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 […]
The U.S. in a Geopolitical Minefield
The Cato Institute’s Ted Galen Carpenter asks if the U.S. is prepared to stay involved in a multi-decade regional Middle East power struggle. U.S. and Western officials like to portray the campaign to defeat ISIS as a struggle between the civilized world and a monstrous terrorist organization. As with most wartime narratives throughout history, that […]
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Last Chance Obama
Following the debacle of a Middle East foreign policy crafted by the Bush neocons, Barack Obama has tumbled down the same rabbit’s hole. The Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow outlines the quagmire Obama has gotten America into in Iraq and correctly suggests that Obama has one last chance to put an end to the folly of […]
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