I like Maggie Thatcher a lot. It is a shame she will no longer be speaking in public.
As usual, some people around here are taking the president's comments about increasing foreign aid out of context. If I read him right, he's saying we expect some democratic bang for our buck in the future or get your snout out of the feeding trough.
"What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom;and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy."