“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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“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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With American combat troops withdrawn from Iraq and soon to be withdrawn from Afghanistan, the U.S. exodus from the Muslim world is truly underway. The only problem is that a bigger problem remains – namely, Iran. The situation has only been further compounded by other regional powers such as Egypt and Syria sliding further into [...]
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Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left – Outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, to his successor, David Laws Trying to make sense of the growing financial crisis in Europe is like attempting to explain the Tim Tebow phenomenon in the United States. It’s simple yet complicated. [...]
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It’s a loaded question and borderline irrelevant, yet I can’t resist asking. In recent weeks the so-called conservative “establishment” has come out with guns blazing against Newt Gingrich’s schizophrenic Presidential Campaign. A recent Politico article portrayed conservative luminaries such as Ann Coulter, Elliot Abrams, Bob Dole, Drudge, and former Gingrich hatchet man, Tom Delay, in [...]
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While a new year is upon us and unemployment is down to its lowest level in recent memory, there is reason for quiet optimism in 2012. You’ll forgive me if I remain skeptical. The global economy for one still faces enormous uncertainty. In Europe we see countries teetering on the brink of collapse brought on [...]
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I can’t take it anymore. Even after a weekend of rest and watching nothing but college football bowl games on Saturday and the demise of Tim Tebow at the hands of Bill Belichick and the Patriots on Sunday, I still found myself trying to erase the debate from memory. After the end of the 13th [...]
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