By: azt24
Frodo was a modest, unwilling hero, forced into the Quest by chance (if chance you call it, as Gandalf reminded him) and by his innate decency and willingness to sacrifice himself to protect those he...
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Obama’s backers have a long game. Cut America down to size, make it one nation like any other, hand more and more power over to transnational agencies like the UN. That long game seems to be proceeding...
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Tolkien actually began writing some of the Elvish histories in the trenches. There was quite a fad for elves and fairies during WWI. Tolkien gave himself the mission of rescuing the elves from the...
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Yes! Can’t you see both Clintons hissing Nasty, tricksy thieves! Bagginses! We hates it forever! We wants our Precious!”
View ArticleBy: Beagle
“It’s not clear that the President’s goal of a grand bargain with Iran is within reach, or that it will deliver the kind of stability he hopes for.” Charitable. I would run with Iran uses Obama like a...
View ArticleBy: Neo
The Mullahs in Tehran must feel even worse knowing that they have thrown in with the fickle idiot head of the “Great Satan.” Don’t expect any of this to make a nuclear deal any better.
View ArticleBy: RichardD1835
Unlike arab Muslims, the Persians have shown little interest in being militarily venturesome in the last 2,000 years. While arabs expanded across the northern Mediterranean, through Spain and northward...
View ArticleBy: ChangeIranNow
Much of the discussion in America now is about assigning blame. There is a lot of that to go around. Yes, the Bush administration should have executed the early stages of the Iraq war better. Yes, if...
View ArticleBy: U Nderwater Glockenspiel
Odious comparison Frodo is a good naif, member of a race of innocents. Hussein is a disgusting diarrhea-coloured Kenyan born Indonesia qoran-raised liar and destroyer.
View ArticleBy: bruceamcallister
Why do those who espouse ideals and fight for them always get accused of naïveté, as Mr. Mead implies, when inevitable trouble intervenes. Shimon Peres, e.g., could be and often is charged with naïveté...
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