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• The Greatest Threat to the Future of the (NATO) Alliance

  Posted March 11th, 2010 at 12:30pm in American Leadership with 3 comments

  The EU’s beleaguered Foreign Minister, Baroness Ashton, stated yesterday that she is no longer opposed to the creation of a permanent EU military headquarters to support a European army that will stand separate from NATO. In a flip-flop that would make John Kerry blush, first she was against the idea [...] More

• A European Jobs Strategy That Isn’t Even Hopeful

  Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 6:45pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 1 comments

  Tomorrow, the European Union will unveil its Europe 2020 strategy, designed to make Europe the most competitive, dynamic, knowledge-based economy by 2020. If the slogan appears familiar, that’s because it is. In 2000, the EU launched its Lisbon Agenda, to make Europe the most competitive, dynamic, knowledge-based economy by 2010. It failed. Badly. But instead of [...] More

• A Recurring Theme: More Taxes Means Fewer Jobs

  Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 4:30pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 5 comments

  Littered throughout the President’s proposed budget and health care plan are over $2 trillion in new taxes. In the budget we see tax hikes on businesses including the death tax; new detrimental restrictions on a tax provision called “deferral” that is vital for U.S. companies operating abroad; and potential new taxes to raise revenue [...] More

• Cuban Dissident’s Death Should Renew Front Against Castro

  Posted February 25th, 2010 at 4:00pm in American Leadership with 3 comments

  As noted before at the Foundry, the free expression that we take for granted in the United States is unknown to those living under the Castro regime. In a chilling reminder of the cold authoritarian repression that still exists only 90 miles from the American mainland, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a Cuban political prisoner, died Tuesday. [...] More

• EU’s Barroso Tightens Grip on EU Foreign Policy

  Posted February 18th, 2010 at 2:00pm in American Leadership with 0 comments

  The EU’s appointment of João Vale de Almeida as the new EU Ambassador to Washington confirms European Commission president José Manuel Barroso’s tightening grip on Brussels’ foreign policy levers. Virtually-unknown on the international stage, Vale de Almeida has been Barroso’s head of cabinet for the past five years, and intimately associated with the creation of the [...] More

• A Nuclear Iran, An Inexperienced EU Foreign Minister

  Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:30pm in American Leadership, Protect America with 3 comments

  Iran’s announcement today that it is a nuclear state makes the appointment of the spectacularly inexperienced Catherine Ashton as EU Foreign Minister even more ridiculous. Her speech at the Munich Security Conference last weekend was a snoozer of epic proportions – even by Brussels standards. However, it was her statements on Iran which beggar belief. At [...] More

• Single European Currency: Single European Disaster

  Posted February 8th, 2010 at 11:14am in American Leadership, Enterprise and Free Markets with 1 comments

  Although the feckless spending of successive Labour Governments has resulted in massive decline for Britain, there is one thing that Gordon Brown got right on the economics front: he denied Tony Blair’s plans to take Britain into the single European currency. Launched in 1999, the Euro has been the bedrock of European elites’ dream for a [...] More

• American Confusion, European Disunion

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 6:30pm in American Leadership with 3 comments

  President Obama’s decision to skip the annual U.S.-EU summit in Europe, May 24-25, has not endeared him to some Europeans; many of whom once again feel spurned by the man they have so greatly admired, and whose election they so ardently wished for. As reported by The New York Times, “In addition to the palpable [...] More

• NATO Best Positioned For Police Training In Afghanistan

  Posted January 29th, 2010 at 11:59am in American Leadership with 0 comments

  Both British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have criticized the European Union’s police training mission in Afghanistan this past week, and it is not hard to see why. With just over 200 staff (many of whom are bureaucrats and not trainers), the NATO Parliamentary Assembly has described the EU Police Mission [...] More

• The Mostly Free Anglo-American Alliance

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 9:50am in American Leadership with 2 comments

  The 2010 edition of the Index of Economic Freedom poses a frightening paradox. Around the world, the economically freest countries are, by and large, those with a British legacy. Indeed, the top five – Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland – were either founded or influenced by the British. Of [...] More