Tony Blankley

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BLANKLEY: A fine madness in the D.C. air

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

To borrow Niall Ferguson's metaphor -- if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design -- a cognate of faith, not science.

BLANKLEY: Europe asks: Does tomorrow belong to us?

Nationalist parties make gains on voter fears of assertive immigrants

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The weekend's European Parliament and British local county council elections were not only a victory for the center-right over the center-left. More significantly, they were indications of the growing rejection of the last 60 years of denationalized and consolidating European history.

BLANKLEY: Death by deficit

A dim augury: Our Tiber flowing with red ink

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The ancient Latin historian Livy famously described the terminal plight of the late Roman Republic. "Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus" ("We can bear neither our shortcomings nor the remedies for them").

BLANKLEY: Five million green jobs?

But they may cost more jobs elsewhere

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

In 1845, the French economist Frederic Bastiat published a satirical petition from the "Manufacturers of Candles" to the French Chamber of Deputies that ridiculed the arguments made on behalf of inefficient industries to protect them from more efficient producers.

BLANKLEY: The two-state 'solution' mirage

Time for reality-based diplomacy on Israel and Palestinians

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

"I wonder what he meant by that."

BLANKLEY: Arabs pressure Obama

For a quick Israeli-Palestinian accord

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Times of London on Sunday published an interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan in which the maturing king demonstrated a deft touch in putting pressure on both the new prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and our president.

BLANKLEY: Without preparation or response

Contingent threats explode in face of our minimal military

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

News item No. 1 concerns the testimony of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on April 24. "[Deterioration of security in nuclear-armed Pakistan] poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world," she said.

BLANKLEY: Public's right to know?

Disclosure sometimes does a lot of damage

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Several events in recent months bring back to the forefront the perennial assertion that, on grounds of both efficacy and ethics, the public's right to know is the best guide to good government and good institutions.

BLANKLEY: China's currency rate-fixing

Primary cause of the world financial crisis?

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Obama administration last week declined to cite China for currency manipulation though most experts - including Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner during his confirmation testimony - do not deny the obvious currency rate-fixing by China. Almost certainly, this decision reflected merely a tactical judgment not to offend China, given China's vital role in the international economic recovery effort.