Watch CBS News Videos Online CBS News: “60 Minutes” has obtained an FBI videotape showing a Defense Department employee selling secrets to a Chinese spy for cash. The video, which has never been made public before, offers a rare glimpse
I was a mere teenager in the fifties when it was broadcast widely that the Chinese “don’t really have the same love of life that we do.” Apparently the Americans at Jonestown were part Chinese, eh? Here is the Last
If there’s anything that should convince China to become more capitalist, and put less faith in socialism, it is American progressives. Yesterday Matthew Yglesias’ head shook violently and he barked out like Paul Krugman with Tourette’s : …you could start
“America must always stand on the side of human dignity.” – President Barack Obama I would like to thank the mainstream media for remembering Gao Zhisheng. One should give credit where credit is due, and in this case, it is
Slate’s Jacob Weisberg came unhinged on Friday and gave the country the finger. “Down with the People!” he screams from Bill Gates lap. As Jacob sees it, we the people are demanding two mutually exclusive things: premium government services and
When King Vidor first stepped onto the set of The Champ, he was filled with a rare sense of freedom. Frances Marion’s script was unusually simple, focused squarely on a pair of immensely sympathetic protagonists and their relationship. All the
The new budget from the White House contains all sorts of land mines for taxpayers, which is not surprising considering the President wants to extract another $1.3 trillion over the next ten years. One of the worst proposals targets American
Sources in Washington say Sen. Frank Lautenberg is drafting a new version of his Kids Safe Chemicals Act, which stalled out in 2008 after environmentalists complained the bill was toothless and didn’t grant the EPA enough power to regulate chemicals
While we get bombarded with the white noise of politics, this is what’s happening: In short, China is a top-tier strategic threat to the United States, and its ideology of predatory state mercantilism constitutes one of the greatest challenges to
On the list of insane public policy moves we have come to expect from the current administration, Cap and Tax, Obamacare and Union Card Check, a fourth has garnered relatively little attention, although the implications for all Americans may be
I have often said the purpose of TV news is to “scare women 18-54 into watching the next newscast.” When I tell people that simple line it’s very interesting to see their reaction. They laugh and they get it. They
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Reuters: “Google could pull out of China over a hacking attempt…The company said it found evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the
For the past year, Francis Cianfrocca and Ben Domenech sat down every weekday morning to chat about politics, economics and the shifting global marketplace. For 2010, we’ll shift to recording once a week. We hope you don’t mind, and we’ll
Fox News: The latest celebrity ad to grace a Times Square billboard doesn’t feature an athlete, rock star or actor. It’s President Obama sporting a black jacket made by the company Weatherproof. But the White House isn’t happy about the
So, China went big into windmill and solar panel production, causing the media and other liberals to breathlessly swoon over this further evidence of the wisdom of us mandating the things even though all it proves is that China is
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy DailyMail: The super-high-speed train reduces [a] 664-mile journey to just a three-hour ride and cuts the previous journey time by more than seven-and-a-half hours.
Here’s a concept I never thought we’d be exporting: governments taking over markets to act as the “competition.” News is Venezuelan brute Hugo Chavez has created a “new chain of government-run, cut-rate retail stores that will sell everything from food
Martin Wolf, columnist for the great Financial Times, has a must-read column this weekend: The only truly global power was in rapid relative decline. Not long before, it had won a pyrrhic victory in a costly colonial war. New great
From the Associated Press: President Barack Obama declared Friday a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough” had been reached among the U.S., China and three other countries on a global effort to curb climate change but said much work was still be
So Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just made news by landing in Copenhagen and immediately announcing $100 billion through 2020 in additional new money to developing countries, in the name of “climate change”. Climate changes. Always has. Always will.
Over at ICECAP.us Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo has posted an item on a “Russian Bombshell” highly relevant to the ClimateGate scandal. The Russian media first posted the story and now some Brits are loving it. The long and the short of
You can see the possibility that small acts multiplied by the millions can merge into great movements of social change. — So speaketh Howard Zinn in summing up the theme of last night’s two hour History Channel telecast of “The
