Duly Noted – Making Crime Pay and the Courage of Our Convictions

  "We like to forget that freedom is not a natural condition nor is it gained or maintained for free."

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Duly Noted – Bluntly About NATO

NATO may have outlived its usefulness to Europe and to the United States under the present circumstances

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Duly Noted: The Returns On Cuddling Top Terrorists

Washington must have a dim view of the emerging ambivalent priorities of German foreign policy. 

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Duly Noted

The Original Sin of the Intellectuals.

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Duly Noted

An Obituary and Other Pleasurable Items.

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Duly Noted

Two Pictures and a Story.

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Duly Noted

A Disrespectful Plea on Behalf of Direct Democracy.

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Duly Noted

Why is there no light at the end of the tunnel? What Tucson teaches. "Hate," "target" and "right-wing extremism." Bin Laden's Kalashnikov. Church and state. Racist judgments?

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Duly Noted

Bureaucracy, Democracy and Their Conflict.

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Duly Noted

When Invention is the Mother of the News.

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Duly Noted

A New Cause: Privacy For WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks demands privacy for itself. Poverty pays political dividends. Euro charades and what your money's worth.

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Duly Noted

How much protection for intolerant communities? The to be protected right of an intolerant religion for acceptance. Who is left to lead? Words in response to bullets mean more bullets. Console the poor or improve their lot?

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Duly Noted

Decadence at Work. The common currency's curse. Paying for expanding without due diligence. China's virtues and their buyer's weakness. "Plastic education" and unemployment. Pirate protection: decadence at work?

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Duly Noted

History in the making: Russia, America and NATO connect. Rich enough to be left of everything. Medias, the Left and integrity. Violently for freedom. Saving the pigs. Guns and consequences. An EU dividend.

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Duly Noted

How the US saved China from nuclear war. The UN, North Korea, Iran and the nukes. The General's stars. The Tea Party's critical test is still ahead. Be a woman, support Pelosi who is also one.

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America fails the "unblemished virtue" test. Little Red Riding Hood bites the wolf. The guilt of innocence. Again the Vietnam case and its misuse. Avoid the dangers of success. Democratic Socialism: Which part has priority? Money for repatriated criminals. Obama's old magic and the new boredom. About obvious consequences.

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The liposuction of political fat is painful. A GOP sweep and the global trend. Work hard to pay for others? Voting rights for non-citizens?

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Duly Noted

The uses and costs of migrants. PC and its dangers. Is the influence of the influentials wearing out? The Socialists: "Close the store"?

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Duly Noted

The Masses Disobey Their Leaders. Can government watchdogs control the government? The EU's choice: the Belgian or the Swiss pattern. Leading the disobedient masses.

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Duly Noted

A Nobel Prize goes to a Chinese: Peking's revealing reaction. Charging Geert Wilders. The schnitzel tax. A tale about ecological Socialism and dirty capitalism.

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Is the striving for freedom our basic instinct? Present performance and the degrading inferiority of the Soviet system. A crime, committed by one, remains an offense even if it is said to be to the action of many. Good terrorists? More Marx or more money.

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Ahmadinejad at the UN. North Korea's barbed wire paradise. Swedish Democrats.

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Duly Noted

Progressive secularism and moderate Islam. Extortion called bail. Human nature, equality and those in charge of leveling.

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Risky Freedom or Safe Servitude. Protecting criminal subcultures. When laws do not count. The attraction of world-saving schemes. Fighting a war or conducting a police action. When a bad system is deemed to express a national-religious essence. Who needs Israel?

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Duly Noted

In a departure from DN's usual format, this installment is devoted to the affairs of a single region and it will essentially examine only one single issue.

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