RSSEuropean countries are making hard choices
J.J. Jackson | June 28, 2010
- European countries are making hard choices about runaway spending on social programs—choices the United States has failed to make. Britain’s new government intends to raise the country’s retirement age to 66, while a French proposal to raise it to 62 has provoked backlash from union members used to cushy benefits.
- The Denver Post reports: House Republicans failed in a push Wednesday to force the release of White House documents related to potential job offers made to two Democratic Senate primary challengers, Andrew Romanoff in Colorado and Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania.
- In the latest silliness from environmentalists, Japan’s government is urging citizens to change their sleeping patterns to curb carbon emissions.
- Pakistan sentenced five American Muslim men from Northern Virginia to 10 years in prison for conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks. Officials believe they traveled to Pakistan to fight American forces in Afghanistan.
- A U.S. judge has denied a stay on his decision that blocked the Obama administration from enforcing a moratorium on oil drilling. This decision serves as a relief to coastal states that would have suffered severe economic repercussion had the ban continued.
- According to the Wall Street Journal, BP and other big oil companies based their oil-spill cleanup plans on faulty government projections.
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Filed Under Activism, Environmental Marxists, Europe, Foreign Countries, Global Warming, War On Terror
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