China’s New World Order
Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
WASHINGTON — By all appearances, last week's visit of Chinese president Hu Jintao to Washington changed little in the lopsided American-Chinese relationship. What we have is a system that methodically transfers American jobs, technology and financial power to China in return for only modest Chinese support for important U.S. geopolitical goals: the suppression of Iran's and North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. American officials act as if there's not much they can do to change this.It's true that the United States and China have huge common interests in peace and…
Curiosity: Unsung Virtue of Free Enterprise
Kira Newman, The American
As legislators struggle to stimulate the economy, proponents of activist government continue to debate their free-market counterparts over which system will lead to long-term prosperity. But this debate has another dimension: a clash of two opposing cultures, with correspondingly different values and virtues. For example, columnist George Will has commented on “the decadent dependence that the welfare state encourages” and the conservative virtues of self-reliance and personal responsibility. American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks writes that…
The Troubled Health Care Law: Call the Vote
Obama Has Opportunity to Articulate New Direction
Mark Penn, NYDN
In his State of the Union, President Obama has the opportunity, and even mission, to articulate the new direction he has taken in his presidency since the shellacking in the 2010 midterm elections. There is no doubt that he has radically changed course by backing the Bush tax cuts, sending olive branches to big business and reshuffling his team.But so far, the public has had to read the tea leaves on what he is really thinking and where he wants to take the country. And when it comes to fixing the economy, he has completely lacked any coherence, veering from bailouts of Wall Street to sharp…
‘Countdown’ Finally Runs Out for Olbermann
Howie Carr, Boston Herald
George Bush did it!You know that’s who Comrade Keith Olbermann’s Kool-Aid drinkers are blaming for their hero’s unceremonious sacking from MSNBC Friday night. W was no doubt following orders from Dick Cheney and Karl Rove as they floated high above 30 Rock in the Halliburton Hurricane Machine that caused the genocidal attack on black people known as Katrina . . .But enough of the MSNBC talking points. We all know the real reason why Comrade Keith sleeps with the fishes. Gore Vidal wrote what could serve as his epitaph years ago.“No talent is not…
