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Entries from June 2006

Trouble Is Coming To Beijing

David Frum wrote on June 24th, 2006 at 12:00 am

At a financial conference in the Rockies a few days ago, a leading American economist presented a simple formula to attendees:
Over the past 12 months, ChinaÕs money supply (cash plus bank deposits) has grown by 17%.
Over that same period, ChinaÕs economy has grown by no more than 10%, and probably less.
If we assume   more

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Back To The Future

David Frum wrote on June 21st, 2006 at 12:00 am

If Mexicans in America Fail to Assimilate, We Could See the Return of Something Ugly  more

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From Gaza, Tragedy And Propaganda

David Frum wrote on June 17th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Eight days ago, the world’s television viewers were told of a terrible tragedy on a Gaza beach. An explosion had claimed the lives of a Palestinian family, killing a father, one of his two wives, and four children. Arab television broadcast horrifying footage of one of the survivors of the explosion, a young girl named   more

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Fooling Ourselves Into Feeling Safe

David Frum wrote on June 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am

A little past midnight in the early morning of Sept. 9, 2001, a Maryland state trooper spotted a car driving at more than 90 miles an hour on I-95, the busy interstate that connects Washington to New York and Boston.
The driver was Ziad Jarrah, shortly to become world famous as the lead hijacker of   more

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Lieberman And Lamont

David Frum wrote on June 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am

For US Democrats, the past six years have been a maddening time. They lost the presidency in 2000, despite winning a plurality of the popular vote. Then in 2002, George Bush gained seats in the Senate and House. By 2004, Democrats had come to hate George W. Bush more than they had hated any president   more

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American Politics In Microcosm

David Frum wrote on June 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 am

You can see America’s political future taking shape in two congressional races, one on the Pacific Coast, one on the Atlantic.
On Tuesday, voters in California’s 50th congressional district will choose a new congressman to replace Representative Duke Cunningham, who resigned after pleading guilty to bribery charges. Cunningham’s district stretches over some of the most   more

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