Traditionally, with the coming of the New Year, communities gather to share their aspirations. So, my virtual friends, if you have an aspiration for the coming 12 months, please offer it here.
There is a better solution that will expand health care access to all Americans and also help our struggling economy: eliminate private health insurance and create a single-payer system.
In the span of just 24 hours, the "secret" Daft Punk concert went from a rumor to sold out to scam just via word of mouth.
Hilary could not then and cannot now afford to promote 'soft power' for fear of appearing weak. 'Smart power', given her own concerns about politics and gender, is the best she can do.
It has become rather fashionable these days to speak of India and China in the same breath. These are the two big countries said to be taking over the...
You might have missed the news: China is now No. 3. Statisticians have finally crunched the 2007 numbers and discovered that China surpassed Germany ...
When The Stimulus Plan left the House of Representatives, it was clocking in at 1,788 pages. For a bit of perspective, War and Peace - the longest novel in literary history - is 1,463 pages and is only slightly less boring.
Not only was He Kexin, the Chinese gymnast in question, born in 1994 and ineligible to compete in the Olympics, but Chinese officials, over the last few weeks, have tried to cover it all up.
Much has recently been made of the decline of manufacturing as a percent of GDP in our country. Along with being a pivotal issue during the election...
Until the travel business picks up and businesses in general start replacing their vehicle fleets, Detroit will be outside looking in.
The UN estimates that two-thirds of the world's population will live in areas of water stress within the next 20 years. By the numbers, much of that population is in Asia.
Obama is a global son. He is the child of a white middle-American and a Kenyan villager who named him Hussein. He connects to Asian-Americans as a product of Hawaii and Indonesia.
Water has always been a problem in China, and effective control of it has been associated with both personal heroism and legitimate sovereignty for as far back as our records go.
In several states across the US, our children perform well below the average of many countries that we consider under-developed.
If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.
Let's discuss why anyone in their right mind would travel half way around the world and back and spend a quarter-year's salary (minimum wage) to go to Iran for two weeks.
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LOL I cannot believe the comments here. You guys must be drinking your own cool-aid!
Hey, I thought the conventional wisdom of many years was, if we just give China all of our jobs, they will become a free market society/democracy.
I think we've held our breath until we turned blue, here.
Still waiting for even ONE aspect of freedom over there.
Free Trade My A** _ !
I guess this is why Republicans hate America and love China. Anytime freedom is taken away, Rush Limbaugh lights a cigar.
There is so much truth to your statement. Everyone should watch the Ted Koppel series about Chinese capitalism. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/arts/television/08kopp.html. China is a Republican heaven. Contempt and control of the Press ... . little or no regulation, particularly when it. pertains to the environment... a one party political system that does not allow for dissent or contrary view, etc. The only thing missing is the Jesus thing.
There's so much you can control. Manipulating a population of 1 billion people is not simple. One day their system will fall fall apart. It could take years, decades or centuries. But when it will happen - It will be BAD. epic proportions bad. Now's a good time to relax things while they can without having too many problems and bloodshed.
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