Foreign policy is a bit like insurance. Most voters don’t think about it very much, and it doesn’t make the front page news, until something really bad happens. Foreign policy–in particular, foreign policy failures–have much to do with any president’s legacy. Upon assuming office, Bush had a real passion for tax cuts, legalizing Mexican illegal [...]
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Obama’s Surprising Foreign Policy Blunders
Posted in foreign policy, obama, Politics, tagged China, Dreams of My Father, France, Georgia, Gordon Brown, Great Britain, Karzai, Ossetia, Rezko, Sailer on 1 Apr 2009 | 14 Comments »
Free Trade and National Independence
Posted in Economy, Free Trade, Globalization, tagged China, Davos, Davos Man, Egypt, Harold Myerson, Mexico, Washington Post on 31 Jan 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve long thought the Republican obsession with free trade was not only bad politics but a bit of bad policy. A recent Washington Post article asks the question whether trade–which had a lot to do with our lopsided economy, as US dollars overseas filtered back looking for a safe investment and found it in Mortgage-Backed-Securities–has [...]
Hillary’s Foreign Policy
Posted in Election, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton, tagged al qaeda, Anti-Terrorism, China, Counter-Terrorism, Foreign Affiars, foreign policy, George Bush, GWB, Hillary Clinton, Idealism, Iran, Iraq, iraq war, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Kissinger, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, obama, President Clinton, realism, Russia, Terrorism on 21 Oct 2007 | 10 Comments »
If Obama’s foreign policy is sometimes incoherent, Hillary’s is simply Bush-lite. Her recent essay in Foreign Affairs reveals herself as someone who does not depart substantially from the globalist paradigm of Bush and President Clinton, with the main difference being her greater faith in “diplomacy.” In a world where many nations’ interests involve knocking America down in [...]
Diversity: Invention of a Concept (Book Review)
Posted in Culture, Immigration, IQ, Politics, tagged , Affirmative Action, African Americans, Blacks, borders, China, conservatives, Culture, Diversity, Education, IQ, Japan, Language, Liberals, Manufacturing, Mexicans, Michael Savage, Multiculturalism, Outsourcing, Peter Wood, ron paul, SAT on 6 Oct 2007 | 3 Comments »
I recently completed Diversity: Invention of a Concept, by Peter Wood. This is the first of several book reviews I’ll be writing of books generously sent to me by my readers. Diversity has become one of the defining ideals of our age, surpassing in certain respects our earlier commitments to formal equality, liberty, the rule [...]
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