Tag Archive 'EU'
Danny Lemieux on Dec 19 2011 | Filed under: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environmentalism, Government, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Leftist morality, Liberal blogs, Muslim violence
Here’s a Robert Samuelson article, “bye bye Keynes” that should give us all pause: the arguments he uses to write Keynes’ obituary are arguments that we all posited in our own excoriation of Keynes in years past, in response to a string of commentators, ranging from A to Z. I’ve been reviewing our last few [...]
Bookworm on Oct 04 2011 | Filed under: Europe, Race
A few years ago, those in the know were telling us in no uncertain terms that the EU model was the future — and that America had better get used to playing second fiddle to the economic giant that a united Europe presented. I found it hard to imagine that Europe would ever be able [...]
Bookworm on Jun 11 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Europe
Britain, which has shown a certain lack of spine when it comes to the Islamists on its shores, nevertheless stood up to Al Qaeda representative Abu Qatata. Britain, however, is no longer a sovereign nation. It handed over its sovereignty to the EU, which gets the final say in matters. And the EU thinks it [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, Europe
The quest for ever greater bureaucratic efficiency, especially in a Europe without borders, means that Britain’s local Big Brother database is probably going to be released to the whole of Europe: Britons could find themselves forced to prove they are innocent of crimes abroad after the Government agreed to EU-wide access to its ‘Big Brother’ [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Sex
I won’t comment. You know what I’m thinking: They have amused us, angered us and sometimes – just occasionally – they have actually made us buy something. But now the end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of Brussels. And, this being the [...]
Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Bureaucracy, England, Europe, Government
People around the world are facing food shortages but, in the magical bureacracy that is the EU, food is being destroyed for being a millimeter off of Brussels regulations: A market trader has been banned from selling a batch of kiwi fruits because they are 1mm smaller than EU rules allow. Inspectors told 53-year- old [...]
Bookworm on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: Europe
Ireland stymied the EU’s latest effort to turn all of Western Europe into a lock-step bureaucracy, the ultimate Nanny state. That’s not the news. You already know that. What I wanted to blog about for a sec was the very first sentence in the AP news story (emphasis mine): Substantial election returns showed Friday that [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England, France, Health, Islam, John McCain, Medicine, Muslim violence
Britain’s Telegraph has three interesting articles, and the London Times one: Read about the vast difference between Britain’s and France’s socialized medicine. I’d certainly like to know what accounts for the difference before I start making changes to the American system. Color me skeptical, but I bet Obama, who shows himself to be remarkably ignorant [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2008 | Filed under: Europe
In America, we think of historical Europe as a place were voiceless mastered were ruled by high-handed aristocrats. We assume that those days are over, wiped away by war, revolution, and the simple passage of time. The European Union, however, periodically provides timely reminders that Europe is still ruled by high-handed authoritarian figures who ignore [...]
