Solar Power Pollution Causes Riots in China

President Obama’s much ballyhooed green jobs don’t just move to China; they sometimes aren’t even green. The Chinese government has responded with violence as villagers protest against a polluting solar panel factory near Shanghai. From The Guardian: Although solar is seen as clean energy in terms of carbon emissions, the production of many components is […]

Florida Pensions Go Ballistic

Add purple Florida to the list of states facing financial disaster from the twin bombshells of the financial crisis and massive union pensions. The Miami Herald has a shocking report of waste and abuse in the state’s pension system. Speaking of one moderately paid, midlevel employee, the paper reports that: By the time she reaches […]

Jesus And Castro Can't Save Chavez

A few weeks ago, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez announced to the world that his doctors – Jesus, Castro, and “the medical team” – had cured him of cancer. This is a remarkable team, not known for all that many previous collaborations. But it appears not to have worked as well as Chavez would like us […]

The "Christianists" Aren’t Taking Over This Week

For decades now, shocked lefty journalists have gingerly ventured into the dark American interior, emerging with terrifying tales of “Christianist” plots to hijack American democracy and install theocratic rule.  There’s an endless appetite for these stories on the secular left, and the fact that none of these Christianists dictatorships ever appear doesn’t seem to diminish […]

Time for the Confederate States of Europe?

An entirely commendable and even necessary push by Ireland to safeguard its economic sovereignty from the machinations of German and French Eurocrats reveals the crippling structural weakness of the EU. The FT reports: The Irish government has asked the European Union to amend its treaties in order to provide specific legal assurances that the country […]

US-Backed Jumbos: Time To Pull The Plug

The confusion and disarray in Washington’s policy making was starkly revealed last week as some Democrats and housing experts called on the government to continue backing jumbo mortgages, saying that the market is too weak to handle a drop in the size of loan guarantees. From the WSJ: If Congress doesn’t act, the maximum size […]

Germany Must Pay Through The Nose

It is more and more clear that Europe has no good choices left.  The only thing more expensive than bailing out the eurozone’s PIIGS might be to let the eurozone go. The Economist explains why: If Germany were to leave, its Neue Deutschmark would soar as international funk money piled into a bigger, better Switzerland, […]

Is Pakistan At War With the United States?

Possibly, or at least part of its government may be.The United States government believes it has evidence linking the Haqqani network, a terrorist organization which has repeatedly carried out attacks against US government personnel and positions, with the government of Pakistan. As ABC News (Australia) reports, The United States says there is evidence linking the […]

Taiwanese Film Stirs Romantic Nationalism

“Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale” is a new Taiwanese film about an aboriginal revolt against Japanese overlords in the 1930s. It’s violent (the Economist says “its violence is disturbing to the extreme”) but apparently historically accurate as these things go. And, much more importantly, it is stirring deep nationalist pride in Taiwan: In 1930 hundreds […]

Union Strikes Threaten London 2012 Olympics

England’s public sector trade unions, some of the hardest line defenders of the blue social model anywhere on earth, are taking a no holds barred approach to PM David Cameron’s public sector reforms, promising “long and hard and dirty” resistance which could threaten the 2012 London Olympics. The Economist reports: The casus belli is the government’s […]

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