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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian » The Right Honourable Edmund Burke on the American English, 1775

Posted 40 minutes ago

In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the ... [Link]

ROK Drop » North Korea Celebrates the 4th of July with SCUD Missile Test

Posted 49 minutes ago

Just in case anyone cares, North Korea fired off a few SCUD missiles to help the US celebrate the 4th of July with: North Korea test-launched six missiles off its eastern coast Saturday. The missiles were launched beginning around eight ... [Link]

» Mexico Mourns as Famed Midget Wrestling Twins Drugged, Killed by Hookers

Posted 76 minutes ago

A Brief aside from news from the Pacific Rim: Tragedy struck Mexico yesterday when twin midget wrestling stars Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez were found dead in a hotel room, apparently drugged and killed by members of Las Goteras–a gang of ... [Link]

AMPONTAN » Kabuki and paper airplanes

Posted 3 hours ago

FOR MANY AMERICANS and people from other younger countries—and that includes me—the approach to traditional culture requires an attitude of respect and reverence that does not admit of tomfoolery. You’re supposed to put your socks on, wear nice clothes, sit ... [Link]

西儒 ─ The Western Confucian » Fifes and Drums of Yorktown, Virginia at Fort Ticonderoga, New York

Posted 4 hours ago

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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian » "Speak English or Die"

Posted 5 hours ago

That old Stormtroopers of Death song comes to mind with Steve Sailer's latest — The American Media's Bias toward English-Speaking Foreigners. Mr. Sailer observes that "the American press will tend to be biased toward political movements who represent the better ... [Link]

ParaPundit » Honduran President's Removal Seen As Lawful

Posted 5 hours ago

Octavio Sánchez (whose name sounds pretty Spanish), a former presidential advisor in Honduras, argues that the removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from office was lawful and in accordance with the Honduran constitution. Under our Constitution, what happened in Honduras ... [Link]

西儒 ─ The Western Confucian » "Christian-Libertarian-Environmentalist-Capit~

Posted 5 hours ago

An interview with Joel Salatin, the "pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm[er]" who describes himself in the above terms, in which he discusses "stewardship of the land, the burden of government regulations, and what's wrong with 'organic' farming" — Farming and ... [Link]

西儒 ─ The Western Confucian » Non-places and Supermodernity

Posted 5 hours ago

A review of a book by French thinker and anthropologist Marc Augé whose thesis it is "[t]hat the world is becoming ever more homogenized and globalized, and soon it won’t matter where we go because the world will consist only ... [Link]

Monster Island (actually a peninsula)* » South Korea to spend 200 billion won on H1N1 vaccine

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