Posts Tagged ‘gordon brown’

Pursuing World Peace

With negotiations underway today between representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and six powers in Geneva, a review of the Obama foreign policy thus far is in order. Though in many respects the foreign policy of this administration has been a disaster of his own making, President Obama deserves credit for tackling enduring foreign policy issues early in his presidency. That [...]

British Scandal Offers Sobering Perspective on the Future

The British have an election campaign coming up, though no firm date seems yet set. Right now, the Prime Minister is quite unpopular, and Parliament is embroiled in a scandal. Some have anticipated an easy win for the opposition Conservative Party in the election once it happens. However, as more details of this scandal come [...]

G20 set to embrace Obama’s economic policy.

Ronald Reagan, in describing the economic views dominant in the Democratic Party, once said:
If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving regulate it, if it stops moving subsidize it.
The Group of 20 convened earlier this week in London to much ruckus and fanfare. Making his presence known was the Celebrity-in-Chief, President Obama. While the [...]

PM Brown offers greater optimism than President Obama.

One of them is wrong. While there was some overlap in what the two leaders had to say, the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, seemed rather more upbeat in his remarks before Congress Wednesday than the President was in his own just over a week ago. Even if both men favor radical reforms in governance, domestic [...]