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by | Jan 15, 2024

Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen was twice acquitted of hate speech charges for expressing a biblical view of marriage. She will now be dragged back to court after state prosecutors appealed the decision, according to a statement Friday from…

by | Nov 25, 2023

Good news on the religious-liberty front from Finland: it is not a hate crime to quote the Bible’s views on homosexuality and marriage. As outrageous as it sounds, the top prosecutor of that Nordic country wanted to make it so,…

by | Oct 28, 2023

Earlier this month, the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland was damaged and had to be shut down.  This development follows a series of Baltic infrastructure hardware being destroyed, prompting NATO to increase its patrols in the region. With…

by | Aug 14, 2023

Based on its last experience approving a new NATO member, it is no wonder that so many in Hungary’s conservative government have been wary about doing so again. Just a little over a week after Hungary gave the green light…

by | Jul 29, 2023

Unsurprisingly, the question of NATO membership for Ukraine generated the greatest discussion among both the participants at the recent NATO summit in Vilnius and commentators in the major western media outlets. Beyond the sometimes testy exchanges, however, much of the…

by | Apr 4, 2023

Finnish voters rejected their prime minister who did not reject many. Photographs showed the married 36-year-old dancing with a pop star, a rapper, and an actor, drinking, grinding with a hot model named Sabina Särkkä, and partying at her tax-funded…

by | Aug 20, 2022

The horrific attack on novelist Salman Rushdie has prompted HBO host Bill Maher to call for more “debate” about Islam and its “dangerous” character. But that won’t happen, of course. Maher’s fellow liberals dread any such discussion. They insist that…

by | Aug 18, 2022

Videos leaked Wednesday that show Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin rambunctiously partying with a number of friends. In one video, Marin gyrates her hips on the floor while holding her hands behind her head. Other footage features Marin, who is…

by | May 22, 2022

The late and colorful New York Mayor Ed Koch used to say, “We have a saying in New York: a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.” You can add an entire nation mugged by reality: Finland. Throughout the…

by | Apr 2, 2022

Päivi Räsänen, the Finnish politician who faced criminal charges for merely quoting and defending the Bible’s condemnation of sexual immorality, scored an important victory for free speech and religious freedom last week. A Helsinki court cleared her of “hate speech”…

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