Every year, I put up my list of predictions for the coming year. Sometimes they come close to the mark, most of the time they do not. Regardless, it’s fun to stare into the crystal ball and make a few predictions about the coming year. Without further ado, here are my predictions: Politics/National President Barack [...]
Every year I do my annual round-up of predictions for the coming year, some of which come true, many of which, well, do not. Last year’s predictions turned out to be less than accurate—let’s see how I did. Politics/National Hillary Clinton defeats Obama for the Democratic Nomination. She picks Mark Warner as her running mate. [...]
Tags: 2008, Culture, Economics, international, Politics, Predictions, technology
The Asia Times has an interesting, if disturbing look at how the world’s “intellectual capital” is making an unprecedented shift to the East: Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos – making American kids stupider and Chinese kids smarter. Watch out, Americans – a generation [...]
Tags: America, China, classical music, Culture, education, intellectual capital, music
President-Elect Obama has chosen to embrace some of the worst economic thinking in his recently announced economic recovery plan. The buzzword he’s following is “infrastructure”—and it’s a strategy that is doomed to fail. Reason‘s Nick Gillespie sarcastically looks at the plan: When the history of this awful moment of bailout hysteria is written, there’ll be [...]
Tags: creative destruction, Economics, Obama, recession, stimulus
President-Elect Obama has unveiled his national security team, and it’s hardly what his supporters would have suspected. Hillary Clinton gets the thankless job of Secretary of State, ensuring that she’ll never be President and keeping her well away from Washington. Robert Gates remains as Secretary of Defense, meaning that the chances of Obama “ending” the [...]
Tags: Cabinet, Clinton, defense, Iraq, Obama, State Department, war