Who is Susan Rice?
By Alan Caruba.
Having taken the fall for President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the wake of the Benghazi scandal, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice is poised to make her way up the career ladder [...]
Number 266, please! Habemus Papam and the pope factory
By Oliver Krumme.
He left quickly, and he came back very quickly indeed. With the new pope Francis I – the first pope ever to come from Latin America – the Vatican has overcome the sudden and brief emptiness of papacy after Benedict [...]
From serious to ridiculous – The North Korean itch
Oliver Krumme.
If you didn’t know that Kim Jon-un was in charge, you could believe that nothing has ever changed in North Korea – at least, not in terms of propaganda or war rhetoric.
After the latest nuclear test, North Korea has – once [...]
Lessons From A Sickbed
By Catherine Haig.
blogger www.bonjublog.com and writer.
Last week I was at home sick and had time to utilize my Facebook experience to a level of satisfaction not quite seen by ordinary users. I got 3 illegal pages and 2 troll pages [...]
The World is Not Having Enough Babies
By Alan Caruba.
“Today, American pets now outnumber American children by more than four to one.”
When a nation’s population fails to reproduce and replace itself, it goes into decline. That is the theme of Jonathan V. Last’s new book, [...]
‘Rodman-gate’: Can ‘Useful Idiots’ please Stop Shilling for North Korea?
By Robert Kelly.
Studying North Korea inevitably means people ask me pretty outlandish stuff. People have asked, if the North really believes long hair is bad for socialism, if that goiter on Kim Il Sung’s neck made him crazy, [...]
Kgalema Motlanthe’s Madiba Magic
By Anneke Scheepers.
Towards the end of 2012, we saw a boiling over of the pot that is the South African political arena. We need little reminder of the lives lost due to strike action, and the spread of these strikes throughout South [...]
Do the Right Thing
By Jeremy Sare, England.
Imagine a Democrat Congressman was caught making a false legal declaration to the police and was forced out of his very marginal seat, facing incarceration. The ensuing election would probably be an easy win for the [...]
Obscene Government Waste
By Alan Caruba.
The one thing the “sequester” did was to get people asking why government spending could not be reduced. Adding to the drama of the automatic cuts was the sky-is-falling, government-services-will-stop, and comparable lies [...]
Over the cliff – The on-going decline of a superpower
By Oliver Krumme.
The die is cast! The worst case scenario could not be prevented. After the deadline has expired and no consensus has been made between the Democrats and the Republicans, the US is facing a painful austerity programme.
No one [...]
South Korea does not need nuclear weapons yet
By Robert E. Kelly.
In teaching international security in Korea, I am regularly asked if Korea should have or will have nuclear weapons. North Korea has them obviously, so, not surprisingly, South Koreans are increasingly thinking [...]
How Insurance Influences Healthcare in America Today
By Alan Caruba.
“Despite more than sixty years of government efforts—representing the work of both political parties—we are moving further and further away from what we want. Prices are higher, more people are excluded from needed care, [...]
Goodbye to a very GREEN Business Week
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By Alan Caruba.
In late 2010 I let my subscription to The Economist expire and now I am going to do that for Bloomberg Business Week.
In the February 18-24 edition of Business Week, an editorial, “The Right Way Forward on Climate Change”, [...]
With Beppe to the stars? A new form or protest against political establishment
By Oliver Krumme.
Today and tomorrow, Italy is voting; again. There is nothing unusual about changing governments in Italy, since the end of World War 2, Italy had up to 39 different governments with 25 different Prime Ministers until now. The [...]
The Problem Today In America Is Insurance Companies
By Catherine Haig.
THE PROBLEM WITH MEDICINE TODAY IN AMERICA IS
INSURANCE COMPANIES
THEY WANT TO SELL THEIR PILLS – THAT BRING MORE PROBLEMS SO THAT THE PATIENT HAS TO TAKE A LOT OF PILLS TO GET RID OF THE SIDE EFFECTS AND HE BECOMES [...]
Hmos and Insurance Companies Are Killing Ordinary People
By Catherine Haig.
THE PROBLEM WITH MEDICINE TODAY IN AMERICA IS
INSURANCE COMPANIES
The bureaucrates that run these companies dictate to the doctors and to the patients
Without knowing the particulars in each case.
The problem with dictating [...]
The PrisonerX Scandal and Israeli Censorship
By Louis Fishman.
Updated version:The Israeli government has placed a gag-order concerning a story, which concerns a mystery person who was imprisoned in Israel, and later committed suicide. Today’s unfolding of events has been reported [...]
Rallying Against Enormous National Wealth
By Alan Caruba.
Did anyone notice that the estimated 35,000 who showed up for the anti-Keystone XL pipeline rally outside the White House on Sunday, Feb 17, were all bundled up against the cold? The temperature was about 25 degrees Fahrenheit. [...]
Turkey: Abandoning the EU for the SCO?
By Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen.
Recent moves suggest Turkey could make a bid for entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It would be a mistake.
Photo Credit: Office of the President: Russian Federation, taken from here
The [...]
The Benghazi Affair And The Nomination Of Chuck Hagel
By Catherine Haig – bonjublog.com
Senator McCain is stomping the Congress pavement over what he claims is a “massive cover up” of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. This is a massive hunk of crap being spewed [...]