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Stephen King agrees with Warren Buffett: rich dudes like them should pay more taxes.

Senate Republicans are so horrified, they opposed this rule even though most Americans (and most Republicans nationally) are actually in favor of the Buffett rule. Scary stuff.

I’ve felt let down by American President Barack Obama. Not that I voted for him — heck, I’m Canadian. But I had high hopes, some of which have been tarnished.

He’s still head and shoulders above his competition, past and present (I’m as disdainful of a Romney presidency as I was of a McCain one). But I’m not fond of his adaptation of the old American habit (continued under George Bush Jr.) of acquiescing to the worst reactionaries abroad. The USA is still the world’s only superpower — it’s leader can afford the political capital required to condemn fascist religious fanatics who want to drag their societies back into the Dark Ages.

More on this in The Propagandist: Democratic and Republican Blindness on Islamist Politics

Canada and the USA are friends. Allies. Close cousins tied together by culture, trade and mutual interest. That said, if a few million enraged Americans intent on swallowing our country suddenly rushed our border and made a dash for Ottawa — and announced their weird plan months in advance — the Canucks would not take this breach of sovereignty lying down.

In less than 48 hours, Israel will be in this situation. Well, sort of. The borderlands there are already inhabited by people who have either formally or informally boycotted the Jewish state. Several sections along the border are inhabited by lunatics who have on many occasions launched indiscriminate attacks against Israeli civilians — all for the sake of slaking their bloodlust, distracting the international community from the daily brutalities of Middle Eastern despots, or just getting a couple of days worth of friendly coverage by the BBC or the Guardian.

The actual number of participants will probably be in the thousands, not millions. But even a few thousand runners can put border police on their back foot. This is not a game. Continue Reading »

My latest observations in The Propagandist on how Human Rights Watch Criticizes NYPD For Trying to Protect New Yorkers

I’ve visited New York City several times. It’s a great town. I’d hate to see it struck again by weaponized religious fanatics — but so-called “human rights activists” apparently want the cops there to effectively give up, wave a white flag and wait for the inevitable.

It’s not the first “human rights” organization to go over to the dark side. When Amnesty International decided to get into bed with the jihadists at Cageprisoners, I canceled my monthly donations.

What a weird world we live in.

Ask a direct question about politics, get a direct atlas. Some new stuff on The Propagandist, including a very worthwhile read from Lauryn Oates:

• A Moderate Taliban is Wishful Thinking. When you wish upon a star, doesn’t matter who you are, when you wish upon a star, the Taliban will slit your throat first chance they get.
•  Athens Burns. Along with a whole lot of Euros thrown at Greece to, you know, prevent this sort of thing from happening.
• China Continues to Arrest North Korean Refugees. Question: why are we made to feel so guilty for trying to send terrorists back to their country of origin while China continues to send starving, tortured refugees back to their country to face certain death?

Confusion to our enemies and all that…