Patrick Goodenough News Today

50 posts published by Jerry during August 2013

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French President Emmanuel Macron has used a visit to the Netherlands to lay out his plans for “European sovereignty,” amid ongoing controversy over recent remarks about the need for Europe to avoid being dragged into escalation between the U.S. and China over Taiwan.

French President Emmanuel Macron has used a visit to the Netherlands to lay out his plans for “European sovereignty,” amid ongoing controversy over recent remarks about the need for Europe to avoid being dragged into escalation between the U.S. and China over Taiwan.

Less than 500 days before the Summer Olympics opens in Paris, the question of whether Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials will be allowed to take part remains unresolved, and the host nation says its leaving the decision to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Amid the continuing kerfuffle in France over a U.S. plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines, some lawmakers on the left and right are questioning the point of NATO membership, an alliance which French President Emmanuel Macron two years ago described as “brain dead.”

Steve Scalise has a reminder. “There’s definitely a sugar high that comes with this idea of everything being free, but innately Americans know there is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody’s got to pay for it and usually, it’s everybody in the middle class,” the Louisiana lawmaker told Fox Business Network. “The lower-income people are the ones who end up paying the bill for these kind of massive spending programs. That’s how history has borne out,” Mr. Scalise predicted, adv...