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London - You might want to take that vacation in England just as soon as you can – before its 1,000-year run as a sovereign nation comes to an end. This winter, 27 nations of the European Union (EU) signed the Treaty of Lisbon. You may think, "Innocuous enough," as Portuguese-inspired visions of the Tagus River and chicken piri-piri swirl before your eyes. But for England (Britain, actually) the Treaty of Lisbon isn't that appetizing. That's because, if ratified, it will become the decisive act in this creation of a federal European superstate with its capital in Brussels. Britain would...

<p>The rapid escalation of the U.S. anti-immigration hysteria fueled by ratings-hungry cable-television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Hispanic intifada that may rock this nation in the not-so-distant future.</p>

Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's FateSunday, October 07, 2007 WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. The case of Jose Ernesto Medellin has become a confusing test of presidential power that the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out. The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated...

A MASSIVE road four football fields wide and running from Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States is being proposed amid controversy over security and the damage to the environment. The "nation's most modern roadway", proposed between Laredo in Texas and Duluth, Minnesota, along Interstate 35, would allow the US to bypass the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to import goods from China and the Far East into the heart of middle America via Mexico, saving both cost and time. However, critics argue that the ten-lane road would lay a swathe of concrete...

Muslims want anti-blasphemy clause in rights body 09 February 2006 UNITED NATIONS: The president of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday took over fractious negotiations to establish a new UN human rights body, with Islamic nations wanting language against blasphemy because of the dispute over cartoons in a Danish newspaper. Jan Eliasson of Sweden, this year's assembly president, is conducting "intensive" bilateral talks with key UN members in an effort to resolve severe splits on the new rights body aimed at replacing the discredited Geneva-based UN Human Rights Commission, his spokeswoman said. The aim is to get adoption this month,...

Newt Gingrich's speech at the Michigan Chamber of Commerce's Future Forum conference in Traverse City was supposed to focus on revamping the nation's ailing, and extremely complex, health care system. But offering prescriptions to fix health care was a little too limiting for the controversial former speaker of the U.S. House. (You remember: Although he played a key role in returning control of the House to Republicans in 1994 for the first time in 40 years, he was later fined $300,000 for using tax-exempt foundations for political purposes. And, oh, yes, lying to a House ethics committee.) Advertisement Gingrich, who's...

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<p>IRAQ HANDOVER 'TODAY'</p> <p>The handover of power in Iraq is to be brought forward to today.</p> <p>A formal announcement will be made later today, Tony Blair said.</p> <p>The informal announcement was made by Iraq's foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari.</p> <p>The handover of power to an interim Iraqi government was supposed to take place on June 30.</p>

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary June 5, 2004 Radio Address by the President to the Nation      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This has been an important week for the future of Iraq, for the Middle East, and for America's security. On Tuesday, in Baghdad, Iraq's new Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, and United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi announced the members of Iraq's new interim government. Iraq's President is Sheikh Ghazi Al-Yawar, an engineer from northern Iraq. There will also be two Deputy Presidents, and a 33-member Cabinet.  Radio Address 2004200320022001  Radio Interviews 2004 This interim government...

Malaysians Protest United Nations Attempt to Force Acceptance of Homosexuality KUALA LUMPUR, February 10, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Malaysian government leaders and citizens protested this week the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) resolution seeking to add "sexual orientation" to the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination. Professor Amina Salim of the University in Penang told an Islamic news service yesterday, "The new resolution that would force Malaysia and Muslim countries to accept and legalize gays and lesbians is an offence to Islam and to Muslims." As LifeSiteNews.com reported last week, the resolution will be presented at the 60th...

UNITED NATIONS: Although weapons of mass destruction grab headlines, many people see handguns and other small arms as a far greater threat to their safety, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has said. "Dire potential scenarios involving nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have dominated recent disarmament discussions," he told the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters on Wednesday. "But a much more direct threat to many people around the world is the day-to-day violence of conflict fought with small weapons. Those weapons, said Annan, are "supplied-sometimes legally, sometimes illegally-by often unscrupulous and predatory arms merchants. "We must do more to fight...

DES MOINES, Jan. 3 — Senator John Kerry reached into the past on Saturday with an endorsement — and a 10-minute song of tribute — from Peter Yarrow, a member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. But the mini-celebrity moment took a turn when Mr. Yarrow, a peace activist since before the two men met protesting Vietnam, was asked if he was disturbed that Mr. Kerry voted in favor of war in Iraq. "Absolutely!" Mr. Yarrow shouted to a questioner, and he raised his hands to try to command the attention of reporters and Kerry supporters at the...

An Ojibwe man has declared a piece of land in this tiny town a sovereign nation, opened a strip club and pledged to fight with anyone who tries to mess with either.'There ain't no way on God's green earth that they're going to stop me,' said Al LaFontaine, 82, of St. Paul, MN.It's not the first time LaFontaine has said that.In 1959, he offered to sell a third of North Dakota to the Soviet Union and he has put forward a variety of schemes to build casinos on land that he's bought and declared sovereign.As an enrolled member of the...