Richard Baehr's latest

Richard Baehr's latest


Thanks to all those who attended my talks on the West Coast and to those have taken the time to correspond afterwards.

1. A surprising article in the New York Times from Gregory Mankiw that rebuts some of the conventional wisdom on American health care. And the British are increasingly unhappy with their national healthcare system.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/business/04view.html? _r=2&ex=1351918800&en=3d64fb9624df7a4e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&or ef=slogin&oref=sloginhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/04/ nhs104.xml

2. Jim Hoagland, a sensible Washington Post columnist, says that if China and Russia want to avoid an American or Israeli war with Iran, they need to step up the pressure, rather than interfere with sanctions efforts .Gerald Steinberg takes on Mohammed El Baradei, a major enabler of Iran's nuclear program. Aluf Benn on the view of Iran's program from Israel. Bill Gertz on US military capabilities to deal with Iranhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/ AR2007110201781.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnshttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp? DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=443&PID=0&IID=1906&TTL=Why_Are_the_IA EA_and_Dr._Mohammed_El-Baradei_Protecting_Iran?http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/914858.htmlhttp://washingtontimes.com/article/20071019/NATION/110190089/10023.

Three more global warming skeptics, James Lewis, Debra Saunders and John Stosselhttp://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/ global_warming_as_pathological.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/ polar_bear_pandering.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/10/ the_globalwarming_debate_isnt.html

4. Bib Netanyahu speaks to American Jewish communal leaders on Annapolis and Jerusalem,http://www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2007/11/post_28.asp

5. Talks from a conference on Israeli missile defensehttp://imda-video-archive.media-line.co.il/Videos-archive-eng.aspx

6 Amir Oren on Israel's military challenges and its capabilitieshttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/914590.html


7. Saudi Arabia is not an ally. Repeat 3 times.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/ article2801017.ece

8. Greg Richards on favorable trends in Iraq. At this point, Iraq is safer than Philadelphia, Atlanta,Washington DC, New Orleans, Detroit, St. Louis and many other American cities. I just noticed that al the unsafe American cities listed are in the NFC,and not the AFC. Is there any hidden meaning to this?The Times of London on the Petraeus curve, which also demonstrates favorable trends, largely unreported in American papers. .http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/ favorable_trends_in_iraq_1.htmlhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/ article2796318.ece_______________________________________________


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