It seems that our media never stops on finding ways of griping about people: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, under fire at home for describing U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as "suntanned," said on Friday he saw no need to apologize. At a news conference, Berlusconi was brusque with an American journalist who suggested he should …
Let’s Hope al-Qaeda Organises a Union, Too
Now that Barack Obama has won, the TSA airport screeners hope their desire for a trade union that can strike is realised: Representatives of the American Federation of Government Employees and National Treasury Employees Union said that their top priority under the Obama administration will be to ensure collective bargaining rights for federal airport screeners. …
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The Party’s Over: A Post-Election Reflection
With Barack Obama's victory and the Democrats' concomitant advances in the Congress, some reflections and anticipations are in order. I will concentrate on two aspects: the Republican Party and Evangelical Christianity. Republican Party It's fair to say that the Republican Party is history as a national party in the U.S. Oh, it's true that it …
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Starbucks’ Free Election Day Coffee: It Was a Great Idea, But…
Starbucks is in trouble after their offer to furnish free coffee for voting on Election Day: Prior to Monday afternoon, Starbucks was promoting an ad that said anyone who says enters a Starbucks on Election Day and says that they voted would get a free cup of tall coffee. Election officials for the state of …
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Voting: The Two-Edged Sword
These pithy quotes, from Black Swan Trading: “Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.” ‐‐ Ambrose Bierce “Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose …
Obama’s Stance on Coal True to Form
His now controversial stance on the coal industry, as elucidated to the SF Chronicle, is in the mainstream--of the American left's view of the environment and the economy, as I already noted relative to the oil industry: Today, it’s fair to say that the Democrats, on the whole, would like to see a more European …
Churchgoers Still Aren’t Breaking for Obama
This from the Politico: Barack Obama has courted white weekly churchgoers as avidly as any Republican-leaning bloc of voters, though it now appears his efforts may fall flat on Election Day. The Gallup Poll now shows Obama backed by 28 percent of white voters who attend church at least once a week — a group …
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Maybe They’ll Call Obama’s “National Civilian Security Force” the Inland Police
Obama's newest idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s I try not to make it a steady diet on this blog, but sometimes I think I'm seeing stuff in my own novels come to life. In my first printed novel Paludavia (written in 2003,) I have the left-wing Republic of Verecunda defended in part by its underfunded and undermanned (and …
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The American Left: The Worst of Both Worlds
This will probably be my last "major" posting before the American elections. Although I know the social issues are what Christians are "supposed" to focus on, I'm taking a different tack and look at an economic one, one which I'm all too familiar with and which has shoved itself back into people's consciousness--the oil industry. …
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Cindy Sheehan Finds Out Thugocracy Isn’t Fun
It's getting rough out there, even for a leftist like Cindy Sheehan: Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of the Cindy Sheehan for Congress campaign offices were shattered. Although staffers had been in the office less than an hour earlier, no one was in the …
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