Month: February 2014

Eye on the Ball

While everyone is focused on Ukraine, things are getting dicey in Venezuela. In both cases, separating the good guys from the bad guys is harder than it might seem, especially if you are relying on American reporting. As in...

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Never Pass

Even though they are clearly going through the motions, I am still unconvinced that the administration is really serious about passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If they are serious, then they are clearly grossly...

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What Has Got Me Down

Bill Schneider hits on what is frustrating me about American politics at the moment. We’re basically locked in state in which, barring some confluence of unexpected events, the Democrats will win presidential elections and...

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Rooting Against Russians

It’s a little over the top, but Chris Chase is appropriately gleeful at the failure of the Russian men’s hockey team to win an Olympic medal at Sochi, let alone a gold one. Losing to Finland probably makes it harder...

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Didn’t See This Coming

This is something that I never thought I’d read, for a bunch of reasons: SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the artists — who have feuded with Vladmir...

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