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Camp of the Saints Comes to Italy?
With the arrival of more than 5,000 Tunisians on the Italian isle of Lampedusa, the question for Italians is whether French novelist Jean...
Britain’s NHS Killing The Elderly
London's Telegraph newspaper has again hammered Britain's National Health Service, that model of excellent patient care leftists want the United States to adopt. This...
Read moreDefector Admits Lying Extensively About Iraq’s Alleged WMD
If any doubt remained that the U.S. and British governments’ case for invading Iraq was based almost entirely on lies, the Guardian has...
Read moreSurvey Shows Glaring Ignorance of Basic Science Among Russians
A spokeswoman for the Russian government, Olga Kamenchuk, reports that VsTIOM, the state’s polling organization, has found an astounding level of ignorance among...
Read moreBerlusconi Charged in Under-age Prostitution Scandal
Scandal-plagued Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be tried in April on charges of corruption and paying for sex with an under-age prostitute....
Read moreSwiss Voters Turn Back Gun Control Referendum
On February 13 voters in Switzerland turned back a proposal that would have tightened controls on firearms possession and use in a country...
Read moreEgypt: Did Anything Important Happen?
When the Los Angeles Times confirmed that protests that started in January in Tunisia and then moved to Egypt were spreading to Algeria,...
Read moreSarkozy Joins Cameron, Merkel, Condemns Multiculturalism
French President Nicolas Sarkozy agrees with other European leaders who say multiculturalism has failed. ...
Read moreFrench Govt. Ministers Vacation on Dime of Arab Tyrants
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in a quandry: the government ministers of France have been taking vacations in the sand and surf of...
Read moreEgypt’s Problem of Leadership
Egypt has been undergoing a revolution that ended the brutal 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak February 11. But all of America is wondering...
Read moreMubarak Resigns, Egyptian Military In Control
Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak bowed to pressure from protesters and resigned his 30-year reign, handing power over to the Egyptian military February 11,...
Read moreU.S. & Canada Agree to Common “Perimeter”
The move toward a North American Union received another big boost last week as President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper...
Read moreEgypt’s Sulieman Gives Intelligence a Bad Name
The good news is that the United States has long-standing ties with Omar Suleiman, the man who has recently been made vice president...
Read moreSuez Canal and Its Long-term Prospects
Thousands of service workers at the Suez Canal recently threatened an indefinite strike and sit-in protest against the poor living conditions, low wages, and...
Read moreMerkel and Sarkozy Cannot Save European Union
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy both believe in global "solutions" to problems. How well does this play in Lisbon,...
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