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Archives for January 2015

Trading the Renminbi (RNB) in Switzerland

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Dateline Switzerland: A new renminbi trading hub will be established in Zurich, Switzerland, giving Swiss traders the ability to make and clear direct trades with Chinese traders. The deal follows shortly after a Free Trade Agreement was signed by the two countries in 2014. Swissinfo writes: The agreement suggests that a Chinese commercial bank may also […]

Class Warfare Obama Style

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Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute recaps last night’s State of the Union address. The things Obama would do: Junk sequester caps that have been largely responsible for reducing our estimated deficit from $1 trillion a year to a more manageable but still sizable $469 billion this year. End the tax deductibility of earnings in […]

What Makes America Exceptional?

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You are in the majority if you believe that America is indeed an exceptional country. The word “exceptional,” however, is often used in a manner than can lead to confusion as to what America’s place in the world should be. And this view certainly extends to the Tea Party movement, much of whose base philosophy […]

Kauai Goes 80% Solar

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I have been writing positively on solar for years. Debbie and I have 2KW of solar here in Key West. A few days ago we were reading in our back cottage overlooking our fishpond and noticed that the lights were out in our front house. I initially thought it could be a blown fuse. But […]

Quotable: American Sniper

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From “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. History” (2012), by the late Chris Kyle, with Jim DeFelice and Scott McEwen : Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy “savages.” There was no other way to describe […]

A “Tea Party” Foreign Policy

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Writing in the American Conservative, Daniel Larison looks at what a “Tea Party” foreign policy really means. I liked the way Larison rolled out his argument and asked two of my Cato Institute foreign policy expert friends, Chris Preble and Justin Logan, if they thought Daniel was on target. The answer was yes from both. […]

Show the Cartoons

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A week after the massacres at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, Peggy Noonan writes in the WSJ: “Today is a day, on all social media and in mainstream media, to show the cartoons. All their mystique should be taken away, definitively. And a message delivered: If you murder a group of people for wearing cats […]

How Safe Are We?

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Originally posted January 16, 2015. How did French police and intelligence miss the Charlie Hebdo terrorists? With the massacres in Paris last week, it’s easy to ask why known militants were not under tighter surveillance by French intelligence agencies. In an article that appeared in Time magazine January 14, John Mueller and Mark Stewart give […]

UKIP—Britain’s People’s Party

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Timothy Stanley, in the American Conservative, writes, “To meet him (UKIP’s party leader Nigel Farage) is to instantly like him—if you like that sort of thing. To centrist politicians raised on a puritan diet of political correctness, he is like some horror from the mummy’s tomb. But to those who wear a hangover with pride, […]