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Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released yesterday after Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, made what was surely not only a brave but also the right decision to release the alleged terrorist on compassionate grounds. The Libyan has terminal cancer and the Scottish authorities have shown compassion to an individual who has shown none to others, allowing [...]
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As you know, today is the anniversary of when the USA finally decided that it could get things at least as wrong as if not more so than its incumbent overlord and therefore declared independence from the unreasonable Brits and in so doing launched itself on its own trajectory towards being a global power and [...]
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