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James Delingpole was born with the curse of being right about pretty much everything. So depending on whether you're right or wrong too, you'll either love him or hate him. He believes in liberty, small government, free markets. His loves surfing, Team America, country walks, Led Zeppelin, fox hunting, his family, decent coffee, leaf tea. He hates wind farms, the European Union and the Environmental Protection Agency. His blog at the Telegraph is one of the most popular in Britain and helped break - and name - the Climategate scandal; he is a contributing editor of the Spectator (where he writes a column called You Know It Makes Sense); he is the winner of the Bastiat Prize for online journalism and the Douglas Home memorial prize for journalism; he is the author of several books including the - spookily prescient - Welcome To Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work (Regnery); 365 Ways To Drive A Liberal Crazy (Regnery). His most recent book Watermelons: the Green Movement's True Colors (Publius) tells the story of how "caring" environmentalists have stolen our freedoms and brought the global economy to its knees. www.jamesdelingpole.com; twitter:jamesdelingpole


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DocJay: Val Jarrett was in the room when Obama was pitched the Bin Laden raid.  She insisted no go but every one else said do it and offered him a way out if it failed.  History won't remember that part but Obama looked like a spotlighted deer.  Hilary said to him, and this is the actual quote,"Barack, you can never make up your f*&^%# mind".   This tidbit would make great theater and it's true.  Sadly it will be lost to history.

Jarrett and Axelrod are the right and left arms of Obama, Holder the firewall.  They are close, very close and Hilary is on the outside.  She and Bill are royally pissed off and there is a large fight going on.  Obama wants to throw Hilary under the bus but she knows where the bodies are buried.  Therefore the only course of action is continued denial of any involvement in the Benghazi fiasco (bigger than IRS because it pits Clinton vs Obama).  The IRS and AP scandals are huge but to ignore Benghazi is to abandon the wedge between the progressives and the Clintons. 

Wow!

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Yikes! I'd never heard of this Valerie Jarrett woman. Is she for real?

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James Delingpole: And why would it wish to do that, Israel P.? · 1 hour ago

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Because it's supposed to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world, and not a strip club? · 27 minutes ago

You seem to have a very strange idea about what does and doesn't go on in prestigious universities. I take it you didn't attend one - or that if you did, they didn't rush to welcome you to one of the livelier frat houses? · in 0 minutes

I'm well aware of the things college students do, thanks. That doesn't mean that the college should endorse them all. College students are kids, after all, and kids do stupid things. It doesn't mean stupidity should be celebrated. · 15 minutes ago

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Ah. I must have missed the line in the article where it said this issue had anything to do with the Cambridge authorities "celebrating" stupidity. Or indeed endorsing it. Are you sure we're talking about the same story?

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Oh and ditto you, Astonishing. When, I wonder, was this golden age of academe when undergraduates never let their hair down in all manner of exotic ways? Oxford in Evelyn Waugh's day? In the 19th century?

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James Delingpole: And why would it wish to do that, Israel P.? · 1 hour ago

Edited 1 hour ago

Because it's supposed to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world, and not a strip club? · 27 minutes ago

You seem to have a very strange idea about what does and doesn't go on in prestigious universities. I take it you didn't attend one - or that if you did, they didn't rush to welcome you to one of the livelier frat houses?

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PS thanks to whichever moderator corrected my spelling of Jell-o. Writing that headline was a culture shock for me: we spell "defense" "defence" and "Jell-o" "jelly".

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And why would it wish to do that, Israel P.?

Edited on May 12, 2013 at 5:09pm
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Tommy De Seno:  

Spin: If it were up to you, and you had to choose between Mitt and Barry, would you choose Barry? · 0 minutes ago

Tommy De Seno: That Mitt Romney shouldn't be President. · 1 minute ago

Who does more damage to Conservatives - a Democrat embracing liberalism, or a Republican embracing liberalism?

I say the Republican does more damage to Conservatism.    Think George Bush stating he had to "Abandon Capitalism to save Capitalism."  Good grief.

Given the choice, I'd rather Barry the Democrat harm the country than Mitt the Republican. · May 10, 2013 at 10:54pm

Amen, bro. In his desperate attempts to "detoxify" the Conservative brand, Prime Minister David Cameron has set back the cause of the Conservative party by a generation. Caveat Emptor. Never take anything David L Brooks (and other RINOs) says seriously.

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DocJay: Obama could, on camera, pick up a baby and eat it without a peep from the MSM.  

He knows he can do anything.  Unlimited power to a man with unlimited arrogance and a burning hatred of nearly everything I hold dear.   · 31 minutes ago

I wish I'd thought of that line. Indeed, I will use it, Oscar. I will!

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FreeWifiDuringSermon: On the issue of strip-clubs in general, they (along with prostitution, pornography, most recreational drugs, and the show Glee ) fall into the category of stuff I wished did not exist at all but would never make illegal because they're that much worse for all involved when prohibited. 

I'm a pretty severe social conservative, but (with the exception of  general defense of life, liberty, and property) I'm not so sure how helpful the codification into law of my moral values would be.  · 1 hour ago

Would that all social conservatives had your intellectual maturity and psephological sophistication! I salute you!

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I think you're right. I'm personally against Gay Marriage - because I think the state has no business involving itself in the affairs of institutions like the church. But it's not an issue I would go to the wall on.

Not when our economy's burning and we're on the precipice of Armageddon.

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Merina Smith: Maggie asks a good question, James.  You have a fondness for the forms and trappings of religion without valuing the founding principles.  Aren't the forms rather meaningless without the belief that traditionally gave rise to them and currently sustains them?  You are apparently an exception, but for most people, if they have no belief, they do not retain the forms and the benefits thereof.  · 1 hour ago

I think post-The-Enlightenment our relationship with organized religion is always going to be complicated and I don't see how people can be forced to believe in the way, say, they were in Elizabethan times and before when church attendance was compulsory. But that doesn't mean you can't keep the structures. Regular churchgoing through my life has not made me pious but has given me a stability, a sense of tradition and a moral underpinning sadly missing from so much of our godless culture.

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Al Sparks: Your link seems to be bad. · 5 minutes ago

Sorry about that: link now mended.

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It seems to me that when the epitaph is written (shortly) on Western Civilization it will be: "Hey but at least they really believed in equality."

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David Semark: James, I am very much in sympathy with UKIP, and as disenchanted as any sentient conservative with Cameron's Tories, but I don't see anything to celebrate in a result which split the centre-right vote down the middle, thereby giving the seat to the left-wing liberal democrats. It would be a disaster for the UK if this (as seems likely to be the case) is replicated nationally in a general election. · 19 minutes ago

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I share your fears. But when the status quo becomes unbearable the only remaining option is to hazard all.

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~Paules: The "shackled to a corpse" comment was coined by the German military attache to Vienna following the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army by 
Serbia in the opening months of World War One.     · 17 minutes ago

Thank you for educating me. I'm sure Dan must have mentioned, at some point, that it wasn't his phrase. At least I hope he did.

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