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...Haley, who has sharpened her criticisms of Trump in recent weeks, said during a campaign stop in Lexington, South Carolina: “If you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a driver’s licence...
...Step barefoot on the barb of a camelthorn tree and, if you’re lucky, you’ll receive a nasty wound. If you’re unlucky, it’ll go septic. It’s not that the wilderness hates you....
...In the tweet, which was later removed, the minister referenced a Brazilian cartoon character with a speech impediment, replacing all the letter Rs with Ls in an attempt to mock Chinese phonetics....
...Lacking the feline charm of an Obama or JFK, he tries to diminish those who mock, criticise or report inconvenient news. Unable to seduce, he intends to subdue....
...“His talent for face-to-face connection is beyond words and logic, which may be why his opponents . . . mock him so viciously in public,” The Globe and Mail newspaper wrote last month....
...But to mock Kaczynski is to ignore the political genius and dogged self-belief that has made him the most influential figure in democratic Poland....
...The television show of Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian political satirist who aimed his barbs at the army leadership last week, was cancelled on Friday, less than half an hour before airtime....
...The comedian, seen as Egypt’s answer to American talkshow host Jon Stewart, aimed his barbs at the country’s new military leadership....
...not to say it is sombre; it includes a number of quasi-Wildean epigrams, but where Wilde deployed his arsenal in order at best to sugar the points he made and sometimes to avoid making any at all, the barbs...
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