Europe, the Mother Continent of Western Man, is today aging and dying, unable to sustain the birth rates needed to keep her alive, or to resist conquest by an immigrant invasion from the Third World.
What happened to the nations that only a century ago ruled the world?
In "Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World," published today, this writer will argue that it was colossal blunders of British statesmen, Winston Churchill foremost among them, that turned two European wars into world wars that may yet prove the mortal wounds of the West.
The first blunder was a secret decision of the inner Cabinet in 1906 to send a British army across the [ ... More ]
Even some of Sen. Hillary Clinton's most devoted supporters now privately concede the inevitability of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's winning the Democratic presidential nomination. One hint to understanding the mindset of candidate Clinton and her devoted loyalists (the ones who refuse to acknowledge the nonexistence of any semi-plausible path to the nomination) may be found in a story popular in Spain as that country's then-aging dictator lingered in critical condition.
The year was 1975, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the ruthless strongman who with an iron hand had ruled Spain for four decades, lay on his deathbed. The joke then popular in Barcelona went like this:
First Spaniard: "There is good news, and there is bad news."
Second Spaniard: "Tell me the good news [ ... More ]
The council chose to wait two more years to place an added set of ballot measures in front of voters. At that time, voters will be asked to create a ninth council district, change the number of council votes to override a mayoral veto from five to six, and make permanent San Diego's experiment with a strong-mayor system of government, which began in 2006.
The process began in March when Mayor Jerry Sanders appointed 15 people to an advisory panel and charged them with making a range of recommendations to improve the City Charter.
The panel came under fire from critics, including City Attorney Michael Aguirre and prominent members of organized labor and the local League of Women Voters, for [ ... More ]
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