Dear Mr. Romney, The moment I saw you, I knew that you were the messiah sent by the Church of Latter Day Saints to save our country from the fires of hell and liberalism… or whatever the Mormon equivalent is. Your words have rung true with this staunch liberal and shown me the path toward [...]
While Indian leaders cling on the image of a rising world power, the rest of the world is disillusioned and surprised by the sudden downturn of a market that economists once praised and held up. However, the economists were not necessarily wrong. So then why has the rupee plummeted to the status of Asia’s worst [...]
Some time ago, I wrote a piece (Do Illegal Immigrants Hurt the Economy?) arguing that immigration is not a net drag on the economy–that immigrants do not, in the long term, “steal jobs and depress wages”, as the myth often goes. Unfortunately, some readers took this to mean I was advocating illegal immigration. In fact, [...]
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“I Have Always Depended on the Kindness of Strangers”- Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire Vice Presidents don’t win elections. Dan Quayle is proof of this. Vice Presidents don’t lose elections, either. Dick Cheney and Joe Biden are proof enough (I’m hoping the latter will prove me wrong this fall). So why is there [...]
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In the past decade, national security has always been intrinsically associated with defense expenditures and counter-terrorism. From 9/11 until now, our government’s resources have been heavily focused towards the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, counter-terror operations, and spreading our citizen’s tax dollars to aid other countries around the world. What good has this done? Ironically when [...]
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“The illusion of unity isn’t worth having”- Christopher Hitchens The fiscal debate in the United States was a given a jolt last week when Paul Ryan released his budget entitled “Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal.” Those who believed that this debate had been settled after last summer’s anti-climatic debt ceiling fiasco have [...]
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The year 2012 has brought with it changes for the direction of national security policy in the United States. With the war in Iraq over, and a scheduled complete withdrawal of NATO forces in Afghanistan by 2014 our nation has already begun to usher into new age. The reputation of the US military around the [...]
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