My brother Steve is in Shanghai as I write and sends these amazing photos. He writes: Greetings from Shanghai. Nothing that you see in these pictures existed twenty years ago. The entire area was farmland. The buildings are amazing, but what is really amazing is that they were all built in the past 20 years. Just […]
Stay and Occupy Iraq?
Lt. Col. John Nagl (who wrote The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual), says the U.S. military is ready to stay and occupy Iraq. Well, that is what military forces do. The overriding question is whether or not Iraq represents a national security risk. History will prove that the United States has no business in meddling […]
Texas Mandates Hard Line Voter ID Law
All 50 states should introduce the hard-line voter ID law introduced in Texas and confirmed by the Supreme Court. Not surprising, uber-liberal justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan took umbrage, which is a perfect example of why it is mandatory that Barack Obama not be allowed another Supreme Court nomination. The man was responsible for both […]
Taki Theodoracopulos KO’s Saudis
In his “Under the Black Flag” feature in the August issue of Chronicles, Taki writes, “The Saudi’s need to be given an ultimatum by the West to stop or else.” The Saudi’s backing of radical Islam goes back 50 years. Thousands of madrasas the world over, including in the United States, are paid for by […]
Obama’s Shocking Poll Numbers
The NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll shows that (a) 61% of Americans disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing on foreign policy, and (b) 65% of Americans believe that the country is on the wrong track! I just looked at the Real Clear Politics average job approval ratings for Obama in 15 key states. […]
Ireland’s 12.5% Corporate Tax Winner
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell weaves a compelling story featuring a “remarkable acknowledgement by Bono that free markets were the best way to lift people out of poverty.” The leader of the U2 band and long-time anti-poverty activist specifically stated that, “capitalism has been the most effective ideology we have known in taking people out […]
Sunnis Aren’t Biting
Obama needs Iraq’s Sunnis against ISIS. And it appears to be a no-go. Here State Department whistle blower Peter Van Buren explains what’s going on and why. When ISIS first took control of Sunni areas in western Iraq, anger towards the Shia government in Baghdad caused many to see them as liberators. The Iraqi army, […]
U.S.Repeating Past Mistakes
Here the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison explains America’s tendency to exaggerate foreign threats. Stephen Walt sees the U.S. repeating past mistakes in its war on ISIS. The first mistake he identifies is the tendency to exaggerate foreign threats: Why is threat inflation a problem? When we exaggerate dangers in order to sell a military [action], […]
Which Country is the World’s Small Government Model?
This fall Americans have a chance to throw out the big government interventionists. Thanks to the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell for producing a small government template for all America-first candidates. Here Dan explains the worldwide model that Hong Kong has become with it’s 15% flat tax. It is time the Washington elite began to do […]
Our Government is too Big, Way too Big
The Cato Institute’s David Boaz looks at the Hewlett Packard split up and asks what HP shareholders know that the American bureaucrats apparently do not about when big becomes just too big. One reason that government grows too big is what Milton and Rose Friedman called “the tyranny of the status quo.” That is, when a […]
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