The Greens aren’t the only ones who can’t get their treaties in shape; the World Trade Organization also illustrates the crisis of globalism in the twenty-teens.The news from the WTO is bad and getting worse.  The great and the good wring their hands as momentum continues to leak from the round. and there’s a significant chance […]

India is the most important county most westerners know the least about — a reflection in part on the Eurocentrism of establishment media which follows every twist and turn of European politics but only looks at India when something blows up.From the Indian Express comes a list of the ten most powerful people in India […]

Today we celebrate one of the great blogging wins of all time: 223 years ago the great state of New York became the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution.Almost 200 years before Al Gore invented the internet, the bloggers of those days were forced to use primitive materials; a chemical staining solution was smeared over […]

Another one bites the dust.  Sexual missteps and worse are among Washington’s most common career killers; the elite educational system in this country has essentially abandoned the task of providing moral and religious guidance to help bright, ambitious young people steer clear of these traps.Sad — from every point of view.

The protests in Syria just won’t stop. The Army is overstretched. Syria’s allies are turning their backs. The economy is collapsing; tourism is nonexistent. Unemployment has doubled. Reports suggest $20 billion has left the country. The holy month of Ramadan could put protesters out on the streets every day.So what can the House of Assad […]

From the NYT comes this gripping thriller:  “Hard Times Cause Rifts Among Mariachi Bands.”  The implications are huge!

This can’t have been a happy morning around the coffee urn at the White House.  The Washington Post carries several deeply disturbing stories that suggest events are not moving the president’s way.First, there’s this front pager on the ATF gunrunning scandal.  Internet addicts have watched this one bubble around for some time on the net […]

Things aren’t going well in Afghanistan: corruption, wrangling over the abuse aid money, fear that Afghan security forces aren’t up to filling the security vacuum that will be created by the withdraw of Western forces, and mounting criticism of American objectives for the country.It’s clearly time for the A-Team.Amb. Ryan Crocker was sworn in today as […]

HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, and heir to the British throne, is one of the world’s most prominent greens.He is also, according to Britain’s most authoritative researcher on alternative medicine, a “snake oil salesman” who sells quack herbal medicines that don’t work.Now personally I have no idea whether the Prince’s Duchy Herbals detox tincture cures […]

I have a short op-ed on the future of the Black middle class at the New York Times Room for Debate. One commenter writes “sir, your essay is poppycock…[Blacks need to use] emerging technologies that can build us into global entrepreneurs and not just American ones”.  Not quite sure there’s a point there, but it’s […]