By Bruce Fein – – Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in Monday to succeed Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, and was followed by the swearing in of his political rival, Abdullah Abdullah, as chief executive officer. The ceremony was applauded by the United States as the first democratic transfer of power in…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Monday, September 29, 2014 The intelligence community’s chronic blunders bring to mind Casey Stengel’s exasperation with the New York Mets: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” Sunday, on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” President Obama confessed that the director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., had been blindsided…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Sunday, September 28, 2014 The U.S. Senate should condition confirmation of any nominee to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder on express commitments under oath to investigate and prosecute through a special prosecutor the Obama administration’s rampant lawlessness reminiscent of the Nixon administration and Watergate. The Watergate scandal, however, also occasioned…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Saturday, September 27, 2014 A nation can become rich by splintering economic regulatory power among competing autonomous authorities to frustrate the foolishness associated with monopolies. In the business sphere, competition is a stimulant and monopoly, a narcotic to efficiency and innovation that advances consumer welfare. Scotsman Adam Smith instructed more…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Wednesday, September 24, 2014 Advocates for an international pact to regulate greenhouse gas emissions congregated this week at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The venue was altogether fitting. The United Nations acts in a fantasy theater divorced from earthbound politics. Everything it does other than humanitarian endeavors — like…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Tuesday, September 23, 2014 The recent flurry of minimum-wage ordinances, statutes or decrees insults economic truth and logic as much as the geocentric theory of the universe affronts the heliocentric. The edicts represent a stunning triumph of delusion over the law of supply and demand and social justice. They vindicate…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Monday, September 22, 2014 Any credible Islamic jihadist threat to the United States in the Middle East can be prevented or destroyed without our direct participation in any battles. The multiplicity of Islamic factions and rivalries should be exploited by the CIA to foment endless internecine warfare among and between…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Sunday, September 21, 2014 The more things change, the more they stay the same. President Obama’s justifications for an indefinite global war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) echo the reasons elaborated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in April and July of 1965 for the Vietnam War…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Saturday, September 20, 2014 The only love that never grows old is the love of honor — searching for truth without ulterior motives and living a life accordingly. The love of honor means asking only one question in deciding on any course of action: Is it the right thing to…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Friday, September 19, 2014 There is no immigration crisis. There is not even an immigration urgency or priority. Complacency is the order of the day. Our imperfect immigration rules and enforcement are earmarked by ambivalence and irresolution. They have been with us for more than four decades, and the sky…
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