Friday, April 15

Mexico: Pundita clarifies a point

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Some readers asked how the World Bank could be expected to write a loan that deals with US-Mexico border security. The question was in respo...
Thursday, April 14

Mexico: Beep this is a recording

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"Pundita, I'm writing about your observation [in yesterday's post] "The illegal commutes can and must be thinned out, so t...
Wednesday, April 13

Mexico: Terroristas, banditos, and the difference between commuting and migration

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In January the US Department of State issued a travel warning about the deteriorating security situation in Mexico's northern border reg...
Tuesday, April 12

Mexico: Truth, lies, and damning statistics

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Mexico is so dependent on the United States that it's a cause of resentment among Mexicans. Mexico's ruling class knows this so to ...
Monday, April 11

Mexico

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In 1999, our dear allies the Saudis got together with Mexico and Argentina and cooked up a plan to lead non-OPEC producers such as Norway in...
Sunday, April 10

This is what happens when one gets flippant with people who study history

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ZenPundit is back from vacation and wrote to respond to Pundita's snit at being branded a Hamiltonian realist and to elaborate on why h...
Saturday, April 9

US Foreign Policy: Dave Schuler's handy cheat sheet and the lessons of history

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Pundita is still stewing that ZenPundit branded ideas put forward in Democracy Stage Show Kit as "Hamiltonian realism." However...
Thursday, April 7

Finish the dance

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"Dear Pundita, It's no problem if you publish this letter but we don't want to give our names or tell where we live, except it...
Wednesday, April 6

Tony Blair calls for May 5 general election in Britain. Brussels seizes an opportunity

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Despite their past disagreements with the Iron Chancellor about his insistence that sound government fiscal policy is, well, sound, two days...
Tuesday, April 5

Hugo Chavez, The Coffee Club, and Plan A & B. You will need math and aspirin for this one.

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"Pundita, What is Hugo Chavez up to? Is he planning on becoming the next Castro or Bolivar or Napoleon or what? [Signed] Caesar in San ...
Sunday, April 3

Pundita plays White Rabbit to a reader's Alice in Washington-land

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"Pundita, the hallmark of science is not its ability to explain but its ability to predict (I mean prediction BEFORE something actually...

"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold"

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Sometime during the 1970s we passed into a new chapter in the saga of the human race. Here is the outline: Present technology + human popul...
Thursday, March 31

WORLD BANK ELECTS PAUL WOLFOWITZ AS PRESIDENT

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In October 2004 Paul Wolfowitz addressed an audience at Warsaw University. Pundita is haunted by one of his observations during the speech, ...
Wednesday, March 30

Women keep out of politics, or why Soccer Moms need to be in charge of US foreign aid

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Dear Pundita, I've started doing research on the issue you raised about the link between physical exhausting labor and low interest in p...
Tuesday, March 29

Pundita replies to critics, Part II

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(See March 29 for Part I.) TM Lutas blogger wondered whether the kit I described in Democracy Stage Show Kit exists. As I stressed there is...

"Where is your Pundita is not Wonkette post??" Note to Reader

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Pundita has a bad habit of treating her blog posts as if they were drafts, which means regular readers know to snap up a copy of a post they...

Pundita replies to critics, Part I

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Pundita's Democracy Stage Show Kit created a flurry of comments; three bloggers (see links below) published their critiques. The obser...
Monday, March 28

Rats, Lice, and the Relentless March of Political Correctness

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"deer pUndiTa, I am riting to prostest your use of buzzard to insult KoFi Anan. I thogt you were diferrent pondita but, like all humans...