The economic/monetary squeeze is on for Russia’s 140 or so oligarchs. In response to Putin’s Crimean adventurism, the U.S. and Europe will turn the screws until the oligarchs lay down the gauntlet against Putin. VP is a menace to Europe, the oligarchs and the Russian people. Young western influenced Russians know this well and can […]
Archives for March 2014
50% Tariff on Chinese Goods?
Pat Buchanan explains how such a tactic might work. While China is indeed moving to claim the East and South China seas, bringing her into possible conflict with Japan over the Senkakus, the GOP is not without culpability here. It was a Bush-led Republican Party that voted to throw open America’s markets to China. Result: […]
Condoleezza Rice Untethered
Here Condoleezza Rice explains how a reduced U.S. defense budget indicates America’s lessened interest in being the world’s policeman. Hopefully Rice is correct in her view of policing the world. What Americans should know about the Pentagon’s modest defense budget cuts is that such a plan will lead to making America safer and more prosperous. Here […]
Crimea’s Regional Parliament votes to Rejoin Russian Federation
Here Al Jazerra America breaks the news. Russia’s parliament on Friday said it would welcome the addition of Crimea to the Russian Federation if residents vote in favor of the referendum. “If the people of Crimea make the decision in the referendum to join Russia, we, as the upper house, will of course support such […]
The Big Money Buying Votes
Unions are the big money in politics. It’s foolish to think otherwise as The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel points out here: Mr. Reid was quite agitated on the Senate floor about “unlimited money,” by which he must have been referring to the $4.4 billion that unions had spent on politics from 2005 to 2011 […]
$100+ Million and Obamacare Still on the Fritz in Oregon
Too bad Oregon, along with the other 49 states, didn’t just let the markets compete to provide health insurance to its residences. What’s wrong with a robust individual heath insurance market with the ability to buy across state lines and high deductibles? But it’s not to be. Instead, as Wired magazine explains, Oregon has paid […]
War Whoops from the War Hawks Camp
In The Wall Street Journal the neocon flame begins to burn. Sanctions, skipping the G-8 summit in Sochi, hitting Russian oligarchs in their pocketbooks, isolating Russia in international forums—all of these options are legitimate responses to Mr. Putin’s land grab in the sovereign state of Ukraine. But there is also a need to think about […]
Thank God for Uber
On Wed March 5th, Debbie and I landed at frigid Logan airport in Boston. We were there to visit my Dad, who will shortly turn 99 years old. As we taxied to the gate, we noticed an especially large number of odd-looking vehicles lined up along the runway. Inside the terminal, we learned that President […]
Garry Kasparov Says Use Banks Not Tanks
Put the Swiss bank, visa and IPO screws to Russia’s 140 oligarchs. Former Russian world chess champ Kasparov knows of what he speaks. Use the pressure of banks not tanks to stop Putin’s Ukraine charge. As I have said for years, it is a waste of time to attempt to discern deep strategy in Mr. […]
Taxpayer Funded SNAP, CACFP, and What?
The problem with so call conservative politicians is that they still think government is the answer. Congressman Paul Ryan does a solid job pointing out our government welfare madness but in a recent report he offers up little in terms of free market solutions. The first place for so called government reformers should be to […]
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