“Panama” on The Daily Caller

Over the course of good years and bad, the countries of Latin America have recently been taking diverging paths to very different futures. (more)

Experiencing frustration in his efforts to resolve myriad foreign policy issues, President Barack Obama blames some failures on President Bush. As to Obama’s failed policy to derail the Iranian express train seeking to load a nuclear arms cargo, he may want to consider blaming the 18th century philosopher Jacques Rousseau. (more)

Greg Hennessy designs software in New York, where his $2 million-a-year company, SWAT, is based. His customer credit-card payments go to a bank in Panama, where his business is incorporated. As a result, he pays taxes at Panama’s bargain-basement rates, far lower than what he’d owe in the U.S. “So far,” he says, “it’s been excellent.” (more)

President Obama is likely to meet with congressional roadblocks, if, as he promised in last week’s State of the Union address, he intends to pursue a policy “that opens global markets.” (more)

With President Obama set to deliver the State of the Union tonight, Americans are eager to see what he and Congressional Democrats will be focused on in 2010. While 2009 was a year of misplaced priorities and fiscal recklessness by Democratic leadership, Republicans continue to stand ready and willing to work with President Obama and Democrats on policies that Americans desperately want and need: serious job creation and a return to fiscal sanity. (more)

It was described as “the most successful strategic deception in the history of warfare.” During World War II’s Operation Mincemeat, the man at the center of the plot never knew he was—having died months earlier by his own hand. The identity of “the man who never was” is still debated, but he is believed to be Glyndwr Michael. (more)