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Marginalizing Terror:
"Why? Whether it’s al Qaeda Central, or two twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadists here in Boston. Why do they do what they do?”
VP Biden, speaking at the memorial service for slain MIT police offer Sean Collier - 4/24/2013
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Commence Operation “EU crack up,” phase two!
**Posted by Phineas Phase One was the unending financial crisis that began in 2008 and the Europeans’ unwillingness to anything that would really address the problem, instead choosing to keep feeding the beast of debt and taxation. Sickened by the failure of their political class (and made delirious by their own addiction to the teat [...]
Sweet! If the Euro collapses, US taxpayers could be on the hook for $1 trillion! Oh, yay!
**Posted by Phineas You know what they say, don’t you? A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you’re taking about real money. James Pethokoukis posts about the risks for the US taxpayer in the Euro crisis, pointing that, contra Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (1), the US bailout of Europe is on. I’ll refer [...]
Why America is exceptional, a graphic example
**Posted by Phineas I wrote in the last post of how Lincoln, in his Gettysburg address, captured the essence of American exceptionalism in the ideology of liberty that ties this nation together and makes it so different from almost any other place on Earth. Well, coincidentally the Pew Research Center published the results of a [...]
The view from Britain: comparing two constitutions, and our coming choice
**Posted by Phineas While writing about the frightening proposal by former German Chancellor (1) Gerhard Schroeder for a fully-formed “United States of Europe,” the Telegraph’s James Delingpole made an astute observation about the differences between the United States Constitution and the European Union’s governing document: In the US, they have a Constitution (one which the [...]
Pat Condell: Europe needs a revolution
**Posted by Phineas British comic Pat Condell rips into the anti-democratic European political class and the “European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,” with an aside for some interesting observations about the nature of the American Revolution: RELATED: At the Telegraph, Peter Osborne argues that the EU debt crisis will finally give Germany the empire it’s [...]
In which I suggest a trade with the EU
**Posted by Phineas Nigel Farage is the leader of UKIP, the UK Independence Party, which is a small-government, free-market party that advocates Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. He is also, like the more well-known Daniel Hannan, a Member of the European Parliament. In the following clip, he addresses the President of the European Commission, Mr. [...]
European Union to ban cars by 2050?
**Posted by Phineas In order to fight a problem that does not exist, the monster under the bed anthropogenic global warming, the European Union is pushing to ban automobiles by 2050: The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers” by 2050. [...]
Truth to Power: “Just who the Hell do you people think you are?”
First it was Conservative Daniel Hannan shredding then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the European Parliament. Now we’re treated to Nigel Farage, Member of the European Parliament from the UK Independence Party, ripping the EU leadership a new one for their statist, anti-democratic arrogance in the Irish financial crisis. Sit back, my friends, and enjoy: Rock [...]
An infantilized society
The economic troubles in Europe are leading to public unrest, as EU governments try to pare back their bloated public sectors, in some cases trimming wages and benefits, in others by delaying access to them. In France, plans to save the national pension system by raising the retirement age from 60 (!) to just 62 [...]
Chirac storms out of EU meeting in a huff
…. because a fellow Frenchman was addressing EU leaders in English, rather than in French: PRESIDENT CHIRAC stormed out of the first session of a European Union summit dominated by a row over French nationalism because a fellow Frenchman insisted on speaking English. President Chirac and three of his ministers walked out of the room [...]
