The third person killed in the bombing of the Boston Marathon has been identified.
Via Riehl World News:
The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings is a 23-year-old Chinese graduate student at Boston University who came to the U.S. because it was her dream to get a better education.
Identified by her...
I’m watching a 60 Minutes segment about the Chinese real estate bubble:
China has been nothing short of a financial miracle. In just 30 years, this state-controlled economy became the world’s second largest, deftly managed by government policies and decrees.
One sector the authorities concentrated on was real estate and construction. But...
There are Times that we need to stick up for The NY Times.
Whatever we have said about The Times, we don’t regret.
But we stand with The Times when it gets hacked by China:
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and...
If you had any doubt who is the weak horse, witness the change in the story line of the just released remake of Red Dawn, as described by Sonny Bunch in The Washington Free Beacon:
Sometime between the start of production and the remake’s release, which was delayed due to the production...
Elizabeth Warren famously wants us to be more like China and devote even greater percentages of our GDP to infrastructure construction.
Warren is making this push despite the fact that we already spend huge sums on infrastructure, we just don’t do it very efficiently as state and local governments have proven to...
Via The Hill:
Chen Guangcheng’s daring escape to the U.S. embassy turned into a major political headache for President Obama on Thursday as Republicans accused the administration of naively handing the blind human rights activist back to Chinese authorities….
Embassy officials say Chen left the embassy of his own volition to be reunited...
I previously posted regarding Pete Hoekstra’s commercial about jobs being shipped to China, and the cries of racism because an Asian woman played the role of an Asian woman in China in the commercial.
The woman’s identity was outed by a blog called Angry Asian Man, which noted what was about to...
I posted earlier in the week about the Super Bowl commercial run by Pete Hoekstra, who is running for Senate from Michigan against Debbie Stabenow.
The commercial was part of a DebbieSpendItNow.com campaign highlighting the loss of jobs in Michig...
No, not the video I posted of Nancy Reagan.
It was, according to Israel Matzav, a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wishing China a Happy New Year, receiving 40 million views not including people who viewed it on Chinese television:
Related:
As part of his campaign to paint Newt Gingrich as crazy, Mitt Romney has focused on Newt’s statement that the Palestinians were an “invented” people. Romney argued at the Drake University debate Saturday night that Newt had used ”incendiary words” which would ”create extraordinary tumult” and said ”I’m not a bomb thrower, rhetorically or literally.”
Romney and...
Although scholars of the history of the NY Times Op-Ed pages may be able to find a more vile Op-Ed, I dare them.
From Paul Kane, a suggestion that the United States sell-out Taiwan to China in exchange for forgiveness of $1.14 trillion in debt, To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan:
WITH a single...
I’ve posted before about the Chinese real estate bubble, and what will happen when this bubble bursts.
Rather than worshipping the Chinese economy like Obama does (high speed trains anyone?), we should be recognizing that the Chinese model, like the Soviet model, is artificial and contrived. There is only so much that...
They will not have China to bail them out:
For so long we have heard nothing but how the Chinese were doing things right. Hundred of millions rising up out of poverty. News cars replacing bicycles on the streets of Beijing. An economy that could not be stopped, which grew...
There is something disturbing about an explanation of our debt crisis in Chinese, even if the video producers are in Taiwan, not mainland China.
It’s easy for them to laugh.
Reader Tom reports that when he was in China recently he was not able to access this blog, or the affiliated Facebook and YouTube pages..
Other blogs worked fine, including other conservative blogs.
Calling out to the People of China to try to access this blog and report the results in the comments if you...
