Here Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow lays out the underpinnings of today’s Ukraine/Russia standoff and looks at potential options. None includes U.S. military intervention as a sensible option. Ukrainians won an important political battle by ousting the corrupt Viktor Yanukovich as president. But replacing Yanukovich with another dubious politico, such as opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, just […]
Archives for March 2014
Are You Ready for Hillary?
Ukraine: No Vital U.S Security Issue
Don’t Tread on My Checkbook
The Tea Party used to be laser focused on calling out the big spenders in Washington. But the TP lost its way in the rat’s nest of social issues. The TP would be better served if it focused first on fiscal responsibility. There’s plenty of ways to cut up that pig. Cato scholar Michael Tanner […]
Samuel Adams’ Party
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”–Samuel Adams Where is the Tea Party? Yes it got the target right in big government as Cato’s Gene Healy points out in his weekly piece in the DC Examiner. But […]
The Charge of the Light Brigade
With Crimea now front and center in the news, read here how the Crimean War was the incubator for many ideas that resonate today. The telegraph was in its infancy and allowed “live” reporting from the Crimea battlefield to London. Along with the telegraph, the use of railroads for transporting troops and equipment and the […]
Ukrainian’s Income One-Third of Polish Workers’ Income
The overriding problem for the Ukraine is that the country has been run like a money making machine for the oligarchs and political cronies. Here the Cato Institute’s Dalibor Rohac lays bare the real crisis in the Ukraine. It’s now a decade since Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” brought hope that the country could be liberated from […]
An Insider’s Ukraine Look
Here at Taki’s magazine, you get to look at the Ukrainian crisis from the inside. Just before the current troubles in Ukraine began, we called a plumber to our rented flat in Paris, which smelled of mold at the time. He was Ukrainian. He told us why he had left his native country a few […]
Turn a Regional Crisis Into a Major War
Daniel Larison at The American Conservative castigates Alex Berezow for his incendiary approach to confronting Russia over the troubles in the Ukraine. Mr. Berezow seems to be advocating the World War I approach to Russia’s invasion of Crimea, and we all know how well that turned out. Alex Berezow’s approach to foreign policy might be summed up […]
Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year
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