Pat Buchanan calls it perfectly. As Pat explains, centralization and globalization are yesterday’s news. It is hoped that Senator Rand Paul gives Pat’s message a good read and uses Pat’s theme as a foreign policy template. Before we start sending troops back to Europe, as we did 65 years ago under Harry Truman, let us […]
Walgreen Should Relocate to Switzerland Says Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell
Dan Mitchell offers a tax-saving strategy for Walgreen that can not happen fast enough for shareholders. Some shareholders at Walgreen Co., based in Deerfield, are pressing the company to move its headquarters to Europe, where it owns nearly half of Swiss pharmacy giant Alliance Boots. Should Walgreen move? Walgreen Co.’s purchase of Alliance Boots raises […]
Russia’s Military Will Collapse
Here Peggy Noonan outlines the theories of Stratfor’s George Friedman. For a possible look into the future, the second book, “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century” by George Friedman, founder of the private intelligence and forecasting firm Stratfor. The book was published four years ago, in January 2010. In one chapter […]
The Fed Can Not Print Jobs, Says Cato’s Alan Reynolds
The Cato Institute’s Alan Reynolds explains the limits of Federal Reserve power here. We have all been watching a long mystery with no ending: What the Federal Reserve governors are trying to do, how they intend to do it and why they imagine their efforts will work. The key questions boil down to two: (1) […]
The Ukraine Easter Shootout
Al Jazeera America reports here on a shootout in Eastern Ukraine that claims at least two lives. Gunfire erupted near a makeshift checkpoint set up by pro-Russian separatists near Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine early on Sunday, killing at least two people. The armed clash appeared to be the first since an international agreement was reached last […]
The Gipper Was No Neocon. No Wars On Reagan’s Watch
Here Pat Buchanan recalls the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan believed in the measured response. He hated nuclear weapons, “those god-awful things,” he used to say, and seized on the idea of a missile defense, SDI. And while he was ready to trade down offensive missiles, when Gorbachev at Reykjavik demanded he throw the […]
Dateline Eastern Ukraine: Pro Russian Sentiment Growing, Cities Being Commandeered
Here Al Jazeera America has the fast-breaking update. It did not end with Crimea. As Russia consolidates its power in the recently absorbed part of Ukraine, it appears that President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions go beyond retaking an old territory. Armed men have commandeered cities in eastern Ukraine — centers of pro-Russian sentiment — and are grabbing public buildings and […]
Obama and Kerry With Egg on Their Face
Here Pat Buchanan looks at American hypocrisy and history as related to today’s Ukraine standoff. Today, two courses of action are being hotly pressed upon the Obama White House by the War Party. Both appear likely to lead to disaster. The first is to arm the Ukrainians. This would likely provoke a war with Russia […]
The Federal Register: 26,417 Pages of Rules
Fewer jobs, lower incomes courtesy of Obamacare–Dodd-Frank style. Regulator Without Peer Anyone wondering why the U.S. economy can’t seem to grow at its usual pace should examine one product category where production is booming: federal regulation. Washington set a new record in 2013 by issuing final rules consuming 26,417 pages in the Federal Register. While […]
2014 Cato Institute Milton Friedman Award Winner
On May 21, Cato Institute will honor Leszek Balcerowicz with the 2014 Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty. Leszek Balcerowicz, former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, will receive the 2014 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, a $250,000 biennial award presented to an individual for achievement in promoting freedom and individual liberty. Balcerowicz has been […]
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