Ian Bremmer, president of risk consultant group Eurasia Group, took issue with the left-leaning magazine The Economist over the predicted chances of a Marine Le Pen victory in France’s final round of presidential elections. Le Pen, often called a “far right” and “anti-immigrant” candidate by the media, beat out challengers and placed second to centrist candidate Emmanuel […]
The liberal media was quick to praise the second-place finish of far-right politics at the Dutch polls this week, where Geert Wilder’s alleged anti-immigration rhetoric lost to a center-right party led by the current prime minister. The Week also compared Wilder’s loss to U.S. President Donald Trump’s populism and wondered if populism is dead (seriously?!). […]
The U.S. government will not grant visa-free travel to five European Union member countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania), and as a result, some parliamentary members of the European Union are threatening to end the visa-free status that Americans have with the European Union. Does that sound fair, or foul, to you?
From Legal Insurrection: Despite Merkel government’s all-out effort to prevent the breakdown of law and order in German cites ahead of the New Year’s Eve, wide cracks are appearing in country’s police preparedness. What reads much like a dispatch from a lost battlefront, the union of police officers in the eastern German state of Thuringa has penned an […]
Lt. Col. Oliver North interviewed several Austrian locals, normal citizens, who are worried about their personal safety with the influx of migrant men into Austria. It’s worth a watch:
John Kass, who is always a good read at the Chicago Tribune, wrote the following about Hillary Clinton’s paid speech to a Brazilian bank on her ‘open borders’ dream: “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, sometime in the future with energy that’s as green and sustainable as we […]
From ABC News: The European Union on Monday launched a 348 million-euro ($391 million) aid project to help up to a million of the most vulnerable refugees in Turkey — part of a landmark EU deal with Turkey aimed at curbing the flow of migrants to Europe. The refugees, living outside of camps, are to […]
The liberal media was unsure about the ramifications of the electoral surprise of the German elections of the past week. Germany’s Angela Merkel saw her party place third in her home state, second to the Alternative for Germany party, which party the liberal media has alternated between calling it “far-right”, “nationalist” and “anti-immigrant.” It was the worst […]
It is a noble effort and peace offering from the Muslim community to have Muslims attend Catholic mass after an elderly Catholic priest, Jacques Hamel, was murdered by an ISIS-loving and radicalized teenager and an accomplice in France. We cannot express how heart-warming this gesture was that Muslims went to mass to stand in solidarity […]
An insightful New York Times piece on how the Islamic State-inspired terrorism is dampening Europe’s tourism industry, if not decimating it: In France, growth in nightly hotel room bookings after the Paris attacks fell to single digits from 20 percent. After the Brussels bombings, bookings went negative, and after Nice, bookings fell by double digits, […]