Socialists on the Rise (and Decline)
Socialists win in France. Extremists win in Greece. But Evo Morales is facing resistance in Bolivia. Is the U.S. immune?
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Meanwhile at the United Nations
Wondering what the United Nations is up to while Syrians are being slaughtered, Iran is working on a bomb, and a humanitarian crisis is brewing in the Sudan? This from Mary Anastasia O’Grady of The Wall Street Journal. Happiness Prescribed By Mary Anastasia O’Grady – Syrians are being slaughtered by their own government, Iran wants [...]
Obama Bypasses Senate on Space Regulation
“Constitutional principles seem to be mere inconveniences to Mr. Obama.” Those are the words of John Yoo and Ambassador John Bolton writing in today’s New York Times. They are talking about the Obama Administration’s announced intention to comply with a European draft “code of conduct for outer space.” Read more here.
Tariffs not Tax Breaks
RIGHT DIAGNOSIS. WRONG PRESCRIPTION. That’s the fairest way to describe Rick Santorum’s idea to provide tax breaks for “manufacturing.” Leave aside the definitional issues—some of us at The Weekly Standard who “manufacture” ideas might qualify for the benefit he intends for others. The solution to the problem of unemployed and anxious blue collar voters lies [...]
Looking at Things from the Other Guys Point of View
One does not have to embrace Ron Paul’s apparent isolationism to agree that he had a good point in suggesting that in dealing with other nations we ought to try to see things from their point of view as well as ours. That is an argument Paul has made with respect to Iran, and some [...]
Is Ron Paul Qualified to be President of the Nation of Liberty?
For a conservative with libertarian leanings, there is much appealing in the consistent libertarian message of Congressman Ron Paul. He is for free markets. He is for limited government. He is for government compliance with the Constitution. He is for freedom from government suppression and abuse of power. In sum, he is for liberty, even [...]
Obama’s Failed Foreign Policy
Count on President Obama to make much of the killing of Osama bin Laden during the coming presidential election. Charles Krauthammer, writing in today’s Oregonian, says the bin Laden killing showed “decisiveness and political courage,” but that it demonstrated no foreign policy sophistication because there was really no other option for the President. “[F]orgoing a [...]
BORDER PATROL PERIL
Under the Obama Administration, the very difficult job of the Border Patrol has increased and their ability to do their job is hindered. Four states have the greatest concentration of violence, crime and financial burdens due to the illegal immigration problems. California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas have enormous fiscal crises due to the federal [...]
Global Trade: It’s time to stop complaining and learn to compete
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON OREGONLIVE.COM 11/03/11 – It’s no surprise that Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley publicly support SolarWorld’s call for tariffs on their Chinese competitors amid allegations of unfair trade practices by the Chinese government. After all, the German-based company has a plant in Hillsboro that employs 1,000 Oregonians whose jobs are at [...]
A SHARK IN THE WATER
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN RENEW AMERICA 09/12/11 – The way I was raised you give a new president a chance even if you didn’t vote for him. But I jumped the shark on Barack Obama when he allowed Attorney General Eric Holder to make disconcerting noises about adjudicating the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad as if [...]
Remembrance and Restoration
A Speech Delivered September 11, 2010 in Eugene, Oregon March 27, 2000, was my son Spencer’s 5th birthday. We were in New York visiting my wife Leslie’s mother, and had decided to take the kids to see the Statute of Liberty. Along the way the boat had taken us near Ellis Island where the kids’ [...]
Talking with a Tyrant Is all Talk
Michael Rubin writes in today’s USA Today on the subject of collaborative diplomacy with tyrants. It doesn’t work.
Israel’s Problem with Obama is Trust, Not Borders
In 1996, House Majority Leader Dick Armey came to Portland to help raise money for a Republican congressional candidate. For the most part, his remarks were standard political fare but one observation stuck with me. He reminded people of President Clinton’s State of the Union address earlier that year when Clinton announced, “The era of [...]
Nobody Read John Dillinger His Rights
By Jack Roberts – Rarely, it seems, are Americans joined in a common celebration of anything these days. That’s one reason we take such delight in the fact that the raid by Navy Seals that killed Osama bin Laden was greeted with such spontaneous enthusiasm. But America being America, some voices were raised in dissent. [...]
Bin Laden, Navy Seals, and the laws of war
On May 2, 2011, a U.S. Navy SEAL team stormed a luxury compound in Pakistan and killed four people inside, including al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Across the country, Americans cheered upon hearing the news. Yet, some people – Americans as well as others – questioned the legality of the targeted killing. Was it [...]
