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Sarkozy condemns multiculturalism
French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has censured multiculturalism a failure, joining other western leaders that have already rejected the notion despite boasting freedom as a founding principle.
Sarkozy declared in a televised interview on Thursday that “I don’t want a society where communities coexist side by side” and that “France will not welcome people...
Sarkozy immigration plan thrown out by French senate
French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to strip certain foreign-born criminals of their French nationality has been thrown out by politicians – with one likening it to the Vichy regime in France that collaborated with the Nazis.
The proposal intended to deny nationality to people naturalised as French citizens...
New Hampshire GOP picks tea party-style leader
Mitt Romney
New Hampshire Republicans elected a tea party figure as their leader and rejected the establishment-backed candidate, a sign that activists in this early voting presidential state have embraced the anti-government message that helped them make major gains in November’s election.
Former gubernatorial candidate Jack Kimball edged businesswoman Juliana Bergeron in a race that pitted...
Greece plans border fence to keep out illegal immigrants
Human rights activists say Greek detention camps are full
The Greek border with Turkey is among the most popular destinations for illegal immigrants to the European Union. Now a Greek minister says the country wants to build a 206-kilometer fence to keep them out.
Greece is planning to build a fence along its border with Turkey to keep out illegal immigrants, Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis...
Germany's angst about Islamists goes mainstream
The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah’s praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.
It was Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, and the group that calls itself “Invitation to Paradise” was mounting a defiant response to weeks of public protests against construction of a religious school to teach its austere,...
Sanity Triumphs in Switzerland
As predicted, the Swiss People’s Party (which actually fights for the interests of the Swiss People) has won its latest battle. Foreigners who commit serious crimes or benefit fraud will be automatically deported. The law passed with 52.9% of the vote.
Leftists, who love both crime and destroying Western countries, were predictably upset. For example,
Marcelo Kohen, a professor of international...
Next Tea Party Target: Corporate America
Jesse Jackson isn’t the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama’s progressive agenda.
In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says:...
Tea party group pressures Congress
A group of tea party activists are firing back at a gay conservative group, claiming that they don’t speak for the movement.
Last week, POLITICO reported on a letter that GOProud and several tea party activists sent to GOP congressional leaders urging them to pursue fiscal issues over social ones. Now, another group of tea party activists released their own letter to Republican leaders, calling...
The Decline of the Left in Europe
As America has been moving left, Europe is taking the opposite course. Social-Democratic parties have lost some of their dominance.
These two maps plot political power. For countries with coalition governments, the holder of the Prime Minister or being the largest party in the coalition is used.
Purple is where the Prime Minister and President are from different blocks (for countries where the President...
Boy told to remove flag from bicycle by school administrators gets escorted to class
Last week, you probably saw the report about Cody Alicea, the boy in California who was told to take the American flag off his bicycle by obtuse school administrators. Well, yesterday some members of Cody’s community in California decided they would help escort him to class:
The school has since apologized.
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Swiss poised to vote on controversial immigrant law
The pro-expulsion campaign involves posters featuring a black sheep being kicked out of the country by several white sheep.
Switzerland is poised to vote on a controversial law that will allow for all immigrants – EU citizens included – to be automatically expelled from the country if they commit a crime.
Even benefit fraudsters and burglars are targeted by the proposed new law, which polls show...
Danish party calls for ban on Arab TV channels
Pia Kjaersgaard
The leader of Denmark’s populist Danish People’s Party, on which the government relies for support, said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday that pan-Arab television channels Al-Jazeera and Al Arabiya should be stopped from broadcasting to the country.
Pia Kjaersgaard, leader of parliament’s third-biggest party, accused the channels of sowing hatred against...
Ron Paul speech to Virginia Tea Party
Rep. Ron Paul brought a crowd at the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention to its feet October 9th, delivering a fiery speech about an “intellectual revolution.” He said the economy is going “to get a lot worse before it gets better” and advocated getting rid of the IRS and the income tax.
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National Pride Matters as Three in Five Americans More Likely to Purchase Product When Ad Emphasizes it is 'Made in America'
There is a sense of national pride when a world-wide innovation is created in the U.S. Advertising that emphasizes a product is “Made in America” plays to that national pride, and it seems to have results. Three in five Americans (61%) say they are more likely to purchase something when the ad touts it is “Made in America” and only 3% say they are less likely to buy it. Just...
No more EU welcome mat
The political dislocations under way across Europe are remarkable. Some are inevitable, the result of economic and currency crises and the efforts being made by governments to cut spending and reduce deficits. But these have also changed the nature of the immigration debate.
Ireland last week found itself facing a deficit of one-third of its gross domestic product as it sought to clear up the unholy...