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• President Obama’s Refusal to Back Britain on the Falklands is a Disgrace

  Posted February 25th, 2010 at 2:00pm in American Leadership with 16 comments

  The Obama administration’s decision to remain neutral in the dispute between Great Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands is a shameful decision that will go down very badly across the Atlantic. As The Times has just reported, Washington has point blank refused to support British sovereignty over the Falklands, and is adopting a strictly [...] More

• Trouble Brewing in South Atlantic Over Control of Falklands

  Posted February 22nd, 2010 at 6:30pm in American Leadership with 7 comments

  Possession of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic is again being disputed. The United Kingdom’s 180-year control over the islands and the will of its English-speaking inhabitants as well as the sacrifice of British blood and treasure that reversed the 1982 Argentine aggression give the UK clear possession of the islands. Nonetheless, Argentina rejects what [...] More

• Learn from Britain’s Mistakes: Don’t Centralize Health Care in Washington

  Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 10:45am in Health Care with 1 comments

  To understand the dangers of a government takeover of health care, America should study Britain’s system, which exemplifies the shortcomings of heavily regulated, nationalized health care. A recent report by Robin Harris of the Heritage Foundation outlines the deterioration of Britain’s health care system due to years of liberal health policy marked by heavy [...] More

• Less Economic Freedom = Fewer Jobs for Americans

  Posted January 31st, 2010 at 6:01pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 6 comments

  What does America’s declining economic freedom mean for you? It means that America will create fewer jobs. And that means that Americans will be poorer, as well as less free. A statement last week by Graham Mackay, the head of SAB Miller, one of the world’s largest brewers (they make, among many other beers, [...] More

• The Mostly Free Anglo-American Alliance

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 9:50am in American Leadership with 2 comments

  The 2010 edition of the Index of Economic Freedom poses a frightening paradox. Around the world, the economically freest countries are, by and large, those with a British legacy. Indeed, the top five – Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland – were either founded or influenced by the British. Of [...] More

• Something Fishy in the Ministry of Defense

  Posted January 8th, 2010 at 3:43pm in American Leadership with 3 comments

  American commentators, like Michael Barone, are starting to focus on the fact that, while the recession has hurt the private sector, it’s helping the public one. A Rasmussen poll found that 46 percent of government employees say the economy is getting better while just 31 percent say it’s getting worse. In the private [...] More

• What Obamacare and the NHS Have in Common

  Posted December 24th, 2009 at 10:00am in Health Care with 6 comments

  As US legislators continue to advance the largest expansion of government control over health care in the US, many Americans may need some comic relief. Although such massive consolidation of federal control over health care is by no means a laughing matter, the following 2-minute clip from a popular BBC Documentary Series “Yes, Minister” [...] More

• David Cameron in Afghanistan: Supporting Battle-tested Warriors

  Posted December 8th, 2009 at 1:50pm in American Leadership, Protect America with 1 comments

  Conservative Party leader David Cameron’s visit to British troops in Helmand is a timely reminder of the unyielding contribution the British armed forces have made to the NATO effort in Afghanistan. As President Obama announces the deployment of up to 30,000 additional U.S. troops for the mission, it is important to reflect on the magnitude [...] More

• The French Are Suddenly The Tough Ones?

  Posted September 29th, 2009 at 10:07am in American Leadership with 5 comments

  The Wall Street Journal reports: President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard [to reveal Tehran's secret facility Thursday]. He had been “frustrated” for months about Mr. Obama’s reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us, and saw an opportunity to change momentum. But the Administration told the French that it didn’t want to “spoil [...] More

• Why the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty Won’t Work

  Posted September 18th, 2009 at 4:06pm in American Leadership with 2 comments

  The U.N. wants to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty. The Heritage Foundation recently published a lengthy study of this proposal. It found that the Treaty, if brought into being as currently projected, will be used not to restrict the access that dictators and terrorists have to conventional arms, but to reduce the ability [...] More