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Obama’s Egypt Bungling

How did Niall Ferguson get on MSNBC? “Morning Joe” did not seem to be ready for him. It must have been his Harvard pedigree that fooled them. He provided quite a lesson to the folks, excoriorating Obama’s Egypt flip-flops and foreign policy. If the inept TV actor we call President weren’t so dangerous, most of [...]

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Egypt and Israel

For those interested in geopolitics, and we all should be given the forces that are being unleashed in the Middle East, the following is an excellent read: Egypt, Israel and a Strategic Reconsideration by George Friedman of Stratfor

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Will China Be Like Egypt?

From afar the Chinese economic miracle is impressive. Large statist efforts produce large impressive outcomes. Massive new cities appear where none were before. Rapid GDP growth rates are regularly announced. China is about to become the world’s great superpower — economically, intellectually and militarily. But wait! There’s more! China has some of the same problems [...]

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The US as Egypt

The parallel between what is happening in Egypt and what may happen in the US is not as far-fetched as many want to believe. The article below, a bit shrill in parts, makes the argument that we are failing fast and may not be far away from our own Egyptian-style rebellion. It contains a scary [...]

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Coming to A Neighborhood Near You?

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The horrors of a government in the process of being toppled are captured in this video from Egypt: Egypt is not a country noted for freedom. Nor was the Soviet Union or its various satellites. Eventually peoples overthrow what is considered oppressive government in an attempt to obtain freedom. This song by the Rascals (h/t [...]

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