A Look At Soft Power as a Nonmilitary Means in Today’s International Relations
The world offers a plethora of problems, intricacies, and constant, rapid changes for leading nations to address. The challenges over growing protectionist sentiments in the face of international trade policies to the threats of rogue nations and the control of nuclear arms are always present for the leading countries to struggle over.
How do nations address [...] Read more »
Why I Dislike Obama
This will be, no doubt, one of many posts about my dislike for the current president-elect of the United States. We’re going to be stuck with him for at least four years, during which I am sure he will continually annoy me with his undemocratic implementations.
The late Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya wrote in her book [...] Read more »
Israel’s long-overdue strike against Hamas: A time for war
By Andrew L. Jaffee, netwmd.com
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven…
A time for war and a time for peace. …
- Ecclesiastes 3
Echoing the Old Testament’s verses from Ecclesiastes regarding Israel’s massive offensive against Hamas terrorists today, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “There is a [...] Read more »
Andrew Sullivan on Sweet Caroline
I’m pleased to see Andrew Sullivan, a rather…not-so-right-of-centre figure, realizing the problems of Caroline’s inexperience.
Remind you of anyone?
In fact, Sarah Palin was more qualified to be vice-president than Caroline Kennedy is to be a Senator. Both are celebrities, but Palin made her own way herself, winning election as mayor and governor without the kind [...] Read more »
Kennedy Nepotism
There are few things that disgust me like the reverence many Americans hold for the Kennedy household. I see nothing inherently wrong with claiming JFK was a good President (an average President in my assessment), or that liberals may feel Bobby Kennedy would have been an excellent president if he were not assassinated (an unscientific [...] Read more »
The GOP is coming back and the Democrats have helped them up
Since the general election has ended the Republican Party has put together a string of wins. In Georgia, Saxby Chambliss was reelected in convincing fashion. In Louisiana, an unlikely win in CD-2 by Joseph Cao and a close battle in CD-4, that was prime for a Democrat victory, helped to send two more Republicans to [...] Read more »
Sam’s Club Socialism?
I just finished reading Richard Spencer’s review of Grand New Party by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam. Here’s where I get into trouble on these matters: I really like the ideas presented by Ross and Reihan, the populist approach, getting more people invovled, but I have to in the end agree with Spencer–inflation is the [...] Read more »
What ‘Small Government Conservatives’ Don’t Get
A lot has been made of Bill Kristol’s recent NY Times column in recent days, especially at the National Review’s Corner. Kristol argues, in a piece aptly titled “Small isn’t Beautiful”,
“So talk of small government may be music to conservative ears, but it’s not to the public as a whole. This isn’t to say the [...] Read more »
Has it really come to this, America?
As if the capitalist gods are not already upset with our lawmakers for having shown disdain for the free market system that has produced unmatched wealth and a standard of living to America unseen anywhere else in the world; the Democrats in Congress are really about to bring down the thunder. Read more »
