According to Jane’s Country Risk, the United States isn’t the world’s most stable and prosperous nation - and it’s not even in the top twenty. We rank in at #22, behind countries like the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Vatican.
How did they rate it? Observe:
under the rating system, which took into account each nation’s political […]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is claiming that his country has hit a key target in developing its nuclear weapons program, reaching 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment.
Scary! Now…what exactly is a centrifuge?
Supposedly, a country with 3,000 centrifuges can produce enough uranium (as part of its uranium enrichment program) to produce a nuclear weapon within one year. […]
Case Study Monday, ladies and gentlemen: an eastern European country that runs the Flat Tax! I always wondered what it would be like to just try these wacky conservative economic ideas on countries in real-life; turns out Estonia has been running the Flat Tax for a while.
Estonia, formerly of the Soviet Union, runs […]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (I finally learned how to spell it) has been receiving treatment like an American tourist in France. I guess it makes sense. A guy who’s been compared to Hitler (even called a ‘mini-Hitler’) can’t come over and expect the red carpet to be rolled out. Still, what if […]
Greetings BPNers. I haven’t been able to post much lately, so I thought I’d share some interesting news tidbits over the last couple of weeks or so:
All over the news this morning was the announcement that a new tape was issued by Al-Qaeda. The audio tape contains a message by Osama bin Laden calling for […]
It’s been in our collective unconscious for quite a while now: World War III will be a battle between East and West.
First, America is already planning for bombing Iran. While the last thing we want is a crazy leader who’s hostile to the West with nuclear weapons (hence we bomb him), it oddly requires […]
Hey, do you hear that?
Ah, yes. Normalcy. It’s a normal day today because yet another terrorist plot against the U.S., and this time, Germany, was averted. One of these days, liberals could have woken up to news about a massive chemical explosion on Ramstein Airfoce Base, with casualties around 700, and kneejerkedly bash Bush some […]
Former New York Mayor and Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani weighs in with his foreign policy in an article he had published in the current issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.
Here’s an excerpt from that article, focusing on Iran, as found in today’s New York Times:
The theocrats ruling Iran need to understand that we can wield […]
As I’m sure you know, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at her Democratic colleague and presidential rival, Sen. Barack Obama, last month, calling him naive after he said in a debate that he would make it a priority to meet with Fidel Castro and other world leaders currently on the United States’ shit list […]
A couple days ago on various cable news channels, reports came in that the Red Cross is speaking out against U.S. military and intelligence officials regarding interrogation methods and overall treatment of militants and suspects in the War on Terror.
What are your thoughts? Does the Red Cross have a legitimate point, or is it a […]
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