Ryan Coates
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Articles by Ryan Coates
July 29, 2010
If Obama wanted an example of how not to respond to a disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, he did not have to search far. The response of the Bush Administration to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 suggests that as long as Obama pledged federal government aid and arrived on scene quickly, he would fare better t...
January 07, 2010
Way back in June, when the American people weren´t so annoyed by the healthcare bill, former Senators Bob Dole and Tom Daschle suggested that for the bill to be bipartisan, ´It has to be something where you have a double-digit number of Republicans and Democrats.´ Half of this was ...
October 17, 2009
When Ronald Reagan became President in 1981, he followed three Presidents, all of whom had followed the policy of detente, meaning to artificially relax the state of international affairs. Reagan saw it as a feeble attempt at thawing the Cold War, and upon assuming office, terminated the Strategic A...
September 10, 2009
The release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds has greatly strained the so called ´special´ relationship´ between the United States and the United Kingdom. The UK had given its word that al-Megrahi would serve out ...
August 26, 2009
Firstly, let face facts. The Republicans are floundering. They are the minority party in both Houses of Congress. They don´t hold any influence with the occupant of the Oval Office. And yet, it would be all too easy to be pessimistic. Hope is at hand. The Republican Party are far from over, pr...
August 22, 2009
As the world wonders what to do in the aftermath of the largest economic depression for three decades, advice can be sought from the archives of history. America in the twenties was economically prosperous and it saw the rescue of a nation from the debt of a World War, to the cultural and economic f...
August 21, 2009
Realism is the application of practicality and reality, in this case, to foreign policy. In practice, as realism is designed to be, it deals with an area of policy and government which is renowned for being politically fluid, subjective and notoriously unpredictable. Foreign policy cannot be set in ...
August 21, 2009
Article III of the Constitution outlines the Supreme Court vaguely, stating that īThe Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Con...
August 21, 2009
As a resident of the UK, I have firsthand experience of living under the National Health Service, which is currently receiving a harsh press in the US. The service faces its fair share of domestic criticism for waiting times, poor standards and ever increasing expenditure, but I think on the whole, ...