Foreign Affairs
When members of the College Republican Federation are at the corner of Post Road and Airport Road in Warwick at 3:30 today, they will have good reason to thank the Junior Senator from New York. Senator Hillary Clinton not only voted in favor of the war in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens pointed out in February that…
Hugo Chavez’s attempt to reshape the Venezuelan constitution has failed. This despite the fact that, according to Providence City Council member Miguel C. Luna: [T]he reforms would deepen the social and economic changes under President Chavez that have just begun to affect the population, lessening poverty and affording more human rights to the majority. Discrimination…
The obviousness of keeping the Internet out of the hands of U.N.-approved tyrannies provides an opportunity to consider the internationalist impulse more generally: When hundreds of technology experts from around the world gather here this week to hammer out the future of the Internet, the hottest issue won’t be spam, phishing or any of the…
You many have noticed the price of oil heading towards record highs. That should imply that the people living in oil-producing countries are doing well, right? Well, not all of them are. According to Reuters, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s socialist management of his nation’s oil wealth is creating shortages of basic products and crushing the…
Stephen Moore calls attention to a UN report that–for some reason–didn’t get much play in the media: A new United Nations report called “State of the Future” concludes: “People around the world are becoming healthier, wealthier, better educated, more peaceful, more connected, and they are living longer.” Yes, of course, there was the obligatory bad…
Jay Nordlinger poses a series of questions that ought to be asked of the current crop of presidential candidates: Putin’s latest attacks on U.S. missile defense remind me of something: Do Democratic presidential candidates agree with those attacks? Sympathize with them? And, if one of them is elected president, are our efforts to defend ourselves,…
I hate to say it, but I’ll be looking for Garry Kasparov to have a horrible chess accident during the next few months: The former world chess champion Garry Kasparov entered Russia’s presidential race on Sunday, elected overwhelmingly as the candidate for the country’s beleagured opposition coalition. Kasparov has been a driving force behind the…
If there’s a Democrat elected President in 2008, will there be troops in Iraq in 2013? “I think it’s hard to project four years from now,” said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation’s first primary state. “It is very difficult to know what we’re going…
Feeding into the WPRO ad, “Where do bloggers go….”, Dan Yorke brings up an interesting point. Why was there a need for a “Democrat response” to the Presidential speech on the status of the conflict in Iraq? Dan talked to Brown University’s Darrell West about it, and they came to the following conclusions: 1) There…
Perhaps I’m just noticing examples more, of late, but there seems to be an increasing stream of worrying news items, such as the following, coming out of Russia: Russia’s armed forces chief of staff on Thursday described as “hallucinations” Georgia’s claim that Russian warplanes had violated its border on Tuesday, Interfax news agency reported. Georgia,…