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Uncommon Citizen Paul Venable, 56 "Paul Venable, one of the few African-American members of the anti-abortion, anti-tax, anti-immigrant, and anti-gun control Constitution Party, serves as state chair in Idaho, a state that is 95% white" ---------------------- Kelly O'Donnell and tea-party...

Obama cited "Cordoba and Andalusia during Inquisition" as an example of religious tolerance. First, muslims dominated most iberian peninsula (today Spain and Portugal) from 8th to 15th century (711-1492). Of course, there were periods of coexistence, even mixing, and periods of intolerance and...

Is he going to close most of the 700 US military bases in 130 countries around the world?

Why the West doesn´t want the "statu quo" to change? We europeans spend barely 1% of GDP on defense. America spends more than 6%. We don´t have to worry because there is a NATO mostly paid by american taxpayers. But, i hope, this is gonna end because of the crisis. Europe has a very serious...

According to all anglosaxon economic freedom rankings, Nordic european nations do much better than France, Italy or Spain According to Heritage fundation Denmark is the 8th most free economy in the world (2007) and has the highest labor freedom...

* GDP growth Q1 2009: Germany: -3.8% Netherlands: -2.8% Austria: -2.8% Italy: -2.4% United Kingdom: -1.9% Spain: -1.8% France: -1.2% United States: -1.6% Japan: -4.2% * Unemployment march 2009: Germany: 8.6% (8% in march 2008) Netherlands: 2.8% (2.8% in march 2008) Italy: 7.3% (6.6%)...

Germany, Netherlands or Italy didn´t have a housing/credit bubble. Others, like Spain, UK and Ireland, had a BIG one. The first group suffers the sharpest fall of GDP because they are the most exporting nations in EU; being Germany the 1st in the world. Japan is in the same situation. But...

Does he support it? Is he at Rothbard´s side? http://mises.org/rothbard/genuine.asp or at Fekete´s? http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/fekete/2008/1107.html

The parties in European Parliament are: People´s Party: centre-right conservatives and democratic christians. Pro-EU. They expelled Daniel Hannan in 2008 but UK Conservatives will leave the party soon and form its own group. 288 seats Socialist Party: centre-left social democrats and social...

Hannan is a "maverick" in Conservative Party. Unfortunately David Cameron is political mainstream on issues like global warming, stimulus plans, bailouts, central banking, IMF, global institutions... Some weeks ago he even said that conservatism should reconsider its faith on free market. Very...

For me the only dangerous fast-growing extreme right parties in Europe are british BNP and german NDP. The other alledged "extreme" right parties like FPÖ, Northern League, Vlaams Belang, etc bring some politically incorrect and provocative answers to issues like illegal immigration and European...

Obama's Budget Projects $1.75 Trillion Deficit http://wcbstv.com/national/obama.2010.budget.2.944398.html German deficits were 0.2% in 2007 and 0.1% in 2008 NOT all governments are doing exactly the same ;) Fiscal responsability is required by EU to prevent currency collapse, so no...

The scary thing is that no one wants to name this serious problem because is so politically incorrect; so "misogynous" and "religious". Politicians and mass media prefer to focus on climate and how much global temperature will increase in one thousand years, or whatever. The few times they talk...

Europe will suffer a demographic calamity in this century. At least is what the European Union statistical office (Eurostat) predicts in a 50 years term. Birth rates in Europe dropped dramatically since the 70s but never recovered, so next generations will pay a high price. According to...

Klaus, Farage and others are called "far right", "neocons" and "anti-european". Bruxelle (our Washington) constantly uses fear against people who simply dare to challenge EU central power, but when they let people vote they lose (France, Netherlands...). That´s why they are trying to pass a...