U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken is slated to arrive in China on Sunday for a long-awaited trip that has been postponed for months over spiking tensions between Washington and Beijing. But current signs from both capitals suggest that the Biden administration might not be able to walk away with a âwinâ anytime soon.Blinkenâs original
Tennessee Abortion Ban a âNightmareâ for Woman With Doomed Pregnancy
February 28, 2023 by
Allie Phillips of Tennessee was 19 weeks pregnant with a girl she and her husband already named Miley Rose when she went to see a high-risk obstetrician on Friday morning.A technician began to conduct an ultrasound scan, but suddenly stopped and went to get the doctor. The 28-year-old expectant mom was left lying on the
Russiaâs New âLarge-Scale Warâ Plan Is Already Doomed to Fail
January 13, 2023 by
Russia appears to be laying the groundwork to summon hundreds of thousands more men across the country to take part in the war against Ukraine.Lawmaker Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the State Dumaâs Defense Committee, lamented in an interview with RBK on Wednesday that the country doesnât have enough mobilized reserve forces for a âlarge-scale
Why Socialism Is Doomed To Fail
June 24, 2018 by
In The Consolation of Philosophy, the 5th century Greek scholar and Roman Consul Boethius wrote: âCompare the length of a moment with the period of ten thousand years; the first, however miniscule, does exist as a fraction of a second. But that number of years, or any multiple of it that you may name, cannot […]
What a difference 2016 makes: Viral pic shows doomed Western leaders together
December 7, 2016 by
From left to right: This picture shows then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the G5 summit in April in Hannover, Germany  (White House) What a difference 2016 makes. With Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi the latest political casualty of […]
Gregg Jarrett: FBI reopens email investigation. Is a Clinton presidency doomed?
October 28, 2016 by
If past is prolog, and it usually is, then a Hillary Clinton presidency may be engulfed and disabled by scandal. Make that plural –scandals. As a consequence, she is likely to accomplish little on behalf of the American people. In other words, her presidency could be dead on arrival the moment she is sworn into […]
Is U.S. doomed to repeat mistakes of Europe?
March 24, 2016 by
Security officials have told the Associated Press that the Islamic State has trained at least 400 attackers and sent them into Europe as sleeper cells ready to carry out terror attacks. âThe network of interlocking, agile and semi-autonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria,â […]
Bernieâs Doomed Democratic Socialism
March 12, 2016 by
Thanks to Bernie Sanders, âDemocratic Socialismâ, by which he means a cornucopia of state-supplied benefits paid for by squeezing billionaires, is now all the rage. And according to Bernie and his fans, this vision is hardly Utopian — generous womb-to-tomb entitlements work just fine in Scandinavia. Predictably, the clamor for DS stresses the âfree stuffâ […]