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Politics | By Gaizka Pujana @ Thursday, 10th July 2008 @ 7:38 PM

Perhaps it's the lack of a Catalan side to support that causes even the most nationalist of Catalans to put divisions aside. Was this an interesting glance at the mechanics of perceived division? It's been said of the nationalist leaders of Catalunya and Spain's other regions armed with claims to autonomy, that they're out of touch with the woof and warp of mainstream society. Nationalist aspirations, some say, may have peaked. Indeed the Catalan nationalist ... more...

Politics | By Anthony Wayne @ Saturday, 28th June 2008 @ 4:42 AM

John McCain is out of touch with the American public. At a time when nearly 60% of Americans use text messaging, how does the McCain campaign not have a text message element? His competitors, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton sure seem to be more in touch with the American public, especially younger adults who must find the McCain campaign to be so yesterday. Text messaging today is as important to the American public as the fireside chats of the FDR era that targeted radio listen... more...

Politics | By Michael Sack Elmaleh @ Friday, 30th May 2008 @ 5:06 PM

When presidential candidates are asked why they are running they invariably say something like "I'm bursting with so much love for this great country and its people that running for President is the only patriotic thing to do". These candidates are also quick to assure us that they do not simply love our country in the abstract, they love each and every one of us personally. Of course our candidates are human (with the possible exceptions of Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton),... more...

Politics | By Gordon Warre @ Monday, 26th May 2008 @ 12:16 AM

Bahraini liberals have responded to the growing power of religious parties by organizing themselves to campaign through civil society in order to defend basic personal freedoms from being legislated away. Bahrain is a generally flat and arid archipelago, consisting of a low desert plain rising gently to a low central escarpment, in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia. Bahrain has been proposed to be at list part of Dilmun, a land mentioned by Mesopotamian Civilizations as a trade pa... more...

Politics | By Catherine Harvey @ Sunday, 25th May 2008 @ 6:29 AM

This surely cannot be a good time for any new bod in government to try and prove himself? A recession is threatening the world over and all leaders are being held responsible but take a closer look. This has to be one of the hardest jobs on earth and we all need to remember that, although the buck stops firmly with the leaders, they are only human and we all need to do our bit. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been greeted with mixed feelings. His popularity among the ladies is no sec... more...

Politics | By Jack Deal @ Friday, 25th April 2008 @ 9:59 PM

It was a masterful campaign right through to Texas. Just before Texas Obama admitted they had let up for a few days and could have perhaps won or closed the gap with a stronger finish. This was to my recollection the first time Obama admitted his campaign had made a mistake. Up to that point it was by most accounts a masterful campaign; in fact, an almost perfect campaign. But as we know now, that was the calm before the storm. First came the Michelle Obama comme... more...

Politics | By Jack Deal @ Friday, 25th April 2008 @ 4:43 AM

We Americans are a selfish bunch often becoming "patriotic" only when it helps our pocketbook. Our vote has become a self interest vote which is part of democracy's strength and also part of its weakness. The poor vote one way and the rich another; the poor vote hoping to get a free piece and the rich vote to keep all of their pieces and not have to share any. Or something like that. The undecided straddling the middle cast the swing votes; they hope to give a li... more...

Politics | By John DeJong @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 8:19 PM

By now you have to have been pulling a Castaway number to have not heard of Operation Chaos. For those aspiring Robinson Crusoe's among you, Op. Chaos is a brilliant creation of Rush Limbaugh. What he has done is to give all those Conservatives who have missed out on voting against John McCain a new voting life by way of switching parties and becoming "Shadow Democrats" for the remaining DNC primaries. Oddly enough, Rush is pushing all of these newly switched Shadow-Dems to... more...

Politics | By Derek Dashwood @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 4:04 PM

The cartoons of American antiques and historical characters come at us daily. We laugh at the slow witted, yet very violent Elmer Fudd, very quick to shoot many times in a volley of violence. Which somehow some times reminds us of that actual modern day incarnation of President Fudd, our real time chap so trigger happy, the second and lesser President Bush. He of very little noble career diplomatic skills earned through war and negotiations with all he had to, friend and foe, to achieve m... more...

Politics | By Derek Dashwood @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 2:19 PM

Healthy lifestyles would not recommend that you be downdraft or under a modern aircraft. They are fueled for more power with kerosine, that lamp that gave off smoke into the lungs of grandpa while he tried to read the paper. Mostly, we can now turn on the lights and not ignite a flammable substance into our lives. Although modern industry, in it's efficient way, can some times do this for us. Take, for example, that modern marvel, the jet engine. It is a much more high powered machi... more...

Politics | By Derek Dashwood @ Thursday, 27th March 2008 @ 7:22 AM

There are so many examples that I have been studying of great men of history who changed the world in their youth with some massive and brilliant step forward, only to decline in their later years into silly side routes as our modern history now shows. But if we read how Sir Isaac Newton, who may have been the greatest genius known, along with Michelangelo, Lincoln, Leonardo, Archimedes, Einstein and others we see they all made all their greatest inventions in their youth. For man... more...

Politics | By Charlotte Buelow @ Sunday, 16th March 2008 @ 1:16 PM

How much do you know about America's presidents? Here are some fun facts and little-known trivia about some of our most popular government leaders. Who was our tallest President? Abe Lincoln was 6 feet, 4 inches! Which US President studied to be a medical doctor? William Henry Harrison, the ninth President. Who was the first President to have a stepmother? Millard Fillmore, the 13th President Who was the fist left-handed President? James Garfield, th... more...

Politics | By Dave Dorgan @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 3:00 PM

As with most heavily funded political campaigns, at this point in the Democratic Primary race the political TV ads are just a waste of money. First, the great majority of people have already decided on which candidate they are going to back. And, most of the undecided voters are just lying, because they do not have the brass kahonas to take a stand in front of their family or friends. Second, the mere appearance of political TV ads, regardless of their content, can have what I call the Annoyance... more...

Politics | By Eric Bramlett @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 4:38 PM

The upcoming Texas Primary March 4th has revealed some conservative dissatisfaction with the likely nomination of Senator John McCain for president. This primary ranks as the most important since 1976, when Gerald Ford fought Ronald Reagan for Texas' delegates to the Republican Convention. Since the primary is later than many other states, the nominees of both major parties are usually known before the presidential contest rolls into Texas. Senator McCain leads the national GOP f... more...

Politics | By Cassidy Williams @ Monday, 10th March 2008 @ 5:20 AM

Panama has maintained good relations with power houses and international bodies in a bid to ensure trade and business. Ties with the United States of America have helped in developing economic, social, and political and security matters. In these days, many Panamanians go to the US for higher education and for other training courses. Similarly, many American citizens, retired employees of the Panama Canal Commission and people holding citizenship in both the countries also reside in Panama. more...

Politics | By Michael Sack Elmaleh @ Tuesday, 4th March 2008 @ 5:34 AM

Is there any specific experience that can best prepare an individual to be the President of the United States? Service in the military? Running a business? Governing a state? Or will the much maligned legislative experience suffice? How much of the right sort of experience is enough? Consider the resumes of two of our best presidents. Consider first Mr. Lincoln. When Lincoln came to office he had served a number of terms in the Illinois state legislature, only one term in the House of Rep... more...

Politics | By John DeJong @ Sunday, 2nd March 2008 @ 3:30 AM

This is perhaps the most bizarre Republican Primary Election that I've ever witnessed. As a matter of fact, the entire GOP looks like it is going over the edge. In my mind, it is an unholy alliance that my party has wrapped its arms around the most Liberal of all our Candidates to run for President of the United States. Yet as we've all witnessed in just one week, it's nothing more than politics as usual within the Republican hierarchy. Over the course of just one year I ha... more...

Politics | By Eric Bramlett @ Saturday, 1st March 2008 @ 7:45 PM

The presidential primary March 4th in Texas may decide which Democrat faces the likely Republican Party nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the final two Democrats left, face off in a tough, high-profile showdown in the Lone Star State. The Democratic candidates are almost in a dead heat in the state, according to a Houston Chronicle poll. Texas voters in the Democratic Party primary are diverse, with just more than half either Hispanic or African-Am... more...

Politics | By Derek Dashwood @ Friday, 29th February 2008 @ 10:50 AM

The recent news may have been historic. As Emerson noted, while he and his friend Thoreau would read and discuss the ideas of the ages, others would shout loudly about another train derailment, or an uprising in the west, and other events that make the headlines for that day, but will be forgotten soon enough. Some profound things are changing. Emerson wrote about this with wry wit, about custom being the hobgoblins of little minds. He understood that everyone applied their God given inte... more...

Politics | By Jack Deal @ Wednesday, 27th February 2008 @ 1:37 PM

To say the USA is in a health care crisis is an understatement. The United States is the only First World nation without some sort of universal health care coverage. The reason that countries like Britain and Canada and Germany have universal coverage is that it is the right thing to do. Beyond that as we are finding out in the United States, it also makes great business sense. In the 1990's Bill and Hillary Clinton spoke about health care reform but did little. Since being... more...