Kristie De Pena and Matthew La Corte write at the Niskanen Institute (abridged): The 2020 Presidential Determination (PD) setting the annual number of refugee admissions at 18,000 is one of the administration’s most consequential decisions on immigration to date. Over the course of the Trump administration, the refugee ceiling has dropped precipitously from 110,000. For […]
Archives for November 2019
Bribery vs. President Trump, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden
Bribery is a real crime. It is even mentioned in the Constitution as a basis for impeachment, Francis Menton reminds readers in the Manhattan Contrarian. But in trying to fit the square peg of the Trump/Ukraine fact pattern into the round hole of the impeachable crime bribery, Mr. Menton sees two major problems. If providing […]
Here’s Why Citizens Are Angry at their Leaders Worldwide
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains that people around the world are upset with their leaders because neither democracies nor authoritarian regimes have been able to cure their problems. He writes (abridged): The riots in Chile were started to oppose a small hike in train and subway fares in a country with the highest […]
Charging Stations in Public Places Could Be Loaded with Malware
Have you heard of Juice Jacking? The term is the name of a strategy used by hackers to load public USB charging stations with malware that can attack the devices of users trying to charge them. Allowing your electronic devices to be compromised by malware can be one of the most stressful and violating modern […]
U.S. Ambassador – a Disgruntled Obama Employee in Need of Human Resources?
Last Friday, the second day of public testimony in the House impeachment inquiry, a ranking Republican questioned the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Republican Devin Nunes questioned why Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine appointed by President Obama, was even being called to testify. “I don’t really have that many questions for you,” […]
Are These the Five Best Foreign Policy Presidents?
Originally posted November 3, 2017. Akhilesh Pillalamarri, writing at The American Conservative, lays out his choices and reasoning for the five best foreign policy presidents in history. Here is a much abbreviated version of his thoughts on each of his choices. In this author’s view, a good foreign policy is one that serves America’s interests. […]
It’s All in the Original Articles of Confederation!
Originally posted June 19, 2013. Nial Ferguson, author of “The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die”, writes in today’s Wall Street Journal how in 1883 Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the power of the individual in America. And notes that if Tocqueville was still with us today he would think that France conquered […]
Relocate 10 Cabinet Departments Out of D.C.
There are nearly 3,500 trades or firms with dedicated lobbying operations in Washington, D.C., reports Roger Kimball in American Greatness. And that number does not include union headquarters in D.C. (T)hey’re all there, hands out, telephones working overtime to get a little bigger slice of the government pie, made with 100 percent locally sourced materials, namely […]
So Where Are We with Ukraine?
Where is America in its relations with Ukraine? If you were listening to the impeachment hearings this week, you would have thought from the Democrats on the committee and the bureaucrats at the witness table that Ukraine was a NATO ally America is sworn to protect. That has never been the case, as Pat Buchanan […]
Score! Bobby Orr!! Defending Coach Cherry
Bobby Orr, the greatest Bruin, EVER, hit the Boston airwaves this week defending his one-time coach Don Cherry. Cherry, a staple of Hockey Night in Canada was fired for his comments on what he viewed as a decline in respect by Canadians for not wearing poppies on Remembrance Day in honor of vets and those […]
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