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Would you want this man writing your country's constitution that will replace the existing Rome and Maastricht treaties on which the EU is founded? More. It's like having Al Capone write your tax laws.

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Don't tell George Soros but the Netherlands is abandoning his favorite cause.

Health Minister Han Hoogervorst is considering abandoning the legal sale of medicinal cannabis, claiming that it is bizarre that the government is involved in the production and sale of "State weed."

The Health Minister isn't going to win any popularity contests in Oregon or Canada either.

Hoogervorst also stressed that the medicinal properties of cannabis have never been proven. He also said that the use of cannabis also has side-effects such as psychoses. "I think that's an enormous problem," the minister said.

OBITUARY Typical of the values neutral Associated Press stories, John DeLorean is referred to by the American-media owned Associated Press as "an innovative auto maker" rather than a man who was arrested on charges of attempting to sell cocaine in an effort to raise funds for his failing company. Acquitted by claiming entrapment, the Washington Post thought he was brilliant but troubled. Unsavory is more like it. But this quote from GM CEO Rick Wagoner makes you wonder.

John DeLorean was one of Detroit's larger-than-life figures who secured a noteworthy place in our industry's history.

Yeah.