Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
The Tea Party? Get over it already
In their discussion of the Tea Party as “delirious” and “unhinged”, liberals like Bill Clinton are exposing their own snobbery. Read my spiked article in full here.
Congress vs. Wall Street
Which institution is more disliked, Congress or Wall Street? The Financial Times today writes about President Obama’s trip to Iowa, “in an attempt to fire up disillusioned supports and fend off a rout in November’s congressional elections”. The article concludes with a quote from Bill Schneider, an analyst at the left-leaning Third Way think tank: If there […]
SEC-Goldman: enough with the conspiracy talk
The SEC’s filing of a civil lawsuit against Goldman Sachs is clearly convenient for the Obama administration and the Democrats, considering that this is a critical period for financial reform legislation. But some critics have gone further and suggested that the timing indicates a conspiracy between the SEC and the administration. The SEC is an independent agency, and therefore […]
Goldman Sachs: villain in a dumbed-down fable
UPDATE: This post has been re-published as an article in spiked (here). The media is in a frenzy over Goldman Sachs. On Friday the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Goldman Sachs of securities fraud in a civil lawsuit. The SEC claims that the Wall Street giant deceived clients by selling them a subprime mortgage investment […]
Tea Party “revelations”: will liberals stop obsessing now?
Today is “Tax Day”, April 15th, the deadline for filing federal income taxes. Predictably, the Tea Party organized gatherings in Washington, D.C. and other cities to protest excessive taxation and spending. And so it was perfect timing for the New York Times to publish the findings of its poll about the composition of the Tea […]
Bacevich: “Osama is not Hitler,” use police not military
Bill Moyers has a very interesting interview with Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations at Boston University and a former US Army colonel (watch video here). Here is Bacevich’s perspective on Osama bin-Laden and the war on terror: BILL MOYERS: In this context, then, what do we do about what is a real threat, from […]
Democratic Party image at historic low
After the health bill passed last month, the President Obama and the Democratic congress appeared to be on the rebound. Celebrations among Democrats suggested a new confidence, and Obama was said to have a new spring in his step. But as I noted earlier (here), these celebrations seemed inconsistent with the country’s mood. Now there is evidence that the […]
Obama’s changes to nuclear policy aren’t epochal
Peter Feaver, a professor of political science at Duke and a former National Security Council member under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, presents a careful analysis of President Obama’s new policy on the use of nuclear weapons, known as the Nuclear Posture Review, in today’s New York Times. In a nutshell, the new […]
The Chinese are coming! (maybe)
A couple of articles this week indicate that the Chinese economic presence in the US may be increasing in the near future. First, an article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal reported that “Chinese companies are increasingly looking to invest in the US, and state and local governments are scrambling to win a share of the […]
Google: don’t be holier-than-thou
Google has been applauded for its anti-censorship stand against China. But it’s not the role of companies to take moral or political stands, and we shouldn’t praise them when they do In January Google announced that it would no longer self-censor its search engine in China, referencing attacks from hackers to access Chinese political activists’ emails. This past […]