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Hugo continues to make friends

Or not. Now he’s alienated his neighbor, Columbia:Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Monday that reconciliation is impossible with Colombia’s president as the two leaders traded stern...

THIS JUST IN: Good news on the telcom immunity front

From Wired:Civil liberties groups got a stunningly unexpected win Thursday as the Senate Judiciary panel passed their version of the new government spying bill out of committee without including a...

A few extra pounds wont kill you

According to a new Government study, having 25 pounds of extra weight does not increase the risk of death due to cancer and heart disease. This study seems to justify Grandma claim that a few...

The Belgian Crisis and the New EU Treaty

A quote from EUobserver, 5 November 2007: Legal experts now fear that if Belgium fails to have a new government by 13 December, the outgoing government, normally only charged with 'current affairs',...

Cheney in 2002: We'll be out of Iraq in 1 to 2 months

NYTVice President Dick Cheney is trying to persuade Dick Armey, the Republican House majority leader, who was skeptical about a war on Iraq, in a private meeting in September 2002: “We have great...

watch this documentary!

I recently watched an episode of the PBS series "frontline". The episode was "Endgame", describing the timeline of the war in Iraq, and the supposed direction in which it is going. This is the paper...

Anti-Corporatism

Ezra Klein* writes something with which I agree...It’s part of the problem with our modern political discourse that it’s somehow become anti-corporate, or anti-capitalist, to say that we...

was slavery wrong?

i was reading about the american civil war, and i came to thinking, was slavery immoral? now, of course, i think it was immoral but did the southerner think that it was immoral? the south was very...

Help! Someone stole America's Bipartisanship!!

Well first of all I am going to start this off with the definition of Bipartisan, since it hasn't been practiced in america for a long time now. Bipartisan-consisting of, or supported by members of...

Barroso and Bilderberg to the Rescue of Belgium. Will the UK Be Ousted from the EU?

Today, day 119 since the general elections of June 10th, Belgium still has no government. Belgium’s politicians, however, expect the country to have a new government soon. Yves Leterme, the leader of...