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Life and politics

What can one learn in Springfield?

This is my question for Thomas F. Roeser, in response to his critique of the political inexperience of Adam...

Jun 3, 2009

More brains, less Halliburton: why Dick Cheney is wrong

In his first interview after leaving office, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that Obama’s policies “raise the risk”...

Mar 20, 2009

Leave radical Islam alone

A few weeks ago, Fareed Zakaria questioned our mostly military response to radical Islam. Readers, both at the Huffington...

Mar 17, 2009

The simplest plan for helping homeowners

Some banks gave mortgage loans to people who cannot keep a house under any conditions. These so-called toxic assets...

Feb 15, 2009

Obama’s first fault as President

It is in asking for delaying the digital TV transition. Some people still did not get the message about...

Jan 27, 2009

The lure of Keynesianism

In his recent column, Prof. Robert Reich is saying that the rich are getting richer and the poor are...

Jan 15, 2009

The immigration debate is not about immigration

The immigration debate is not about immigration but about how deeply the government should put its fingers into micromanaging...

Dec 9, 2008

Do Americans want change?

Yes, if change means that their personal well being would improve. No, if they would need change what they...

Nov 18, 2008

Change of change

Most of the problems that Barack Obama will face are big problems because most Americans are wrong in their...

Nov 9, 2008

It’s time for financial dinosaurs to die

If governments had been around 65 millions years ago, they would have used taxpayer’s money to save the dinosaurs...

Sep 20, 2008
Remark of the day

How to respond to the nuclear blackmail?

November 19, 2024
Ukraine

Putin always waved that he had atomic bombs. Now, he claims that he might use it if, thanks to the military help, Ukraine might defend itself from being conquered by Russia. Putin needs to be told that the West is prepared. Our defense will most likely encounter rockets with nuclear weapons before they leave the Russian territory. But we are ready to accept that we might not intercept them all. However, our response will be swift and merciless. Russia, as we know it, will be no longer. In particular, it will be forever deprived of having any nuclear arsenal. I bet that in such a situation, even if Putin decides to press that red button, it will be after some reasonable people in Russia disconnect it from the launchpad. I hope our intelligence services have already arranged that.

Putin is in charge of Ukraine’s defense

November 14, 2024
Ukraine

At least, that is what the recent revelations about the behind-the-scenes American policy determining aid for Ukr...

Is Musk losing it?

August 20, 2024
Life and politics

Elon Musk claims that he is ready to serve as the chief of the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trum...

$44 billion for loud lamenting

July 26, 2024
Life and politics, Media

Elon Musk warned us that “America is headed for bankruptcy.” The national debt, which is $34 trillion and gro...

Do we need the judiciary branch of the government?

July 10, 2024
Life and politics

That question comes to mind when reading critics of the recent Supreme Court decision weakening so-called Chevron deference. In t...