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You are right - and I hope you have been treated well in the UK. We have no time for racism and no argument with muslims who are loyal to our national interests.

We need a Neo-con party that will speak honestly and straight to the electorate. All this consensus, fuzzy, politics is a sham and antidemocratic.

"All this consensus, fuzzy, politics is a sham and antidemocratic."

Mark Steyn was making that exact point in a speech to the Claremont Institute that I watched on CSPAN last night. He said that the consensus politics of Europe are much less democratic than American politics, since the voter really has no say. He gave as an example Austria, where he said for over forty years the voter had a choice between voting for a very slightly right of left center party or a very slightly left of left center party, which inevitably led to a coalition government consisting of both the slightly right of left center party and the slightly left of left center party. I guess the mess in Germany is a current example. Steyn made the point very well that Europe is doomed by demographics to become something very different than it has been for hundreds of years.

Keep your eye out for a repeat of his speech on CSPAN. Steyn is excellent, as usual.