November 17, 2008
Ouch! And no, I didn’t write this. The Economist did! JOHN STUART MILL once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid party. Today the Conservative Party is run by Oxford-educated high-fliers who have been busy reinventing conservatism for a new era. As Lexington sees it, the tit...
go to article »November 16, 2008
Conversation between Sarko and Putin, last August during the Georgian crisis: Putin: “I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls” Sarko: “Hang him?” Putin: “Why not? The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.” Sarko: “Yes but do you want to end up like Bush?” Putin: “Ah — you have sco...
go to article »November 6, 2008
So now what? America is genuinely giddy. Apparently, so are the French. Should they? Should we? How about the rest of the world? Your thoughts, please. **** Various items of more or less interest: Sarko misspells “Barak” [fr]. Kouchner wastes no time: in Washington on Tuesday. Obama has French...
go to article »November 5, 2008
November 4, 2008
The last time I remember the citizens of the United States to be united around something was right after Sept 11. Even I, who’s not a citizen and have no desire to become one, had an American flag on my lawn for months. In fact, that unity wasn’t just of Americans. The whole world was w...
go to article »November 3, 2008
November 2, 2008
The United States of America has been in existence for 231 years. In those 231 years, there have only been five black U.S. senators. Yes, Barack Obama is only the 5th black U.S. senator in history. In that same period, there have only been 2 elected black governors. The first one was elected in 199...
go to article »October 31, 2008
So much talk about Joe the Plumber and his “American Dream” of one day owning his boss’ company made me think of reposting this post. Here it is: The American dream is sold to both Americans and the world partly on one premise: Economic mobility here is greater than anywhere else....
go to article »October 29, 2008
Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Pari...
go to article »October 24, 2008
ACORN, non-working voting machines, inaccurate voting rolls purges, Mickey Mouse registrations, weird ballot designs, half-day long waiting lines, inconsistent and incoherent identity checks and confusing rules… What’s this, some banana republic? Already in 2004, concerns over inaccuracies in t...
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