Month: July 2013

Legacy Women

The Democrats don’t have any easy targets in next year’s senatorial elections, but it’s interesting to see an emerging strategy they have. In 2008, the Democrats successfully ran Kay Hagan against Elizabeth...

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The new silk road

As major global corporates like HP move from seaboard to western China in search of ever cheaper labour costs they are faced with increased costs and time delays trucking their produce to Chinese ports and thence to major...

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Syrian Policy is Less Than Optimal

The situation in Syria is tragic but there is one small consolation. It’s not a problem of our making. We aren’t responsible for what is happening there. We don’t own the problem. Syria is a client state of...

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Replicating Nate Silver

It takes a pretty smart mind for math to do what Nate Silver does with his statistical analysis, but it’s not like there aren’t a lot of people in the world who can easily understand Silver’s methodology and...

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