In her book ';Statecraft,'; the late, great British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wrote: ';Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.';The Iron Lady was absolutely right, yet again.America?s Democratic left craftily swaps the words associated with its ...
MARGON AND SANEI Watching for signs of reform in Iran
In the face of punishing international sanctions and a growing consensus that hard-line policies are no longer paying off, Iranian voters last month elected a president committed to easing tensions with the international community and digging their economy out of a deepening hole. In the West, the main question is whether he will make the concessions needed to reach a deal over his ...
The cruel cynicism of Mexican emigration
There are many strange elements in the current debate over illegal immigration, but none stranger than the mostly ignored role of Mexico.Are millions of Mexican citizens still trying to cross the U.S. border illegally because there is dismal economic growth and a shortage of jobs in Mexico?Not anymore. In terms of the economy, Mexico has rarely done better, and the United State rarely worse.The ...
LAMBRO The coming employment retrenchment
Donald Lambro is the chief political correspondent for The Washington Times, the author of five books and a nationally syndicated columnist. His twice-weekly United Feature Syndicate column appears in newspapers across the country, including The Washington Times. He received the Warren Brookes Award For Excellence In Journalism in 1995 and in that same year was the host and co-writer of ...
Tsarnaev and politics of Rolling Stone
if you are interested in contributing. It took 120 years to build the beautiful and exquisite temple to the goddess Artemis in Ephesus, one of the greatest wonders of the world. But in a single night in the year 356 BCE, it was reduced to rubble and ashes. No one knows who built the temple. The name of its destroyer though, its assassin, still resounds. Herostratus, the arsonist, wanted to go ...
Prometheus among the cannibals
How did we get here? In 1996, president Bill Clinton and vice president Al Gore pushed the dreadful slogan "building a bridge to the 21st century". It was a celebration of Silicon Valley-style technological innovation and corporate globalization, among other things. At the time, I put "building a bridge to the nineteenth century" on my letterhead. It turned out that we were ...
Revisiting the Persian cosmopolis
cosmopolis", referring to the enormous geographic sweep of Indic culture that stretched from Afghanistan through Vietnam from the fourth to the 14th century. For Pollock, what characterized this cosmopolis was not religion, but the ideas elaborated in the entire corpus of Sanskrit texts which, for more than a millennium, circulated above and across the vernacular world of regional ...
Time to Pay Pal
If winners want to invest in property or real estate, they will be required to buy only "new builds" or else pay off the mortgages on their existing ...
Chinas maritime stance shifts with tides
By Robert Sutter and Chin-Hao Huang China's tough stance on maritime territorial disputes, evident in the 2012 confrontations with the Philippines in the South China Sea and with Japan in the East China Sea, has endured through China's leadership transition and now marks an important shift in China's foreign policy with serious implications for China's neighbors and ...
British aid for Myanmar ethnic cleansing
By Maung Zarni LONDON - Britain, the largest donor country and former colonizer of Myanmar, is effectively aiding and abetting the unfolding "ethnic cleansing" of Muslim Rohingya by helping to finance the country's controversial 2014 national census. Ex-general and head of Myanmar's quasi-civilian government Thein Sein made an official visit to Britain this week, during ...
Snowden Moment of truth for Russia US
touched their lowest point in very many years, the case of the ex-Central Intelligence Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden tells us that they must deteriorate further before getting any better. In Northern Ireland, Putin and Obama shared a resort town. From the latest indications, Obama, peeved over the Kremlin's decision to give shelter to Snowden, may call off his proposed bilateral ...
Letters Racism gets attention
Amid the dozens of murders by firearm every day in this country, the media and community leaders have singled out the Trayvon Martin case. Why is it receiving so much ...
My view Personal liberty or royal decrees
We kicked kings, royal decrees and secret courts out of America long ago ? or did we? Now we have a president who decides which laws will be enforced and which citizens will subject to those laws. Now we have secret courts issuing rulings without public notice or argument. Now we have powerful federal agencies going after citizens who object. In the imperial presidency of Barack Obama, ...
Letters Dont forget what the justice system is all about
The fuss in the George Zimmerman case is bothersome to me because there are so many out there forgetting what our system of justice is all ...
Both U.S. and Israel cannot afford to lose Egypt as a trusted ally
For four decades, Egypt, as the political and military leader of the Arab world, has been the linchpin of U.S. Middle East policy, the anchor for a moderate and pro-American Arab camp, the first Arab country to make peace with Israel, an indispensable first stop for all regional American ...
In our opinion Hatchs pension plan offers good solutions
State and local governments continue struggling with unfunded pension liabilities that may top a combined $4 trillion, and additional bonding debt obligations almost as large. The way states have mismanaged these funds has led in part to bond ratings being lowered for Illinois, Connecticut, Kentucky, New Jersey, Hawaii and Pennsylvania, and has led to many smaller crises on local levels. ...
Op-Ed Contributor To Oust Assad Pressure Hezbollah
Bashar al-Assad 's brutal intransigence. And there is something America could do to pressure him. The most powerful inducement for Mr. Assad to reach an acceptable compromise would be a loss of support ...
Editorial Mr. Putin Tries to Crush Another Rival
Though he has long cultivated an image as a strong man, President Vladimir Putin of Russia actually seems weak and insecure, a judgment reinforced every time he manipulates the system to crush a potential political rival. Mr Putin did so again on Thursday. A Russian court convicted Aleksei Navalny, a lawyer and charismatic opposition leader who was running for mayor of Moscow, of stealing ...
Editorial You and Your Cellphone on Candid Camera
Anybody who shops at online stores like Amazon.com knows that those merchants track customers, what they look at, what they buy and how long they spend on the site. Perhaps ...
Op-Ed Columnist Hitting Chinas Wall
All economic data are best viewed as a peculiarly boring genre of science fiction, but Chinese data are even more fictional than most. Add a secretive government, a controlled press, and the sheer size of the country, and ...
Op-Ed Guest Columnist Raising the Wrong Profile
In 2003, State Senator Barack Obama spearheaded a bill through the Illinois legislature that sought to put the clamps on racial profiling. Obama called racial profiling ...
Op-Ed Contributor The Lessons of Belle Glade
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. ...
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