I’d recommend pausing to read Amir Taheri’s “The Real Iraq” in Commentary; what seems to me to be an unusually insightful assessment of where things stand in that country at this point, and the prospects for the future.

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Clive Davis, from London, has a grim post where he refers to Telegraph article about the recent stabbing death of someone who tried to intervene helpfully in a “domestic row” on a train. It’s a type of violence that Clive indicates is apparently all too increasingly common in that part of the world.

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Not to imply a theme of “those zany Europeans,” since the last item is anything but funny, but, via AllahPundit, there is this: Dutch pedophiles to launch political party.

Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals.
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The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.

“A ban just makes children curious,” Ad van den Berg, one of the party’s founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper.

On second thoughts, this item isn’t really all that funny either.

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