A few links of potential interest:
Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
LinkSwarm for Monday, May 9, 2011
Monday, May 9th, 2011LinkSwarm for Monday, April 11, 2011
Monday, April 11th, 2011A few links of interest:
(Hat tips: Real Clear Politics, Ace.)
This Week in Jihad for February 17, 2011
Thursday, February 17th, 2011EU: How about letting the yuan appreciate? China: How about you die in a fire?
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010It’s not just the U.S. that believes China’s yuan is pegged artificially low. The EU is also complaining at the current EU-China summit, asking them to let the yuan appreciate 20-40% in value.
China’s reply? Get stuffed.
That’s not the only China-EU news this week. China is also buying up Greek assets at the same time they’re dumping U.S. assets.
Let that sink in for a moment. As The Motley Fool’s Christopher Barker put it, “China may consider Greece a safer bet than the United States.”
If Obama Administration officials weren’t worried about our unsustainable budget deficits before (and every indication is they weren’t), now would be an excellent time to start…
Think the U.S. Debate on Muslim Immigration is Heated? Check Out This Swedish Political Ad
Saturday, September 25th, 2010Naturally, it being Europe, the issue is over who gets the government handouts.
And here’s an article on the European debate over immigration in The Weekly Standard.
LinkSwarm for July 19, 2010
Monday, July 19th, 2010A few random links to kick off your week:
- Wondering how congressional candidates are doing in the fundraising sweepstakes? This handy chart provides the lowdown.
- If you wanted to make conservatives and libertarians paranoid, how would you go about it? How about sneaking a provision into ObamaCare requiring dealers to report all gold and silver purchases? But what’s the big deal? It’s not like a Democratic President ever ordered the seizure of American’s gold before. Oh wait, yes he did.
- Europe is even more screwed than most of us think.
- For a look at where ObamaCare is leading us, take a look at Massachusetts.
- This story is about a guy’s horrible experience buying a used Saturn. I’m linking to it here because along the way it provides a pretty sobering look at the parts of the Hope and Change Economy that the usual media sources don’t cover:
I immediately began looking for work, but by this point the recession was in full swing and over half the yards on our street had ‘For Sale’ signs up. In fact, the town of Marion, SC has lost nearly 30% of its residential population since January, 2009. There were no jobs within two hours of the town and any jobs that were available were swamped with applications. The high school put up a notice that they were looking for two custodians. They had over 600 people show up for applications. The unemployment rate was over 50%, but people like myself, who didn’t qualify for unemployment benefits, and people on welfare, don’t go on the national unemployment statistic. It’s only for people receiving unemployment checks. Those who didn’t comprised such a huge chunk of that ratio, that the official statistic only stated a 19% unemployment rate for the PeeDee region of South Carolina. Yeah, MSNBC didn’t mention the fine points of that statistic, did they?
(Hat tips: Instapundit, Real Clear Politics, Fark)
LinkSwarm for June 3
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010A handful of links you may find of interest:
CHL carriers get an express lane through Texas State Capitol Security. This is a testament to how effective the CHL program has been.
Catholic Bishop killed in Turkey.
George Will on the conflict between the limited government of the founders and Progressivism’s vision of unlimited government power to meet an ever-expanding array of material “needs.”
Victor David Hanson on Europeans waking up to History returning to Europe, “from Mediterranean insolvency, to the threat of radical Islam, to demographic decline, to new international dangers on the horizon.” But I’m guessing Europeans will hit the snooze button a few more times before they will bother to rouse themselves from their slumber. And by then it may be too late.
A statement of the obvious, sure to infuriate those on the left: “The U.S. can’t afford to provide everyone with food, clothing and shelter, not to mention medical and child care, college tuition, a low-interest mortgage and a Social Security check until death.”