Election scourge, one Sheldon Adelson, is back at it brandishing his fortune of gambling money. The goal, as in the last presidential election, is to put in place a malleable candidate to fall in line with Adelson-style foreign policy. My advice to any Republican candidate is to stay clear of Adelson and make it clear […]
Archives for April 2015
Scottish Labor Party Massacre
Daniel Larison explains in the American Conservative that the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) may grab every seat in the House of Commons in next week’s election. In the span of just five years, the Labour Party has gone from dominating Scotland in national elections to becoming a footnote. The rot may have set in long […]
Culinary Nation Branding
In an effort to redefine how the rest of the world sees it, Peru has turned to its cuisine to tempt tourists to visit. And it seems to be working. Read here from NPR how gastronomic tourism is redefining how the world views Peru. Danny Kou, the executive chef at La Mar, an upscale Peruvian […]
It’s Never Too Late
Do you remember the first rock concert you ever went to? Mine was actually more of a “Rap” concert. I was 16 years-old working at Oxford Creamery in Mattapoisett, MA scooping ice-cream and serving fried clams, lobster rolls, and coffee frappes. Some co-workers had an extra ticket to see rappers Run DMC and DJ Jazzy […]
VIDEO: Ghost Gunner
If you didn’t know about the Ghost Gunner, now you do. From GhostGunner.net: “Ghost Gunner is a general purpose CNC mill, built upon a large body of open source work, including the gshield 3 axis motion hardware, the grbl g-code parser and motion controller, and popular microcontrollers. All Ghost Gunner schematics and design files will be […]
Big Government’s Failure
“When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new,” said President Obama recently. At the time, Mr. Obama was speaking about our policy with Cuba, but perhaps he should be applying it to Baltimore—the poster child for big government liberalism. As the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner writes in NRO, […]
Republican “Zombie Claims”
Niskanen Center’s Matthew Fay explains: “At least a few aspiring Republican presidential candidates have a bad habit of using misleading numbers while arguing in favor of increased defense spending.” Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham, for two, are cited. Neither Jeb Bush nor Lindsey Graham have credentials that come anywhere near the small government, dump the […]
Neocons and the Reagan Reality
Neocons often invoke the memory of Ronald Reagan’s strength to bolster their goal of military intervention overseas. But while the Gipper might have favored a larger military during the Cold War era, he certainly wasn’t prone to using it for ill-fated overseas adventurism. None of the interventions neocons have recently advocated for have lived up […]
War Is Justifiable only for Self-Defense
“The Anti-Federalists generally held to what Hamilton scornfully called ‘the novel and absurd experiment in politics of tying up the hands of government from offensive war founded upon reasons of state’.” (The Federalist no. 34) “War is justifiable on no other principle than self-defense. It is at best a curse to any people; it is […]
The Flat Tax, the Answer for America
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell explains that the Heritage Foundation’s Steve Moore thinks the flat tax has “political legs.” In the Weekly Standard, Moore writes, “The flat tax is again the rage in a presidential primary. A number of GOP candidates, including Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker, are looking to go […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 10
- Next Page »
