Syria: Happy Ramadan from Bashar Al-Assad And Family
By Anthony Zeitouni “It is an inevitable surgery to save Syria,” a Syrian senior official told me the day after the recent massacre in the city of Hama, which took place on the first day of Ramadan, Islam’s sacred month. “In just a few weeks you will see the political reform of President Bashar Al-Assad” […]
Privacy: Fading Fast
By Ron Steinman Privacy should be a basic right. These days, with the pervasiveness of the Internet, it is fast becoming a luxury. That means the sense of who we are and how we perceive who we are is under constant threat by those who deem privacy to be outdated. I believe that many people […]
The TEApublicans Threaten to Shoot the Hostage: The Democrats Load the Gun
This is a deal? Give them everything they want and promise them a chance to fight for even more in the future? Are the American people supposed to have ‘faith’ that somehow the Democrats are going to learn to fight between now and the next dust-up they have planned? They just handed over their ass […]
The TEA Party: If They Can’t Take the Country Back, They’ll Take it Down.
There are 87 TEA Party congressional representatives out of 435 members in the house. 20%. Although they make up less than a third of the Republican side of the aisle, without them, the Grand Ol’ Party doesn’t have enough votes to beat the Democrats. They amount to what has become either a tumor on the […]
Friday, July 29, 2011: On Your Mark, Get Set… Boehner Starts a Run on the Banks?
John Boehner, after fumbling with the starting pistol, and apparently shooting himself in the foot, seems to have managed to fire a shot heard around the world; even if it was more like a fart in the wind than the blast of a canon. Another day of delay on a bill that was nothing more […]
