Europe
Corn Hybrids and Big Brother
The marketplace solves so many “problems” that it is amazing how often people turn to government or resort to violence to force their...
Would You Like a Lipitor with that Cheeseburger?
For years, fast food restaurants have been under attack by consumer groups interested in imposing healthy choices on American citizens. Within the past...
Read moreIn Britain, Don’t Mention “The War”
In preparing for the 2012 Olympics in London, the British tourist office, VisitBritain, has issued a list of “obscure and demanding dos and...
Read moreBritish Government Cuts Spending
Here in the United States, with budget deficits ballooning, our government is spending ever more money and creating new entitlements. ...
Read moreBritain’s Marie Stopes International Offers Free Abortions as “Job Perk”
As one of the agency's major abortion providers, Marie Stopes International receives about £30 million a year from Britain’s National Health Service towards...
Read moreAdd France to Critical List
The vast and bloated leviathan of government seems to be finding itself beached all over the world. California is virtually facing a budgetary...
Read moreEngland Plans to Decentralize Healthcare
In a speech given in England on July 1, 2008, then-president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement David Berwick, who is now Chief...
Read moreSinging With the Spies: Putin’s Image Makers Strike Again
What's next for Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin? A guest appearance as a celebrity contestant on Dancing With the Stars? If so, there...
Read moreSeven Released Cuban Political Prisoners Arrive in Spain
On Tuesday, July 13, the first seven of what is expected to be up to 52 political prisoners released from Cuba, arrived in...
Read moreSpy Escape in Cyprus Highlights Russia’s Growing Clout in Mediterranean
The recent easy escape and disappearance of Russian spy "Christopher R. Metsos" may draw more attention to Russia's beefed up presence of intelligence...
Read moreRussia Gives New Powers to KGB Successor
The Duma (the lower house of Russia’s legislature) on July 9 passed a bill that will allow the Federal Security Service (FSB) to...
Read moreFrench “Psychological Violence” Ban Under Fire
The French parliament voted unanimously June 29 to give final approval to a new law to criminalize “psychological violence,” prompting criticism from judges...
Read moreEuro Likely to Keep Losing Value
The grand hopes of a decade ago that the euro, a common currency of the E.U., would lead to a golden age of...
Read more‘Big Brother’ Monitors Conversations in European Cities
In a scenario that could have come from George Orwell’s famous book 1984, a controversial government surveillance system that uses hidden microphones to...
Read moreDutch Admit More Bad Global-warming Science
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency reported on July 5 that evidence it put into the 3,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has...
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