Ukraine Heats Up

[donquixote99]

Whatever Obama might do, from going to war for the new Ukranian government to telling Putin we approve of whatever he does, Fox would find it to be totally foolish and wrong.

[donquixote99]

This big bang idea, though--seems awfully violent. I think I'll go with turtles all the way down.

[BlueStreak]

Go ye, then! Go with the turtles and be gone, blast ye!

[HarmanKardon]

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"Ukraine Heats Up" thread heats up while little HK is slumbering...

Good mornig folks - what an impressive posting battle since I was here last evening!

Barbara please do not withdraw from this show - not even for a couple of days! You are an essential part of this forum!

[Samm]

"shill for a 'famous' Putin-hugging nutburger"
You people are hilarious . Maybe you should look at someone's bio before slinging uneducated insults. He has served this country very well in both the DOD and the DOT.
"He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.
Scholarship & Academia
Dr. Roberts has held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, Stanford University where he was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, George Mason University where he had a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of business administration, and Georgetown University where he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Cardoza Law Review, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance.

He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Policy Review, National Review, The Independent Review, Harper’s, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, The International Economy, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.


Journalism



Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States.


Public Service

President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce".

[piece-itpete]

At 941 posts, you're a regular

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by 4-2-7

Yes indeed.

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

At 941 posts, you're a regular

Pete

And accrued them right quickly, I might add. Must be very stupid. Soon, he'll be just as stupid as the rest of us.

4-2-7, you WILL be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Dave

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

And accrued them right quickly, I might add. Must be very stupid. Soon, he'll be just as stupid as the rest of us.

4-2-7, you WILL be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Dave

Do you mean, someday, I may even have to remove -5 from my Ignore List?

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Do you mean, someday, I may even have to remove -5 from my Ignore List?

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

I prefer; "Ich bien ein Berliner!".

Dave

[d-ray657]

At AK the general rule is that public comments on moderation are not allowed. Obviously, we are not as strict here, but if we follow the spirit of that rule, we should not engage in a public celebration of a moderator's decision any more than we should publicly criticize it.

Regards,

D-Ray