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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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2005/10/10 - Gabriel CalzadaThe Collapse Of The Pension SystemLast Friday, Belgium suffered a general strike called by the socialist union ABVV and rejected by the Catholic union ACV. The trigger for this union protest was the liberal-socialist coalition government’s proposals, made in the framework of ongoing conversations between the administration, business and workers on reforming the public pension system and avoiding bankruptcy.
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 2005/10/09 - Jorge ValínWhere Is Our Money Going?Some people are “pro-Israel,” or “pro-Palestine,” but probably, whatever group they lean towards (if any) they would never give their money to whomever they consider the “enemy.” Has the State ever asked the taxpayer what he thinks about donating money to this group or the other group?
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2005/10/02 - Jorge ValínMontilla Threatens But Offers No SolutionsMinister Jose Montilla held a meeting with the Association of Petrol Operators to convince them to cut their margins for the common good. The same old thing –threats from government to avoid responsibility and blame.
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2005/10/02 - Gabriel CalzadaAgainst Free Informationas totalitarian as it might seem, the European Union expressly prohibits informing patients and the general public about the properties of medicines the state has decided can only be sold through medical prescription. An estimated 65,000 Europeans suffering hyper-cholesterol die each year without realizing they could have been treated with Estatinas, one of the drugs whose advertising is banned.
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 2005/09/25 - José Carlos RodríguezDe-Nationalize The SeaGeorge W. Bush has taken one of the most important steps in his environmental, or resource, management policy: he proposed generalizing Individual Transfer Quotas (ITQ). ITQs fix a given amount of fish that can be caught without putting the viability of this resource in jeopardy. This amount is then divided up and auctioned off in the marketplace.
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2005/09/25 - Jorge ValínPolitical Swindles, Total LossesOur (Spaniards) taxes now have a new goal: to feed the political inefficiency of Argentina's leaders (read: make Nestor Kirchner richer as compensation for his inept policies).
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2005/09/18 - Gabriel CalzadaTurbulent Waters Good For EnvironmentalistsHurricane experts state these natural phenomena follow cycles, but say they know little about what triggers these cycles. The environmentalist hypothesis claims the main factor in these cycles is warming of ocean water. As we will see, this theory has serious problems.
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 2005/09/11 - Daniel Rodríguez HerreraRepression And CollaborationNo matter how ethically despicable these Internet companies behavior is in China, everyone should remember the real responsibility for sentencing people to jail for speaking their minds lies with the Communist regime. Chinese leaders make the laws, order the persecution of dissidents and send the police to find incriminating information.
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2005/09/11 - Jorge ValínA System To Eliminate ForeverWhen some say capitalism creates selfishness, we should ask, who is the truly selfish person: one who defends a system in which society voluntarily and peacefully enriches itself (Capitalism), or one who defends an inefficient, obsolete and ruinous system that imposes its own arbitrary morality at the point of a gun (the welfare state and Socialism).
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