Since announcing he won’t seek re-election, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has been making the farewell rounds, appearing on the Sunday talk shows. But his volatile stop on Monday’s edition of “The View”‘ might make him wish his term’s end comes swiftly. He got into a minor verbal scuffle with the show’s resident Republican Elisabeth Hasselbeck [...]
President Karzai’s government strongly condemned a NATO air strike which killed at least 27 civilians, including women and children, on Sunday. It was the 3RD blotched air strike by NATO since the offensive started in Marjah 9 days ago. President Karzai called the air strike “unjustifiable”. NATO aircraft bombed a convoy of vehicles on its [...]
As a lifelong New York Mets fan, I love underdogs. So cringe if you will, but I just can’t help rooting for David Paterson. The New York Governor, who officially tossed his hat into the election ring last Saturday has been dogged by everyone form the venerable New York Times to President Obama. No one, [...]
The popular wisdom currently is that “Al Gore’s climate change theory” is in big trouble due to scandals, bad science, tampered data, the coldest winter ever, and so on. Not a word of it is true of course. It’s just more of the standard climate change Denier misrepresentation and outright lies. However, it does underscore three critical challenges in the politics of climate change.
On Sunday, the Taiwan News published an AP article most people who care about Haiti should read: “Can low-paying garment industry save Haiti?” Of course, because AP has some serious issues with news sites and bloggers re-publishing their content, I cannot publish even a portion of the article here. But in a nutshell — the [...]
