November 16, 2008
The current US leadership -- to the extent the term "leadership" applies anymore --- has overestimated the difficulty of finding a way to get along with Iran, taken actions that have been extremely counterproductive to building a relationship with Iran, and generally failed to seize the initiative w...
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The only bright side to Wednesday's hight court ruling against the whales is that it was 5-4. Obama will no doubt have an opportunity to appoint a few more judges with common sense to the court.The ruling says the US Navy does not have to restrict its use of sonar off the coast of California, even ...
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According to a recent analysis in The Economist, the wall being built along the US-Mexican border simply doesn't make any sense. It is the wost of both worlds. The news magazine writes: "America is creating a barrier that is at once much too porous and rather too tight."However, the wall is well on...
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The single most unfortunate business transaction of the second half of the twentieth century was the day CNN founder Ted Turner sold the network to TimeWarner.On Tuesday Turner gave CNN's Lou Dobbs a piece of his mind. Voicing disagreement with the host's position against Mexican migrant workers i...
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CNN reports: Eighty percent of Americans think rudeness is a serious national problem, but 99 percent of the same people say that they themselves are not rude.Funny!Anyway, I believe the Obama presidency will contribute to making Americans more polite and courteous. The new president is a classy ...
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The following video -- which I first posted last week -- is titled "The greatest day." Now that I have finished adding subtitles to the video, I wanted you to know that the greatest day just got better....
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UpdatedI have proof Fox News coverage of Obama's 2008 election victory was distorted and unbalanced. Compare what Fox News chose to show on election night, to Jotman's own eyewitness account.The day after Obama's historic election victory, Fox News decided to do a story on "Communist symbolism" at t...
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Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever. If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you.- Paul Krugman, NY TimesThis sight br...
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On Tuesday, the people of the United States served George W. Bush and his supporters their eviction notice. Late that night, the people of America's capital -- by the thousands -- walked up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. They wanted to make sure that the Bush got word of the country's deci...
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Here it is! The definitive video series depicting events in the United States capital on one of the most historic nights in the country's history. I'm talking about the spontaneous celebrations that broke out in DC in the wake of the declaration that Barack Obama had won the presidency on Tuesday N...
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