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Free speech ebbs as Europe bows down to Islam, appeasers

Giulio Meotti | Gatestone Institute

Writing in 2008, The Telegraph‘s Tim Walker quoted the famous playwright Simon Gray saying that Nicholas Hytner, director of London’s National Theatre from 2003-2015, “has been happy to offend Christians,” but “is wary of putting on anything which could upset Muslims.” The last people who did so were the journalists of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. They paid with their lives. By refusing to confront the speech police, or to support freedom of expression for Salman Rushdie, Roger Scruton, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Hebdo and Jyllands-Posten — just the tip of a huge iceberg — we have started down the road of submission to sharia law and to tyranny. We all have been covering up our supposedly “blasphemous” culture with burqas to avoid offending people who do not seem to mind offending us.

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At freedom’s altar: Trump delivers a D-Day speech for the ages

Matthew Continetti | Washington Free Beacon

Beginning with his Inaugural Address, but developed more fully in his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, in his Warsaw appearance, and in his 2017 remarks at the U.N. General Assembly, Donald Trump has offered a consistent perspective on foreign affairs. The world is composed of nations that, at the end of the day, are accountable only to themselves and to their people. The strength of a nation manifests itself in economics and military might, but ultimately depends on patriotic feeling, communal sensibility, and religious belief. Each nation has the right to exercise sovereignty. It will try to advance its interests, but also must understand that other nations will do the same. When nations enter into trade relationships or alliances, they ought not to take advantage of one another. And they ought not to infringe on sovereign rights.

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Seven views: Country by country, Europe’s voters want radical change

Spiked Online

Forget left vs right, or Momentum trustafarians vs Tory toffs, or socialism vs capitalism – those are dinosaurian divides. The great, meaningful divide in the UK today is between Leave and Remain, between those who think politics should be done by ordinary people and those who think it should be done by experts.

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Leftism, migrant backlash still driving EU elections

Eric Kaufmann | UnHerd

There’s a comforting myth that voters are electing right-wing populists because they feel ‘left behind’ by the global economy and uncaring politicians. All that’s needed is to redistribute some wealth, grow the economy and devolve power and all will be fine. In fact, there is little evidence to back up these assertions. In numerous surveys I have analyzed, immigration attitudes and salience, not economic circumstances or even anti-elitism, are what best explain why people vote for right-wing populists.

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Leftist era fades in West as nationalism on the rise

Patrick J Buchanan

Liberalism appears to be losing its appeal. A majority in the world’s largest democracy, India, consciously used their democratic right to vote — to advance sectarian and nationalist ends. Why is liberalism fading away, and nationalism ascendant? The former is an idea that appeals to the intellect; the latter, rooted in love of family, faith, tribe and nation, is of the heart. In its potency to motivate men, liberalism is to nationalism what near beer is to Bombay gin.

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Mainstream evaporates, as base votes itself a new elite

Mark Steyn | Steyn Online

As I’ve been saying for four years in a Trump context, it’s easier for the base to get itself a new elite than for the elite to get itself a new base. Three years ago the Brexit referendum revealed that Parliament and the people had become misaligned: If over half the people support a policy that no “mainstream” party supports, then in what sense are those parties mainstream?

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Five takeaways from the European elections

Dalibor Rohac | Politico

If European elections used to be a sedate affair, the 2019 iteration was anything but. Besides the obvious — a growing fragmentation of European politics, a solid but not dominant position of the far right and an increasingly green left — five lessons emerge from this weekend’s vote.

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German anger as free speech curbs floated

AFP

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Nationalists poised for historic test of strength in European elections

Patrick J Buchanan

Expectation: Nationalists and populists will turn in their strongest performance since the EU was established, and their parliamentary group — Europe of Nations and Freedom — could sweep a fourth of the seats in Strasbourg.

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‘Battle for Europe’ begins as nationalists rally ahead of elections

Soeren Kern | Gatestone Institute

“Today, Europeans are once again fighting for their survival. It is not just the migration of colonists from Africa and the Arab countries that is changing the face of Western Europe. It is also the growing assault from Brussels on the sovereignty of Europe’s nation states in the name of a multicultural superstate.

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Oddly Enough

Chemicals blamed as dogs turn pink and blue

Hannah Sparks | NY Post

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Sara Fischer | Axios

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