Venezuela Awakens From Its 17-Year Socialist Nightmare

Elections: Venezuela's voters delivered a sledgehammer blow to the country's ruling Chavista socialists Sunday, winning a likely supermajority in the National Assembly. It's a great awakening from a 17-year nightmare.
Given the past two decades of near-victories, electoral fraud, chicanery and fractious political opposition mistakes, many Venezuelans are still in disbelief at the scale of the victory in the nation's legislative elections, which have decisively handed one of Venezuela's leading governing bodies over to the democratic, pro-free-market opposition.


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Exceptional Measures Against Jihad-The real way to defeat the Jihadis.

As I listened to French president Francois Hollande over the weekend, I was struck by the familiarity of the ritual phrases he used to signal the French response to the well-orchestrated terror attacks that swept through my old neighborhood in Paris on Friday the 13^th  like a moveable feast of impotence and death.


“France will be merciless toward the Daesh  barbarians,” the president declaimed, referring to the Islamic State by its Arabic-language sobriquet. “France will act with all the legal means at its disposal.”


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A glorious defeat

Sometimes you have to fight battles you cannot win because fighting — regardless of the outcome — advances a larger cause.
Israel's fight against the nuclear deal the major powers, led by US President Barack Obama concluded with Iran was such a battle.


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