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…l-esque attempt to combat inflation. His “Better Dead Than Red” street cred allowed him to negotiate progressively with the Soviet Union on an ICBM treaty, hug Leonid Brezhnev in public and, of course, “only Nixon could go to China.” His détente with the Soviet Union drew intense criticism from the Conservative wing, whose standard bearer was now California governor Ronald Reagan. As the hounds gathered to force Nixon from office, he appointed mo…
… is an oxymoron. The Chinese government has recently been accused by the United States of hacking into Google accounts of journalists and human rights activists. In response, Google has threatened to pull its operations from China. China has denied the allegations, saying that their constitution guarantees free speech, but with the caveat that they can censor communications that “disrupt public order, impair the health of citizens, or inte…
…11 treaties to control the development and use of nuclear weapons have been enacted and adhered to since 1961*. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT) enacted in 1968 currently has 189 countries as signatories, including China, Russia and the United States. Clearly the world is concerned and has been trying to do something to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons for over 50 years. But whole scale nuclear war is no longer the threat …
…bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the Internet. Today, even higher-skilled jobs, like accountants and middle management can be outsourced to countries like China or India. And if you’re somebody whose job can be done cheaper by a computer or someone in another country, you don’t have a lot of leverage with your employer when it comes to asking for better wages or better benefit…
…way. Why is this important? Because it goes light-years beyond partisan politics and into an area where our national defense will be put at unreasonable risk. It is believed that the Russians will pass this technology onto China, Iran and North Korea. I find it bitterly ironic that this president pushes an agenda of excessive government regulation and oversight under the guise of consumer safety. Virtually everything in our homes, offices and…
…ve yet born fruit. Israel and the Palestinians are still struggling to find common ground but are trying; North Korea is still launching missiles and has yet to agree to the “six party” talks proposed by the United States and China; Iran has agreed to let inspectors in to their nuclear facilities, though the “when” part is still unclear and have also agreed to talks with the United States, when they will start is also unclear. The President has p…
…of the Obama Coalition”, Thomas Edsall, by pushing “takers” into a non-working, entitlement, nanny state, socialistic philosophical ideology. Republicanism is not lost but it is certainly a candidate for a “Progressive Lite” label….or what as “Congress is Useless” all about? http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/2011/11/congress-is-useless/ And all that is supported in academia today is under the myth of “academic freedom”. Collectivism and totalit…
… of these circumstances, the use of the word hero is trivialized. A deeper problem is that ides of myth, legend and story hold a society’s culture together. The concept of the hero is central to these. By misapplying the hero label and refraining from using it when needed takes our culture in the wrong direction. I hope we can recover the sense of propriety about who we call a hero and what they did to be considered brave before it’s too late. A …
…ese government controlled union or certainly doesn’t seem to be bothered by it in his writings. What the article showed is first the economic ignorance that passes for brilliance among the left as he fails to comprehend that China success came when it abandoned the central economic planning of Mao and China’s progress came when the communist unleashed the entrepreneurial spirit among billion of poor Chinese. Stern is more interested in th…
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