Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Prompted by comments relating to Ruchira’s announcement that she intends not to post as frequently as usual, I thought I might at least contribute a cursory account of the conference I attended last week in D.C., the 101st meeting of ASIL. Let me note at the outset that Ruchira’s and Joe’s lapse into "blah"-ging has…
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Michelle Malkin is apparently speaking for the Jewish people now (see "The John Doe Manifesto" at Jewish World Review). Which is odd, because she’s not Jewish. To the extent that I identify with my Jewish heritage, I certainly don’t want her speaking for me. But Malkin is hateful and unhinged, and she did write a…
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Unfortunately, electing a president doesn’t come with a lemon law clause. Short of an impeachment (hardly a likely scenario), we are stuck with nearly two more stultifying years of the most inept, corrupt and arrogant administration in recent US history. Those of us who knew what lay in store after the 2000 election and shuddered…
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I was not surprised to hear Pres.Bush citing two bloggers from Baghdad yesterday as evidence of normalcy returning to Baghdad to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Though incompetent in most other respects,this administration has been most adept at inserting cherry-picked phrases into speeches. To go by those carefully selected words, you would think all is…
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With two million citizens displaced from their homes, at least half a million killed, hospitals, schools and civic amenities in shambles and a bloody civil war raging, Iraq is no more more unsafe than Detroit, Chicago or any other big US city. This according to Tim Walburg, a Republican US congressman from Michigan. He finds…
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This time the victims don’t want money. They want an apology and it is not forthcoming. Japan, for all its picture postcard beauty and colorful traditions, often has the most colorless, boring and sometimes corrupt politicians. That image was burnished by Japan’s recently retired prime minister, the charismatic baby boomer Junichiro Koizumi who was given…
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On March 19, 2003, I was in snowy Banff, Canada, enjoying a nice holiday. My husband and I watched BBC news (quite different from the coverage by CNN) with horror as round the clock reporting of the invasion of Iraq filled the TV screen with video game like imagery. (I have repeatedly wondered, if amateurs…
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Readers will surely be aware that Ruchira and I haven’t been terribly impressed with Presidential hopeful John Edwards, particularly after the Amanda Marcotte fracas, in which Edwards hired Marcotte to run his official blog because she is a prominent liberal blogger, and then when the right-wing noise machine predictably complained "wah wah we don’t like…
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A tragic and disturbing story from Norway. Another bitter fruit of Nazi philosophy whose seeds are still scattered in the battered minds of its vicitms. Living hell of Norway’s ‘Nazi’ children In his tiny flat on the edge of Oslo, Paul Hansen shows me his family album. It doesn’t take long. He only has three…
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No, the Oscars had nothing to do with it – that just solidified in people’s minds what many were thinking already. I have said it before and I am saying it now – Al Gore is the best candidate for a Democratic victory in 2008. (Billary is going nowhere, no matter what the power behind…
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No Bounce Left: George W. Bush hosted the players and coach of the championship basketball team, the Miami Heat, at the White House yesterday. The players presented him with a team jersey and a basketball. Always more comfortable in the company of athletes than with other world leaders, Bush was his usual jovial self standing…
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Since 9/11/2001, those wishing to obtain a US visa for travel, business, education or immigration have to go through a stringent (some say humiliating) screening process. The US Department of Homeland Security adopts a uniformly ham handed approach to ensuring security that does not distinguish between a visiting professor from an Arab /Asian country and…
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