Foreign/Defense Policy

The Rubio Doctrine

By John Biver

The FutureOfCapitalism.com website posted a Marco Rubio speech with the following text: The freshman Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, gave a big foreign policy speech yesterday at the Helms Center of Wingate University…

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The Innocents Abroad

By John Biver

Dispatches recommended from John Bolton: Barack Obama’s badly flawed worldview and the incoherent foreign policy flowing from it have now disintegrated. Within the past few months, his media acolytes notwithstanding, the evidence has become…

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When Wall St. played on America’s team

By John Biver

Dispatches recommended from Charles Gasparino: My father, a construction worker, spent a lot of time laying iron rods in the World Trade Center’s concrete foundation back in the late 1960s. Dad was never big…

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The 9/11 ‘Overreaction’? Nonsense

By John Biver

CN recommended by Charles Krauthammer: America’s current demoralization is not a result of the War on Terror. The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11…

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What’s Next in Libya

By John Biver

Dispatches recommended from the Heritage Foundation: All across the world, leaders are hailing the news that Libyan rebels have advanced into the capital city of Tripoli, poised to bring to an end to the…

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Two good posts from Victor Davis Hanson

By John Biver

Dispatches recommended… A Tottering Technocracy ~ Here and in Europe, the financial meltdown exposes the hollowness of our elites. We are witnessing a widespread crisis of faith in our progressive guardians of the last…

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Barack Obama the Pessimist

By John Biver

Dispatches recommended by Fouad Ajami: [Obama’s] lack of faith in American exceptionalism has dashed any hope of a ‘transformational’ presidency. […] Events would supply evidence of Mr. Obama’s break with the history of America’s…

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