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The first great campaign ad of the 2008 cycle made its appearance not in the local television markets of early voting states, or even on cable or satellite. No, the ad showed up on YouTube and has captured the imaginations of many net surfers and political pundits alike.
Tuberculosis, the good newsUsually the “disease of the day” headlines scream of another way we’re all gonna die. But today I have good news: Tuberculosis cases are decreasing. Deacreasing? What do you mean? After all, look at how TB in patients with HIV is so hard to treat, and how multidrug resistant TB is increasing […]
International condemnation intensify over Mugabe’s brutal rule Amin George Forji With the humanitarian and political situation in Zimbabwe deteriorating from bad to worse on a daily basis, the African Union and Southern African countries who have since kept a tradition of silence on the matter, have now began coming out of he bag, following the […]
Biya’s regime hesitate enforcing new Elections Management body  By Amin George Forji The dateline for all parties in Cameroon to register their participation for the upcoming general elections due in June this year at the Ministry of Territorial Administration (MINAT), expired today March 20th, with all major opposition parties boycotting, in protest of poor electoral […]
A TV drama that re-awakened tragic memories of African slavery  Roots: The Saga of an American Family, commonly known as “Rootsâ€- a novel and film by the same name, by Alex Haley, is perhaps the most popular work of art the world-over on the horrors of African slave trade. Although written in 1976, more […]
The last thing nervous Republicans on Capitol Hill wanted was more surprises in the U.S. Attorney scandal. However new documents released on Friday direct contradict Gonzales’s March 13 statements that he was not directly involved with the firing of 8 U.S. attorneys last December.
Not a good feeling about all this. Will the British let themselves be played for 444 days, like we were, after the Teheran embassy was overrun? Are we prepared for another long series of staged demonstrations and photo ops, fruitless diplomatic wrangling, a ceaseless media circus, yellow ribbons around the old oak tree, and an […]
This is totally and completely unacceptable. Olmert has accepted the Saudi plan basis – he has gone insane and jeopardized not only the state of Israel, but its citizenry. Olmert said Thursday that he is willing to do “anything possible†to attain peace may lead Arab nations to believe Israel is willing to compromise on […]
An anonymous source told the Associated Press on Friday that former Iowa governor, and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, Tom Vilsack and his wife plan to endorse Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Monday.
From The Gathering Storm Blog Recently, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference in Washington. In his remarks, he listed the most common myths about the war on terror. Unfortunately, they don’t go far enough in identifying the crux of the problem facing us in our struggle against […]
 Posted by Charles S on March 23rd, 2007 “Be happy, not gay”. This simple phrase printed on a T-shirt was enough to trigger a lawsuit in Illinois, after a student was told she could not wear the shirt because it may “upset” other students. Heidi Zamecnik of Neuqua Valley High, is now asking the […]
Leave it to the AP to turn the disintegration of the organization of one of our enemies in Iraq into a bad thing! That’s what we get with Wednesday’s analysis of the trouble that seems to be befalling the organization of Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia, a group that has resisted US led coalition government since day […]
After hearing about the new Greenpeace “Plan B†climate protection plan, in which Germany turns off all of its nuclear power plants by 2015 while still maintaining it can cut 40 percent of its CO2 emissions by 2020, the Merkel government, not wanting to be topped in matters concerning environmental correctness, has apparently come up […]
The State legislature of Nevada wants to be sure your home’s Feng Shui is smooth. New Mexico’s officials want to be sure that your “space” is well arranged. They are all about home decor. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if they have the Home Improvement channel constantly playing in all state offices so that […]
[While we were at Oxford in the late 1950s we developed a close sense of things in South Africa through the eyes of a couple renting in the same building who became dear friends who were South Africans — she Afrikaans and he of British roots. Alice had noted the distance between blacks and whites […]
News Item: New Jersey residents continue fleeing the state So people are moving out of New Jersey. That isn’t news. Sky high taxes, inflated property values, some folks just plain can’t afford it anymore. Besides the standard government mismanagement of anything monetary in the state, an article over at Enlighten – New Jersey points out […]
[It is becoming increasingly clear from what one could have predicted from his pathetic academic career and subsequent misbegotten business ventures — Bush is a stupid individual who depends on others to make decisions for him. He is the opposite of a “decider” as he wanders around in some sort of daze. Look to the […]
The functioning of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bangladesh is moving at a snail’s pace for lack of rules and adequate manpower although all eyes are now fixed on this constitutional body in view of the on-going anti-graft drive. According to sources, the commission could not take legal action against the corruption suspects till date as […]
(Westminster, UK) Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair responded to a question on autism by influential British parliamentarian Lee Scott MP for Ilford North. Mr. Scott was expressing the serious concerns of his constituent, Ivan Corea of the Autism Awareness Campaign UK. The campaign is calling for radical change on government policy on autism and a 10 year […]
[I know from discussions with some of my students who have migrated to this country as refugees from repressive regimes — who have become thoroughly Americanized — that one of their deep fears is that they will be sent back to their countries of origin where they face this threat. The upshot of an arranged […]
The news that Bob Woolmer was murdered by strangulation has shocked the entire world even outside the Cricket fraternity. The investigative speculation is that Bob Woolmer had been writing a book in which he would have revealed some secrets which could be embarrassing for some. Who are those people who could have been affected by […]
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. attorney for New York, Rudy Giuliani said that he thinks Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should get the “benefit of the doubt†pertaining to his role in the daily growing U.S. attorney scandal. “
Sr. General Than Shwe’s Second Daughter has made 200 Million dollars by selling Burma’s land to Chinese tycoons Burma has been under a military dictatorship for about 40 years. This makes it one of the poorest nations in Asia. The average household income is only 10 USD per month. Along with the dictatorship CORRUPTION has rooted itself everywhere, earlier […]
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