Commentary Leaders of Central Asia’s five independent states will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a critical summit on May 18–19 in China’s Xi’an city. The five states are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. It is critical because Xi recognizes that Central Asia holds the key to the survival of China and the…
South Korea Bets Arsenal Ships Will Give North Korea and China Second Thoughts
Commentary Threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons and communist Chinese conventional air and missile fires, South Korea has decided to spend serious money on an old but often spurned military concept: the arsenal ship. The concept is simple. Take a very large but comparatively inexpensive civilian commercial ship. Oil supertankers and huge container carriers fit…
Migrants First, Everyone Last
Commentary Democrats’ new rule: If you’re not a migrant, go to the back of the line. Gary Moretti and his fiancée booked 30 rooms at The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, New York, for their bridesmaids and guests for a June 24 wedding. But New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ migrant-first policy demolished their plans. Over…
How to Honor Our Officers During National Police Week
Commentary I was proud and moved to participate in opening ceremonies, at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorating National Police Week. President John F. Kennedy signed the proclamation, in 1962, designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and establishing the week in which this occurs as National Police Week. It…
The Great Underestimation of DeSantis Starts to Unravel
Commentary This past weekend, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) reminded voters, and a skeptical press that have spent an inordinate amount of time writing his political obituary before he even launched his candidacy, that he not only possesses the promise and nimbleness needed to be a candidate for president but that he also has the staff…
Shred the White Collar and Put on the Blue
May 17, 2023
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Commentary In 1936, John Maynard Keynes, who was the most influential economist of the 20th century, wrote in his popular treatise (“The General Theory”) of his ultimate solution for permanent growth and high employment without business cycles. He called for the government to drive interest rates to zero. This would spur massive borrowing and then…
Justice Stands Between Freedom and Tyranny
Commentary Integral to the integrity of our society, based as it is on the rule of law, is the behaviour and competence of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Revelations and accusations about the behaviour of the Australian Capital Territory’s DPP should send alarm bells ringing for all Australians. His behaviour and professionalism have come…
NY Times Publisher, Ironically, Demands Return to Journalistic Independence
Commentary On the same day the Durham report was released, revealing there was never any substance behind the Trump-Russia collusion story despite the media obsessing over it for two years, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger ironically wrote about the importance of an unbiased press. In his piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, he strongly…
What Durham Didn’t Tell Us
Commentary The FBI is fatally corrupt. The justice system is totally broken. That’s what we can conclude from the Durham Report. Special counsel John Durham’s report hammers home two separate points time and again: the FBI opened an investigation into the Trump campaign entirely without reason or any underlying predication and the FBI protected Hillary…
Going Nuclear in Asia: More Than Just Building a Bomb
Commentary Could America’s Asian allies go nuclear? This is a recurring scenario, given continuing concerns in Tokyo, Seoul, and even Canberra that Washington’s security commitment to Asia—and particularly its promise of extended nuclear deterrence—may be less than dependable. In articles (found here, here, and here), the argument is made that countries like Japan, South Korea,…
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