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Who Is The Leader Of Iran?

As a blogger, this article about the continued decline in newspaper circulation constitutes my daily dose of schadenfreude. “For the 507 newspapers reporting in this period, daily circulation slipped 4.6% to 38,165,848 copies. For the 571 papers, Sunday dropped...

Philip Armour, Packing Houses and Globalization

Below is an interview with Philip Armour that ran in the New York Times on October 13, 1882 on the future of the “Dressed Beef” business. Prior to Armour and refrigerated rail cars, beef was raised and killed locally. The interview addresses why he...

2008 Beijing Olympics

It is important to understand what is going on in China. A good place to start is with the U.S. State Department 2007 Country Report Human Rights Practices in China. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to...

The Loss of China: The Role of Myth in American History

The American people have always believed that they have the ability to do extraordinary things. It is very probable that the American public, as a whole, truly believes in the phrase: “the difficult we can do tomorrow. The impossible may take a while.”...

The PRC, Taiwan and the One China Policy

For the last sixty years, the Republic of China has claimed that it is the sole legal government of China. During that time however the only area effectively under its jurisdiction is the island of Taiwan. The Republic of China persuaded the international community to...

Winning Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

Michael Yon has a great new article up on a recent top-secret 10-day mission in Afghanistan that is supposedly the largest British logistics operation since World War II. The mission was the delivery of a second electric turbine to the Kajaki Dam, the second-largest...