Posts Tagged ‘ Bush Administration ’

Campbell Brown’s Righteous Indignation….

or A Case of Serious Logic Problems. For the past couple of weeks, watchers of CNN have been bombarded with serious doses of misguided commentaries by Campbell Brown and her self-styled “No Bias, No Bull” segments which are probably the most biased and bull-filled on TV, second only to Fox News. Now, her rants are...
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First Libya, now North Korea

It has now been confirmed that the Bush administration has removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. “Based upon the cooperation agreement North Korea has recently provided … the secretary of state this morning rescinded the designation of the DPRK as a state sponsor of terrorism,...
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The New Yorker Endorses Obama

This is worth quoting in full: “Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching—that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency...
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Bush’s Pound of Flesh?

In the wake of the fiasco that has become the attempt to bailout failed financial institution, one thing that has been a constant is the invisible role of the Bush administration in putting John McCain in a very tight spot. After a full week of a roller-coaster of political activities, we finally came to...
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On This September 11

It’s been seven years since the horrible tragedy that was visited on the United States by mindless terrorists and misguided elements. Seven years have gone by when the country lost almost three thousand souls to the attack on 9/11, and seven years have gone by without the major participants in that attack being brought...
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The rebirth of a Bipolar world?

In a sign that the world may be witnessing the re-emergence of a bipolar world where the United States and most Western countries are on one side and Russia and its allies are on the other, President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia on Sunday laid out what he said would become his government’s guiding principles...
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Is Obama tough enough?

We have frequently heard this question mainly from mainstream media usually in reference to Senator Barack Obama’s ability to withstand the barage of negative information thrown out by the Republican opposition. On the face of it, this seems like a valid question to ask, to wit: is the senator tough enough not to self-destruct...
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Obama and the Palestinian question

Now that Senator Barack Obama has had his turn in the merry-go-round called Fact Finding tours by United States Senators, it is time to address the expectations we have of how he will handle the Palestinian Question. Israel and the Palestinians have been at war for the most part of the past 30 years...
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Don’t annoy the crazy person!

Now that the three parties involved in the latest round of the Middle East crisis have shown us what they are made of, what is next? The recent Israeli “training manoeuvres, the U.S. exercises in the Persian Gulf, and now the Iranian testing of their longest-range missile seems to be setting the stage...
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