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PARIS -- It was inevitable that sooner or later, leading European countries would start distancing themselves from the aggressive rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the European Union leadership's approach to the armed conflict in Ukraine. Last week in Turin, Italian Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio presented a four-point peace plan to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who made contact with Moscow and Kyiv in visits a few weeks ago. Di Maio also chaired the group of Europe's foreign ministers at a meeting in Turin, including those of other EU countries which have recently shown interest in de-escalating...

PARIS -- Why has real democracy become so elusive in developed nations? Sure, you can still vote and feel as if you have some kind of say, but genuine democracy is getting further and further out of reach. The current climate in Europe should serve as a warning to America about what lies ahead if U.S. citizens don't reclaim power by choosing the anti-establishment candidate, Donald Trump, in November's presidential election. Hungary held a referendum last weekend on whether to allow the European Union to impose migrant quotas on the country in an effort to resettle millions of refugees from...

PARIS -- Remember the Occupy Wall Street movement? The 2011-2012 protests sought to bring Arab Spring-type "revolutions" to the United States through a combination of urban camping and complaining loudly about the state of the world. The Occupy movement fizzled out because it failed to translate the whining into political action. Hey, Occupiers, it only took a few years, but your ride is finally here. You can't miss it -- it's a Boeing 757 with "TRUMP" in gold letters. Here's why Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is the guy you've been waiting for. -- Trump is denouncing Wall Street from...

The Islamic terrorist army often referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has made a faster womb-to-superstardom ascension than Justin Bieber. Largely unheard of just a few weeks ago, the group is now the self-proclaimed new ruler of an Islamic caliphate, or republic, extending across Iraq and Syria. These countries currently have internationally recognized heads of state -- but, you know, whatever, man. It's not like U.S. President Barack Obama is going to stop ISIL. In fact, he's asking Congress to give it $500 million, under the guise of funding the "Syrian opposition." Recipients...

I remember two years ago this brilliant and gorgeous Conservative Pundit(from Canada!) named Rachel Marsden. She was sharp witty smart articulate and drop dead beautiful. Then she got into some trouble(turns out not for the first nor the last time) for some altercation in the Fox Studios in NYC and she was expelled from that RED EYE show and Fox too. Was that ban not lifted? Has she not been allowed to return to Fox News for morning show? Also I find no recent postings nor threads of her here- - has she been banned from the FreeRepublic forum too?...

Rachel Marsden, the right-wing pundit better known in Canada for a series of scandals in her personal life, has apparently had a messy breakup with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Marsden posted photos of herself on eBay on Sunday to accompany items she says were left behind in her New York City apartment by Wales, the Wikipedia creator who has himself confirmed he was briefly involved with the Canadian media personality. Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that has an entry on Marsden that has itself been the subject of controversy. "Hi, my name is Rachel and my (now ex-) boyfriend,...

We hear that Fox News's Red Eye eye-candy neo-con Canadian trouble-girl Rachel Marsden—you remember her from her days of ALLEGED stalking in Canada—was just taken by security guards out of the Fox News studios and out of the News Corp. building. Maybe she was breathing too hard on Shep Smith. (Always barking up the wrong trees, that gal!) Or, uh, maybe she wasn't feeling well and they were taking her to a car. Yeah... that. Anyway, DEVELOPING!

Another week, and another violent outburst by members of the religion of peace has compelled me, once again, to write a column that will likely make me glad that my address isn’t listed in the phone book. When Pope Benedict recently quoted an ancient emperor to explain that Islamic chief prophet Mohammed relied on violence to convert non-believers rather than that flaky winning over of hearts and minds stuff, it was enough to make some Islamofascists run right out into the Arab street and drive his point home. But who exactly speaks for Islam? London-based Muslim extremist and riot organizer,...

Hollywood director Oliver Stone dropped by Toronto’s Varsity Cinemas this week to premiere his new movie, World Trade Center, about two of the last police officers who were pulled alive from the World Trade Center rubble, post-9/11. With him was Scott Strauss, one of the real-life police rescuers. Stone says Strauss and the other 9/11 families kept him in check. That’s quite the feat, given that Stone has called the Cold War “irritating”, says nationalism and patriotism are “evil forces”, considers Fidel Castro a personal friend, and mused that if he was George W. Bush he would “shoot himself”. With...

Officials of that great bastion of liberalism -- the European Union -- reportedly want to replace the term "Islamic terrorism" with "terrorists who abusively invoke Islam." According to the EU Observer, other terms under review include "jihad," "Islamist," and "fundamentalist," It's hardly the first time that liberals have taken the English language and made it their own. Here's my handy glossary of commonly used leftist terms, and what they really mean: Social justice: Spreading the misery of socialism equally throughout society. Enlightened: A person who refuses to accept that socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried. Journalist: A news...

This week, CNN's Larry King Live featured a group of people discussing and defending their cause, and their fallen colleagues in Iraq. One woman credited her two recently injured male cohorts with paving the way for women like herself to do the same job. This, even as a kidnapping video featuring a female colleague was playing in heavy rotation on Al-Jazeera TV. When King confronted another of these seasoned professionals -- one who had spent time in Vietnam -- with the fact that their death toll in Iraq was creeping upward, the pro shrugged it off as part of the...

Lot of Folks Can’t Tell Left From Right By: Rachel Marsden If Liberal leader, Paul Martin, ends up shopping around his resume after Monday’s election, it will be mainly because the one thing all Canadians have in common is that we’re fed up with endless Liberal scandal. But a Harper victory might also indicate that a lot of Canadians have held those “scary conservative values” all along, but just didn’t know it until now. I’m serious. In fact, a 2002 Compas poll found that over half of Canadians are oblivious to the differences between the political “left” and “right”. Some...

When Canadian journalism tilts trashy tabloid, it fizzles out. Canadians, by and large, are pointedly polite. Remarkably unassuming, they tend to shy away from newspaper wars and the lives of media celebrities. Circumspect Canadians don’t really care that "George Washington was a woman!" and the "Mother of his country. " (Weekly World News, July 4 Collector’s edition).

Saddam Hussein and his murderous regime were symbolically toppled with this week’s free vote in Iraq. Meanwhile, back in America, Democratic Party sweetheart, Senator Hillary Clinton, fell down and went boom at an event in Buffalo, New York. No doubt, it’s been a pretty tough week for terrorists, Saddam, and their liberal cheerleaders. The terrorists pulled off their only pre-election homicide bombing by strapping a bomb to the back of some guy with Downs Syndrome. I think this is the terrorists’ way of giving a shout-out to all the liberal infidels in America, by demonstrating that they’re committed to non-discriminatory...

Five months after Osama bin Laden's propaganda network, Al-Jazeera, was approved for viewing in Canada, Fox News was given the green light. Within days, I was asked by a correspondent with the far-left-leaning Canadian Broadcasting Corporation whether Canadians having access to Fox News will be detrimental to public discourse and debate in Canada. Despite the fact that the CBC receives nearly a billion dollars in taxpayers' money to fund programs that are totally ignored by 93 percent of Canadians, they're still transparently petrified of any competition edging in on their "turf." What's pathetic is that even with pitiful ratings like...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 27/04 -- Unlike Election 2000 between George “W” Bush and Al “I Invented The Letter W” Gore, I predict that the race between Bush and John Kerry is not going to end in a photo-finish. This time, I don’t believe that the fate of the nation and the free world will be decided by a handful of senile, incontinent old geezers wheeled out from under a pile of mothballs in some Fort Lauderdale retirement home and straight into the polling booth. Nevertheless, desperate times lead to desperate measures, and in the last stretch of this marathon...

VANCOUVER - A 28-year-old woman who once accused a swim coach at Simon Fraser University of harassment in a milestone case linked to the downfall of the school's president has herself been charged with criminally harassing a 52-year-old man. Rachel Marsden, a one-time assistant to TV news anchor Connie Chung, made a brief appearance yesterday in provincial court where her lawyer negotiated her release after a night in custody. A sombre Ms. Marsden agreed to terms that include the payment of $10,000 and agreements to not contact the alleged victim as well as members of his family. She is also...

Canadians and the War on Terror: No, Mr. Goldberg. We are not "Wimps!" By: Rachel Marsden The most recent issue of National Review featured members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on horseback, decked out in ceremonial red surge, with the word "Wimps!" emblazoned in blue across the cover. Inside the issue, Jonah Goldberg ponders, at great length, Canada's "whiny and weak anti-Americanism." He then goes on to label the country "Jean Chrétien's Canada", and to suggest that Canadians are hell-bent on opposing, as a mere matter of reflex, every action that America happens to take and every position that...