Carl Bloice

When General George Joulwan appeared on BBC America the other day, he danced around the question of the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But the former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe did have a couple of interesting things to say about the war in Libya. It is true, Joulwan said, that the…

We’re beginning to get a look at what happens when the subject of unemployment comes up at the White House. It ain’t reassuring. Jared Bernstein, formerly chief economic adviser to Vice President Biden, who left the Administration last month says he “frequently” argued for forceful action to combat joblessness within the corridors of power. However,…

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Unemployment is up. Joblessness has increased for African Americans. Black women are being hit especially hard. The question now is whether the people running the country really care? And if they do, why are they avoiding the subject? According to the figures released last week by the Department of Labor, the economy added 244,000 jobs…

On April 17, conservative columnist Ross Douthat wrote on the opinion page of the August New York Times: Historically, the most successful welfare states (think Scandinavia) have depended on ethnic solidarity to sustain their tax-and-transfer programs. But the working-age America of the future will be far more diverse than the retired cohort it’s laboring to…

John Authers, the financial markets columnist for the Financial Times got it right: “The politics of the shutdown have been melodramatic and its possible effects overstated.” The paper’s editors called the episode “banana republic machinations.” Well, it’s over now; the troops will get paid on time and the national parks remain open. If the whole,…

A country that invests more in its elderly than its youth, more in nursing homes than schools, will neither invent the future nor own it. Sounds profound, no? Is he quoting someone? Socrates? Or de Tocqueville? Couldn’t he just as well have said: A country that invest generously in its youth and inadequately in its…

On Sunday, the British Observer newspaper remarked editorially, “Without calls to action by the Arab League, it is doubtful President Obama would have shifted his initial stance of wary caution. But that consensus might not hold in the event of prolonged confrontation.” Prolonged? Hey, it didn’t last three days. By midday, while U.S. Tomahawk missiles…