hell-holes

At dinner parties during the rest of the year, they vie to one-up each other with stories of malaria, harrowing airplane flights and close calls with venomous snakes in what most of their compatriots would regard as Third World hell-holes.

For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach Francis X. Rocca in Rome 2011

The UK, well before this, has been implicated in extraordinary rendition to hell-holes like Uzbekistan, where prisoners are boiled alive.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

You can find plenty of government sanctioned atheist states that are hell-holes, just as you can find many nations that are of a variety of faiths that are doing quite well.

Can a Godless Society be a "Good" Society? » E-Mail 2009

At dinner parties during the rest of the year, they vie to one-up each other with stories of malaria, harrowing airplane flights and close calls with venomous snakes in what most of their compatriots would regard as Third World hell-holes.

For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach Francis X. Rocca in Rome 2011

It is far easier to run a school with an active PTA and well-prepared students than it is to turn a "hell-hole" full of "sweat-hogs" around; yet some of the smartest young people in New York City are "sweat-hogs" in DOE "hell-holes!"

Michele Somerville: Why 8,000 Eighth-Grade NYC Students Don't Have High School Placements Yet Michele Somerville 2011

I just want to say that when I think of totalitarian hell-holes the first countries that come to mind are Canada, France & Germany.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010

Correct me if I am wrong – and if you have access to the records of any of the major online bookmakers, you will know I frequently am – but is boot camp not one of those hell-holes where a bull‑necked chap with a shaved head and a taste for sadism spews abuse at callow youths while they try to skewer stuffed dummies with bayonets?

Ian Botham and David Gower put boot into cricket's happy campers Martin Kelner 2010

You can find plenty of government sanctioned atheist states that are hell-holes, just as you can find many nations that are of a variety of faiths that are doing quite well.

Can a Godless Society be a 2009

It is far easier to run a school with an active PTA and well-prepared students than it is to turn a "hell-hole" full of "sweat-hogs" around; yet some of the smartest young people in New York City are "sweat-hogs" in DOE "hell-holes!"

Michele Somerville: Why 8,000 Eighth-Grade NYC Students Don't Have High School Placements Yet Michele Somerville 2011

Those occupying these hell-holes include thousands of legitimate refugees and asylum seekers -- who pose no danger to the United States and who have committed no acts of wrongdoing.

Immigration: Emma Lazarus Redux 2010