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Category Archives: History
December 24, 2011
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Britain Defiant On The Falklands
Prime Minister David Cameron’s Christmas message to the Falkland Islanders was as clear as anything Mrs. Thatcher would have said. Whatever challenges we face in the UK, the British Government’s commitment to the security and prosperity of the overseas territories, … Continue reading
December 21, 2011
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Settled Shroud?
Just in time for Christmas, new research by Italian government scientists revives the lagging faith of those who believe that the mysterious Shroud of Turin is a miraculous image of Christ rather than a medieval forgery: Italian government scientists have … Continue reading
December 20, 2011
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The Missionaries Win: Christianity Becomes Global Religious Superpower
Jesus shall reign where e’er the sun Doth his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more. That’s how an old missionary hymn begins, and it turns out the missionaries … Continue reading
December 10, 2011
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60% Of China’s Foreign Investments Go To US
What’s well known is that China keeps about two thirds of its enormous monetary reserve in US dollars. What’s less well known is that China’s sovereign wealth fund, organized to diversify China’s portfolio into higher yielding assets, is also heavily … Continue reading
December 6, 2011
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The Age of Hamilton
As President Obama travels to John Brown’s old stomping ground in Osawatomie, Kansas where Theodore Roosevelt made his New Nationalism speech in 1910, Newt Gingrich has announced that he is a Theodore Roosevelt Republican.
If you asked Theodore Roosevelt what kind of Republican he was, he would — and did — tell you that he was a proud standard bearer of the Hamiltonian tradition in American politics.
Ron Paul, who would have fought TR tooth and nail as much as he is currently fighting both President Obama and ex-Speaker Newt would agree. Gingrich, Obama and TR are all Hamiltonians, and Ron Paul thinks they are all dead wrong.
As we gear up for 2012 and beyond, American attention is increasingly returning to the oldest battle in our political history: the battle between the Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians that split George Washington’s cabinet down the middle and established our first party system.
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November 24, 2011
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America Has Yet More To Be Thankful For
Throughout our history, Americans have benefited from the extraordinary riches and resources of the wealthy land in which we live. Compared to any other country on earth, Americans enjoy more fertile farmland, better internal communications by water, rich and diverse mineral resources, a more favorable climate, a more favorable position in the world’s commerce, and friendlier neighbors: our home truly flows with milk and honey.
On this Thanksgiving Day we should reflect in gratitude for the abundance that shaped us as a people and still flows for us today, and see how yet again we are poised to enjoy new blessings in the time ahead.
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November 20, 2011
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Online High School Explosion: Stanford Joins The Revolution
Neutrinos aren’t the only things that seem to be moving faster than light these days; the revolution in American education is also moving at warp speed. Already this fall there have been stories about large new financial interests getting into … Continue reading
November 16, 2011
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Identity Conflict Update
Via Meadia posted an essay not long ago on identity conflict, calling it the ‘scariest thing in the world’. Nationalism and conflict between peoples, cultures, and races over the same space tore Europe and the Middle East apart in the … Continue reading
November 13, 2011
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Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun
“Talkin’ about my generation”: the Who song once expressed the hope and self confidence of the Baby Boomers as they reached biological if not emotional maturity. It was an attack on the older generation, a defense of the young, but it includes an ominous refrain: “Hope I die before I get old.” Already, perhaps, the shadow of generational failure hung over the twenty something Boomers. Those shadows have darkened considerably as the Boomer sun moves past the meridian and an unmistakable air of twilight infiltrates into the declining hours of the long Boomer day.
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November 10, 2011
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The Navy Down Under
Via Meadia is always interested in taking the pulse on the Anglosphere and today the pulse is strong. The latest news in the Great Game is that the United States will be establishing permanent naval operations in Australia. The WSJ … Continue reading
November 7, 2011
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The Scariest Thing In the World
The scariest thing in the world has nothing to do with Greek debt plans, Italian bond yields or even American pension funds. It is not the prospect of war in the Persian Gulf over the Iranian nuclear program.
The scariest thing in the world is the prospect that the identity wars are spreading from Europe and the Middle East into the rest of Asia and Africa.
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October 17, 2011
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Virtual War
Years ago in the happy, halcyon years of the Clinton administration when NATO was bombing Serbia and liberal internationalists were celebrating the end of history, my email inbox at the Council on Foreign Relations was overwhelmed by a rash of first hundreds and then thousands of angry messages, largely identical, from Serbs. The primitive email tools of that time could not cope; for several days until the tech folks found a fix, even those friendly Nigerian ladies asking for my bank details in order to wire me millions of dollars were lost in the volume of angry and threatening messages from Belgrade.
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October 16, 2011
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Iran: Keeping The World’s Oddest Couple Together
The alleged Iranian assassination plot against Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in the US (if the allegations hold up) is not news in the sense that it doesn’t tell us anything new or represent anything new about the structure of relations in the Middle East. But it is very important news about the temperature of Saudi-Iranian relations, the explosive character of a rivalry that helps to define regional politics, and the reasons why the oddest couple in the world – the US and Saudi Arabia – quarrel fiercely but never quite break up.
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October 10, 2011
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Happy Columbus Day (Observed)
Columbus at Salvador, Dioscuro Tolin (Wikimedia) The usual grumblings attend the day on which we commemorate the most famous illegal immigrant in the history of the Americas, an undocumented wanderer from Spain who brought plagues, fire and the sword from … Continue reading
September 22, 2011
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Panic?
That’s what we’ve been seeing on world markets since Thursday trading began in Asia; this morning it hit the US with the kind of sickening thud we remember too well from 2008. Amid the general hurricane of bad economic news a few things stand out.
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