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The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson (BoJo) has announced his government plans to allow shops to use traditional weights and measures rather than those of the metric system. Ounces, pounds, quarts, pints, bushels, miles, feet, inches, yards, etc., go way back. They developed from weights and measures used by Teutonic tribes and ancient Romans […]
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Activists who oppose American Indian sports mascots and team names have their work cut out for them, because they are also being used across the pond in Britain and Europe. The New York Times had an article about it. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published September 17, 2018, […]
Something historic is afoot across the pond, as, for the first time ever, a member state of the European Union is withdrawing from the European Union. It came in the form of a letter sent from UK Prime Minister Theresa May, which was hand delivered by diplomat Sir Tim Barrow to European Council President Donald […]
While the United States is already engaged in an exciting presidential campaign, across the Atlantic, our British cousins are scheduled to vote in an important referendum, “Brexit”, on June 23rd, 2016. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published June 15th, 2016, on NewswithViews.
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Why is the German Foreign Minister talking about the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) ? Well, it has to do with the European Union. For the entire blog entry, click, here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published May 15th, 2016 on VDARE.COM.
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Across the Pond, a date has been set to vote on whether the United Kingdom should stay in the European Union or get out. The referendum is slated for June 23rd. For the entire blog entry, click here. Blog entry by Allan Wall, published February 23rd, 2016, on VDARE.COM.
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In 2005, I was deployed to Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard, 36th Infantry Division. Our unit was sent to Iraq two years after the initial invasion. In 2005, the American and coalition troops deployed there were engaged in various aspects of what could be described as occupation duty. Iraq had plenty of violence […]
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On September 18th, voters in Scotland are scheduled to go to the polls and vote in a very straightforward referendum. Unlike the confusing referendum held in Puerto Rico in 2012 , the Scotland referendum poses a very simple question to voters. The question on the ballot is simply “Should Scotland be an independent country?”. There are […]