Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal, labels Senator Paul an isolationist: “The junior senator from Kentucky may not know it yet, but intellectually speaking, he’s already yesterday’s man. Republicans follow him at their peril.” Peril? Isolationist? I don’t think so on either count. Syria is a Sunni country run by a Shia. Sunni […]
Archives for September 2013
When Genius Failed
About a third of all hedge funds use a “relative value” arbitrage strategy. The key ingredient being leverage, which is used to suck-up nickels from around the world like a new Dyson DC47 vac. The strategy may look good on paper, but turns ugly when real life gets in the way. As an 80-year old […]
Boehner Backs Obama
No American or member of the House should for a minute care. President Obama and Speaker Boehner have not answered the hard questions that Americans need, nor will either in the future. The House Speaker and the President have apparently agreed that a Shia/Sunni conflict, centuries old, is America’s business. Well, it is not. Speaker […]
Worst of All Options?
A U.S. air strike against Syria that hits only a few targets and is of limited duration may be the worst of all options, writes Daniel Byman in Foreign Policy. Mr. Byman concludes, “To make a difference in the long term, the United States needs to do more, particularly with the opposition. And if it won’t […]
Antonin Scalia a Bogeyman?
Charles C. W. Cook writing at National Review discusses: Could private citizens own rocket launchers; New Hampshire’s constitution of 1784; progressives thinking they are inordinately clever; the Heller decision’s poorly defined “common use” provision; current federal restrictions on the sale of machine guns, muskets and the Second Amendment; the authors of the Constitution intent that […]
Serious Military Reservations
Ernesto Londono writing in the Washington Post highlights military reservations about unintended Syrian consequences, a lacking coherent strategy at the White House, a broad naïveté in the political class, the many skeptics in the military, U.S troops still being killed in Afghanistan, a 10 year counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, a Joint Chiefs of Staff warning […]
40,000 Members Quit
The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is dropping out of the AFL-CIO. It’s about time. Why pay union dues to leaders like Richard Trumka that are only worried about lining their own pockets? In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced […]
War with Syria?
Cato Institute’s Chris Preble has written about “the relative wisdom and prudence of the Reagan/Bush I years in relation to the Weinberger/Powell Doctrine. Chris notes that essential elements of the doctrine boil down to five key questions. Americans now have an opportunity to influence elected congressional representatives to carefully run down the W/P Doctrine checklist. […]
Syria: Sunni vs. Alawite
David Brooks in The New York Times writes of a wave of sectarian violence, the Syrian civil conflict, Sunni and Shiite power players, images of mass killings, a regional religious war, the Sunni axis, poison gas in Syria, and a regional inferno. What’s the biggest threat to world peace right now? Despite the horror, it’s not […]
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