We are told Fareed Zakaria is an intelligent man, a man of letters and a journalist. With his latest article in TIME, I’m just not seeing it. It is full of contradictions and transparent attacks on conservatives followed by praise
It all seems so remote, not just in geography, but as a unique economic issue affecting only Greece and, perhaps, the rest of the EU. But it isn’t. The world is very interconnected. Many Americans directly or indirectly (through their
Prime minister George Papandreou won a vote of confidence by a vote of 155 to 143 in Greece’s Parliament early Wednesday morning, after giving a passionate speech about the need to learn the lessons of previous wars and about the
One of the tax increases buried in Obamacare was an onerous and intrusive “1099″ scheme that would have required businesses to collect tax identification numbers for just about any vendor and then send paperwork to the IRS whenever they did
From the UK’s Daily Mail: Waving goodbye to her grandchildren, Gudrun Burwitz has the look of a woman ready to live the rest of her days in peace and quiet. Instead, the 81-year-old daughter of Heinrich Himmler still works at
Now this is a bizarre story. The Austrian town of Hallstatt, which is declared a World Heritage site….has been copied by the Chinese. Germany’s Der Spiegel has the story: New Chinese village…they’re copying the lake, too Residents of the Austrian
Citizen journalism is working far better than perhaps anyone expected. While traditional media has abandoned its responsibility and ethics to report unbiased news, citizen journalists have taken over the blogosphere and taken their cameras to the streets to find truth.
After a day of chaos, the situation is deteriorating rapidly in the streets of Athens, in the Greek parliament, and among the finance ministers in Brussels. Anti-austerity rioting in Athens on Wednesday (AP) Early on Wednesday, angry youths hurled petrol
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Vietnam escalates South China Sea dispute with China Anti-China protesters in front of the Chinese embassy in Hanoi (AFP) Vietnam’s navy has conducted live-fire artillery drills off the country’s central coast, in a challenge
X-Men: First Class had virtually everything going against it in pre-production– series fatigue (it’s the fifth entry in Fox’s X-Men saga), none of the original actors in starring roles, 1960s period costumes–on paper, it seemed like the ultimate studio cash-in,
Peace is said to be a high priority, no matter whom you talk to.People crave it and pray for it, and rightly so. This is a much more important issue, I think, than most of us realize, especially in these
Many people in Germany, France, Britain and the United States believe that European countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal should simply be allowed to default, so that we can all get on with our lives. Bank of International Settlements, Basel,
From Der Spiegel: Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has warned that a militant left-wing movement is on the rise in the country. An arson attack on cables that caused severe disruption to the Berlin rail network last month has thrown a
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Reform Party of Syria says that Assad paid anti-Israeli protesters Syrian protesters on Sunday (IDF) The anti-Assad Reform Party of Syria (RPS) is saying that the regime of Syrian president Bashir al-Assad paid hundreds
The most unusual part of Congressman Weiner’s mea culpa press conference today occurred before Weiner came to the stage. Andrew Breitbart showed up at the presser and was immediately mobbed by reporters asking about today’s exclusive pictures of Weiner on
I was watching a TV interview in Lisbon, Portugal, with an economist, who said the following: “In Portugal, if you don’t want to work, you’ll receive money, you’ll pay no taxes, you’ll receive benefits, you’ll get many things for free,
I’m not sure what prompted me to consider this subject on my commute this morning, but it probably has to do with my reflecting on Memorial Day just passed. That and the fact that crude oil continues to trade around
Because I’ve just finished reading my friend, Ben Shapiro’s excellent new expose, “Primetime Propaganda,” I’m reminded how fortunate I am that during most of the time I was writing for television, I was a Democrat. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets053111.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the end of nuclear energy in Germany, the Democrats’ plan for a
At a two-day meeting in Deauville, France, G-8 leaders pledged $20 billion in aid to Egypt and Tunisia over the next three years, according to Spiegel. The $20 billion will be provided by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund
One of the biggest threats against global prosperity is the anti-tax competition project of a Paris-based international bureaucracy known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD, acting at the behest of the European welfare states that dominate
In the dramatic raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, the lines between intelligence and special operations were blurred. CIA operatives and U.S. Navy SEALs worked together to kill bin Laden and gather valuable intelligence on al-Qaida.
Germany’s Der Spiegel has an interview with Bernd Goken, head of the German relief organization Cap Anamur. He recently returned from an 8-day visit to North Korea. What he discovered is shocking, as is his claim that North Korea’s sponsor
Europeans are coming around to the idea that a new bailout of Greece will only pile on more debt, only making the euro / Greece financial crisis worse. Greece’s problems are compounded by the weekend arrest of IMF chief Dominique
This is but the latest example from the consequences of years of defense cutting in Great Britain and across Europe as a whole that highlights the dwindling effectiveness of NATO. The respective governments are so consumed with public entitlements on
