New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Winston Churchill in 1899: Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses...
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A momentous event , but are we forgetting the evil that was communism? Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, a captive people of a divided continent literally with their hands dismantled the Berlin Wall. This wall represented not merely the totalitarian tyranny of Soviet Communism, but the eternal ugliness and evil of that inherent disposition in man to deny the freedom of another to live his life as he wishes....
eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Two Interesting articles on the Fort Hood Massacre:- Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Only minutes after the bloody assault at the Soldier Readiness Center (SRC), Fort Hood, Texas, the media was buzzing with news that the gunman, Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was a devout Muslim. Before opening fire, first-hand accounts reported he yelled, “Allahu Akbar” meaning “God...
bunnehmunches (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Dave Trott in one of his inspiring posts, writes: “I can learn lessons about creativity from Mohammed Ali, Mike Tyson, Max Baer, Vince Lombardi, Billy Beane, Brian Clough, Tony Adams, Jackie Stewart, Bill Shankley, Napoleon, Nelson, Heinz Guderian, Michael Wittmann, Willy Messerschmitt, Woody Allen, George Carlin, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Branson, Winston Churchill, Norman Tebbitt, Tony Benn,
BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The exchange between Churchill and Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison," and he said, "if you were my wife I'd drink it." ****************** A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the Gallows or of some unspeakable disease." That depends, Sir, said Disraeli, "Whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."...
Discovering Purpose (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
There are many of us who feel sick and tired of our lives. The phrase sick and tired in the context of this post is an expression or a feeling of discouragement, dissatisfaction and frustration with several issues of concern in the journey of life. You become sick and tired of life, events, people and [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
For 28 years two months and 27 days the Berlin Wall divided the city at the heart of Europe. When it fell on November 9 1989 it was drenched in the blood of 239 people - valiant wouldbe escapers shot dead simply because they wanted a better life than their drab existence in the German Democratic Republic and were prepared to go to extreme lengths for freedom.
Tom's Tirades (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today is Remembrance Sunday. As I watched the service at the Cenotaph, I was unmoved by the annual ritual of the Queen, Prime Minister, other royals and politicians laying their wreaths. But when the war veterans marched past, I felt a lump in my throat. There are no British survivors of the First World War, the war that many hoped would be "the war to end all wars', but sadly was not. Harry Patch,...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | yesterday
Please help support WRH by visiting our advertisers!THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!"I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good...and it would spread a lively terror.... "-- Winston Churchill commenting on the British use of poison gas against the Iraqis after World War I OUR AD POLICYADV: ADV: ADV: ADV: ADV: Office space in the UK (and especially...
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
‘Two cheers for democracy!” ... “The worst system of government except for all the others!” ... “More cruel than wars or tyrants!” ... As everyone knows, these sentiments come, respectively, through E.M. Forster, Winston Churchill, and the Epistulae Morales of Seneca. Perhaps Seneca got closest to the truth, and not that later Roman, Alcuin, who declared (in a letter...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes! We should celebrate the passing of this Health Care Bill in the House. Yes, this is the way democracy has worked from its start...
within the crainium (Free subscription) | yesterday
November 9 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. From The New Criterion: Tyranny set in stone Was there ever a more fitting monument to tyranny than the Berlin Wall? Conceived in desperation, this brutal...
British National Party (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the Tory traitors buckle before the EU superstate, the British National Party says “No to EU Rule” and has invoked the bulldog spirit of Winston Churchill to emphasise its spirit of resistance to foreign invasion.
Making The Arsenal (Free subscription) | yesterday
MAKING THE ARSENAL is a novel – the diary of a football journalist in 1910 who is given the job of covering the story of the collapse of Woolwich Arsenal, its take-over by Fulham and its re-birth as a new club. But the story is more than just football – it is a story about life [...]
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday
This financial mess isn't even the end of the beginning for UK wealth"This isn't the end. It isn't the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning". By Liam HalliganPublished: 8:49PM GMT 07 Nov 2009Comments 28 | Comment on this articleWith these immortal words, Winston Churchill reacted to the Allied Forces' victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein. Despite widespread...
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