European Crisis Now Out of Control

The long running eurozone crisis turned a corner last night, and the news isn’t good.The list of basket cases has grown by two: Spain and Italy can no longer raise money in the bond markets at sustainable rates.  The Spanish government has given up its attempt to serve out its term and has called early […]

Japan Warns Against "Overbearing" China

The contest for Asian supremacy is heating up.  China’s more assertive military and political posture in the age of Obama is provoking reactions from the neighbors.  In recent weeks Vietnam and the Philippines have spoken up; now even the often reticent and self-effacing Japanese are toughening their tone. As the UPI story has it: China’s […]

Christian Scientism

The Texas State Board of Education has been a recurring locale of what is conventionally understood as the battle between science and religion. The agency has the power to decide which textbooks are to be used in Texas public schools. Since Texas has a huge system of public education, and since it would be expensive […]

The Progressive Crisis

The debt ceiling compromise is the end of the liberal dream that the Obama presidency would do for the left what Ronald Reagan’s time in office did for the right. Stanley Greenberg, one of the best pollsters anywhere and a leading intellectual light of the Democratic party, has a must read in the NY Times […]

Ex Obama Official Shares Views of China

Obama’s ex-head of policy planning in the State Department and Princeton professor Anne Marie Slaughter has lived in China and knows the place better than most western wonks; her years near the top of the US foreign policy system give added weight to her words.  After attending a conference on China’s future in Singapore, she’s […]

"First" Casualties Of Global Warming

Australia’s Telegraph has a timely list of the many “first” casualties of global warming.  Virtually everything under the sun has been identified as a potential “first casualty” of climate change.  Strangely, there is never a second.Potential candidates for the first casualty are legion.  Is it going to be the entire Australian continent? Or Tuvalu? The […]

The Slow Decline Of Los Angeles

The indispensable Joel Kotkin has a great essay over at New Geography on how Los Angeles lost its mojo.  Why?  According to Kotkin, A big reason is a decline in the power and mettle of the city’s once-vibrant business community. Between the late 1980s and the end of the millennium, many of L.A.’s largest and most influential […]

Brasileiros, Bem-vindo A Miami

Brazilians are choosing to vacation in Miami over places like New York, London, and Paris, says the FT. They are riding high on the strength of the real and Miami has “dirt cheap shopping”. Says Flávia from Rio de Janeiro, “I love Miami. In Rio we have Copacabana, but Miami has Banana Republic”.The commodities boom in […]

Red States More Confident in Public Schools

A recent Gallup poll reports that confidence in the nation’s public schools has fallen to a low of 34 percent, almost a record. More striking: confidence is lowest in the blue-state educational utopias on the coasts and highest in the South.  No doubt blue partisans will argue that Southern yahoos are satisfied with their pathetic […]

Rocky Reset

The US Senate condemns Russia’s “occupation” of Georgian territory; Prime Minister Putin calls the US an economic “parasite“, one of the Soviet Union’s ultimate terms of abuse. The US bans Russian officials from visiting the US over alleged human rights violations; Russia threatens the US with global opposition to its policies — especially over Iran.So […]

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