Obama’s Trip and The Rise of China
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 13th, 2010 5:32 am by HL
Obama’s Trip and The Rise of China
Robert Kaplan, New York Times
Stockbridge, Mass. PRESIDENT OBAMA has insisted that his 10-day Asian journey is all about jobs: “The primary purpose is to … open up markets so that we can sell in Asia, in some of the fastest-growing markets in the world, and we can create jobs here in the United States of America.” But this recasting of the agenda, a late reaction to the midterm election, obscured the vital geopolitical importance of the trip. In fact, the president has been confronting a new strategic map that lies beyond our messy and diversionary land wars in Afghanistan and Iraq….
Health Care Law Hurts the Most Vulnerable
Mona Charen, Creators
Everyone agrees that the burden of dealing with escalating health care costs should not fall on the most vulnerable, right? Democrats in particular are always at pains to convince us that they are sensitive to the needs of the less fortunate. Yet among the many new taxes Obamacare will impose is one that hits wounded veterans and sick children especially hard — the 2.3 percent annual tax on medical device manufacturers set to begin in 2013.All of those fantastic prosthetic limbs, powered wheelchairs, stents, pacemakers, artificial hips, and other miraculous technologies that improve the…
A Stunned and Dispirited Base
Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star
“Why don't they fight back?” That's the question I've been hearing from the Democratic Party's stunned and dispirited base. For the past month, I've been on a book tour that has taken me to Asheville, N.C., Terre Haute, Ind., Austin and elsewhere. Everywhere I go, supporters of President Obama and his agenda ask me why so many Democrats in Washington don't stand up for what they say they believe.
Sixty Years and 30 Million Troops
Tim Kane, Growthology
More… « Military Entrepreneurs? | Main I tend to feel awkward wishing U.S. military veterans a Happy Veterans Day, despite a sense of admiration and pride in their character and accomplishments, because as a veteran myself it feels too self-congratulatory. So forgive me for not posting on 11/11/10 what I am posting here today.American men and women in uniform have made the world a better place. When I think of wounded warriors especially, perhaps the young Army private who lost his legs to an IED now recuperating in a military hospital, wondering if it was all in vain, I hope he gets…
The Dilemma in California
Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media
