Spring is the time of year when many parents turn to the least enjoyable part of the process of sending children off to college: taking out loans. If you want to contribute to your child’s education by taking out a government loan, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a few words of warning:  Borrowing programs designed to help parents […]

The biggest question mark over Ron Paul has always been his affinity for unsavory wack jobs on the fringes of American politics, but these days he’s turning that question mark into an exclamation point. The Daily Beast reports that the ex-Texas Congressman is creating the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, a think tank concerned […]

Yesterday members of the House of Representatives grilled the founder of the failing electric car company Fisker Automotive. The Department of Energy announced in 2009 that they would be loaning Fisker Automotive $529 million, part of a raft of loans made to car companies intent on producing fuel-efficient and electric vehicles. But now, four years […]

Welcome to Pakistan’s Punjab region, where 55 (!) men charged with various terrorist activities have been allowed to run for elected office. Amir Mir at The News has the story: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has simply failed to prevent 55 candidates from the Punjab, belonging to 10 different sectarian groups, from contesting the […]

A little less than a year ago an ASEAN summit collapsed in disarray when China-allied Cambodia scuttled all attempts to discuss how to resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea. This year, with the tiny kingdom of Brunei holding the revolving ASEAN chairmanship, developing a “code of conduct” for disputed areas is priority number […]

The world is in the middle of an information revolution every bit as large and sweeping as the industrial revolution was in the 19th century. Propelled by new technologies in telecommunications and cloud computing, this burgeoning revolution has the potential to make new products and services more widely available while opening up whole new areas of employment […]

Two Lebanese money-exchange houses have moved millions of dollars in drug money through the US financial system to profit the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The Treasury Department has blacklisted them both and charged Hezbollah, the self-proclaimed protectors of Shia Muslims against the evil US-Israeli menace, of operating like an international drug cartel. The WSJ reports: One […]

Qatar joined France, the UK, and Israel to officially state that Butcher Assad has used chemical weapons during Syria’s civil war, something that the Obama Administration threatened was a “red line.” Blake Hounshell reports for Foreign Policy: “Chemicals? He used chemicals, and there is evidence,” [Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim] Al Thani said, referring to Assad. […]

A huge Argentine agribusiness has just fled the country for Brazil. The FT reports that high inflation and skyrocketing land costs have pushed El Tejar to move to land the company bought in São Paulo: The sharp increase in land rental costs in recent years in Argentina has meant that despite the rise in grain and oilseed […]

Congressional lawmakers and aides are considering exempting themselves from the mandate to enroll in the health care exchanges the ACA sets up. Hill leaders have been holding confidential meetings for months, trying to weigh the PR costs of exempting themselves and their aides from the financial realities the law is forcing them to face. Politico: […]