We've been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday's conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow's reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.
Tag: NAFTA
American Competitiveness: The New Untouchables or The New Half Truth?
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes a superficially compelling case for reforming education in pursuit of American Competitiveness. But is he overstating its promise?
Barack Obama and The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The other day someone remarked that a member of his church group said that he had heard that democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, if elected, will purportedly refuse to take his oath of office using a Bible and will instead substitute the Koran. The gossip dispatcher qualified his alarming allegation by saying that …