The United States citizens who were arrested for kidnapping the 33 children in Haiti will go on trial today without their original Haitian lawyer. The story goes that he asked for $30,000 U.S. as a retainer and an additional $30,000 at a later date. The families of the people on trial called this robbery and [...]
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February 8, 2010
February 7, 2010
Posted by Bob Grant - Editor in: Business, China, Commentary, Foreign Relations, Life Experiences, Opinion, Personal Experiences, Relationships
 One comment I am not the Manchurian Candidate by Bob Grant How can you embrace an enemy of the USA? More important – why would you? If these questions have not been outright asked of me – they have been implied. Why I chose to speak highly of China, and its people, is something that I do willingly and [...] February 6, 2010
Posted by Bob Grant - Editor in: Business, China, Commentary, Communism, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Opinion, Personal Experiences, Relationships, World Issues
8 comments I Never met a Communist in China by Bob Grant I have been traveling to China since 1998. I would not consider myself a seasoned traveler to that country – making around 25 visits total. When I traveled there I usually stayed between one and two weeks – never during any of my visits did I ever [...] January 18, 2010
Posted by Congressman Billybob in: Commentary, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Opinion
2 comments Earthquakes and other Human Disasters January 6, 2010
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Cap and Trade, China, Commentary, Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Global Warming
Leave a comment China and US have taken the lead in saving earth away from the UN and fellow travelers that were bungling the [...] January 6, 2010
While looking for a warmer winter coat- warmer so that I don’t have to layer like I am traveling to the North Pole- I came across several down filled options that made me look like a chocolate Michelin Man. Most of them caused me to itch and then I remembered that I might possibly be [...] December 2, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Commentary, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Homeland Security, Islam, Military, Opinion, Politics
One comment The Open-Ended War By Alan Caruba As I listened to the President address the nation from West Point, I was reminded of how well he can deliver a speech. It’s like watching a slight-of-hand magician. You marvel at his dexterity, but you know he’s still skillfully fooling you. The speech, given in the Eisenhower auditorium at West Point, [...] November 29, 2009
Posted by Peggy Noonan in: Commentary, Current Events, Foreign Relations, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment He Can’t Take Another Bow
This week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of voters, though polls there show steady decline, but in two core constituencies, Washington’s Democratic-journalistic establishment, and what might still be called the [...] November 17, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Business, China, Commentary, Current Events, Economics, Energy, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Opinion
One comment China Will Surprise Obama By Alan Caruba President Obama loves to travel. He cannot wait to descend the steps from Airforce One to the sounds of welcoming bands, honor guards, and awaiting dignitaries. On his whirlwind November 13-19 trip to Asia, however, he is likely to be sternly lectured behind closed doors from Tokyo to Beijing and [...] November 8, 2009
Posted by Tim Roux in: African-American, China, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, History, Homeland Security, Islam, Journalism, Latino & Hispanic, Military, Morality, Politics, Religion, Republican, Sociology, Terrorism, Women's Rights
6 comments In Britain it is now a criminal offence to make any statement which might incite racial hatred. So, if you go around saying that all Irishmen are stupid or all Welshmen are thieves, then you may well find yourself helping the police with their enquiries and facing a sharp fine or even a term of [...] November 6, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Commentary, Current Events, Faith, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Islam, Religion, Sports
Leave a comment Indonesia and Israel and Muslims and Jews moved toward better relations on the tennis court this [...] October 24, 2009
Posted by Rfantina in: Democrat, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events
One comment Mr. Obama inherited a domestic and global mess the likes of which have not been seen by any of his predecessors. As he tries to sort it all out, he must remember that he was elected as the voters chanted ‘Change’ at every polling booth. ‘Business as usual’ will not be acceptable to them, regardless of how much a spineless Congress wants to maintain the status quo and please their wealthy campaign [...] October 16, 2009
Posted by Lloyd Lofthouse in: Commentary, Comments & Discussion, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Freedom, Geopolitical Events, Heroes, History, Homeland Security, Islam, Military, Morality, Opinion, Religion, Terrorism, The Pundit's Corner
3 comments War During America’s brutal and bloody Civil War, General William T. Sherman said, “War is cruel and you cannot refine it” and “war at best is barbarism.” Sherman is also credited with saying “War is hell.” Alexander the Great was known to [...] October 13, 2009
Posted by seamus in: Attitude, Current Events, Democracy, Democrat, Economic Crisis, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, General Topics, Republican, Social Issues, Uncategorized
Leave a comment Back from Italy and bummin’-caught a massive cold….funny, in March I was in the UK and they were really slurping Obama. Same in June in Germany although in July it changed when Merkel said he wasn’t going to ruin the German economy. Obama is not a happening thing now. Saw Obama voodoo dolls in Portofino and [...] October 1, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Books, China, Fiction, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Literature, Politics, Television, The Media, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment On a busy news day, CNN took two hours to wet kiss China’s rulers. [...] September 23, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Faith, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Global Warming, Islam, Opinion, The Economy, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment The spirit of this holy season for Muslims and Jews, rather than the angry rhetoric of religious zealots on both sides, could help bring peace to the Middle [...] September 18, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Current Events, Environment, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Global Warming, Nature/Wildlife
Leave a comment The UN and green groups are sabotaging meaningful progress to combat climate change. [...] September 17, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Cap and Trade, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, The Economy
9 comments Obama: Wrong, Just Wrong What continues to astound me is how wrong the Obama administration is on so many issues. It is not unusual to disagree with some element of the White House agenda, no matter who is president, but I keep looking for something, anything, with which to agree. This is the price Americans [...] September 11, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Politics, Sports, Terrorism, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Judging people by what they are, instead of who they are, is the mother’s milk of [...] September 7, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: China, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Islam, Journalism, Minorities, Opinion, Politics, Television, Terrorism, The Media, The Pundit's Corner
One comment China allows international reporting on Uighur unrest because it suits China’s interests. [...] August 24, 2009
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Heroes, Homeland Security, Opinion, Terrorism, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Blame Scotland and Great Britain for freeing the Lockerbie [...] August 17, 2009
Posted by seamus in: Accountability, Attitude, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, General Topics, Geopolitical Events, Homeland Security, Military, Morality, Opinion, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, The Writer's Corner
3 comments With double navy crosses, a distinguished flying cross, a bronze star and three purple hearts, I was singled out by a long haired professor my first week back in college as a baby killer. Welcome home, right? [...] August 15, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Islam, Opinion
Leave a comment The Middle East Maze Referring to a 1990 report in The Economist, the editors recently said, “To revisit the Arab world two decades later is to find that in many ways history continues to pass the Arabs by. Freedom? The Arabs are ruled now, as they were then, by a cartel of authoritarian regimes [...] August 12, 2009
Posted by AngelaPoseyArnold in: Advice, Current Events, Family, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Freedom, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Relationships, Religion, Self-Help, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wellness
3 comments A Letter from Your Guardian Angel
Greetings to you, my charge, in the name of The Lord our God and Creator Who lovingly assigned me to you. I am always happy when God sends me to do something really important in your life. Great joy filled my soul last week when I intervened in the car [...] August 4, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment U.S. Supporting Communist Takeover of Honduras By Alan Caruba I could probably make some money if I bet most people they could not tell me where Honduras is and which nations it borders. It is in the Central American region of nations between Mexico and the Panama Canal. It is bordered by Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. There’s been [...] July 26, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Opinion
Leave a comment The Jerusalem Quandary I have often wondered why it is such a tiny nation as Israel commands so much news coverage. Having declared its sovereignty in 1948, it is now just over sixty years old. The name, Israel, [...] July 12, 2009
Posted by Lloyd Lofthouse in: China, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economics, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Freedom, Geopolitical Events, Military, Morality, Motivation, Politics, Republican, Social Issues, Uncategorized
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Is China a danger to the world? This is a topic I have wanted to write about for some time. I suspect my motivation for writing this comes from being sent to Vietnam to fight in [...] June 28, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Democracy, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Freedom, Governance, Islam, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Iran’s Mullahs Threaten the World By Alan Caruba In the more than four decades of the Cold War following World War Two, a cadre of specialists called “Kremlinologists”, academics, diplomats, and military, developed for the purpose of figuring out what the Soviet Union was doing and how best to counteract it. As often as not, they were [...] June 23, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Democracy, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Homeland Security, Islam, Opinion
Leave a comment The Democracy Next Door to Iran There are ample reasons why the predominantly young population of Iran has risen up to denounce “the Dictator” otherwise known as the “Supreme Leader”, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his thuggish, incompetent regime. The one, though, that the Obama administration and the whole of the nation’s mainstream media have [...] June 21, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Cap and Trade, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Islam, Opinion, Politics
One comment From Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama: A Horror Story John F. Kennedy, standing in front of the Berlin Wall, said “Ich bin en Berliner” to declare his solidarity with Western Germany, divided from its eastern half by the compromises with the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. Ronald Reagan would later [...] June 18, 2009
Posted by Jack B Rochester in: China, Current Events, Democracy, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment Big Brother Redux in China By Jack B. Rochester Is it a coincidence that, within a day of the 60th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s prescient novel, 1984, the repressive, dictatorial, Communist Chinese government issues an edict that all imported computers must have its homegrown filtering software installed?
As if Vista wasn’t slow [...] June 6, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Democrat, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Homeland Security, Military, Opinion, Politics, Terrorism
5 comments War! War! War! By Alan Caruba “In defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.” I will tell [...] June 5, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Democrat, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics, Terrorism
One comment Commander-in-Cliche Some of my favorite science fiction villains are the “shape-shifters” like the cyborg from the 1984 “Terminator” movie. Barack Hussein Obama reminds me a lot of those creatures. All during the campaign, the use of his middle name was decried as a subtle form of racism, suggesting his Muslim roots, but when he took [...] June 4, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Democrat, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics, Terrorism
Leave a comment Obama’s Magical Muslim Tour In life as in international affairs the rule is to never show weakness. It tends to awaken a bloodlust and too often leads to the worst outcomes. In the Arab culture this is especially true. They are a pretty cowardly bunch as people go. Their weapon of choice these days is [...] May 27, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics, Terrorism, The Economy
Leave a comment How NOT to Defend America Does anyone believe that we don’t live in an increasingly dangerous world; one in which nuclear weapons are proliferating and worldwide Islamic terrorism threatens our nation and others? The first months of the Obama administration bode ill for the safety of the United States. Calling on the United Nations to [...] May 26, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment The World’s Most Pointless Negotiations With yet another meeting between the Prime Minister of Israel and the President of the United States, we are witnessing the world’s oldest and most pointless negotiations, the call for a Palestinian State. As Dan Greenfield, a freelance commentator, recently pointed out, “For 17 years, Israel, America, and just about [...] May 10, 2009
Japan, like other countries, tailors its visa regulations to reflect whatever reciprocity it enjoys with each specific country. For instance, in 1988, The U.S. was rather restrictive in issuing work visas to Japanese citizens, so Japan reciprocated with correspondingly strict regulations for Americans. At the time, there were more flexible options available to, for example, [...] May 10, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Opinion, Politics, Religion, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Israel in the Crosshairs There are few nations on Earth other than Israel with a greater claim to exist as a homeland for a specific people. Along with China and India, Israel reaches back thousands of years, predating both Christianity and Islam. For some 3,500 years, Jews have lived in Israel. In good times and [...] May 8, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Environmental Issues, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Governance, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment I Did Not Vote for Barack Obama Whenever I am feeling a bit despondent and need to shake off the mood, I remind myself that I did not vote for Barack Hussein Obama. The other day, feeling buyer’s remorse, I returned an item I had purchased and requested credit. It looked so good in the [...] May 4, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Serving Up More U.S. Hostages to Iran by Alan Caruba If there is one thing Americans know about Iran it is that Iran takes hostages. Iran did so from November 4, 1979 until January 20, 1981, holding fifty-two United States diplomats as the Islamic revolution swept over that nation, replacing the Shah with a handful of fanatical ayatollahs [...] May 3, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Geopolitical Events, Governance, Opinion, Politics, The Pundit's Corner
Leave a comment Pakistan Implodes April 28, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Energy, Environmental Issues, Foreign Relations, Governance, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment By Alan Caruba If some found fault in George W. Bush’s muscular approach to foreign affairs which included the belief that the entire West had a stake in fighting al Qaeda and the general threat of resurgent Islamic fundamentalism, the policy pendulum has now swung to the view that the United States of America is to [...] April 28, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Homeland Security, Opinion, Politics
Leave a comment By Alan Caruba If some found fault in George W. Bush’s muscular approach to foreign affairs which included the belief that the entire West had a stake in fighting al Qaeda and the general threat of resurgent Islamic fundamentalism, the policy pendulum has now swung to the view that the United States of America is to [...] April 27, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Current Events, Foreign Relations, Governance, Politics, The Economy, The Writer's Corner
Leave a comment By Alan Caruba If the first hundred days of the Obama administration have been a blur of legislation, controversy, embarrassing choices to fill top positions, and reversals of the previous administration’s policy, it may well have been too much for the public to absorb. It was, in my view, very deliberate. The Democrats inside the beltway who [...] |
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Are You Your Government?
Are You Your Government?
by Bob Grant
On October 1, 1949 the People’s Republic of China was formally established in a speech given by Mao Zedong from the Imperial Gate at Tiananmen Square. I stood at the very spot where Mao gave his speech and took the photo at the right. From speaking with people – in [...]