by Eric Lotke | Nov 23, 2009 | Blog
A really smart student intern I’ve had the privilege of working with (Jonathan Flack, GWU 2010) asked a really stupid question. “Why,” he asked, “Do we give China everything it wants? Why don’t we challenge them?” This intern knows what’s going on. He knows about our...
by Steven Capozzola | Nov 23, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
The Associated Press reports that China has criticized last week's U.S.-China Commission (USCC) report for asserting that Chinese spies are aggressively stealing U.S. secrets. Beijing warns that the report is "full of prejudice" and that it could damage U.S.-China...
by Bill Scher | Nov 23, 2009 | Blog
When Sen. Joe Lieberman first announced he would filibuster any health care bill with a public option, I noted that he lied, falsely calling the public option an "entitlement program" that would be "trouble ... for the national debt." In fact, the public option is an...
by Bill Scher | Nov 23, 2009 | Blog
Today, President Obama meets with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks away and their two nations very far apart on any climate agreement. Any international agreement will require the US, India and China to find some...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 22, 2009 | Blog
Don't expect an answer from the ranters and ravers who frequent 'Tea Parties' — or the politicians who egg them on. You don’t have to dig particularly deep, in the United States today, to find some striking similarities between today’s virulently...
by Bill Scher | Nov 22, 2009 | Blog
During this week's edition of The Week In Blog on Bloggingheads.tv, Matt Lewis and I discussed blog reaction to the unveiling of the Senate's health care reform legislation, and how conservatives are responding to the Congressional Budget Office's projection of...
