While President Obama was watching his party lose control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections, let’s hope he was planning a response to another vote–this coming weekend’s elections in Burma. The Nov. 7 elections will be held
President Jimmy Carter made international human rights the centerpiece of his foreign policy. As a result, the United States distanced itself from autocratic regimes. The problem with this morally satisfying stance is that liberty isn’t autocracy’s sole enemy. Pres. Carter
On November 2, American citizens will go to the polls to elect our political leaders. One state measure demands the attention of environmental and energy interests across the nation: Proposition 23 in California. Proposition 23 would delay implementation of AB32,
From China’s point of view, ceasing exports of rare earth elements (REEs) makes a lot of sense outside of ideology. China needs these minerals for its own manufacturing as much as any other countries do, so the Chinese might well
A federal judge has ruled that the Bank of China may be held financially responsible for the death of a U.S. citizen killed in a 2006 suicide bombing undertaken by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The case, Wultz v. Islamic Republic
China is asserting itself on the world stage but with a 21st Century strategy. Striving to resurrect its former glory as a power after a century of foreign domination, World War and Mao’s murderous Cultural Revolution, China’s socialist dictators realize
Marxism/communism is the economic interpretation of history. The state must control sources of production and assets. Fidel began his Revolution by expropriating the sources of production and private assets in Cuba, including major US citizen’s assets. The United States retaliated
As “Waiting for ‘Superman’” so eloquently points out, the industrial assembly-line model of America’s public schools, created decades ago, isn’t working. In fact, it’s setting us further and further behind our global competitors. Today, it is essential that our children
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets102210.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the the latest Wall Street numbers, China’s move on precious metals, Obama’s
The Chinese indeed have a grand strategy for Total War according to which they are marching steadily forward. Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank lays out an in depth account of Chinese domination of, not only rare earth
Radical philanthropist George Soros is bankrolling a documentary that celebrates left-wing terrorists who plotted to napalm Republicans at the 2008 GOP convention in Minnesota. Even worse, you too are bankrolling the film through your taxes. You can be sure that
This is no political commentary, just a semi-biased first person account of a case most of the media missed earlier this month…Operation Smoking Dragon. The good guys got it right and no one seemed to care. Much of my twenty-six
October 15-18th the Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a 300 member Committee, met to prepare for the Oct/Nov, 2012 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress and the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). We
Friday night I was joined by Team Breitbart in L.A. at CBS Studios to appear on “Real Time with Bill Maher.” It was exactly what I thought it would be except for one thing: I was taller than most of
After a clash in the disputed East China Sea last month between China and Japan, China initiated a boycott of Japanese goods and held up exports of material needed by Japanese electronics manufacturers. Weeks later, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev planned
Israel is consumed with controversy over new oath of allegiance laws that have just been passed by the Knesset. Lee Smith writing at Tablet Magazine offers some insightful analysis: “Sunday the Knesset voted to require an oath of allegiance be
Senator Kit Bond of Missouri is the vice-chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In that position, the Senator is privy to the latest classified information on the Obama administration’s most consequential foreign policy initiative, the follow up Strategic
An old buddy saw chess everywhere in life. A pawn, wisely moved, may kill a King. Small stories become world-changing events. A pawn is in play between Japan, China and America over the unpopulated resource rich Senkaku Islands. Called the
Let us stipulate that it has been a long, slow process, this erosion of American exceptionalism and those uniquely American qualities that made this country and its citizens the envy of the world. Some say we are “crying over spilled
Am I the only one who saw weakness when President Obama and his departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel gave each other big, fat, full-bore hug following their speeches at the resignation event in the White House’s East Room on
Japan attempted to turn the tables on China on Monday, by demanding that China pay for repairs to two Coast Guard vessels that were damaged during the confrontation with a Chinese fishing boat on September 7, according to Bloomberg. The
Deck chairs on the Titanic. What state ranks third in unemployment, second in foreclosures, has the nation’s worst credit rating, is running a $19 billion deficit – yet insists on spending billions on a greenhouse gas emissions reduction plan that
So Senate Democrats failed again to pass a measure to halt “offshoring” of jobs, meaning employing people overseas either directly or indirectly. They oppose that but, looking at the elements of the (fortunately) languishing “Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring
On September 7, 2010, an incident that in the future may be seen as analogous to the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand or the Marco Polo Bridge Incident occurred: the apparently intentional collision of a Chinese fishing boat with
Aging pop star Morrissey has decided to pile on with the rest of the world, and engage in a little China bashing. With his recent remark he has taken the hate to a new level, by declaring Chinese people a
