British PM Candidate Helped Smuggle Teen Girl into Belgium
FF Exclusive: Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg, a leading candidate to be the UK's next prime minister, once helped smuggle a 17-year-old British teenager past immigration authorities during a 2003 cross-border trip to Brussels. A leading candidate to be the next British prime minister …Welcome Chinese Readers
Google Analytics tells me that Frum Forum .com now has 1500 readers in China, 1000 of whom have visited the site more than once. Google Analytics tells me that Frum Forum .com now has 1500 readers in China, 1000 of whom have visited the site more than once. Delighted to have you - please let …Is China Heading for a Rural Revolt?
If economic growth in China’s breadbasket falters though, could rural discontent spark China's next revolution? Click here to read all of David Frum’s blogposts from China. 'The world's factory floor," an American resident of China announced, pointing out the car window to a vast …CIA Has No Margin for Error
The Obama administration's decision to eliminate the required screening of air passengers originating in terrorist havens will only place a greater burden on the intelligence community, making it more difficult for them to quickly identify potential threats. For an administration that seems at …Mark Levin Gets It Wrong Again
This episode began with Jim Manzi noting that Mark Levin's writing on global warming is unreliable and irresponsible. If Levin wants to rebut the charge of unreliability, he shouldn't defend himself by inventing stories. Mark Levin's latest Facebook entry replies to me: Two thoughts …
Groupthink at National Review
How wonderful to return to a free country, I thought as I stepped off the plane from Beijing. Then I read the attacks on Jim Manzi at NRO's The Corner in response to his negative review of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny . How wonderful to return to a free country, I thought as I stepped off …Heritage Denies Ties to Obamacare
This week, the Heritage Foundation disavowed a series of health reform proposals from the early 1990s supporting an individual mandate. In an exclusive interview with F F , Heritage’s Dr. Robert Moffit denied that the think tank’s policy shift was politically driven. On Monday, Dr. Robert …Nick Clegg's Sickening Israel Bashing
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg may be surging in the U.K. election polls, but as Nile Gardner, Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, argues, his eagerness to demonize Israel while encouraging her enemies deserves closer scrutiny. Liberal Democrat …Is the GOP Ready to Govern?
If Republicans retake the House in November, we know that they will attempt cut taxes, cut spending and repeal healthcare reform. But will they also be able to develop a positive legislative agenda that answers the everyday concerns of citizens? If Republicans retake the House in November, we know …A New Front in Colombia's War on Drugs?
In the run up to Colombia's presidential election, voters are gravitating towards a candidate who is offering a new way to wage war against the drug-trafficking guerrillas FARC. May 30 will be the first round of Colombia's presidential election. The election was supposed to be a largely uneventful …Shining Light on Our Financial Markets
A new proposal by writer Richard Vigilante and mortgage trader Andrew Redleaf to require banks to publish every trade and every position could provide investors the information needed to prevent another market crisis. It's so crazy it just might work... The great Peruvian economist Hernando …Can Chinese Free Themselves?
A reader sent in a comment about my post on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. He shared the life story of an academic colleague who survived the horrors of that time. Click here to read all of David Frum’s blogposts from China. A reader sends this comment about my post on the …The Fat Diaries: Fast Food's Dirty Little Secret
This week, the FDA announced plans to monitor the sodium content of foods. They should be sure to include the chemical MSG in their oversight. Its contribution to our obesity epidemic is one of the dark secrets of the food industry. A few weeks ago, I saw a story in the news that a New …