Posted on 12 June 2012. Tags: Competency, Doubts, Edict, Fairness, G W Bush, Hague, Internal Matters, International Criminal Court, John Bolton, Libya, Libyan Authorities, Militia, Ny Times, President Clinton, President G W Bush, Qaddafi, Ratification, Rome Treaty, Spurious Charges, Un Security Council
The NY Times gets it mostly wrong again in its editorial, Detained in Libya. A Libyan militia has detained four officials of the International Criminal Court since Thursday on spurious charges. They should be released immediately. The Times is probably right as far as it goes. ICC officials should be treated with respect. But here’s [...]
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Posted on 04 October 2010. Tags: Assumption, Democrats, Economy, Fairness, Federal Tax, G W Bush, Insistence, Iran, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, Middle East, Oil Crisis, Oil Prices, President Kennedy, Rapid Rise, Reagan Tax, Recession, Ronald Reagan, Shaw, Tax Burden, Tax Collections, Tax Rate, Tax Rates, Tax Revenues, Top Earners
Think back a few years to the recession Ronald Reagan “inherited” from Jimmy Carter. The 1979 Oil Crisis caused a rapid rise in Oil prices as the Shaw of Iran was deposed and, soon after, Iraq invaded Iran. The instability in the Middle East sent oil prices skyrocketing, and the US Economy into a nosedive. [...]
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