55 days ago by Publisher

Last night’s debate: McCain did fine. He knew what he was talking about, and kept it low-key. Obama seemed to do well. He had his stuff memorized perfectly. He was arrogant and self-assured, full of the sort of confidence that comes with being educated, young, tall and popular, while making several ...

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74 days ago by Steve Holt

Charlie, remember when I said that you should never take pleasure in other people's misfortune? Well, you can scratch that. Just after Marshawn danced into the end zone from 21 yards out the image of Tom Brady's leg buckling under the weight of Kansas City safety Bernard "Karma" Pollard splashed acr ...

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93 days ago by halldor4

It’s now starting to be time for all the Western commentators, the op-ed writers, journalists, political analysts, academics, businesspeople and sundry Kremlinologists who acclaimed the “New Russia” that supposedly emerged after the fall of Communism to publicly admit that they were wrong – that wha ...

A Step At A Time - halldor2.wordpress.com · 33 references

103 days ago by Jere

I’m very much aware that blog yesterday on the powder keg that the Georgia-Russia conflict represents sounds very much like that guy, the one always complaining that the media is mostly talking about Britney Spears when Kosovo is burning or Sudan is bleeding. I’m also aware that in reality, cooler h ...

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104 days ago by Jere

I know most people probably aren’t paying a whole lot of attention to this, what with that sporting event and its parade of patriotic theatre, the shiny new political sex scandal starring an attractive former Presidential contender, and other news, but Russia and Georgia (the nation, not the state — ...

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109 days ago by gottafang

While our nation’s spittleflecked jackass pundits and rage-o-maniacs bellow and bray and issue important action alerts about the allegedly fascist government now in control, Solzhenitsyn wrote the one massive work that was considered to be an indictment of a political regime. Not content to merely r ...

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207 days ago by Alan Caruba

By Alan Caruba When the government of the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the fall was attributed to all kinds of reasons. There was the failed invasion of Afghanistan, the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and, after some desperate efforts by Mikhail Gorbechev, Communism as a guiding princi ...

221 days ago by Strangely

How, Rees can sing better than ye! It seems that every time Jill Rees visits and then leaves a country, weird internal changes start to happen. The latest visit was to Bulgaria. Now that she’s left, the interior minister has resigned over claims that he’s crap at his job of cracking down on organise ...