IT WAS 2004 and the political anorak was watching a video of the US Democratic Party Convention. A tall man came to the rostrum. He spoke of how there were no red states or blue states, but the United States. That there was no gay America or straight America, no Christian America or Muslim America, but the United States of America.
... (other than Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instruments made under them) having ef... people with convictions based on sound Christian culture, values and principles, tolerant of other ...commit to the democratic values of a just and humane society pursuing digni...(iii) giving to any party to proceedings in the Supreme Court relating to su... to a penalty not exceeding 1 ,000 United States dollars for each day on which he or she so sits or...
BARACK Obama suckered Mitt Romney right into that one: last week, with Mr Romney now assured of the Republican nomination in November's presidential election, the former Massachusetts governor was in the perfect position to kick off six months of attacks on Mr Obama's policies. But he was suckered off in another direction. Mr Obama lured him into a debate on samesex marriage. Mr Romney should not have taken the bait. There are so many more important issues about which he should attack Mr Obama: there is the $1,327billion federal deficit, the bombed-out middle class, the insolvent public pensions system, and the failures and poisonous policies in every U.S. federal department from Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department to Hilary Clinton's State Department.
...So now we - and more importantly, the Democratic Party presidential campaign machine - know this fo... exactly what we know any hard-left anti-Christian Democrat would say, and since Mr Obama has always ...The United States are joined in a federal system. That means ...
THE Allentown steel works in Pennsylvania is a great place to hold a Republican campaign event. The windows are boarded up and there are weeds thriving in the cracked concrete. When Barack Obama toured the plant in December 2009, to promote his economic stimulus package, he delivered a speech about "good news just in time for the season of hope" that is remembered by factory workers as the type of empty promise politicians pack in their overnight bag, as reliably as a hard hat and sturdy boots. Hope has been in short supply here for decades. Manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, union membership has declined and wages have fallen. Billy Joel's song about Allentown - "they're closing all the factories down" - was written in 1982, but the brutal political truth is that voters hav...
... primaries is inevitable and so any intra-party bickering would be a waste of effort. But it is al... the fray, but their struggle for the Democratic nomination descended into an ugly slanging match. ... federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go eve... vociferously he claims to be pro-life, Christian conservatives remember that he sanctioned abortion... been a state senator and member of the United States Congress for five years." Wallace apologise...
THE crisis in the eurozone could be about to transform the single- currency area into something resembling a "European empire," former Labour Foreign Secretary Lord Owen claimed in a speech in Aberystwyth. The 1970s cabinet minister and co-founder of the SDP used his visit to the Welsh university to renew his call for a radically overhauled single market of independent states which could include Turkey.
... was greatest in the first five days, the United States. The EU was, in effect, nowhere yet the com...Arguing there is a "strong democratic, national wish to be given a choice as to whether ...But the party he leads, under intense pressure from Ukip in the ... Cameron, who quit the Conservative Christian Democrat grouping, a Labour government would have ...
FOR the past two weeks, Wisconsin's Democratic state senators have been in hiding. Minority leader Mark Miller and his colleagues crossed the border into Illinois to avoid taking part in a vote on controversial union-busting legislation. Until they return, the measure cannot be passed, creating a political standoff. Its outcome will show how far organised labour has fallen and tell us whether conservatives have overreached in their latest war on the unions. The state's Republican majority has taken extraordinary steps to bring the fugitives back. Direct debit payments have been suspended, forcing them to pick up pay cheques in person or go without. A bill was introduced docking them $100 for every day they stay away. Their parking spaces have been seized and their secretaries fired. Gov...
...", inspiring similar protests across the United States. There have been some smaller demonstration...In a recent interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network, House Speaker John Boehner s... political matter for the Grand Old Party. In the 2008 elections, two of the top five campai...
From Peter Hitchens in Cairo How small Tahrir Square turns out to be. How scruffy and modest it is. Television broadcasts, like the photographs in estate agents' windows, have a way of making places look bigger than they really are. They also make them look simpler. Just a few months ago, a great revolution took place here, or seemed to. A mighty despot fell. The world gasped. Freedom and democracy, we were told, had come to Egypt.
... of tourism and the supervision of the United Nations, people would be living in the Pyramids, t... them.' But she fears that the old Mubarak party machine will reemerge under new names, predicting ... of the old ruling National Democratic Party reminds the city of the dangers of chaos. No... of the Vienna Convention, under which all states are obliged to defend the embassies of foreign cou...
HERE'S the thing about Pat Cox. He's been off 'in Europe' for so long that the Irish don't really know what he's been up to, or with whom he has been working. They are told he was once (some years ago now) president of the European Parliament, but few Irish know what that post entails, beyond a vast entertainment expense account. Some in this country are beginning to understand that Mr Cox has, in recent years, been involved in the largely unregulated and fabulously lucrative world of Brussels corporate lobbying. They know that questions have been raised by watchdog groups about a possible conflict of interest in his activities with the European Commission.
... the politics or the loyalties - or the democratic demands - of any nation. The Spinelli Group is esttablished as a cross-party network of MEPS, with other supporters meant to si...He wanted a single country, a United States of Europe, with 'the definitive abolition o... in Mr Cox's Spinelli Group: The German Christian Democrat MEP Elmar Brok, who had been in the parli...
WHEN I heard the news of Cardinal O'Brien's resignation I was stunned, shocked and saddened, as I imagine all of Scotland's Catholic community were ("Sadness greets leader's decision", The Herald, February 26, and Letters, February 26). The Cardinal celebrated mass in Dunbar with us on Saturday night and I spoke briefly to him afterwards. His parting words to me were "to keep carrying the flag". Now, more than ever, Scotland's Catholics must be strong in their faith and not be afraid to defend and promote the Catholic Church and her values. Cardinal O'Brien will be sorely missed, as will Pope Benedict at this unprecedented time for the church. On the eve of Pope Benedict stepping down as Supreme Pontiff, Scotland's Catholics, and the wider Christian community, should remember the Pope's...
... with the principles of a civilized democratic society for which so many have fought and died to ... to be the enemy within, be it political party, corporate business or even church hierarchy. It i... in its many Ukraine communities in the United States and Canada have encouraged considerable opp...
Republican candidates line up to win Iowa caucus and earn a confidence boost in the battle to be America's next President ON Tuesday evening, the people of Perth & Kinross will gather, in village halls and living rooms, to select the next Prime Minister. If this takes some imagining, consider the Iowa caucuses. The first contest between the Republican nominees for President of the United States will take place on a freezing night, in a sparsely populated Midwest state. Although fewer than 120,000 people are expected to participate, the result may determine who earns the right to take on Barack Obama later this year, in an election the Grand Old Party ought to win.
... caucus participants were evangelical Christians. This helped pastor Mike Huckabee triumph over Mit..., he is far to the left of the Democratic Party, let alone Republicans, in his criticism of ...
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