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A 'Bono'-fide Double Standard

The arrest of 30 angry anti-capitalists from Art Uncut, the group who busted up a U2 concert at Glastonbury 2011 while toting a huge balloon insisting “U Pay Your Tax 2,” indicates that people are fed up with being dictated

EU Spends Tens of Millions in US on Left-Wing Causes

From the UK’s Daily Mail: Brussels is pouring nearly 20million a year from its human rights budget on lecturing the Americans on left-wing causes. The EU Human Rights Fund is intended to help promote Western values in the developing world.

Cameron Is Great Britain's New Prime Minister

Sky News: The Queen has appointed Tory leader David Cameron as the UK’s new prime minister and he is on his way to Downing Street from Buckingham Palace. Leaving the palace with his pregnant wife Samantha, Mr Cameron gave a

Simon Cowell Endorses Britain's Conservative Party

The Sun: TV mogul Simon Cowell says tomorrow’s General Election MUST bring change to Britain. Writing for The Sun, he signals that the country he deeply loves needs a new government to pull it out of crisis. Cowell, 50, talks

A Spend-and-Borrow Debt Mess

The ink was barely dry on the $150 billion EU/IMF bailout of Greece when world stock markets tanked on two major fears. First, financial analysts are concerned that the bailout money won’t be enough to cover Greece’s borrowing needs from

Of Frank Rich, Bigfoot and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

New York Times’ columnist Frank Rich outs himself as a conspiracy theorist in his Saturday column, “Welcome to Confederate History Month,” wherein he fabricates a synthesis of current anti-Obamacare sentiments and events. To build his theory, he connects dots that

Labour Candidate Sacked Over Twitter Abuse

ITN: His [Labour election candidate, Stuart MacLennan] comments targeted voters, politicians and celebrities, and some of the posts branded House of Commons speaker John Bercow a “t**”, Tory leader Mr Cameron a “t***” and Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg “a

In Defense of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber

While we’re in the business of revealing secrets from the entertainment industry, let me add a whopper for you all to chew on: Most people who work on Broadway hate Andrew Lloyd Webber. That’s right. Despite creating more employment and

Cameron Launches Great Tory Fightback

David Cameron has defiantly called on the Prime Minister to name the day for a General Election, despite a consistently poor showing for his Conservatives in the polls. Sky’s Niall Paterson reports on the first day of the party conference