Who’s Your Daddy?

Will the heirs of Hitler’s secret French love child get the royalties from Mein Kampf? Inquiring minds want to know. Hitler apparently sired the child, the recently deceased Jean-Marie Loret, in a brief encounter with a French woman during his service in WWI. The Telegraph has the story: Hitler is said to have had an […]

Iran: Can We Talk?

After lashing out futilely at Israel through botched terror plots in India, Thailand and Georgia, as well as punting on threats to close the Strait of Hormuz and boycott old Europe, the mullahs are suddenly feeling conversational. Writes the Times: Iran dropped previously unacceptable preconditions for talks in a letter this week from its senior […]

Triage in the Drug War

There’s really nothing wrong with existing U.S. drug policy, except that all but one of its underlying ideas is false. The one true idea is that drug use can be a dangerous activity for drug-takers and others, both because people under the spell of intoxication partially lose control of their behavior and because people under […]

Keystone Pipeline: Everybody Wins!

The failure to move ahead with the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, as regular readers will know, has cost the U.S. in all sorts of ways—in diplomatic relationships, in energy security, and in jobs. About a month ago, Via Meadia covered a story that pointed to yet another loss: By forcing American refineries in […]

Racism, Brutality and Starvation in Sudan

The government of (north) Sudan is waging terrible war in South Kordofan. Rebels there aspire to independence like their neighbors in South Sudan, the world’s newest country. Khartoum doesn’t intend to make the same mistake twice.The NYT‘s Nicholas Kristof returned from South Kordofan this weekend. His report paints a dire and tragic picture. “They said […]

The Shame of New Zealand

For years, slaves brought from Indonesia under deceptive labor contracts have been beaten, raped and abused on fishing ships operating in New Zealand waters. Some have died. New Zealand officials have witnessed brutal attacks and inhuman exploitation, but many chose to remain silent.  It wasn’t their job.They were there to protect the fish.Meanwhile, the slave-caught […]

The New York Times Channels Charles Murray

As blizzards sweep across Hell, words come of something really surprising: The New York Times is agreeing with Charles Murray—at least on some things.Two recent stories examine the death of marriage among lower income whites as well as many minorities, and the writers appear to accept the idea that children benefit from stable, two parent […]

Backlash Against Wind Energy Gains Momentum

Once the darling of the greens, wind turbines are spinning up a storm. Over in England, Sir Simon Jenkins, the chairman of the National Trust, which oversees millions of acres of protected land in the UK, came out strongly against wind energy recently, calling wind energy the least efficient form of renewable energy, and said his […]

Beyond Blue 5: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

America’s economic structure, the labor market and the American workplace have changed greatly in the last twenty years and will likely change even more in the twenty years to come. Some of these changes are unpredictable; others look baked into the cake. But as the blue social model continues to fade, the question of jobs […]

Latest From Delphi: World Still on the Brink

Although we are eager and ready for financial recovery here at Via Meadia and prefer to spend our time looking for four leaf clovers rather than black cats, Nouriel Roubini, the Cassandra of global markets, has made his latest prophecy, and it doesn’t bode well for world outlook. In his most recent bearish note, Roubini […]

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