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Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 12, 2013 23 Comments
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked details about the National Security Agency’s surveillance program to the press, gave an exclusive interview Wednesday to the South China Morning Post. Through a series of articles that have been staggered throughout the day, Snowden tells the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 31, 2013 29 Comments
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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2012 21 Comments
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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2011 11 Comments
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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 07, 2011 9 Comments
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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2011 6 Comments
Well, he keeps saying we need to emulate China. This video has caused a stir: The controversy was not the protest, but that the White House communications team threatened to suspended the reporter who took the videotape, because multimedia coverage of Obama’s fundraiser was not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 25, 2011 11 Comments
Your Stimulus dollars at work, fulfilling Don Quixote’s impossible dream of never being far from a windmill towards which he can tilt. Via Providence Journal (emphasis mine): A Chinese firm will supply three wind turbines that will be installed at the Field’s Point Wastewater Treatment Facility...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2010 5 Comments
Also known as killing two birds with one stone. We get to apologize to and beg forgiveness from China for the sin of Arizona seeking to enforce the U.S. immigration laws, thus satisfying the 11th Commandment, “thou shall apologize profusely.” And, as the twofer, we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 04, 2010 7 Comments
There is plenty of speculation that the Chinese will agree to, or at least not block, new sanctions on Iran. The Obama administration stands ready to claim the credit, but if China comes around, it may be the threat of unilateral Israeli action which made...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2009 6 Comments
Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Jammie Wearing Fool, and others are reporting that the Obamas gave the Queen of England an iPod as a present. Putting aside the tacky nature of such a gift in this context, one point that has been overlooked is that iPods...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 21, 2009 0 Comments
Hillary Clinton went to China to assure Chinese investors (i.e. the Chinese government) about the safety and security of investing in the U.S. (video here). Great. What about assuring U.S. investors? Don’t we matter? With the export-heavy Chinese economy reeling from the U.S. downturn, Clinton...
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