Stop burning carbon immediately and mass starvation, migration and sickness will ensue

To quote from a 2009 speech of U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan:

“Mass starvation, mass migration, and mass sickness will ensue if the world does not agree to the most ambitious international agreement ever negotiated on global warming.” 

Is from a comment on Bret Stephens debut New York Op Ed 'The Climate of Complete Certainty' which I put forth as an example of misplaced certainty on global warming.  If humanity were to take Kofi's call for action and stop the burning of carbon immediately then its mass starvation, migration and sickness that would ensue!

Trump's dysfunction to give us what Constitution envisioned: Local funding.

“When you worked for Reagan, you just knew what to do,” she once said. “Nobody had to tell you what to do. You didn’t wait for orders. You got up in the morning, went to your job, and did what you knew Reagan wanted done because you were a conservative.”

Kate O'Beirne's obit showed the value of clear ideology, especially for Washington.  Jimmy Carter was choked by detail when it wasn't clear which way he would decide so decisions got kicked upstairs. When Reagan moved in the change caused Democrats to argue that he was a lazy but the reality was that lower level officials could make decisions knowing his mind.  Authoritarian Trump's mercurial style and his disconnect with the Republican establishment leaves Washington incapable of making a decision. For survival states and cities had better stop looking to Washington. Governors and big city mayors are better off funding the programs they require locally. Its what our Constitution envisioned.   

Here is the deal: PRC takes out the Kid and the U.S. withdraws from South Korea

Cato's 'Convincing China to Coerce North Korea'

U.S. should indicate to China that its increase of military strength in the region is logical if it were meant to secure the intertwined logistics of Southeast Asia's prosperous tech economies and then point out that an out of control North Korea puts the chain at risk. Point out that for self preservation South Korea requires an American presence when the North threatens with nuclear arms and rather than counter with nuclear weapons of their own that it acquired our THAAD antimissile weaponry to defend themselves.  Point out that Japan and Taiwan may want to do the same. Point out that a misjudged nuclear conflagration would happen in their sphere of influence and may include China as well. Point out that asserting its strength and influence by invading, taking out the kid and annexing the country would be a logical means of securing the regions logistic chains of prosperity. With the irrational threat taken away American troops and the THAAD missiles could then be taken out of South Korea.        

'Veep' shows Washington at its ineffectual best

To those seeking a central government solution understand that Veep is funny because it shows Washington's disconnect to everyday people's reality.  

What the kid is proving to the world is that China has no influence

Watching ABC's High Alert in Korea showing American and South Korea defenses against North Korea makes China's lack of action toward taking out the kid in the neighborhood playing with nuclear matchsticks with an invasion and regime change inexplicable.  He draws the best American defense systems into the heart of their sphere of influence. What the kid is proving to the world is that China has no influence since its an existential threat to them, not us, should there be a nuclear exchange in the region.

Tillerson goes to Moscow with a nonstarter demand for Assad's ouster

At Meeting, Putin and Tillerson find very little to Agree on is the expected result of arriving in Moscow without an alternative to Assad must go.  Secretary of State Tillerson mentioned in his post meeting press conference that both the U.S. and Russia agree on a unified Syria, which means that a partitioned Syria where Assad is allowed to rule over his Alawite tribe and region, but not the rest of Syria, was not discussed.

Don’t Start a New Cold War Over Syria is Cato's take on the issue.

 

Obama's chemical weapons deal example of Constitutional constraint at its best

Deal on Syria's Chemical Weapons Comes Back to Haunt Obama is a poor headline for a Constitution loving  journal. The line in the sand drawn for Bashar al-Assad use of chemical weapons reached the best resolution possible because Obama asked for war powers from Congress before acting and having failed to get them  managed a Russian intervention to take them away. It should be considered a diplomatic coup and example of Constitutional constraint getting the best result possible.