Jan 30, 2012
NEW YORK An Archdiocese of New York clerk has been arrested on charges of manipulating the church's accounts payable system to steal more than $1 million in education money.Anita Collins allegedly wrote checks to herself or a relative but recorded them as payments to...
Dec 7, 2011
One of the nice things about human history is that no matter how much people or their leaders misjudge events and make a hash of things, within a few centuries, the debris is cleared away, and we can have another go at getting things right.
Yes, I am thinking about the...
Nov 30, 2011
Sunday on Meet the Press Colin Powell blamed divisive, poisonous Washington politics on the media and the Tea Party. The essence of Powell's argument was: Republicans and Democrats are focusing more and more on their extreme left and extreme right. And we have to come...
Nov 23, 2011
As we approach the festive season the elongated, enchanting month from Thanksgiving through Christmas to New Years my mind has been drifting through various memorable past holidays. Some have been personal the last one with my father before he died. But one that...
Nov 16, 2011
A just released book, Bowing to Beijing by Brett M. Decker and William C. Triplett II, will change forever the way you think about China even if, like me, you already have the deepest worries about the Chinese threat.
As I opened the book, I was expecting to find many...
Nov 2, 2011
Now is a particularly dangerous moment for American national security interests. Not just because threats are growing. Not just because the current administration is making a historic bungle from China to Iraq to Iran to Russia to Europe to Mexico to our historic allies in...
Oct 19, 2011
For the past few years, fear of China's predatory mercantilism has been steadily growing in America, both amongst the public and in elite business and political circles. But last week, for the first time, one could discern the genuine possibility that America might actually...
Oct 12, 2011
How dangerous is the European financial condition? On Monday, while stock markets from the DAX and FTSE to the New York Stock Exchange were up sharply on reports of French and German cooperative murmurs regarding sovereign debt negotiations (and on temporary easing of U.S....