Tag Archive | "Europe"
Charles Krauthammer: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President
I’m not against gift-giving in international relations. But it would be nice to see some reciprocity. Obama was in a giving mood throughout Europe. While Gordon Brown was trying to make his American DVDs work and the queen was rocking to her new iPod, the rest of Europe was enjoying a more fulsome Obama gift. [...]
Continue reading...Charles Murray: The Europe Syndrome and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
Published Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 6:03 pm
America’s elites must once again fall in love with what makes the United States different. The advent of the Obama administration brings this question before the nation: Do we want the United States to be like Europe? President Obama and his leading intellectual heroes are the American equivalent of Europe’s social democrats. There’s nothing sinister [...]
Continue reading...Anti-Semitism alive and well in western Europe
Published Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 2:58 pm
A recent survey conducted by the Anti-Defamation League found that anti-Semitic attitudes in seven European countries have worsened due to the global financial crisis and Israel’s military actions against the Palestinians. Some 31 percent of adults polled blame Jews in the financial industry for the economic meltdown, while 58 percent of respondents admitted that their [...]
Continue reading...Jack Engelhard: Spare the Pieties on Gaza
Published Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:17 am
Israel is a Jewish State. Is that your problem? Frankly, given a choice, I prefer the skinheads and other brutes who express their anti-Semitism openly. In such places, we know the enemy. But please spare me the pieties and the righteous indignation of those “good people” protesting throughout Europe against Israel ’s defensive operation in [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: British bomb plot and Michael Moore-style health care
Published Sunday, July 8, 2007 at 2:08 pm
There are many things wrong with U.S. health care, as there inevitably are with any health care system. The question is whether America wants to go down the British-Canadian-Cuban route, to name three government medical systems that Michael Moore admires in his new film “Sicko.” Cuba, of course, is a totalitarian state, and even Hollywood [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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