Opinion Forum

Candidate Obama Was Prescient about Greece

May 17th, 2012

By Dan Miller Realizing even then that a small nation would show the way during his first term in office, Candidate Obama materialized against a backdrop of sturdy Styrofoam Greek columns to accept his 2008 presidential nomination.

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: disaster, economy, Greece, Messiah, monuments, Obama, renting, satire
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Darwinism Is Needed

April 6th, 2012

By Dan Miller We need social Darwinism. Without it, we are likely to become extinct like the do-do bird. According to President Obama, the Ryan budget passed last week by the House of Representatives 228 to 191 with no Democrats supporting it is nothing but thinly veiled social Darwinism,” Mr. Obama said. “By gutting the […]

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Tags: budget, Greece, green energy, revenue, social darwinism, spending, taxes
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Italian Cruise Ship “runs aground”

January 14th, 2012

By Dan Miller It has been widely reported that the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia “slammed into shallow water off Italy’s western coast.” Authorities are looking at why the ship didn’t hail a mayday during the accident near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, officials said. “At the moment we can’t exclude that […]

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Tags: aground, Costa Concordia, Giglio, Greece, Iran, Russia, submarine, torpedo
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Europe’s Apocalypse

May 29th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin Last week, the New York Times published an article saying that the European welfare state would quickly become unsustainable due to high levels of debt, decreasing birthrates, and overly generous benefits. And in other news, pigs are flying over my window, the sun has risen in the west, and the temperature in […]

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Tags: capitalism, debt, EU, euro, Europe, freedom, Greece, Islam, socialism
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Germany, Present and Future

May 27th, 2010

By Tom Carter Victor Davis Hanson, one of my favorite conservative thinkers, has two articles at Pajamas Media discussing the present and future role of Germany in Europe. They’re both worth reading, especially for those who haven’t been thinking much about Europe lately. Americans should be paying much closer attention to the current problems of […]

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Tags: EU, euro, Europe, Germany, Greece, Iran, nuclear weapons, Turkey
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