March 29, 2009

Spanish court weighs charging Bush Administration officials

Heedless of the concept of national sovereignty, a Spanish court considers charges against Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

November 13, 2008

Europe Is Obama's First 'Global Test'

President-elect Barack Obama is already facing his first global test. And it's not coming from the usual suspects like Iran or North Korea, but from America's "allies" in Europe.

September 13, 2008

What Europeans are Saying about Sarah Palin

European commentary on Sarah Palin has ranged from ridicule, to ridicule, to more ridicule, to reluctant acknowledgment that Barack Obama may have met his match

July 25, 2008

Obama's European Love Parade

More than 200,000 Germans turned out in Berlin on July 24 to hear a carefully stage-managed Barack Obama tell them exactly what they wanted to hear:

June 15, 2008

Why Irish Voters Rejected the Lisbon Treaty

Irish voters on June 12 said 'No' to the superpower ambitions of European political elites. Here's how that shock to the eurocrats came about.

January 29, 2008

European Press and the Presidential Election

The outcome of the US presidential election affects the lives of millions of people around the world. So it's probably not surprising that many Europeans are resentful that only Americans will have a say in it.

December 19, 2007

Anti-Americanism: It's About American Power, Not Policy

The roots of enmity toward America reach far deeper than one man and his policies. The problem of anti-Americanism will not go away just because Americans elect a new president.

October 24, 2007

America Wake Up! Europe Wants to Be a Superpower

European Union leaders have reached agreement on a new treaty that many Europeans hope will transform the 27-nation bloc into a superpower capable of counter-balancing the United States

August 23, 2007

Who Is Allah?

Europeans love to mock the salience of religion in American society, but they won't be laughing for very long.

August 16, 2007

Spain's Bluster Masks an Immigration Crisis

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero deserves a special award for transatlantic chutzpah.

April 30, 2007

Transatlantic Summitry and the Cult of Global Warming

It's time for another transatlantic summit, and this one, set for Washington on April 30, will have a lot in common with previous EU-US bilaterals: It will be rather short on substance.

April 22, 2007

Spain's Feminized War on Terror

The anti-terrorism policies of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a self-proclaimed feminist, have led to so many blunders that Spaniards of all political leanings now fear that he has made Spain more, not less, vulnerable to terrorism.

February 26, 2007

Why Europe Won't Be Running the 21st Century

For a number of years now the European think tank world has been busy churning out report after report with ever more grandiose proposals for turning the European Union into a global superpower.