Attendees at the party’s annual conference have been buoyed: both by leader Kemi Badenoch’s rising poll ratings and a mock Bayeux Tapestry. But the challenge from Reform U.K. remains.
Vladimir Putin wants Europe to turn off its support to Ukraine, and he’s becoming more blatant in his warnings.
The university said it was putting its fraternity chapters on “activities suspension” while it investigated allegations that included assault, drug use and hazing.
Worrying about the fisc is uncool, but the alternatives may prove worse. The post The Coming Age of Austerity appeared first on The American Conservative .
Economy Economy The Coming Age of Austerity Worrying about the fisc is uncool, but the alternatives may prove worse. When the author was young, lo! these many slipping years ago, one of the faddish ways people with degrees would complain about the world was to talk about “austerity,” a dirty word in the same vein as “neoliberalism” and a few other choice terms that were soon replaced by the new vocabulary of griping furnished by the then-cutting edge identity politics. The basic argument was that government spending and headcounts declined after the initial spasms of emergency legislation dealing with the 2008 financial crisis. In the subsequent period of low interest rates, the argument ran, there was more latitude for aggressive…Open
The administration has sought to influence elections in Latin America. The post Trump Gives Brazil’s Bolsonaro a Boost appeared first on The American Conservative .
Brazil Trump Gives Brazil’s Bolsonaro a Boost The administration has sought to influence elections in Latin America. (Sergio Lima / AFP via Getty Images) Brazilians cast their votes Sunday in the first round of an election that the polls predicted would be very close. It was, though the polls failed to predict which candidate would take first place. Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing son of the previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, beat the incumbent left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by 2 points, 47 to 45 percent. Since Bolsonaro failed to secure an outright majority, a runoff will be held on October 25. Da Silva said , “I confess I was convinced I would win the election in the first round.” There are several reasons for…Open
U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Weber S. Underwood, who died in 1942, was among the captives subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March.
Washington state man charged with helping Canadian mass shooter plan for attack
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By Patricia McCarthy That the comically ridiculous El Sayed is remotely a viable candidate for our Senate is a sadly predictable tragedy.
By Leighton Loo People are so judgmental. I can tell by just looking at them.
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By Bert Peterson Hamas claims scriptural authority to destroy Israel. But even if we take that seriously, is it valid by Islam’s own tenets?
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