During the Cold War, Pakistan was a key US ally. It helped the Reagan administration arm the Taliban to drive the Russians out of Afghanistan. Pakistan is still supporting the Taliban because it fears India’s domination of Afghanistan, which the US is encouraging. What to do about Pakistan? A better US policy would be to […]
Canada files with WTO a global attack on US unfair-trade laws
Weekly trade report for Jan. 8-14, 2018 by L.C. Canada has filed a new World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against the US that is stunning in its scope. It targets in detail the way the US implements its unfair-trade laws, enumerating many practices that are at the core of US trade-remedy measures but that allegedly […]
Sunday (1-14-2018) Principles of a good immigration policy outlined: guest workers, merit-based entry, not restrictionist
The purpose of a good immigration policy is to insure that the US and its citizens flourish. A large and growing population increases the division of labor, productivity, national wealth, and the number of creative people available to benefit society through their innovations. For the last-named reason, it’s especially important that US immigration policy attract […]
Thursday (01/11/2018) President Trump backs House Immigration Reform bill; hard right and hard left are critical
Immigration bill Surprisingly, Breitbart’s characterization of the House Immigration bill (“President Trump Backs House Immigration Reform Bill”) is much more accurate than the New York Times‘. The Times editorializes with strong verbs and adjectives beginning with the headline. Breitbart has the grace to save its hard-right editorializing until the end of its coverage. The online edition of the Washington […]
Wednesday (01/10/2018) Conservatives, Progressives, and the quest for a Theory of Everything
Today we feature a roundup of interesting articles from the Internet, under headings pertaining to Conservatives, to Progressives, and Physics (notably the quest for a Theory of Everything). Conservatives Angelo Codevilla has an important article on the Marxist background of political correctness and how it tends to undermine itself eventually. The Democratic Party Left’s attack […]
