Bob McCarty Writes

According to one media report, President Barack Obama made strident comments about China’s human rights record Tuesday, but tempered his remarks with praise of Beijing’s growing economic sophistication and support for its efforts to reunite with Taiwan.  Out of sight of reporters, however, I suspect the 44th president was willing to make a deal with [...]

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While China bans Oba-Mao T-shirts and cracks down on consumers and producers, it’s an entirely different story in the U.S. Capitol, according to my friend El Marco.
The popularity of Obama iconography around the world is indisputable, he writes, but who can match the audacity of those who cater to the cult of President Barack Obama just [...]

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Which country is providing the most behind-the-scenes support for the Islamic Republic of Iran?
Most certainly making light of the fact that China imports a large percentage of its oil from Iran, my friend David Donar at Political Graffiti produced the cartoon at right which shows Uncle Sam behaving timidly in the face of a diminutive, [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) struck some early blows against global warming during his opening statement made this morning at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on global warming.  That statement, aimed primarily at Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the committee, appears below:
“Madame Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing today. This is [...]

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Frustrated officials in the Singaporean government, hoping to raise young adults’ interest in making babies instead of just money, have lost their collective mind and ordered pole dancing to be taught in its elite schools, according to a recent post at the Former American Professor in China blog.  Read the entire story here.
UPDATE: A reader [...]

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