 percent of black children. There is no government program that can...
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Thread: Project 2025: Heritage or Heresy?
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Project 2025: Heritage or Heresy?
The Heritage Foundation boasts-
"The 2025 Presidential Transition Project is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding “Mandate for Leadership,” which has... -
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Thread: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
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"Republicans floated as possible running mates include Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina and J.D. Vance of Ohio, as well as Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, North Dakota Gov....
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1 Day Ago
Thread: TV Shows...What are you following?
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The Responder, Series 1 (BBC, 2022)
The Real Cops of Liverpule...hard-boiled, foul-mouthed, on the front line of the 'war' on drugs. The main character in this first series is dealing with being... -
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Thread: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
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The numbers don't lie: Trump's share of the vote in his own party is lower than it was in 2020 -this suggests to me there is no way he can win the popular vote, and that he can only win the Electoral...
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Thread: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
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"Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation that allows more options to challenge election results while also restricting the options for voting.The Republican governor signed bills into law that...
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1 Day Ago
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Kristi Kreme: one bite and it's not just your teeth that ache. How desperate are these people to kiss Trump's 'ring'..?
The Kristi Noem and Kim Jong Un Controversy, Explained | TIME -
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Thread: Israel: Turn Right for the Abyss
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In to the Abyss steps Nigel Biggar, writing in the Telegraph. An Oxford Professor who has written a controversial book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024) which I have not read, Biggar titles his...
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Thread: Donald Trump Indicted on 7 Counts
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"Stormy Daniels later said Donald Trump told her she reminded her of his daughter Ivanka"...
(must be 'reminded him'?)
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Thread: Donald Trump Indicted on 7 Counts
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"Daniel was asked whether they ran into each other again at the tourament. She said that they did, in one of the gift rooms.
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Thread: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
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Thanks. I once read some ballot papers are very large and they can be inserted into a machine, like a casino fruit machine, and you can select 'All' and pull a level or do something else for some...
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Thread: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
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Re: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
Something puzzles me about the US election system. Am I right in thinking that a ballot paper is a single sheet of paper with all of the candidates standing for election for multiple posts: that is:...
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3 Days Ago
Thread: What is The Last Movie You Watched?
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Coming soon (but probably not to a cinema near you) -documentary about Tara Emory
The End of Wonderland review – trans porn star deals with eviction and a hoarding crisis | Film | The Guardian -
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Thread: Miriam Rivera documentary
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I don't know if it is just in the UK, but reality tv has been dubbed a 'theatre of cruelty'. In many such shows, the audience is invited to react with ridicule, amusement and so on, but the...
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Re: National Conservatives: New Wine or Nouveau Plonk?
Who are the National Conservatives? | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine
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National Conservatives: New Wine or Nouveau Plonk?
Yesterday in the thread on Israel, I posted a video by Melanie Phillips. At the National Conservative conference in Brussels last month, among other things she attacked what she called the...
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1 Week Ago
Thread: Israel: Turn Right for the Abyss
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Below is a link to a speech Melanie Phillips gave to the National Conservative Conference in Brussels last month.
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Thread: Miriam Rivera documentary
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Had not heard of the film All About the Money before. Looked it up on imdb and this is the review on the first page-
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Thread: What is The Last Movie You Watched?
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Rotten Tomatoes’ 300 Best Movies of All Time | Rotten Tomatoes
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Thread: What is The Last Movie You Watched?
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Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997).
This aired on Film4 the other night, and though I have watched parts of it before this was the first time I watched it all the way through. It is rubbish,... -
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Thread: What are you reading now - and then
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The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier (1974).
Has anyone read this? I have not,
It is one of the most consistently banned books in the USA, because they were banning books long before DeSantis... -
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Thread: Thought for the Day
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I tend to think in terms of parallel lines characterising a lot of the conflict since the first Aliyah in 1880. The settlers were astounded to find Arabs living and working where they expected a...
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Thread: Thought for the Day
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I think a lot might depend on now the left is defined, particularly in the US. This study, while flawed, documents the twists and turns of ideas and political activism in the US. I would like to...
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Thread: Israel: Turn Right for the Abyss
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Anthony Blinken is trying to put a positive spin on his current visit to the Middle East, but it is gloom and doom in Gaza. For
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Re: The Russians are Coming, the Russians are...oh, they're here...
Tucker Carlson out of his depth and bewildered by the philosophical ideas of Aleksandr Dugin, described as 'Putin' Brain', but a man who conjures up out of the 'Anglo-Saxon World' (!) a new...
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