Tech Central Station's James Glassman has an excellent article on this week's international AIDS conference in Bangkok, Thailand. I attend two or three global health and environmental conferences like this each year, and I have come to conclusion that it's time for the U.S. government and U.S. businesses to just say no. Yankee, stay home. […]
If France's profiteering from the corrupt Iraq oil-for-food program at the expense of the Iraqi people wasn't enough to convince one that France doesn't hold the moral high ground, then this should. (Hat tip: Common Sense & Wonder) Just a few weeks ago a 14-year-old boy wearing a yarmulka came out of the Ourq subway […]
The corrupt Jacques Chirac has, as he has opined before, "missed an opportunity to shut up." Chirac was angered at Bush's statement that the European Union should give Turkey a firm date for its admission to the group. France doesn't want Turkey to join and Turkey's biggest booster in the EU is Britain. It doesn't […]
President Bush is proposing to spend billions of dollars to help fight the spread of AIDS in Africa (and Vietnam), using a program that has been proven to work, and he still gets grief from the activist community. Nonetheless, some activist groups have accused the Bush administration of doing too little. The fight against AIDS […]
A group of 20-some career diplomats and military officers have written a letter condemning President Bush's foreign policy. Frankly, I'm surprised they only managed to round up a few dozen signers. There are plenty of people out there who are minimizing or attacking any comparisons between Bush 43 and the late Ronald Reagan, but this […]
P.J. O'Rourke also pops up on today's Wall Street Journal op-ed page. [link for subscribers only] Go check it out. Hopefully they'll put it up on the free OpinionJournal.com site this weekend. In the piece, O'Rourke humorously advocates the U.S. "recusing" itself from the rest of the world. To tide you over and pique your […]
The idea that free trade with despotic regimes -- bringing to their people more wealth, democratic ideas and a glimpse of what freedom is -- will somehow, eventually, undermine the ruling elite is an idea embraced by many on both sides of the political spectrum. There's just one problem: There's little evidence that it actually […]
It's long since passed that partisan politics stopped at the water's edge. Nowadays partisan politics comes even before the national good (for Republicans to a lesser degree, and to Democrats a greater degree). So, it should come as no surprise that the Kerry 2004 campaign sent out a fund-raising letter highlighting the abuses at the […]
Vice President Dick Cheney spoke live and uncensored on Chinese Television -- for those who were lucky enough to be channel-surfing and catch it. There was no notice of the speech on television or the newspapers before the speech actually occurred. But the broadcast received no advance promotion or even a listing in the Chinese […]
For those who have heard criticism about President Bush's effort to combat AIDS in Africa, check out James K. Glassman's column for a truth-check.