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July 2015

RIP Omar Sharif [Darleen Click]

Ladies of a certain age will remember swooning over him in Dr. Zhivago Omar Sharif, the legendary actor who burst on to the U.S. film scene with his role in “Lawrence of Arabia,” died today in a hospital in Cairo after he suffered a heart attack, his agent told FOX411. He was 83. Sharif earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in the 1962 film, his first English-language role.

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge [Darleen Click]

The inspiration: A story: Mother shushed the children as they tumbled, laughing, into the house. “Mam.” They fell silent, glancing at the ancient woman. Mother singled out Seth, “My eggs?” He grabbed his antigrav belt, hating his chore of chasing chickens out of the trees, avoiding their needle teeth, just so Mother had fresh eggs for breakfast. He ignored Mam, a First Wave, weeping over album images that rotated above

Paul Krugman channels Baghdad Bob [Darleen Click]

Krugman declares that is it conservative economic policies that will turn the United States into Greece. Paul Krugman’s blog has been an essential source of smart analysis on the Greek economy as the tension increases with German leaders and the European Union. “It’s now clear, or should be clear, that the Greek program was doomed to failure without major debt relief; no matter how hard the Greeks tried, austerity would

NY City elects far-left “Progressive” Mayor. Homelessness & empty storefronts now New Normal [Darleen Click]

This is called “bad luck” If you’ve been out and about in Manhattan over the past six weeks and you have eyes and ears, you know something’s happening — something worrisome. The urban streetscape is ­degrading. Take a walk down Broadway on the Upper West Side from the 100s to the 70s, as I did Sunday, and you’ll see it everywhere. It seems every barren storefront with a rental sign

Californication [Darleen Click]

A contract to have sex, you say? A “yes means yes” advocacy group, the Affirmative Consent Project, is instructing college students to take a picture with a contract before they have sex with each other just to make absolutely sure both parties are officially consenting. In fact, the group has been distributing contracts to schools nationwide as part of its Consent Conscious Kit, according to an article in the Washington

Today’s Obamaism: We need to defeat ISIS (which isn’t really Islam) with ideas, not guns … [Darleen Click]

Goodbye to the First Amendment [Darleen Click]

“What you need to understand, America, is that feelings are the New Truth, and truth is the new blasphemy.”

Crony capitalism has nothing to do with Free Markets [Darleen Click]

Think that what is happening in Greece cannot happen here?

Amazing Grace [Darleen Click]

Running out of Other People’s money [Darleen Click]

When reality meets mythology ATHENS — Greece’s combative finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, abruptly resigned Monday morning in what appeared to be the first move at conciliation by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras toward the country’s creditors after Greek voters’ rejection on Sunday of a bailout linked to austerity. Mr. Varoufakis’s announcement came as leaders around Europe sent conflicting signals about whether they would continue to support Greece, and whether a compromise