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... 

Nadine Sweeney shows her support during a Tea Party rally at the Daley Plaza on Thursday. Sally Sinacore, a retired paralegal from Palatine, came to the Daley Plaza Tea Party rally wrapped in an American flag that had draped the coffin of her father, a World War II veteran. “I’m here because I want us to become fiscally more conservative. We cannot take this heavy spending any longer,”... 

Mr President, the horror of Haiti is shocking, and it is only human to feel compassion for the innocent victims of this natural disaster. All here are well paid and can afford to give. I will give my attendance allowance for today, if every other British M.E.P. will do the same. But our constituents cannot afford your generosity with their taxes. Globalism has destroyed our industries, the banks have... 

FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache (Right) and Carinthian BZOe chairman Uwe Scheuch (Left) Strache and Scheuch announced a merger of their parties. Austrian Federal Party (FPO) leader Heinz-Christian Strache and Carinthian BZO chairman Uwe Scheuch shake hands at a press conference to announce the joining together of the Carinthian BZO and Austrian FPO, in Vienna, Austria on December 16, 2009. The... 

On Facebook, the group ‘Let’s invade Zingonia and kill them all’ has gathered 700 members. Volunteer teacher Miriam talks about how spiralling anti-immigrant rhetoric is making life difficult for Italy’s new arrivals. ‘What’s Zingonia?’ Miriam Franchina lives five kilometres from Italy’s most notorious ghetto, and it’s not a question she’s asked too often. ‘It’s a place forgotten... 

One of Romania’s most flamboyant politicians has been barred from taking his seat in the European Parliament because he is facing a police inquiry. Gigi Becali, a former shepherd who made a fortune in land deals, is accused of attacking thieves who stole his car. Judges upheld a travel ban imposed on him while the case is investigated. He says he intends to travel to Brussels to begin his five-year... 

Russian nationalists threatened on Tuesday “to cure” any homosexuals who join a Gay Pride parade in Moscow this Saturday, setting the scene for a possible confrontation on the day of the Eurovision Song Contest final. The Moscow authorities say they cannot allow the parade to take place as it will “destroy morals” in the capital. But gay activists said they have so far received...