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It is a fateful indication of how little progress the US has made in Afghanistan that President Obama had to deploy even more cloak and dagger maneuvers to visit there last weekend (over eight years into this war) than former President Bush did in 2006 (five years after launching it). And you’d think that having… Read more.
President Obama has little regard for the purported special relationship between the UK and the US. But his apparent disaffection manifests more in style than in substance. The UK-US special relationship Obama famously basked in Europe’s embrace during his presidential campaign. That the UK felt snubbed looking on is understandable. But even I saw the limitations of all that… Read more.
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Leaders from the so-called “red states” have made quite a show lately of fulminating against the power of the federal government. But not even they think that pounding their chests about sovereign states’ rights will ever cause the disuniting of the United States. By contrast, leaders from the so-called “PIGS” (namely, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain) have been arguing… Read more.
Lately, China has been acting as if gaining access to its market is akin to making it into corporate heaven. And, frankly, given the way foreign corporations have been selling their souls to gain that access, China can be forgiven its God-like complex. This is why I am so pleased that, after several years of… Read more.
This is what change looks like. We proved that this government – a government of the people and by the people – still works for the people. This is how President Obama heralded the passage of the historic healthcare reform bill late Sunday night, showing his Republican opponents that two can play that this-is-what-the-American-people-want game.… Read more.
Yesterday President Obama delivered the most motivational speech of any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt exhorted Congress to take bold action to lift the country out of The Great Depression in 1933 with the famous words: “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In this case, of course, Obama was exhorting the “band… Read more.
I made it through the worst winter in over a decade only to come down with the flu this first week of spring. Go figure… It’s been diagnosed as swine flu. Remember that? Of course, regular readers know how much I have pooh poohed the whole swine flu pandemic. As it happens, my condition only proves what I’ve… Read more.
Click here for the Cliff-Notes version of the customs and traditions of this kiss-me-I’m-Irish holiday. Read more.
A few years ago, revelations about the nature and scope of sexual abuse by priests gave the impression that the Catholic Church in America was being run by a syndicate of pedophile enablers. By contrast, the moral indignation European priests cast at their brethren in America back then gave the impression that the Catholic Church in… Read more.
