President Musharraf and the Red Mosque Radicals

(Wed Jul 11th, 2007, by Aidan Maconachy)

The action taken by President Perves Musharraf against the Islamist radicals holed up in Lal Masjid or 'the Red Mosque' in Islamabad, have been portrayed by some pundits as a heroic offensive against creeping Talibanization. This is largely a percept...

President Sarkozy and the French Jogging Controversy

(Wed Jul 11th, 2007, by Aidan Maconachy)

In France the jogging habit of President Sarkozy has become the subject of debate, analysis and yes ... even psychoanalysis. In the cafes favored by Paris intellectuals the talk is no longer about existentialism or post-modernism - but about Sarkozy'...

Washington Is Known For Its Saints

(Wed Jul 11th, 2007, by Arleen M. Kaptur)

Washington is Known For Its Saints by: Arleen M. Kaptur Wherever you go nowadays, the talk is usually politics. You have your sides - some think everyone in Washington is a saint and others think another realm is where our lawmakers belong. Which...

Princess Diana Crash: Prime Suspect Found Burnt Beyond Recognition

(Wed Jul 11th, 2007, by Ba Kiwanuka)

"We heard a loud bang then moments later we saw a white Fiat Uno and a motorbike racing out of the tunnel at high speed!" Those were the damning words of several eyewitnesses to the crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, Henri Paul and serious...

Throwing Stones From Crony Filled, Glass Houses

(Wed Jul 11th, 2007, by J.J. Jackson)

I wish I could go just one day without a prominent liberal throwing a stone from their own glass house. When Hillary Clinton said of the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence by President Bush, "What we saw today was elevating cronyism over the rul...

CommonSenseGovernment.com: The Conservative Vision

(Wed Jul 11th, 2007, by John Eberhard)

The Republican Party is in a crisis right now. It is not due to the Democrats taking over control of Congress. It has to do with losing the vision of conservatism. If anything, Republicans lost Congress because they have lost the vision of political...

Poland : Jaroslav Kaczinsky's Bogey Man

(Wed Jul 4th, 2007, by Aidan Maconachy)

On the face of it Poland seems to be doing okay. Economic growth is around the 6% mark. It is the recipient of a whopping 49 billion in EU subsidies. No power is menacing its borders. No passing planes are dropping propaganda leaflets. But you wouldn...

Jump Start Your Political Campaign Using Lapel Pins

(Wed Jul 4th, 2007, by Rosana Levesque)

Think Political Campaign Pins are a new thing? Think again. It was actually George Washington the one to introduce the use of political buttons in New York, back in 1789. The buttons read "G.W. - Long Live The President". But it wasn't until Abraham ...

Idiocy At The Speed of Ludicrous

(Wed Jul 4th, 2007, by J.J. Jackson)

The internet is a great thing and we should all be thankful to Al Gore for creating it for us. Now, before I get one more email from some numbskull saying that Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet let me put that fallacy to rest by pro...

Alienated Life : Socio-Economic Characteristics of The Ultra Poor in Thailand

(Wed Jul 4th, 2007, by Medhi Krongkaew)

Introduction One of the success stories about economic development of Thailand in the past 20 years is its record of continuous reduction in the incidence of poverty defined as the proportion of Thai population having income lower than a designated '...