Following Rick Perry’s blockbuster announcement withdrawing from the race for the Republican nomination for President, the Palladian View was on site interviewing women about his decision and his endorsement of Newt Gingrich. Continue reading
Mitt Romney’s first place tie with Rick Santorum in the Iowa Caucuses have resulted in some curious punditry. It’s far too early in the electoral process to divine great wads of wisdom from the results, but some ideas are beginning to take shape. Continue reading
Do we care about age when it comes to our politicians? Should we? Much was made about Ronald Reagan’s age when he was president (too old) as was John Kennedy’s (too young). With folks living longer and being more productive in their “later” years, does age (or youth) matter? Continue reading
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has instructed state employees to answer official telephones with the ever-so-happy greeting “It’s a great day in South Carolina!” To be honest, I put the exclamation point in there. That item of punctuation implies enthusiasm, a feeling I’m not sure is involved with every phone pick-up in state offices. So, is this salutation a pronouncement or propaganda? Continue reading
The scale and intensity of the Chinese cyber offensive has become too great for Washington to ignore, and Beijing shows no inclination to scale it back. Analysts estimate the value of U.S. economic information being lost to Chinese intrusions each year in the tens of billions of dollars, and the number of illicit probes launched from Chinese Internet addresses against U.S. government sites numbers in the millions each month. Continue reading
