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Rachel Marsden is a columnist with Human Events Magazine, and Editor-In-Chief of GrandCentralPolitical News Syndicate, distributing to over 3,000 newspapers nationwide. She is also a media and political campaign strategist and TV/radio commentator. Her first political book will be published in 2009. rachel@rachelmarsden.com
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Rachel Marsden (Dec 21, 2011)
In a victory for common sense, America's top trading partner has become the first country to bail on the Kyoto Protocol before the nearly $7 billion in noncompliance costs... more
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Rachel Marsden (Dec 13, 2011)
I've had it with this useless, ongoing charade to "save Europe." It's time to get serious and consider jailing and impeaching some of these European Union member leaders for... more
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Rachel Marsden (Dec 06, 2011)
WikiLeaks has begun time-releasing documents related to the global private intelligence industry. What exactly is this field, and what do you, as a citizen, need to know... more
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Rachel Marsden (Nov 30, 2011)
Global leaders are set to meet in Durban, South Africa, from Nov. 28 to Dec. 9, in an attempt to figure out how to continue their fight against "climate change" when the... more
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Rachel Marsden (Nov 22, 2011)
Canada's conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, understands that energy means influence and independence. It would be tough to argue that Canada is on some kind of... more
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Rachel Marsden (Nov 15, 2011)
My new book, "American Bombshell: A Tale of Domestic and International Invasion," has just been published almost in lockstep with poor Texas Gov. Rick Perry's... more
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Rachel Marsden (Nov 08, 2011)
The slogan for last week's G-20 meeting here in France was "New World, New Ideas." It should have been "Same World, Bad Ideas." High drama played out in front of the world... more
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Rachel Marsden (Nov 01, 2011)
Russian's non-Putin President Dmitry Medvedev (a.k.a. President Placeholder) met with a group of small businessmen in Moscow over the summer to discuss their challenges. One... more
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Rachel Marsden (Oct 25, 2011)
Because it's the U.S. Army's Energy Awareness Month, it may be a good time to remind President Obama of oil's importance to economic security, and the role that wartime... more
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Rachel Marsden (Oct 18, 2011)
Being a geopolitical analyst and forecaster often means having to explain to people in America how and why a single event in Africa, Russia or China will directly impact... more
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Rachel Marsden (Oct 04, 2011)
In September 2010, the German news magazine Der Spiegel explained that
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a "soft spot for the Arctic,"
with Putin saying Russia... more
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Rachel Marsden (Sep 27, 2011)
To gauge President Obama's lack of direct involvement on the international stage, you only have to look at the popularity polls in Europe, where his approval numbers still... more
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Rachel Marsden (Sep 20, 2011)
As a conservative in favor of limited government, I'm often asked what kind of government intervention I do support. The answer is simple: I'm in support of people... more
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Rachel Marsden (Sep 14, 2011)
An American icon -- the Coca-Cola brand -- almost went to war to free common sense, which was being held hostage by the French government and knee-jerk... more
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Rachel Marsden (Sep 06, 2011)
A "flash point" in law-enforcement terms is "a point at which someone or something bursts suddenly into action or being." One such point sits just ahead on the horizon in... more
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Rachel Marsden (Aug 30, 2011)
Does Barack Obama care that the terrorist convicted only a decade ago of
killing 189 Americans is reportedly running around Libya?
The Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset... more
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Rachel Marsden (Aug 23, 2011)
Habemus Papam. That's what the Vatican says when it elects a new pope. It also should be what delegates scream at the Republican convention when the party's presidential... more
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Rachel Marsden (Aug 16, 2011)
The riots that have ravaged urban England take root in phenomena that aren't exclusive to that country but are increasingly on the rise everywhere. Could the same thing... more
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Rachel Marsden (Aug 09, 2011)
Ipsos has just released a poll measuring citizens' perception of immigration in 23 countries. Despite what politicians around the world would have their countrymen believe,... more
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Rachel Marsden (Aug 02, 2011)
Lone Nordic nutbar Anders Behring Breivik kills nearly 80 people in a terrorist attack linked to his frustration with growing multiculturalism. Suddenly, media reports... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jul 26, 2011)
Hundreds of United Nations global warming scientists just met in France via Earth-destroying air travel, ironically at a time of unseasonably cool temperatures across France,... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jul 19, 2011)
If online comments and e-mails from friends are any indication, the overwhelming feeling about the American debt crisis here in Europe is that if Barack Obama is now in a... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jul 05, 2011)
A judge has lifted former International Monetary Fund Seducer-in-Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's house arrest, releasing him on his own recognizance while retaining his... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jun 28, 2011)
Walking around the world's largest air show, I've discovered that there is no economic crisis if one is willing to look hard enough to escape it. The Paris Air Show should be... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jun 21, 2011)
As a free-market, limited-government conservative, I find the total implosion of the Greek economy to be the most stunning example of everything I've ever tried to warn about... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jun 14, 2011)
Democratic New York Congressman Anthony Weiner decided to take some photos of himself minimally burdened by cloth, send them to a few girls he met online, then complain that... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jun 07, 2011)
As Barack Obama inches toward reforming the immigration mess in America -- whenever that might be -- here's a stunning example of political rhetoric over substance.
The... more
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Rachel Marsden (May 31, 2011)
Apparently there's good money to be made as a professional socialist. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief and the French Socialist Party's... more
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Rachel Marsden (May 24, 2011)
A few years ago, if Americans had been asked to name the world's most conservative countries, Canada likely wouldn't have been on most people's list. But as so many previous... more
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Rachel Marsden (May 18, 2011)
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, known as the "Great Seducer" in his home country of France, flunked out at seducing New York Judge Melissa C.... more
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Rachel Marsden (Feb 07, 2011)
Actor Charlie Sheen has been all over the news this week in the wake of yet another porn "star" and cocaine bender. As a result, his show "Two and a Half Men" has taken a... more
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Rachel Marsden (Jan 27, 2011)
The red carpet rollout at the White House for Chinese leader Hu Jintao, complete with celeb-studded gala, is reminiscent of that time Ronald Reagan threw a ball for Mikhail... more