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2009-02-21 … the European domestic market and the world economy. The Süddeutsche Zeitung echoed the statements of the EU Council president, writing, "Any politician seeking to solve the economic crisis by protectionist measures only worsens the situation." Barroso also warned against states going it alone. …
2009-02-13 … house of cards comes down they might not have that cozy seat in an underground bunker they think is reserved in their name. But at least one US politician has had the courage to tell defaulting homeowners to resist eviction for as long as possible. Unemployment is rising the world over while the social …
2008-10-13 … politics. Dim-witted, proudly ignorant, suspicious of anything they view as being dismissive or disdainful of their dim selves, eager to accept any politician who, in their view, is just as stupid as they are. Commonly associated with the term "I want a President that I can have a beer with." In recent …
2007-12-16 … less opinionated. I would say he might show a lot. Just like Pawlak, who returned after years of non-existance, to do something. So the recipe for a politician is to get wiser and grow up. But are we grown up as a society? - We’ve been hibernated for over 50 years: the authorities were treating us like …
2009-06-20 … it is used for is to fight terrorism. Put the "T-word" in the name of a Bill, and the Government can be sure that they can rush it through and any politician who objects is "weak on terrorism." Why not get the next Budget through quickly and with little scrutiny by calling it the Finance & Anti-Terrorism …
2008-11-09 … was able to place his close friend Medvedev as his successor and also assume the role of prime minister for himself. This relatively young Russian politician is clearly not finished exercising power in his native land. Extensive publicity of his prowess at martial arts and his well toned torso have …
2007-11-10 … designed to assemble the coalitions of voters needed to win elections- though Gordon Brown surely represents a return to a more traditional kind of politician. Case that Parties still Function Democratically and Situation Remediable: Ideology: it could be pointed out that Labour had not choice but to tack …
2007-10-15 … not take place. The Fallout of the Failed Gamble In June this year David Cameron expected Gordon Brown to be a lumbering, grey, extinct volcano of a politician whilst he proved remarkably nimble, steady of nerve and fecund of ideas. So confident did Gordon become, boosted by poll leads of up to 11% that he …
2007-10-15 … and competitiveness diminishing. In other words, the economy has not been based on strong foundations like, say, Germany or Scandinavia . Brown as a Politician; especially in relation to his ‘rival’ Tony Blair When Blair refused to give way, Brown resorted to a number of strategies: a) He refused to allow …
2006-12-05 … head of the UMP, making no bones about his intention of standing for the top job next year. As Minister of the Interior Sarko was the most popular politician in France and third most important behind Villepin and Chirac. The left criticise him as a populist demagogue and he has many critics in his own …
2009-06-20 … I have a convenient time I will call for you.” 26 Meanwhile he also hoped that money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him [typical politician hoping to have his palms greased, looking for bribes]. Therefore he sent for him more often and conversed with him.27 But after two years Porcius …
2009-06-24 … the risks of investing in some new factory or piece of farm machinery in order to improve your yearly productivity by 3-4% if some corrupt judge or politician can willy-nilly take that asset from you without compensation? Why bother? Why not just keep your savings buried in a hole in order to ensure you …
2008-12-14 … — as anyone. And although I am a Republican, I am first an officer of the court. Thus, I take no joy in a prosecutor pursuing a Democratic politician by violating his ethical responsibility. I fear for the integrity of the criminal justice system when a prosecutor breaks the rules. What’s more, …
2009-07-04 … are upset about this kind of deal. You just can't offer flat-rate hookers....its indecent. You need to pay for one-act at a time....thats the German politician way. The management guys have figured this out though....they are figuring that the most a guy will achieve any happiness in such an …
2009-07-07 … feel bullied by Germany, the alliance's heavyweight. (And: WHAT RULING REALLY MEANS FOR THE EU) RULING "A HUGE SUCCESS […] Christian Social Union politician Peter Gauweiler led the challenge to the Lisbon Treaty before Germany's highest court […] The court rejected most of the petition, but in an …
2008-03-19 An educational record used in schools to inform West-German students about East-German politics. This small excerpt from a speech of East-German politician Horst Schumann shows how even the most watered down version of Rock`n`Roll- the Twist- was still up for discussion in the communist dictatorship. …
2008-02-27 … that runs through Berlin)) that sends shivers down my spine. On the other hand one of the “artists” on this record, Heinrich Lummer a local Berlin politician, certainly is very very conservative. From 1981 to 1986 he was senator of internal affairs in Berlin and responsible for evicting a lot of squats. …
2008-03-19 An educational record used in schools to inform West-German students about East-German politics. This small excerpt from a speech of East-German politician Horst Schumann shows how even the most watered down version of Rock`n`Roll- the Twist- was still up for discussion in the communist dictatorship. …
2008-02-27 … that runs through Berlin)) that sends shivers down my spine. On the other hand one of the “artists” on this record, Heinrich Lummer a local Berlin politician, certainly is very very conservative. From 1981 to 1986 he was senator of internal affairs in Berlin and responsible for evicting a lot of squats. …
2009-02-25 … Barack Obama's State of the Union address, the first time each for both men. There is a long tradition in both Parties that an up-and-coming politician is allowed to respond to the adminstration of the day, after such a speech. For example, then Governor Clinton responded after President Reagan, and …
2009-07-03 … division into so-called hardliners or moderates is helpful. As far as relations with other countries are concerned, it is more important to look at a politician's pragmatism. It is in the interest of all parties in the Middle East that we achieve peace and stability, and that we transform our region into a …
2009-07-01 … is on a par with Michael Jackson's 'moonwalking,' as it gives the appearance of going forward whilst actually going backwards. This empty vessel of a politician who has only one forward gear, Neoliberalism, makes a last ditch attempt to win over working class voters by acknowledging the very crises in public …
2009-06-29 … other leaders to give up on the cause of promoting ethical behavior. For many liberals (and libertarians), the idea that we should care about what a politician does in the bedroom is deeply problematic. Putting personal behavior -- and especially sex -- at the center of politics -- promotes intolerance and …
2008-11-24 … Merkel has not played a bad hand. All opinion polls since the crisis broke out showed her adding to her comfortable lead as Germany’s most popular politician. Apart from Mr Fischer’s comments and further disapproving noise from the weak and fragmented opposition, she has faced little criticism at home. …
2009-06-26 … as a way to advance one's career in the US Congress. Those who take an interest in foreign policy have begun looking to Asia first. The only other politician of note at Merkel's reception [outside of former Sen. Chuck Hagel] was Alan Greenspan. But the 83-year-old is also now in retirement." The …
2008-07-14 seems like every german politician wants to get close to barack obama. from head of state, the well-respected yet dowdy angela merkel, to the dour yet popular frank-walter steinmeier, …
2009-07-06 … anything, be appealing to them. You wouldn’t know it from this picture, but Perriello has an exceptionally winning smile – the utility of which for a politician should not be underestimated – but here looks as though he’s on the way to his dentist.
2008-07-25 … decisions.” Mr. Mica is the most powerful Republican on the Transportation Committee. The idea that bringing home federal dollars is integral to a politician’s job and essential to getting re-elected is a favorite of Republicans and Democrats alike. Three months ago, Hillary Clinton told the Pittsburgh …
2009-07-07 … what has gone wrong, but I blame the politician more. It's just too easy to heap opprobrium on Wall Street. And if you noticed, that's exactly what the politicians do. Could it be that they're trying to divert our attention away from Washington's own responsibility for the debacle? John Steele Gordon pretty …
2003-03-09 … UPDATE (03/10/02): The opposition CDU speaks out: "Herta Däubler-Gmelin only survived politically for a few days after her Bush-Hitler comparison. A politician who describes the American president as a dictator is just as unbearable as an under-secretary in the Defense Ministry." They are calling for the …
2008-02-09 … campaign is REALLY beginning to trouble me. Does Obama think he is Jesus? what does all this mass messianism really mean? Obama is an inspirational politician. Granted. But to quote Joe Klein of Time: "That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous: the campaign is entirely about Obama and his …
2009-07-07 … and I wonder if her career path to 2020 is as clear as this. Obviously, we shall see. What I do think is that we haven't heard the last of Palin the politician. But back to Barnes. Despite the fact that Palin has glaring "shortcomings" and "limitations," he still things she was a brilliant veep pick for …
2009-07-05 … her resignation speech, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin cited her need to be with her family as part of the reason behind her resignation. Usually when a politician cites "a need to spend time with my family," it's a convenient way of backing out when other factors (imminent scandals, infighting within the …
2008-07-11 … Is it his move toward the center? Is it Hillary donors hanging back? Is it that the shine is off his apple and he’s now seen as just another politician by most voters (if not the press and liberal elites)? It is probably all of these things plus one more; an overestimation of his own abilities. This …
2008-07-11 … Obama’s proposed appearance at the German landmark would be nothing more than an expression of German-American friendship. Another socialist party politician has gone even further and accused Merkel of being in league with the Republican Party. Democrats, for their part, have no objection to Obama’s …
2009-07-07 … may temporarily take precedence but only for the most limited possible time. [Note, a special exemption might be made in the case of a Third World politician or intellectual who loves Western civilization. See, for example, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.] Law Number Four: Women will be treated according to these laws …
2009-07-02 … Wexler characterized such a demand as "childish." Wexler, a liberal Democratic congressman from South Florida who was the first high-profile Jewish politician outside of Illinois to endorse Obama's presidential candidacy in 2007, said Obama was asking Israel for a moratorium on settlements, and a relaxing …
2009-07-07 … his total yearly income around £214,000. The rise equates to £9,418 a month for rent and £3,642 for entertaining. The president is currently German politician Hans-Gert Pöttering. His 21/2-year term ends later this month and his successor is due to get the new allowances. The rent benefit alone is enough …
2009-07-07 … put up with sexual taunting… The purpose of Søren Pind by encouraging people to tell about their experiences is to test whether a colleague (another politician) — whom he wants to keep anonymous — who has told him about his unpleasant experiences was a unique case […] Apparently Søren Pind …
2007-06-22 … — was a masterclass in presentation. And his support for the monarchy may actually have saved the Royal Family. He continued to eclipse every other politician on the world stage. His support for Democrat President Bill Clinton and then Republican George Bush made him an American idol. He won Clinton’s …
2007-06-14 … INDEPENDENT POLITICS? But The Independent has taken a clear political stand on Iraq which leaves no room for doubt; no space for good motives of a politician; no empathy for the difficulties of decision-making to be made inside the complexities of international threats and alliances; no room for error; no …
2007-06-02 … more realistic in what we expect to see as a result of Tony Blair’s time in power. And if we did that – we would be proud and pleased. All that one politician can do is the best he can do. That’s all most of us can strive for and expect as a measure of success in all facets of life, isn’t it? So why do we …
2009-07-02 … price. Baring's point here is that this ideological dogma has led to a dead-end street for German energy policy. You can have a wonderful career as a politician in Germany if you bedevil nuclear energy and the capitalism that purportedly requires it, but that doesn't help you have an energy policy that …
2009-06-12 Just a brief note before the weekend. Here are two links for what Chicago politics is all about. It's all about the corrupt politician ensuring that his friends, whoever they may be, profit from him being in office. The quid pro quo isn't necessarily money (in the long run, it …
2006-10-22 … to make the point that Islam is currently engaged in violence on behalf of religion […] Consider the fact that the pope is not only a scholar but a politician—and a good one, or he wouldn’t have become the pope. He is not only a head of state, but the head of a global church with a billion members. The …
2005-09-20 … the already significant divide in western and eastern public opinion. Accountability to one's party is the first law of survival for a German politician. Parties lay down the rules and decide who gets the privilege of leading. The layers of decision makers and interests, extend the distance between …
2009-06-23 … splintering among the ayatollahs, state media announced the arrests of Rafsanjani’s relatives including his daughter Faezeh, a 46-year-old reformist politician vilified by hard-liners for her open support of Mousavi. State media said Rafsanjani’s relatives had been held for their own protection. “It is a …
2008-10-13 … of the opposition acknowledge. [17] “Even his fiercest opponents don’t question the accuracy of independent polls that rate him the most popular politician in the country.” [18] Lukashenko’s popularity derives from policies which favour the working class over Western investors. He has, “presided over a …
2008-06-24 … may seem to be nothing particularly amiss in this, imagine billionaire speculator George Soros establishing a foundation to bribe US and British politicians with cash for life to “govern well.” It wouldn’t elude many of us that Soros’ definition of “govern well” would almost certainly align to a tee …
2008-11-14 … self-confidence because he is so calm and collected. He will not simply put an end to the crisis or ensure that banks lend money again. He is a politician, not the Messiah. But he can change the national mood. Americans are lucky that they were able to elect him now, just as the panic reached its …
2009-03-19 … when we are talking about statesmen, we should never forget what Lloyd George said, which was, looking back on his political career, he said: “A politician was someone in politics with whom you did not agree. Someone you did agree with was a statesman.” And I think it is very easy sometimes to regard …
2008-06-26 … may seem to be nothing particularly amiss in this, imagine billionaire speculator George Soros establishing a foundation to bribe US and British politicians with cash for life to “govern well.” It wouldn’t elude many of us that Soros’ definition of “govern well” would almost certainly align to a tee …
2009-01-14 … their pocketbooks, meaning investors, are already telling us what they think of BHO and his lefty nostrums: They. Will. Not. Work. Obama is a clever politician, elected because he is “black,” not despite that fact. I put black in quotation marks simply to acknowledge that Obama is only black when it suits …
2009-03-30 … were actually the only citizens in Europe who were asked for their opinion. The rest of the 446 or so millions were never consulted. How can any politician claim that their voters want the ratification of EU constitution/Lisbon Treaty when the entire political class emphatically insisted on not asking …
2009-07-02 … rumors that Mahmud Ahmadinejad was involved in the July 1989 assassination of three Iranian Kurdish opposition figures in Vienna. Now, the Austrian politician Peter Pilz has published the deposition of a German arms-trafficker who appears to corroborate the claim. How credible are the allegations? And what …
2008-03-14 … her whole campaign she has retained a consistent line in her programme, though sometimes tinted by odd populism (which is inherent to being a politician) such as all the french should learn la Marseillaise and brandishing French flags. She is not however prone to outbursts of machoism and …
2009-06-18 … these four stages of announcement (63, 33, 2 and 1 percent respectively)." None of these things are of course absurd. It is perfectly possible for a politician to lose their home town, it is possible for votes to go down between stages of an announcement (note also that this contradicts Alizadeh's complaint …
2009-07-08 … I am. While I am more familiar with the Western approach, yes, I do consider the Russian attitude much more rational and clever. He's just another politician and his main virtues that are behind the unusually positive receptions elsewhere are those old, well-known superficial features that are useful for …
2009-06-29 … to university to read politics, became a political ‘adviser’ or ‘researcher’, made the right contacts to be awarded a ‘safe seat’, and then became a politician. Such people have never held a real job and have never attained a status in the world by which the mettle of their life might be tested. These are …
2008-08-29 … of conduct. Obama�??s responses have to give even the most seasoned observer pause as to how he will react in the meat grinder of the presidency. Politician�??s can be notoriously sociopathic and superficial. But in Obama�??s case he appears to lack some of the more protective features associated with …
2009-07-03 … from ALP state president and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Secretary, Andrew Dettmar, who said that his union will not be supporting any politician at the next state election unless they make a no privatsation pledge. The rally was followed by a march to state parliament . Formats available: …
2009-07-01 … to be a rather rambling and slightly tedious speaker, as he kept wandering off the subject (once he digressed to discuss Maurice Hankey, the British politician). However,when he mentioned Martin Mansergh and his father Nicholas, a note of genuine anger entered his voice. He stated that Mansergh wanted to …
2009-01-01 … - he sees himself as being the Nadir, or the person who is the oppositional character to those who are in power. 3) Jorg Haider - Racist European politician. 4) Johnny Unitas - One of the greatest team-leading quarterbacks in NFL history. 5) Karl Marx - He was a German Philosopher (a country in which the …
2008-08-31 … talking heads was Mitt Romney’s Campaign Manager Alex Castelanos. His comment was: “Whoever doesn’t get the tap to be McCain’s VP is the luckiest politician in the country”. It struck me as a very strange thing to say and immediately knew that it wasn’t Romney and that he knew who it was. He wasn’t …
2007-09-15 … Cyprus, the Balkans and Arab countries have increased Britain's Muslim population. The 2006 controversy over the burqa, brought up in comments by politician Jack Straw, reflects a split between some Britons questioning the extent to which traditionalist forms of Islam are compatible with British society, …
2009-07-06 … ever want to turn over the power that goes with spending these huge sums of money to the great unwashed? How in the world is that going to benefit a politician? How do you generate a campaign ad for radio telling the voters that you deserve reelection because the private consumers in your district kept the …
2008-09-17 … EU, but some others oppose the idea. Mr. Mutlu spoke about the non-German population in Germany, immigration issues and his experience as a Turkish politician. He says there were two ways to enter Germany as a non-German by either family unification or as a refugee. Turks mostly came into the country as …
2009-07-06 … from ALP state president and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Secretary, Andrew Dettmar, who said that his union will not be supporting any politician at the next state election unless they make a no privatisation pledge. The rally was followed by a march to state parliament . Formats available: …
2009-06-16 … concessions to bolster his support. I reckon ID cards might still be one such a sop, just as the inquiry into the Iraq war has. 5.Mandelson: This is the politician who has emerged with the most enhanced power and prestige from the crisis. And his performance deserves it. He it has been who has stitched up …
2007-05-24 … police." Why do they have to build this fence? If they ever think total security is possible this is not true. What kind of life is this to live for a politician? Stop showing fear as common political reflex. Isn't this what they wanted? I would like this on the agenda of discussion.
2009-06-28 … are simply missing. From cycle paths to elderly care it seems in Britain there is simply no vision, apart from an occasional short programme run by a politician or two. Blair did something in order to bring about changes that were implemented in other countries decades earlier, but he was unable to clear up …
2008-11-17 … need to have a shot. But I think that, as is often the case, the conventional wisdom is being too easily accepted here. There is nothing so hated by a politician as irrelevance and I have a hard time believing that Republican Representatives or (even more so)) Senators will allow themselves to be consigned to …
2008-06-06 … good neighborliness of free, sovereign countries and on international pacts and agreements.” President Klaus’s speech was spot on. One rarely hears a politician outlining in such poignant and clear words the problems of our times that others dare not mention out of fear of being “politically incorrect.” It …
2009-05-10 … and I have to go to work, can of fizzy pop and dropped it on the counter. He typed in the price and laughed as he took my money, "Well, you can't be a politician then!"
2006-11-10 … wasn't fun," he said, adding that he stayed with the GOP largely because it helped him bring federal dollars home to Rhode Island. Just the kind of politician we don't need. Is it any wonder Republicans lost? They abandoned the principles of the core voters, they gave the democrats lesson on spending, …
2009-02-23 … crisis led by people of Nepalese origin. In Nepal itself just like in Sri Lanka, the RAW follows an active policy of pushing pro-Indian Nepalese politician on their pay roll to the forefront of the political sphere in order to make Nepal an official Hindi state as a prelude to merging with India in the …
2008-10-28 … crisis led by people of Nepalese origin. In Nepal itself just like in Sri Lanka, the RAW follows an active policy of pushing pro-Indian Nepalese politician on their pay roll to the forefront of the political sphere in order to make Nepal an official Hindi state as a prelude to merging with India in the …
2009-02-20 … it than without it. Germany for one must surely be wondering whether being in the Euro is really in her long term interests, although you won't find a politician ready to admit such a thing quite yet. For a more detailed ananlysis see Der Spiegel's Support For Wobbly Euro Economies.
2009-05-24 … lobbying by the animal research industry has been intense, at times deeply disingenuous and certainly alarmist… “ As stated by Reuters UK, “one politician involved in drafting the laws took the unusual step of resigning her role in February, blaming excessive industry interference.” As far as I can …
2009-01-19 … step towards Dr. King’s goal; but it is NOT the dream itself” and advises that we not conflate Obama with Dr. King because the President-elect “is a politician and Dr. King never wanted to be one.” But the sentiment expressed by USian people of colour in that CNN/Opinion Research poll is indicative of the …
2008-08-01 … Case closed. Most Americans have a rough idea what the term “military-industrial complex” means when they come across it in a newspaper or hear a politician mention it. President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the idea to the public in his farewell address of January 17, 1961. “Our military organization …
2008-11-02 … surrounding himself with mercenaries trained in the same Rovian tactics that tore up his family — and tore apart his campaign — in 2000. Why did a politician who once knew how to play the game so well, who was once so beloved by people of very different political stripes, allow his campaign to get whiny, …
2008-09-10 Today’s IHT sported what may be the most absurd climate-related speech by a politician. In a sentence, we are lectured on human rights by somebody that has been President of his country since November 1978. That’s not all: President …
2009-03-28 … new functionality - in every poll is displayed histogram of election results from last 90 days, graph is showing development of votes for/against the politician - domain ElectionsMeter.org was acquired and redirected to ElectionsMeter.com - domain ElectionMeter.com (the term in singular number) was acquired …
2007-11-02 … A few moments of silence as they eyed each other up contempleting the issues they’d met to discuss, Simon; Bill Harding, the nondescript nerd of a politician who’d emerged overnight as a supersatr of historical importance; Benjamin; the intricacies and implications of religious untiy between faiths, …
2009-01-21 … fighters were entrenched. And indeed: the army told the government that the conquest of Gaza city could cost the lives of about 200 soldiers, and no politician was ready for that on the eve of elections. The very fact that a guerrilla force of a few thousand lightly armed fighters held out for long weeks …
2009-07-04 … and healers, was closer to what American would get in Palin the presidential candidate. If Sarah Palin – parodied by a comedian who merely copied the politician without changing a thing - is a presidential hopeful because she appeals strongly to the party’s voter base, Republicans might wish to do some …
2007-09-23 … “substance” and it’s both the sword and shield of every self-respecting politician in Poland. Of Sword and Shield When wanting to go on the attack, a politician will use the “meritum” sword to tell the nation that their party is a party of action and not words, they will not bandy around the problem but …
2009-05-14 Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was …
2009-03-10 … typhoid or that he had died.[121] November 2007: In an interview with political interviewer David Frost taken on November 2, 2007, the Pakistani politician and Pakistan Peoples Party chairwoman Benazir Bhutto claimed that bin Laden had been murdered by Omar Sheikh. During her answer to a question …
2007-12-08 … Chavez will win the “Yes” vote. The people who voted “No” don’t want him to run for President for the third time will the losers by electing typical politician who will stop Hugo Chavez social reforms, will work to protect the interest of elite class. Putin party did win the Parliamentary election with huge …
2009-06-17 … Khomeini’s pictures everywhere, but will act against his teachings, including his most famous saying, The scale [for people’s acceptance of a politician] is people’s vote. The second goal of second-generation revolutionaries is moving the country closer to an “Islamic Government,” and further away …
2009-07-07 … who chose not to join their angry sorority. The governor of Alaska's compelling narrative - athlete, beauty queen, wife, mother, hunter, successful politician - shows adherents of narrow leftist dogma that, perhaps, women really can have it all. Most importantly: freedom of thought. In calling Alaska's …
2009-07-02 … will not eat."[iii] It worked...sort of. While success still eluded the colony, the mortality rate did go from 60 percent to 15 percent. Imagine a politician on any level making Smith's proclamation today. Cities would burn. Of course, when Sir Thomas Dale arrived there in 1611, he saw "where the most …
2009-07-01 … public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality"? Hellooo -- ever heard of a Chicago pol named Barack Obama? More generally, for what politician does this banal observation not hold true? SOURCE […] Obama’s Racist Judge Let's look at Judge Sotomayor again Soon the Senate …
2008-12-03 A friend of mine has put it very well in his Google Talk tagline : 'The media is busy indulging in politician bashing, but who will indulge in media bashing […] And today, in the DNA, people have spoken up against the media for their coverage of the 60 …
2009-06-05 … in a very sophisticated form (his main pre political job was for the BBC's world service). This is very interesting given what an old fashioned politician Benn seems today love him or loathe him. It's an indicator that being human politicians tend to become set in their ways - so technologies that come …
2009-07-06 … (Lord) Macaulay (pictured above), which was incomplete at Macaulay’s death in 1859. Macaulay was a Whig (roughly speaking an aristocratic liberal) politician committed to gradual but significant measures on electoral reform and civil rights, a colonial administrator in India who left about as good a …
2009-07-02 … Act of 1832; an ancestor of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, himself the father of Conrad Russell distinguished historian and Liberal Democrat politician). Edward Russell’s ancestor William Russell, fought in the 16 Century Dutch Revolt. It was that which made the Dutch provinces of the Spanish …
2009-07-08 … is in conflict with the legal, religious and customary role of the leader as a neutral arbiter of events. In essence, he has become just another politician, albeit the most powerful one... To understand the nature of the conflict, it is essential to look back to the founding of the republic. Ayatollah …
2009-07-08 … is in conflict with the legal, religious and customary role of the leader as a neutral arbiter of events. In essence, he has become just another politician, albeit the most powerful one... To understand the nature of the conflict, it is essential to look back to the founding of the republic. Ayatollah …
2008-12-29 … Wood could not surrender. It was not in his blood - for in his own view he would never have to. Did not David Lloyd George call him the cleverest politician of his day? Wood thought, even as the Germans advanced on London, that he could find a way to turn things around - that he could use the ‘titanic …
2008-11-29 … University Press Eden, Kingdom of Australia CEDRIC RICHARD BEAUCHAMP ST-JOHN, 6th VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE (5 March 1881 - 9 June 1942) English patriot, politician and nobleman, commonly known as ‘Cedric Bolingbroke’. The son of the 5th Viscount Bolingbroke and Lady Isabella Spencer, he was educated at Eton …
2008-06-24 … collided with another former British merchant ship on a foggy spring morning in the North Sea, and he went to a watery grave […] How do you tell if a politician is lying? If his lips are moving […] Heinrich Eilers, when grumbling about the 1941 German national elections * On that clear morning in London, …
2008-03-09 … that he would not share our protest with anyone except President Jamieson.” Donovan waved a hand. “No soldier can make binding promises on behalf of a politician. Your president passed on the news of your concerns, although not the details, to his friends in Hartford, London, and Paris. They got worried, and …
2009-05-27 … firing a missile from the safety of a helicopter or a tank into a densely populated area is not only a war criminal but also a coward. An officer or politician ordering such acts from the safety of an office is a war arch-criminal and an arch-coward. But suicide bombing.however abhorrent.is clearly not a …
2006-08-16 … (and that's all I know) conclude with this: It's not healthy in our republic for such a large slice of the populace to be unrepresented by any politician. But that is the case today. Soon enough it will change. Just remember what happened to Phil Hartman's Caveman Lawyer: "Thank you! Thank you very …
2007-09-21 … about just for 7 years with the option to renew? Well, apparently that’s what a German lawmaker has proposed. The AFP reports: A conservative German politician on Wednesday proposed making marriage contracts expire after seven years, with the option to renew for those not feeling the proverbial itch. “I …
2007-09-24 … 6 years. I was single 2 years before I met my current wife. Now .. not quite 6 years together and she left a couple of months ago. I’m not saying that politician’s idea is correct but I kinda see her point Kevin.
2007-09-23 BMW is made in Germany; Ducati (which she is sitting on) is made in Italy (Bologna, in fact). I’d have thought a politician would have been Politically Correct and bought the German one.
2008-10-26 … with voters may be tedious and exhausting, but it is absolutely necessary -- not only in order to win, but to create genuine connections between politician and citizenry.
2009-07-07 … on those journeys and why. I have to justify every single penny I claim back in expenses from a company I am a majority shareholder in. Why should a politician, whoever he is and whatever office he holds, be any different? The public is, in effect, his majority shareholder. More from Paul Waugh... When it …
2008-07-11 … immoral, lawless bill. While not exactly Obama supporters, we had been holding out a slim reed of hope that maybe, just maybe, the charming Illinois politician would be marginally less bad than the evil, clueless John McCain. After all, he has been less strident than McCain on Iraq, and made approving …
2008-07-06 I don’t often stick up for a politician but I had all the respect in the world for PA House member Greg Vitali when he exposed and fought in court the heinous Act 44 of 2005 which lavished …
2007-07-10 … method.” Gladwell called Moore’s movie “Sicko” and its advocacy of a single-payer universal health care system a Picasso approach. “I’m waiting for a politician to stand up and say, ‘We don’t need a Picasso to solve our healthcare problem. We need a Cezanne,’” he said.
2008-10-08 … grown man giving up on his liberal tendancies to get elected. Or is he really? Perhaps he's just talking and then he'll do what he's always done as a politician.
2008-09-24 … active campaign, return to Washington, and postpone the Friday debates. Oh my, Senator Obama was surprised! Of course he was, he's a typical Chicago politician and he's not used to being caught off guard. Obama of course wants to continue the debate and disregard the economic crisis. You choose From …
2009-02-27 … only to have his company kick the bucket just a few weeks later. Those tech entrepreneurs can lay it on as thick as any Hollywood producer or DC politician. Update 3/25/2009: TechCrunch notes that one of the largest ad-driven “free” sites, Imeem, is “rumored to be in serious trouble” and is now trying …
2009-03-31 Pity the poor CEO of GM who was just tossed out on his kiester. I too was once "out-sized", but at least it was by my boss at the time, not a politician. But look at the bright side, he does not have to find a cure for cancer or something like that, in order to go down in the history books. Used to …
2008-09-04 … being accused of sexism. And believe me, he will attack you. Ms. Palin, welcome to the lower 48. You're up against a scrapper from Scranton and a politician from the south side of Chicago who aren't afraid to say that "Mitt Romney’s attack on a candidate’s wife is as pathetic as his failed presidential …
2008-06-06 … as our godless leaders turn a deaf ear to the screams of Christians in Chinese prisons for their faith. Money is the only god of corporation, politician, bank, consumer, and tele-evangelist alike. We have despotic governments from Asia to Southern Africa whose only policy seems to be the …
2009-05-23 … MSM tentacles, a coin that no matter how many times flipped would come up the same - Heads, Heads. "Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be […] Marshall Mcluhan …
2007-01-04 … freedom of thought & of expression; for we rarely have full information on any contentious issue. If unfettered information militates against the politicians’ struggle for votes, then it is unlikely that we will be provided all the facts on relevant issues. It is a deceit practised by the left as much as …
2008-11-13 … money because God has ordained Obama. Please Show me where I stated that I believe God has personally ordained Obama. I have not, he is just another politician like any other. Is Abortion wrong yes, is it the only thing wrong, no. You say McCain is the lesser of two evils, and I feel that Obama is, only …
2009-07-08 … and discuss new aspects of cooperation within the OSCE PA framework which are related to the revitalized dialogue between Belarus and Europe,” said the politician. Claudio D'Amico also said that the Italian parliament has nearly completed setting up the so-called group of friendship with the National Assembly …
2009-05-17 … he knew nothing of the case. Investigators have passed on the two letters at the centre of the Krawczyk testimony to handwriting experts, and politicians believe that, if confirmed fake, they provide evidence that the then government was using the powers of law and order for political gain. “If the …
2009-05-06 … out against the visit of the Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka to Prague categorically. “We simply shouldn’t allow him to leave the plane,” the politician noted. In her turn, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy noted that the Czech …
2009-06-29 … years in prison for doing exactly what Social Security and Medicare have done to the American people. Ain't life grand. Bernie, you should have been a politician. Well a fool and his money are soon parted goes the saying. And the love of money surpasses even the love of G-d for most. The comments that have …
2009-06-26 … but rather to what extent privacy of the farmers is protected". Brunner himself received 10,000 in EU subsidies last year, but says "I am not only a politician, but also a farmer". The German government has one month to clarify the situation before legal action will be taken. Süddeutsche Zeit ARD UK wants …
2009-07-07 Dickipedia: Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khamene'i (born July 17, 1939) is an Iranian politician, brutal dictator in religious leader's clothing, and a dick. He is not to be confused with Ayatollah Khomeini, although good luck---that whole …
2009-07-03 … that the issue of democratization is presently the central problem. Everything else, including the nuclear question, is secondary. SPIEGEL: Western politicians see it quite differently. Kadivar: Whoever at this point in time moves the nuclear question to the forefront will not find an open ear in Iran. …
2007-05-15 … be a tremendous opportunity to see this nation come back to God and for many souls to be won to Christ. I have told you often that it will not be a politician but a preacher who will lead this nation back to God. With a President who will not lead this nation in any way spiritually, this is going to force …
2009-06-27 … global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation. If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian …
2009-06-26 … more photos from the day’s events, taken by Antrim Caskey.) In a statement distributed by the Rainforest Action Network, Dr. Hansen said: I am not a politician; I am a scientist and a citizen. Politicians may have to advocate for halfway measures if they choose. But it is our responsibility to make sure our …
2008-05-06 … and 3. flawed economic theories. We need MORE leaders and LESS politicians… here’s an idea… in addition to energy conservation, lets have a national politician conservation campaign. We could start by cutting the number of seats in parliament in half, and introduce an alternative method of selecting and …
2009-06-24 … Paksas was forced out of office in 2004 amid allegations of extortion and links with Russian organized crime. Another high-ranking Lithuanian politician, Viktor Uspaskich, fled to Russia when his bookkeeper turned over evidence to the authorities of serious breaches of party finance laws. Latvia was …
2009-06-18 … either stay away or shirk conflict). It also reflects the personal profile of the waspish and brainy Mr Ilves, America’s favourite east European politician. But it was also a coded message to Moscow: the “reset button” may be a useful gimmick to get talks going on issues such as nuclear weapons. But it …
2009-05-21 … The audience—shown during the broadcast on REN-TV, Russia’s fourth channel—loved it. Others don’t. Your columnist showed it to a senior Ukrainian politician. He flinched. “I hate them”, was his unvarnished response. Comedy and politics are a combustible mix. Rein Lang, Estonia’s justice minister, was …
2009-07-08 … he will now become the next president of the European Parliament. In the EuroparlTV interview he is still very reluctant to show his joy - he is politician enough to wait until he is elected - but you can witness a very relaxed person with a lot of life experience: We will have to see what kind of …
2009-05-31 … check out the full report in Friday’s Telegraph. Where will all this end? As Sir Humphrey Appleby might have put it (in what is otherwise known as the politician’s credo): Something must be done. This is something. Therefore we must do it. The problem is, however, we’ve no idea what that something should be. …
2009-07-05 … controversial EU policies… Of course he perfectly fits the traditional job description of a typical EU Commissioner: experienced national male politician (= old), end of the career posting to Brussels (= Merkel wants to get rid of him). Wolfgang Schäuble is unfortunately not a candidate to get excited …
2008-04-29 … It was a cooperative effort in order to best benefit both on their respective paths. This, of course, shows Obama to be no different than any other politician. The quintessential opportunitst who says and does anything to be elected. It also puts a serious crack in his pride of "judgment […] playing the …
2009-07-05 … white stilettoes clicking on the pavement, white jeans a sharp contrast to the tracksuits around her, the 40-year-old former lawyer and far-right politician offers handshakes, leaflets, smiles and encouragement in her smoker's rasp. By her side is Steeve Briois, the local boy and Front National (FN) …
2009-06-24 … margin in the former cener-left provinces of Milan and Venice, one can’t help but assume that there is no limit to what you can say if you are a politician.. Of course Berlusconi—who has his own troubles, though—slammed Francheschini’s remarks, saying: “If the opposition considers this a victory, we'll …
2005-04-26 … or ask questions about the corporate state. Those were the days. Now no-one comes at all. From the candidate’s view. We are the masters now. It`s politician`s play time Newspapers are developing the settled assumption that we’ll win with a majority as high a l60. That`s disastrous. Blair will be …
2006-11-29 … state, Ulises introduced himself as “a man of unity (unidad).” Today we know that at that time he was missing three letters from the word: Ruiz is the politician of impunity (impunidad). The repressive violence in Oaxaca is the gold clasp in which Vicente Fox closes his six years in office, but it is also the …
2006-11-06 … Giordano, Narconews). The reason that the PRD is now belatedly calling for mass support of APPO is to stop it in its tracks. AMLO is a ‘Bonapartist’ politician in the mould of Lazaro Cardenas in the 1930s, who has promised to stop privatisation and help the poor, but whose real interests are in doing deals …
2006-11-04 … further insurrectionary struggles across the entire country. It also didn’t want to pay the political price of sending in troops to prop up a politician as universally despised, even among the conservatives in the state, as Ruiz Ortiz. In addition, the government had succeeded in luring the top …
2009-07-04 … Trig? Yep, disability is horribly scandalous to Democrats. The fact that Bristol did not have an abortion? Are we to believe that every politician’s teenaged daughter, particularly every liberal policitian, is a virgin?? Barack Obama says he expects his daughters will fornicate, and he doesn’t …
2009-06-20 … at all. They are members of Lebanon's Hizbollah militia. I've had this one from two reporters, three phone callers (one from Lebanon) and a British politician. I've tried to talk to the cops. They cannot understand Arabic. They don't even look like Arabs, let alone Lebanese. “The reality is that many of …
2009-06-06 … experience of West Bengal where even die-hard supporters of the Left Front voted against it over the question of land acquisition is fresh in every politician's memory. Roger And Out
2009-06-27 … come calling, she said. "The GAY-TM is closed." Should we be surprised? Disappointed, maybe, thinking he would actually be a different kind of politician. "Fool me once, shame on you." And all that […] Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
2009-05-27 … them. We told Chrysler. And we're telling you." Harper has said the federal government won't top up its $100 million commitment, but we know what a politician's word is worth. We need him on video, on audio and in print saying "this is it. No more." Then if he breaks his word, he will be held accountable …
2009-05-21 … hopelessly outdated, they're hinting at unrestrainable costs for construction […] and there's three more years of this to go. Enough. If there is no politician willing to challenge this travesty, then we have to start naming people who must be held pubicly accountable. Our first nominee is Patrick O'Reilly, …
2009-05-24 … of the Ceylon Workers’ Council based in the tea plantation area, Karuna (the ex-Tiger leader, now a minister) and Douglas Devananda (the Tamil politician expected to become the stooge Chief Minister of the northern ‘province’ of Sri Lanka). “My name is being mouthed by ministers on the TV and shouted …
2008-11-03 … elements located on Syrian soil, and did this from a base in Iraq, it threw further cold water on the proposed agreement. A prominent Kurdish politician said that the raid was made without the knowledge of the Iraqi government and would give Iraqi's neighbors "a good reason to be concerned about the …
2009-07-08 … the actions of her erratic boss. But one thing is for sure: this 5 minutes 49 seconds only proves that no normal logic works for Sarah Palin as a politician. Next move: we just sit and wait for Levi Johnston´s tell-it-all book on the Palin family.
2009-03-26 … attractive arguments to convince ever bigger parts of the population. This requires reaching over the aisle and bringing the engineer, marketeer and politician to the same table to build that map of interconnectedness. And yes, this is terribly exciting.
2009-07-06 … expressing what German leftists think about Jews without even mentioning them. Former Federal President Johannes Rau, too, a devout Protestant and politician of the Social Democratic Party, spoke of “capitalist Mammon.”[82] But far more: in fighting Israel, anti-Zionists are struggling against the …
2009-05-07 In an era when politician's promises tend to be rhetorical and empty with little sign of being actioned, it is good to see immediate action. President Obama stated in his …
2009-07-05 … & doesn’t think the world owes her a living (as “leftist wimmen” usually do) & wants to do something rather than to be something. If any American politician can save western civilisation it is her […] 3 - Regarding mentions of the possibility of Palin getting an Oprah like TV slot. This …
2009-06-16 … any act of Adolf Hitler, have gone essentially unreported by our media. Meanwhile, many innocent people, like the popular moderate Bosnian Muslim politician Fikret Abdic, whose only "crimes" were to support the survival of a multicultural state and to oppose the press gangs of al-Qaeda - then our …
2009-06-15 … unjust. If we are seriously asking moderate Muslims to stand and be counted, we have a duty not to imprison those who do. Abdic was the most popular politician among Bosnian Muslims. He was a moderate, committed to free marketism and the Yugoslav union. As such, he was inconvenient to our leaders. They …
2009-02-18 … one wonders how Seymour can criticise liberal interventionists for poor methodology, when he takes every single accusation made by Western politicians against Izetbegovic and the Muslims at face value. Never mind that Kouchner’s French government was aiding and abetting Milosevic’s destruction of …
2009-02-11 … took away the certificates they had been allotted, the result would be an uproar. "What do you think the companies would say to us?" he asks. "As a politician, there are certain storms that you simply can't weather." In other words, this is not about the inefficacy of wind power as a tool against climate …
2006-05-24 … later described the funeral in these words: “Here was I, an agnostic Anglican, taking the service in a Presbyterian church, for a dead atheist politician. And I thought that was just marvelous.” Nihilism rooted in skepticism, issuing in the bad faith of moral relativism and Western self-loathing, …
2006-04-24 … — and not because everyone already had heard it. It was an "amazing gaffe," said the journalistic consensus. A "deeply offensive comment," commented a politician. Mr. Vine apologized ("profusely"), and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) "welcomed the apology" (naturally). I have to wonder on behalf of whom …
2008-12-29 … architects, jurists, and administrators. If ever there were a bunch of stalks that needed their tops knocked off, it was surely they. As an English politician remarked not long ago, “A democracy does not want great men.” We, in Hell, would welcome the disappearance of democracy in the strict sense of that …
2009-06-12 … city. The man who has transformed Hasselt into the kind of city that progressives the world over dream of is the charismatic Flemish Socialist Party politician – and local bar owner – Steve Stevaert. Stevaert, an unashamed populist who says he bases his policies on “the wisdom of the people”, became mayor …
2008-11-06 … of about America," he said, while also preparing to be disappointed. "People here see him as a kind of European, but he's an American really, and a politician. Democrats have started wars as well." Julio Diankenda, who moved to Belgium from the Congo when he was three, said he thought of Obama as a great …
2008-11-02 … presidential nomination or to be elected in November. It confirmed to his followers and detractors alike that he is a different kind of mainstream politician. Obama outlined the origins of American racism from the dawn of English colonialism and Independence to the present — the slave trade, chattel …
2008-09-02 … world stepped George W. Bush. Even before he took office, cartoonists were drawing him as a Texas cowboy with six-shooters and a noose. The French politician Jack Lang called him a "serial assassin." The Guardian's Martin Kettle wrote, on January 7, 2001, in The Washington Post, that "the mounting global …
2009-07-07 … flooding the internet, one said: 'Peter King, clean up your act or if you can't say nothing nice, shut your mouth.' However, a comment backing the politician said: 'Thank you Peter King for saying what many of us are thinking. Finally someone has the guts to say it!' Antoine Miller holds a white glove …
2009-07-06 … which will lead to increased costs if the Assembly takes on the role of landlord. It also challenges the family friendly principle - more a politician's base than a family home. But cannot be resisted. Don't agree with it though). 7) 35 AMs living closest to Cardiff should be able to claim for 20 …
2009-07-04 … Again, Mr Burnham, a UK Government Minister is setting out to deliberately deceive the public. He's left himself looking like just another dishonest politician. I accept that in political knockabout there is always some finessing of words, and exaggeration to make a point. Its also common for an accusation …
2009-07-03 … the leaflet has a tear off return slip which invites recipients to tell us of issues which concern them. Had one back today which simply said "Politician? Get Lost! and it was signed by 'Disgusted' of Welshpool. Stops me getting too confident I suppose. The thing that hurts is that it was sent by …
2008-06-27 … Most Overrated Politician Both Coyne and Gregg tipped the Prime Minister. No big ideas. It seems that he is not interested in any. Harper has become a politician one can almost set your watch to, in danger of being a broken clock that is right twice a day. Most Underrated Politician Gregg went with Stockwell …
2009-07-03 … £8.2 billion?’ seems a penetrating question that ought to require a detailed answer, but of course no credible detailed answers can be given, so the politician gets made to look a knave or a fool. The debate then gets conducted within the safe confines of a recorded and definite narrative, rather than out …
2009-06-28 … has to be worrisome. The pro-charter rhetoric from Mr. Menino -- who is usually ranked alongside Sen. Edward Kennedy as the state's most popular politician -- is a flashing warning light. He can continue to cave into the teacher unions. Or he can get in line with demands of the Obama administration and …
2009-06-23 … the black community of this town lived in terror of the lynch mob. In one infamous killing in early August 1930, a prominent 70-year old black politician was taken from his house by a mob and tortured to death. In 1944, after a one-day trial by an all white jury, a maid was convicted and later …
2008-04-02 … to God, only one, faith in Jesus Christ. There is no other name by which men are saved! Lastly is FITNA, the movie about Islam produced by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. I have done dozens of press interviews the past few days after the UK video hosting company LiveLeak chose to pull the movie from …
2007-06-30 … That started a flood of denunciation. The Loud Woman asked grandly who I thought I was to speak so slightingly of our masters. I answered that every politician I had ever met was human trash—the better ones were in the game for the money and sex; the rest were plodding control freaks. The Toad drifted into …
2009-06-17 … so he can proudly put both dicta to good use. PM Yulia Tymoshenko […] and some think that Yanukovych...well, has mended his ways and has become, uh, a politician who does feel responsibility for, uh, the country. But, unfortunately, there are those aunties...they think that it’s BYuT who got dumped, that it’s …
2009-04-08 … (notice that “I” if you don’t see your podcast, it doesn’t mean I don’t love you, maybe I just didn’t come across you in 2008— how’s that for being a politician ). The best of the best ( And keep an eye out for next installment Top Ten Audio Dramas of 2008, and yes, you’ll find THE RED PANDA there): 1. …
2008-07-21 … where, despite his middle-class trappings, he managed to make friends with the handsome rower Toby whose uncle (on Mom’s side) is an Earl and whose politician father is similarly (though I think a less illustriously, title-wise) connected and very wealthy besides. The family likes Nick, so much so that …
2008-11-05 It's all about those southern Senate seats... Republican Elizabeth Dole — a politician I have particular disdain for — has lost her Senate seat in North Carolina, giving the Democrats another win. As an analyst on CNN noted, this is a …
2008-07-27 … legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s …
2009-06-05 … boycott was called in protest of the appointment of a civil servant to head MPSP. The vexed councillors claimed that it was agreed previously that a politician would be put at the helm as and until local elections are introduced. This incident has shown some glaring problems between the partners of the …
2009-01-31 … least 200 people gathered outside the building, and chants of "BBC, shame on you" were heard as a petition was handed in to the corporation. Veteran politician Tony Benn, a speaker at the protest, said: 'We can't ignore suffering in the interests of what the BBC call impartiality. We can't allow others to …
2009-06-23 … means people holding on to their own money. Roosevelt called it "hoarding" to make it seem like evil or immature behaviour. It was the typical politician's ploy of blaming the government's woes on the people's vices. On March 9, the Senate passed the Emergency Banking Act after very little debate. …
2009-07-07 … like you with guns at their side coming to here to target such people to teach them a lesson.” The judge obviously believes that plotting to punish a politician like MArtin Lee is a serious crime. I wander what happen in other attempt cases? Would the same punishment be given? Did the judge hand down such a …
2008-11-18 … support to the German Wiki foundation: Shutting down the German portal seems to have backfired, drawing far more attention to the Schleswig-Holstein politician’s past than his Wikipedia entry alone ever did. The German Web site received €16,000 in donations over the weekend, more than quadruple its usual …
2008-09-14 … practical joke by voice inpersonator Jochen Krause who, working for Radio ffn, called her office pretending to be Franz Müntefering, a prominent SPD politician. Ypsilanti and the phoney Münterfering spoke party business for seven minutes before Krause exposed himself. The radio station agreed not to …
2009-07-07 … fabulist selling a book. I mean, which scenario is the most common in our experience? Same day, and we travel to Austria to discover that far-right politician Jörg Haider, widely believed to have died in an alcohol, tiredness and speed-induced car smash last October, might in fact have been the victim of a …
2009-07-06 … need the money--it's hard to escape the conclusion that this is just a way of shovelling taxpayer's money to a privileged few in order to feather politician's and businessmen's nests...
2009-07-01 … Daniels, a Republican, sees each legislative session as a chance to push big -- and at times controversial -- policy ideas. He's a man in a hurry; a politician who grows frustrated with roadblocks that stand in his way; a man who has trouble tolerating a legislative culture that so often rewards inaction …
2008-09-23 … I guess Fallaci was a Fascist, too, just like Dewinter, myself and everybody else who doesn’t believe in the myth of a moderate Islam. Dutch politician Geert Wilders does not appear to believe in the existence of a moderate Islam, either. When will LGF declare him a Fascist? The LGF-crowd thinks …
2009-07-03 Queen Sarah is abdicating her throne. On one of the biggest Friday Night Dumps a politician can spew down the toilet of the MSM: Productive, fulfilled people determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time... …
2009-07-03 … and the silencing of unpopular views are its antithesis. If one has good arguments, one doesn't need to resort to such tactics. As an Israeli politician once reputedly wrote on the side of his written text: "Here the argument is weak, raise your voice." After my presentation, people approached me to …
2009-05-19 … system and public order” The present administration includes Avignor Liebermann, another right-wing exponent. Avigdor Liebermann is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset as well as the current Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. He is the founder and …
2009-06-04 … No-one really knows what the chances of success are. But the question has to be asked, what's in it for Yanukovych? He is easily the most popular politician in Ukraine, and his party are well-funded. He would most likely win any scheduled presidential elections early next year, or this year, if president …
2009-05-06 … behavior had served a purpose. “He is implementing strict instructions from Moscow,” Mr. Beshidze said. Mr. Rogozin said he regretted his conduct as a politician and was hoping to rehabilitate his reputation through his work in Brussels. He argued that a little-noticed effect of the Georgia conflict was that …
2009-07-04 … defended his minister, saying that in private he is pragmatic,to which Sarkozy is said to have responded that controversial far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen is very pleasant in private.A staunch defender of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Lieberman has been called a …
2009-06-18 … since Israel captured the Old City and the rest of Arab East Jerusalem in a 1967 war. A visit there in 2000 by Ariel Sharon, a right-wing Israeli politician who later became prime minister, helped spark a Palestinian uprising that became known as the al-Aqsa Intifada.Since the Second Temple was destroyed …
2009-05-09 … and at times even violence in society. His overtures on this trip have not pleased all Muslims. Sheikh Hamza Mansour, a leading Islamist scholar and politician, told Reuters the pope had not sent any message to Muslims that expresses his respect for Islam or its religious symbols starting with the …
2009-04-25 … negotiation with the Palestine Liberation Organization -- the process which brought about the ruinous 1993 Oslo Accords. Shimon Peres, the Israeli politician who invested more than any other in this process, suggested in a book written in 1993 what might be called a Gordian knot approach to the …
2009-07-08 … Mr. Graham said. But "I don't want to put people in a dark hole forever" simply "because somebody like Dick Cheney, or you fill in the blank with a politician, said so." Also at the hearing, Obama administration officials differed with the Navy's senior uniformed lawyer over whether coerced statements …
2007-06-10 … there. But there is little public debate in Albania about their government's support of the wars, and it's difficult to find anyone in Tirana, politician or ordinary person, who has anything bad to say about America. "I think the sentiment is pro-American rather than pro-Bush," says Endri Fuga, …
2009-01-25 … two days in Bournemouth and had supported a number of constituency events. I must say, she really is an inspiration to me - a 'tell it like it is' politician who exudes tremendous warmth. Parliament will certainly miss her invaluable contributions when she retires at the next general election. I joined …
2008-02-22 This is part two in an on-going series where I list three things I like about a prominent Finnish politician. After President Tarja Halonen, this time I'll consider Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. 1.) I like it that Vanhanen refuses to show emotion in …
2009-07-06 … in the Economist will be thwarted, for the most part. The articles are refreshing for their generally even-handed treatment of Ms. Merkel as a politician, with little mention of her gender beyond pointing out that she is the first woman to hold her job. Only a few statements might raise eyebrows. One …
2009-07-01 … MJ’s death during a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last Friday but no reporters asked the President about MJ. Now when does a politician wait to be asked anything that they really want to say. Um, never! Obviously, if Obama felt strongly enough about the untimely death of arguably the …
2009-01-08 … — whether there is enough candy or not. At least this should be interesting. I suspect they won’t get their bailout as I can’t imagine any politician wanting to put on their political resume that they voted yes to supporting the porn industry. For some reason, that just doesn’t seem like a very …
2009-06-10 … Hezbollah-led bloc in a tight parliamentary election..Saad Hariri said his 14 March alliance would retain its majority in the 128-member parliament. A politician closes to the Hezbollah-led bloc, supported by Syria and Iran, admitted defeat in Sunday’s elections, Reuter’s news agency reported. Official …
2007-07-25 Some Florida politician after his/her state is flooded rather worse than the UK midlands is now perhaps? Or after the tidal wave reflected from the Canary Islands affects …
2009-01-26 … out badly, in about 10 years, our boys will have to fight well-armed and well- organized Islamists somewhere in Kazakhstan,” the popular Moscow- politician turned diplomat added. Russian experts have let it be known that Moscow views with disquiet the US’s recent overtures to Central Asian countries …
2009-05-10 … with,” Johnson said. He deplores the fact that his more fervent erstwhile allies in the anti-jihadist camp have become supporters of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who wants to outlaw Islam in his country. “Some of these people outright want to ban Islam from the United States, which I think is …
2008-07-29 … have to look at the fundamental flaw of the US Energy Policy or the lack thereof. That means that in effect all Congresses, all Presidents and every politician since the roaring 20s are to be blamed. Democrats and Republicans alike. The current Energy problem is based upon a fundamental design flaw of the …
2008-07-24 … it was not a function of “bringing people together” as his supporters would have us believe. Myth #3: That Barack Obama represents a “new” type of politician, untainted by corruption and self-seeking behavior. Obama’s people have been working overtime to keep the Chicago media away from their candidate. …
2008-05-01 … in the twenty-first century doesn't mean posturing and bravado. Courage is a commitment to sit down at the negotiating table and talk.If you're a politician, courage means taking a position even when you know it will cost you votes. Bush can't even make a public appearance unless the audience has been …
2007-08-29 … Peter Donolo: There's no question that appearances matter. But what matters more, I think, is authenticity. If Mr. Harper — or any other politician — tries to behave in a way that the public feels is too contrived, or synthetic, the public will sense it. Moreover, let's not underestimate the …
2007-08-09 … Wrong. Too bad it was all about him. In it, Iggy reveals his great discovery, which I now share with you. There's a big difference between being a politician and a philosopher! Intellectuals, he says, don't have to worry about the real-world consequences of their ideas, while politicians do. This …
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