More sad news on Argentina’s decline: President Cristina Kirchner is bringing the hammer down on media conglomerate Grupo Clarín SA. Claiming that Clarín is a media monopoly that is stifling the media landscape, Kirchner has ordered it to liquidate many of its assets by December 7. If the company refuses to comply by the deadline, the government […]

During the campaign, Mitt Romney vowed that as president he would do more than the Obama administration to support the Syrian rebels. Rebels who “share our values” would “obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks helicopters and fighter jets,” Romney said during a speech on October 8. Even though the rebels will never get […]

As the American political establishment turns its thoughts away from the election and back to the business of governing, the fiscal cliff looms large in the weeks ahead. But Washington’s fiscal cliff isn’t the only precipice on the horizon: The news from Europe is getting worse, and the German economy continues to sputter. The Financial […]

Here’s something you don’t see every day: Good news from Somalia.Mogadishu is on the mend and is pulling itself out of the chaos and anarchy that have gripped it for decades. The NYT has the story: In the past several months, Mogadishu has made a notable turnaround, making such a high-level visit possible. A city that once […]

Last week, Michael Barone, Washington Examiner’s senior political columnist and a noted scholar of American politics, broke with the conventional wisdom, predicting a big win for Romney in the electoral college. Now that the smoke has cleared (although Florida has yet to be decided), it’s clear that this was way off: It was Obama, and not Romney, who cracked […]

The online periodical Huffington Post had the following story on October 10, 2012: Paul Broun, a Republican congressman from Georgia, made a speech at a Baptist church in which he affirmed his creationist convictions. Broun is a doctor and on the basis of this claimed to speak “as a scientist” (if only he were right […]

Even those who voted for Romney can take heart in one aspect of the 2012 campaign: racism continues its historic retreat in the United States.In the heat of the campaign, voices were heard saying that a defeat for Obama in 2012 would be a sign of racism in America. We could never buy that. Though […]

A muted, cautious response from China greeted President Obama’s re-election. Reuters reports: A commentary issued by state-run Xinhua news agency shortly after Obama’s election win seemed to indicate a sense of relief that continuity will be assured as Chinese leaders embark on their own transition of power. But it acknowledged that sore issues remained between […]

11:38 It’s been a long day but a short night; however, station WRM is signing off for the evening. I’ll have more to say about what the election means about the state of the country in the next few days, but for now it’s enough to know that President Obama has been elected to a […]

Election day in America isn’t the only important news today. Reuters reported this morning that Chinese President Hu Jintao is calling for a more democratic system for selecting members of the ruling politburo in his country, partially due to the crises of legitimacy and popular unrest that have plagued China for the past few years.Although his proposals fall far short […]