— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    Britain said on Tuesday it had proposed direct bilateral talks with Iran to resolve the standoff over Tehran’s seizure of 15 British [...]

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With the deadline for first quarter fundraising passing, I thought that it was time to not only look at who raised the most money and what it means for their campaigns, but also to ask is early fundraising really that important?

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Last September, North Korea, a country that has been plagued with famine deaths for the last decade, announced they were going to encourage farmers to breed rabbits to supply meat. Actually this makes sense. When I worked in Africa, one of the nutrition outreach programs was a club to teach people to raise rabbits as [...]

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Ruling on its first case involving global warming and climate change, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court held that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases do qualify as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

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Just because there’s no 9/11, that doesn’t mean Islamic extremists aren’t hard at work to bring a beheading to a home near you.

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My startling piece on “leftist scene” activities in Berlin yesterday not only raised a few eyebrows among the more vigilant of you defenders of democracy out there everywhere, it also seems to have triggered a daring move by the spearhead of a new international conspiracy of so-called “workers.” I was abducted in the night by [...]

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In another case of leftist hubris and stupidity, San Francisco is patting itself on the back for being sooooo environmentally conscious. In their latest paean to Greenists everywhere they have banned plastic grocery bags, forcing paper to become the norm in the left coast’s most leftist city. Have they done the environmentally right thing? Should [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Last week, a group of nuclear weapons specialists issued ominous warnings before members of the U.S. Congress that terrorist groups like al-Qaida could launch a massive nuclear attack on the United States and currently there is little to deter or defend against such a strike. Sidney Drell, an arms control [...]

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[Unhappily, George W. Bush, never an able student despite considerable prepping to get him into Yale, was also turned down when he applied to the University of Texas Law School: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2000/bush/cron.html Had he made it there or had he had some serious studies in the history of democracy along the way, he might have learned [...]

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News Item: Gunman shoots 3 outside Nickelodean party Nicklelodean held its Kid’s Choice Awards program the other night, and as with any Hollywood production of this type, there were award parties afterwards.  One such party in West LA drew some unexpected fans.  Who knew that gangsters watched Nick at Night? LA street gangs have garnered [...]

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[I, too, as did Chris Hedges, studied theology before turning to another career.  One of my teachers at Union Theological Seminary, Reinhold Niebuhr (no pacifist -- he had urged U.S. resistance to fascism and Nazism)  had also warned of the hazards of the degenerate, simplistic religion being promoted by the fundamentalists of that day,  particularly [...]

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[By chance I happened upon Danae Alon's documentary, Another Road Home, which is currently playing and replaying on the Sundance channel (101 in NYC) which details her search for the Palestinian family care giver, Mahmoud Musa Obeidallah, who nurtured her when she was growing up as a young girl in Israel. Obeidallah had labored long [...]

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After the Indian debacle in the Sri Lankan match in the World Cup, the undersigned made some comments on the possibility of the result being an outcome of a “Match Fixing” affair. Of course, it was stated that the “Match Fixing” need not be “Betting Based” but could be related to the “Captaincy Issue” or [...]

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