Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Is our President a EUrolander wannabee? Yes. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard my fellow Americans spout utter nonsense about EUroland. Hey, they may have visited there and after visiting all the tourist spots and wining and dining in the best tourist restaurants afforded by American
Continue readingI got the following email. I don’t know the essay’s true provenance, but the sentiments expressed are interesting, especially if it did indeed originate in EuropeL ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in
Continue readingAs I read it, the latest insanity from Europe/England is as follows: woman gets government benefits; woman neglects to use those government benefits to pay rent on government housing; government housing tries to evict woman; the EU declares that eviction violates woman’s rights. Woman walks away both eating and having
Continue readingThe Archbishopric of Canterbury used to be a pretty important job. The guy who held that position, going back to the earliest Middle Ages, was the premier leader of the English church, whether that church gave allegiance to Rome or the British Monarch. The current Archbishop, Rowan Williams is, as
Continue readingIf you feel like a little good news amidst the worries about fallout from Egypt, this might do the trick.
Continue readingThe Enlightenment was born in Europe and, clearly, will die there too: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEkelAsmcf4[/youtube] Hat tip: Small Dead Animals
Continue readingAs we settle into the Obama Depression era, one thing that I and others have noticed is that many of the very youth that voted enthusiastically for Obama are the ones already feeling the consequence of his policies: they are unemployed. As one of my college-age kids put it, “our
Continue readingTwo stories out of Europe. First, the European Union ruled that Ireland’s abortion ban violated a woman’s rights. Second, the British have given permanent asylum to an Iraqi man who, while driving without a license, killed a 12 year old in a hit and run accident, on the grounds that
Continue readingAn Austrian MP has finally had enough of the way the Turkish government complains about the treatment Turks receive in Austria. I have no idea what kind of treatment Turks receive in Austria, although if it’s like the rest of Europe, they get welfare, and they do not integrate, both
Continue readingWhen I was a child, filling the gas tank was the cheapest part of owning a car. Houses were also warm. As long as my father was earning money (which wasn’t always the case), during the winter we heated our house to a comfortable 72 degrees. Then, in 1974, the
Continue readingBookworm recently asked, “is Europe trying to save itself?” To that question, I can only offer anecdotal evidence from family and business visits made to France and Belgium this summer, shortly after the Greece-precipitated financial crisis. Europe (witness the EU) is an uber-bureacracy. For centuries, Europe’s forms of governance have
Continue readingI don’t have a link yet (it was tweeted), but it appears that the Swedes elected a center-right government. I see this as a good thing, although I haven’t lost sight of two facts: (1) Europe is so far Left that, as we know from England, even center-right is Left;
Continue readingIn Der Spiegel, of all places, one finds an article bemoaning, loudly and strongly, the profound mistake inherent in the Democrats’ Europeanization of America: The Obama administration and the Federal Reserve want to fix the United States economy by spending more money. But while that approach might work for Europe,
Continue readingOne of the frustrating things about conversing with liberals is that, even as they’ll concede that socialism in Russia and China and Cuba and North Korea is not, or was not, a good thing, they’ve always got Europe to fall back upon. European socialism works, I am told. Europeans have
Continue readingFinally, Israel lashes back . . . at the misrepresentations in the European media. Anyone who speaks Hebrew, French or Spanish, will have a huge advantage over me when it comes to appreciating the videos at that site. To learn more about the ad campaign if you don’t speak those
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