A Market Adjustment is Coming—Oil Prices Are About to Fall May 28, 2008Dominick T. ArmentanoPress Journal (Vero Beach, FL) Bold economic predictions are dangerous, and I’ve been wrong before, but […]
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Bob Gates’s Hope to Reform the Pentagon Is Barking at the Moon
Bob Gates’s Hope to Reform the Pentagon Is Barking at the Moon by Ivan Eland In a recent speech, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pleaded with the armed services to […]
Read moreLetter to Senate Regarding S. 1693
May 19, 2008 Re: Oppose the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, S. 1693 Dear Senator: Attempting progress without sufficient privacy protections will undercut the overarching goals of building a trusted […]
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Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy. Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com For the next 10 days — May 20 through May 29 — visitors to this page will be […]
Read moreMyanmar’s Real Cyclone
Myanmar’s Real Cyclone by Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON — Myanmar has given us one of the most admirable women alive, Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, and the world’s […]
Read moreThe Bush Administration Politicizes Tragedy in Burma
The Bush Administration Politicizes Tragedy in Burma by Ivan Eland From the administration that used the 9/11 tragedy to violently pursue an unrelated vendetta against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, we get […]
Read moreSell State Assets to Close Budget Gap
Sell State Assets to Close Budget Gap by William F. Shugart II Gov. Schwarzenegger, facing new mountains of red ink, is trying to drum up support for his proposal to […]
Read moreMexico’s Moment of Truth
Mexico’s Moment of Truth by Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON — It could be said that Latin America will come of age politically the day that Pemex, Mexico’s oil behemoth, ceases […]
Read moreReverend Wright Is Not Totally Wrong
Reverend Wright Is Not Totally Wrong by Ivan Eland Although Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. has treated us to nutty and racist rants, which included saying that the even more bigoted […]
Read moreBush’s War on Terror Dangerously Counterproductive
Bush’s War on Terror Dangerously Counterproductive by Ivan Eland At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon—the first large suicide […]
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