Mitch Daniels, President George W. Bush's outspoken budget director and rumored candidate in 2004 for governor of Indiana, bashed France and other European countries for their "willful self-denial of new technologies" in a speech Thursday night at the 10th anniversary of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a Washington technology think tank. Speaking of the European Union's rejection of genetically modified grains, he cracked, "We created underarm deodorant, and the French turned that down too." To howls of laughter from the audience at Washingon's Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Daniels added that an American entrepreneur can dream up a new business, start it...