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Site relaunch at conservatives.com
Read more: Site relaunch at conservatives.comConservatives.com has relaunched and very good the site is too. See also The Blue Blog.
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Dear readers
Read more: Dear readersThanks to Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools, I can share the following interesting tidbits about you from this past month: You visit from all over the world, excluding most of Africa and the Middle East, but the vast…
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Mises: A Crisis of Global Statism
Read more: Mises: A Crisis of Global StatismMises.org reports on false confidence in the state to guarantee stability, and… Moreover, as many commentators have remarked, guaranteeing large financial firms from failure will bring calls for regulating them still more tightly. This is an old story:…
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Guardian: Israel asked US for approval to bomb nuclear sites in Iran
Read more: Guardian: Israel asked US for approval to bomb nuclear sites in IranThe Guardian reports: Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites but was told by President George W Bush that he would not support it and did not expect to revise…
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FT.com: Outline bail-out deal agreed
Read more: FT.com: Outline bail-out deal agreedThe FT reports that US legislators have reached “fundamental agreement” on the Bush administration’s $700bn rescue plan: Hans Jorg Rudloff, Barclays Capital chairman, said: “Anyone looking at the money markets would come to the conclusion that we are…
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Dan Hannan: My plan to sabotage the EU national anthem
Read more: Dan Hannan: My plan to sabotage the EU national anthemDan Hannan reports on the European Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee, which has just voted to restore the EU’s national emblems and to give them greater prominence than before. This despite explicit provisions to the contrary in the Lisbon…
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The Plan: Twelve months to renew Britain
Read more: The Plan: Twelve months to renew BritainDaniel Hannan MEP and Douglas Carswell MP go for it: Hannan and Carswell show how a future government could actually shift powers back, from Brussels to Westminster, from Whitehall to town halls, from the state to the citizens.…
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FT.com: Banks fall despite short-selling ban
Read more: FT.com: Banks fall despite short-selling banThe FT reports* on the continuing sale of financial firms’ securities: A recent ban on short selling failed to halt the sell-off in the financial services sector in London on Tuesday as doubts about the effectiveness of a…