The Hong Kong Demonstrators Cannot Win Against Beijing Most of them know that China will never accept a political defeat WASHINGTON – As I look at the developing story of the extremely large Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, my sense...
At The Root Of the Hong Kong Protests: Economic Prosperity Is Founded On Political Freedom Hong Kong people want real democracy. China wants to control Hong Kong politics WASHINGTON – Will the Hong Kong protesters demanding true democratic elections for the special status territory win in the end?...
Major FAA Facility Disabled By Just One Person – US Air Traffic In Chaos If one disgruntled former employee can destroy, all by himself, a major air traffic control facility, imagine the damage that may be caused by trained terrorists targeting critical US infrastructure WASHINGTON – Just one (mentally imbalanced, it seems) disgruntled contractor, (his name is Brian Howard), upset because he had...
With Luck, In A Few Years Spain’s Unemployment Rate Will Go Below 20% In the "New Normal" of the economic decline affecting Southern Europe, this is good news WASHINGTON – Talk about beating low expectations. Luis de Guindos, Spanish Minister of the Economy and Competitiveness, recently reported that...
Flex Fuel Engines Allow Trucks To Use Natural Gas – No Downside Engines that operate with both diesel and LNG/CNG allow an easier transition to natural gas as transportation fuel WASHINGTON – While American energy firms have made major progress in exploiting new “unconventional” (mostly shale) oil, this way...
Have Zero Interest Rates Created Another Wall Street Bubble? Stock market valuation inflated by artificially low interest rates. Investors have no other place to go WASHINGTON – The real threat against America may not be terror attacks against the homeland engineered by ISIL, after...
Public School Teachers Send Their Own Kids To Private Schools Those who run the system know how bad it is. And so they protect their own children children from it WASHINGTON – US public schools are so bad that many public schools teachers –that is those who have first hand...
Man Made Global Warming? Not So Sure Anymore US engaged in a major energy policy shift to combat a problem that may not be what we are told WASHINGTON – Until a few years ago there was a semi-universal consensus on “global warming”. It was settled that...
Without Access To A Good Education America’s Poor Will Stay Poor Entitlement programs and subsidies do not provide a real path out of poverty WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama won re-election in 2012 largely on the promise that, with him as president, all the existing...
Poroshenko Came To Washington Asking For Help And Got Nothing Plenty of applause and expressions of solidarity. But no weapons to fight against the Moscow funded insurgents WASHINGTON – Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko’s speech to the US Congress got lots of applause and several standing ovations....