Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that Europe and Europeans, with the possible exception of the Greeks, are in denial.

Iraq challenges the claim that the loss of water resources was due to the invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

But the claim that only deeper EU integration can save the European social model from the onslaught of emerging markets is not true.

Cameron s government used to claim that its policies would produce a boom by bringing a visit from the Confidence Fairy that would greatly reduce long term interest rates and cause a huge surge of private investment spending.

The economic variant of Machiavellianism is as powerful as the claim that political untruth can be virtuous.

Perhaps we are more ready to accept that the biological differences between men and women are relevant to the roles they play in society.

The claim that Europe needs more integration to save its social model has long lost credibility.

The observation that recoveries following a financial crisis are different suggests that standard macroeconomic policies might not work as one would usually expect.

Although both Hezbollah and Iran still argue, perhaps correctly, that Israel will not give back the Golan Heights or allow the emergence of a Palestinian state, the possibility of peace cannot be ruled out.

In response, there is an intense debate about the problems caused when such institutions are said to be too big to fail.

On the basis of the record so far, however, some skepticism seems in order over the claim that justice will obstruct peace.

The only thing that would hold the left together would be the claim that there should be more redistribution but to whom, and according to what mechanism?

There is a core of truth in this assertion.

There is some merit to this claim.

That claim was even more far fetched.

So what basis is there for suggesting that the indictment of al Bashir is obstructing a settlement? What settlement is there to obstruct?

Some critics rushed in to declare that Doha was dead indeed, that they, being smart, had already said so years ago.

The document is filled with nonsense, such as the fatuous claim that high taxes and over regulation explain America s high unemployment.

Such a federal state can be justified by claiming that the moral substance of traditional nation states has been deeply compromised by past belligerence, or as a practical preventive measure to keep the potential of new nationalist passions in check.

Meanwhile, direct taxation of corporations and individuals has tended to decline despite the moot claim that lower direct taxation ensures investment and growth.

Second, even if, by some miracle, Greece did reach the 124 mark by 2020, the claim that its debt will then be sustainable is absurd.

Consider first the claim that the dollar s status as a reserve currency protects it, because governments around the world need to hold dollars as foreign exchange reserves.

At one time, there may have been a kernel of truth to this.

Though admitting that the White Nile was the larger stream, Bruce argued that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and thus he was the discoverer of its source.

A variant of the economic argument for European unity is the claim that enhanced integration makes it easier to finance debt, because interest rates are lower.

This claim was hugely misguided.

On the contrary, when we confine animals in factory farms, we have to grow food for them.

To claim otherwise leads to repression.

The third message is the claim to the veto power.

Imre Nagy, the leader of the Hungarian revolt in 1956, and Dubcek became parts of their national legends, which belies the claim that communism was exclusively a foreign imposition.

As an older man, Schumpeter qualified his views to argue that some degree of monopoly might be preferable to competition in creating stronger incentives for companies to innovate.

The fallacy in the anti abortion argument lies in the shift from the scientifically accurate claim that the fetus is a living individual of the species Homo sapiens to the ethical claim that the fetus therefore has the same right to life as any other human being.

And he has a very good case.

The evidence, again, flatly contradicts this.

His attackers allegedly used racial slurs as they assaulted him.

The observation that recoveries following a financial crisis are different suggests that standard macroeconomic policies might not work as one would usually expect. And a transatlantic comparison suggests that this may indeed be the case.

Their consistent over optimism about these policies impact on economic growth validates pursuing them, and enables governments to claim that their remedies are working, when they clearly are not.

The claim that the spread of severe mental illness has reached epidemic proportions has been heard so often that, like any commonplace, it has lost its ability to shock.

But, whatever the merits of the claim that genetic patents benefit research and treatment, that is a practical, rather than a legal, argument.

The US and Obama have lost their claim to the moral high ground.

Elections equal democracy. No one is fooled by this claim anymore.

They have not been slow to claim that they are being singled out unfairly.

The Prague Spring was provoked by a crisis in the Communist Party, but the claim that it was merely a result of political squabbles among Party members falsifies history and rejects a significant fragment of the national heritage.

These variations are rooted in differences in national policies, which highlights the fundamental flaw in the idea that solutions to European countries problems lie mainly at the EU level.

And the Republican cadres believe this of Obama even more than they believed it of Clinton.