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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Vietnam Shocker from Cato’s Dan Mitchell
You will not believe what you are about to read on how countries around the world think about free markets. Really quite astounding! Read Cato Institute Senior Fellow Dan Mitchell’s full review here: Every so often, I share polling data from other nations that is either encouraging or puzzling. Looking through the archives, here are […]
McCain and Graham on the Wrong Track
Here W. James Antle III analyzes the reasons behind resurgent interventionism in the GOP. Republican hawks have regained some of their swagger. Lindsey Graham is talking with a straight face about running for president. Stephen Hayes opened a piece in the Weekly Standard by claiming, “The Republican flirtation with dovish noninterventionism is over. It wasn’t much […]
“Forget About Oil, Israel, and Terrorism.”
Cato Institute’s Justin Logan explains the world’s most dysfunctional region by saying “the Middle East, from a military point of view, is little more than a waste of time.” The amount we’re paying now to fight terrorism—roughly $100 billion per year—is simply crazy. If someone ran a hedge fund assessing risk the way the U.S. government has responded to terrorism, […]
Millions Paid to Influence American Foreign Policy
The UAE, as you read here, spends more to influence American foreign policy than any other country on earth. Do Americans benefit from having such a pot stirred? It is time America disengaged from the Middle East and the Muslim world in general. Let these countries fight their own ancient battles. Our national security is […]
Despotism of an Oligarchy
Jefferson saw the prospect coming and warned the American people. Here Pat Buchanan outlines the failure of the America people and Congress to defend the Constitution. The instrument of revolution is judicial review, the doctrine that makes the Supreme Court the final arbiter, the decider, of what the Constitution says, and cedes to the Court […]
Failed Weinberger/Powell Tests
Barack Obama needs to go to Congress and explain how his misguided foray into Syria meets the tests of the Weinberger/Powell Doctrine. Daniel Larison writes at The American Conservative here that America needs to end the latest unnecessary war. The Post points out the obvious that the war against ISIS isn’t “achieving its aims”: For now, the […]
U.S. Plummets to 12th in Global Economic Freedom
A new report by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute in Canada breaks the bad news.
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