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 2006/01/01 - Daniel Rodríguez HerreraIt’s Victoria Prego’s FaultJust because certain arguments have been refuted a million times doesn’t mean people stop using them. Without going any further, look how Marxism lingers on and on. Among the most well-worn of them all is to blame brutal crimes committed by young people on television, movies and, especially, video games.
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 2006/01/01 - José Carlos RodríguezThe American DreamThe leftists, not just here in Spain, work by taking advantage of love and hate, usually hate. And if one hated subject sticks out above the rest it is the American dream. Try it out. Defend the fact this dream is still a reality to one of our left-wingers; that anyone coming to the United States can go as far as he or she wishes through hard work, saving and entrepreneurship and then sit back and watch their body language.
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 2005/12/21 - Gabriel CalzadaInvisible LossesThe National Organization for the Blind in Spain (ONCE) is one of those organizations whose image is as impeccable as it is undeserved. Its perceived excellence stems from its work helping the disabled and a long-standing goal of integrating them into society. That this perception is mistaken is due to two rarely discussed facts: where this help comes from and the success of integration.
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2005/12/18 - José Carlos RodríguezProtectionism Holds OnThe World Trade Organization’s final statement includes an agreement that can only be considered positive: a commitment to eliminate agricultural export subsidies before 2013 and those for cotton a year later.
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2005/12/11 - José Carlos RodríguezDevelopment And The Greenhouse EffectIt is official. Kyoto is dead. It wants to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere through mandates and regulations. This week in Montreal, the 11 conference on Climate Change came to an end and the only thing the 10,000 delegates from 189 countries were able to agree on is the need to keep negotiating.
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2005/12/06 - Gabriel CalzadaHigh Octane InterventionismAnti-trust legislation in the United States appeared at the end of the 19 century, a time of relative economic freedom. It was an attempt by inefficient producers to use political power to stop their innovative competitors, which where gaining consumers’ confidence.
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2005/10/23 - Gabriel CalzadaA Lethal ChemicalIn November, the European Parliament will vote on the Commission’s REACH proposal. It is the latest to apply the “precautionary principle” to European business activities.
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 2005/10/23 - Jorge ValínThreatening The Government WorksThe lastest agreement between the government and the land carriers has finally showed us what the state is for and how the pressure groups work in a democracy where political power is omnipotent. |
2005/10/16 - Jorge ValínMaximum UnemploymentIn Spain, more than 20% of the economy operates underground. Young people can’t find jobs. People with jobs do not dare to leave them for fear of spending years looking for the next one. For the clever ones, unemployment subsidies act as extra income. Business associations, unions and the government call meetings, but never come to any agreements. And what is the Prime Minister’s solution?
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2005/10/16 - Gabriel CalzadaThe Don Quixote Of The SkiesIn June 2006 the first private international airport in Spain is scheduled to open. The aerodrome, baptized Don Quixote, is in Ciudad Real and hopes to become an alternative to Madrid-Barajas. To help it compete, plans call for a fast train station inside the passenger terminal (this is still being negotiated with Renfe and the public administration). The project should be hailed as magnificent news for all Spaniards and the many foreigners who visit our country every year.
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