Name: Mark Edward Manning
Dateline: London, U.K.
Weblog: nitpickingnightdragon.blogspot.com
Articles: 184
First Published: Friday, March 26, 2004
Last Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Mark Edward Manning grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in London, England. He wrote commentaries for The Boston Herald in the mid 1990s.Currently listing articles 184-151:
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Liberation! Boris Johnson Is The New Mayor Of London— On May the 1st, Londoners liberated themselves from the ideological Red Ken, eager for the safer city that the victor, Boris Johnson, promised them.
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Convenience Killed The Cat: Pets are The Victims of a Throwaway Society— We have gone too far when we abandon pet animals for the sake of convenience.
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Don't We All Have The Right to Feel Bitter?— If mass immigration continues at current levels, not only the "bitter" white working class will feel bitter.
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Anti-China Torch Protests Had Merit— China won't take any notice, but the Olympics torch protests were a valid way of registering our displeasure with their regime.
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On Benefits, Better Off: British Welfare System Enables Addicts and Emboldens the Non-Working Class— Unless Britain has true welfare reform, the addicts and the idle problem for a long time to come.
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Catholics Are Right about Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill— Catholic leaders and ministers in Britain are sounding the warning bell regarding the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill. Will the future of human society
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"We Shan't Really Die"
— We tell ourselves that we can't die before we've accumulated our fair share of earthly possessions. Is that the reason we can't accept nature
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And the Yoke Shall Deliver You from Evil?— Does not religion often seem a yoke around the necks of Presidential candidates?
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St. Patrick's Day Remembrances: John McCain vs Gerry Adams— For those who wish to know about the Senator's anti-terror credentials, look no further than his March 16, 2005 speech
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Chavez Denounces "Oligarchy" While Moving Venezuela Closer to Becoming One— Hugo Chavez has more than his already impressive physical guts to decry student "oligarchy" while setting Venezuela up as a state oligarchy.
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Not Your Father's (Or Grandfather's, Or Great-Grandfather's) Red Sox— Could the Red Sox be the new "Evil Empire" on the strength of their second World Series visit in four years?
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There Can Be No Forgiveness For The Wicked— Austria's attitude to Nazi war criminals: "It's all in the past. Let's forgive!"
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BBC: Animal Rights Extremists More of a Threat than Radical Muslims— If the recent episode of the BBC's Casualty is to be believed, we should fear animal extremists over angry, brain-washed Muslims.
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We're Here, We're Childless: Deal With It— The outrage over Corinne Maier's latest book shows where the real intolerance toward different lifestyles lies.
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Jews Come Last But Are First To Be Blamed For War— Howard Jacobson's premise that Jews come last is a tad flawed. They are always first on the anti-war shit list.
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An Example of Real Justice— The tar-and-feather attack on a drug dealer in Belfast proves the community will take action when the police don't.
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What's The Real "Deeply Offensive" Issue Here?— The condemnation of the YouTube "Chav Hunt" video showcases Britain's inane political correctness toward idiots.
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In The News: Gordon Brown, Boiled Islamofanatic, and Shambo The Bull— While Gordon Brown flexes his moral muscles, religious inequality continues in the U.K.
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Hey, Ho, Shambo Won't Go!— The proposed slaughter of Shambo the Bull was a slight against Britain's Hindu community.
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Why Do We Tolerate Junkies?— We do drug addicts — and ourselves — no favors by pretending that they're well-meaning hard-luck cases.
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Think Locally, Act Locally: Time For the Right to Hijack Environmentalism— Could faith in the free market and local politics rescue environmentalism from the socialist Greenies?
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A Convenient Truth - Blaming Wildlife— If we're to "save the planet," it would be helpful to stop treating all other earthly life as alien.
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Al Gore: Part of the Same Culture He Loathes— Perhaps people care more about Al Gore's celebrity status than his message?
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Ron Paul and the Politics of Responsibility— Ron Paul's grass-roots popularity is not entirely without reason as he is probably the most faithful and fundamental of all Republicans.
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Sarkozy Est L'homme! (Sarko's Da Man!)— Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to acknowledge the realities facing 21st century France. Fifty-four percent of the French electorate agreed with this message.
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Who's Really Culpable In The VT Massacre Blame Game?— We can talk about gun control and the culture of violence that inspired the killer Cho. But those aren't the sole reasons why 32 innocents
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Recycle! Or Why We Should All Be Concerned About Aluminum— The demand for aluminum keeps growing. So what sense does it make to throw it away?
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In The News: Frozen Embryos, Tony Blair's Diss, Rutgers' Boo-Hoo Blubberers and Better Not Tell The Iranians!— There's been no shortage of topical news lately. I only wish to examine some of it.
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Animal Researchers and Vivisectionists: The Privileged Class— The British government will bend over backwards to protect vivisectionists from threats to their well-being. The rest of the citizenry are on their own.
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An Irish Half-Breed's St. Patrick's Day Musings— An Irish-American analyzes his Irishness.
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If Only Le Pen Had Been In Dresden— Le Pen asserts that the bombing of Dresden was as bad as 9/11. But was it really a war crime?
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Sarko: The Man Who Would Change France— If ambition is anything to go by, Nicolas Sarkozy, France's new would-be president, can improve French society.
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Racism and Diplomatic Disputes: The Reality of Reality TV— Reality TV may be moronic, but it didn't evolve in a vacuum — other than that inside the heads of those who watch it, that
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If Only Saddam Had Made More Love — Or Something Like That— Bush might have picked a better time to enlarge the American presence in Iraq. The sympathy-for-Saddam fad has yet to calm down.
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