As Syria burns and Egypt seethes, the biggest foreign policy story is unfolding right here at home. The establishment is rapidly losing patience with President Obama’s Middle East policy.For some time, the left of the MSM has been attacking the White House over issues like drones and Guantanamo, but now much heavier fire is coming […]

Over the weekend, President Obama acknowledged that the US would likely become a net exporter of natural gas by 2020. This is a remarkable admission; only five years ago, the government was predicting natural gas imports were set to quadruple. At that time, companies were scrambling for permits to build facilities to import liquefied natural […]

So far, 2013 has been a bush league year in American politics. Gay marriage, gun control and amnesty for illegal immigrants are hot button emotional issues and they have a lot of practical importance for a lot of people, but the republic will not stand or fall based on lesbian prenups, gun background checks or […]

Asia’s Game of Thrones went nuclear this week as Japan prepared to reopen a facility capable of producing enough weapons-grade plutonium for 2,000 nuclear weapons in a single year. Abe and Putin made modest overtures towards warming relations, likely driven by a mutual interest in balancing China’s influence in the region. For its part, China […]

Mmmmm, braised rat. No, it’s not a delicacy in China, though Chinese consumers may have been eating it unknowingly. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced late this week that a gang of rogue meat traders has been arrested for buying rat, mink and fox meat, dousing it in gelatin, red pigment and nitrates, and passing […]

A Kickstarter success story making the rounds of the Internet this week caused us to perk up our ears here at Via Meadia. A Brooklyn-based company called Wool & Prince has developed a dress shirt that doesn’t require ironing and can be worn for extended periods of time without it starting to stink. Fascinating: With the […]

Governor Cuomo is mining New York’s state budget to fund a nearly $140 million ad campaign to attract business to the Empire state. The ad campaign—entitled “New York State Open for Business”—has been funded by siphoning tens of millions of dollars from the state’s Power Authority and Energy Research and Development Authority, and another $40 […]

Niall Ferguson, one of Harvard’s best known professors, seems to be suffering from a case of foot-in-mouth disease. At a conference earlier this week, the following happened: Speaking at the Tenth Annual Altegris Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., in front of a group of more than 500 financial advisors and investors, Ferguson responded to a question […]

The Syrian civil war exploded over the weekend, with mass murder and sectarian cleansing along the coast, Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, and confusion, frustration and paralysis in Washington to the point where the New York Times described President Obama as trapped “in a geopolitical box, his credibility at stake with frustratingly few good options.”Foreign policy, it […]

The annual World Jewish Congress is usually held in Jerusalem, but this year organizers chose to hold it in Budapest in order to protest rising European anti-semitism. In response the country’s far-right populist Jobbik party, the third largest party in the Hungarian parliament, organized a rally. The Beeb has the goods: Jobbik said the rally was a […]