Month: August 2014

The New Cold War

If Russia doesn’t want European produce, they’re nuts. Meat, milk and dairy products, fish, fruits and vegetables from the United States and the European Union are banned from Russia for one year, Russian Prime...

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Russia EU Rapprochement: Cui Bono?

Usually when I write a diary it is because I want to present a thesis and make an argument; one I have not seen expressed elsewhere, but one which I think has at least some evidence pointing in its favour.  My hope is that...

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Are You On the Warren Bandwagon, Yet?

Could Elizabeth Warren actually prevent Hillary Clinton from getting the Democratic Party’s nomination in 2016? I kind of doubt it, but in a piece I edited for the Washington Monthly, David Paul Kuhn makes the case....

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They Could Change, But They Won’t

Rand Paul lays down some truth: “The party can’t become the opposite of what it is. If you tell people from Alabama, Mississippi or Georgia, ‘You know what, guys, we’ve been wrong, and we’re gonna...

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She’s Good at Being Bad

I hate to pay any attention to Ann Coulter, but I thought this was particularly inspired: If Dr. Brantly had practiced at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and turned one single Hollywood power-broker to Christ, he would have...

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