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A great week!

June 11th 2007 01:29

Immigration trainwreck prevented from happening in the US. (While I don't care about their domestic policies, I do give a damn about something that could have produced a permanent Democratic majority.) Europe coming round to a sane policy on global warming. France's Sarkozy cleaning up any leftist enclaves still left in that country. More terror plots foiled and more terrorists killed. It's a good week.!

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Deliver us from evil

May 26th 2007 10:33

So, now we get the news that the leader who promised to deliver us all from the best economy in decades, a job market that is freer than it's ever been into the pwoer of power-hungry unions and bureaucracies, the hero's wife is raking in the millions. It's amazing how typical Kevin Rudd is of a new wave of liberal leaders iinternationally. ALl of them suffer from the same delusions and the same hypocrisy.

Hyperventillate on climate change. Check. Shed crocodile tears about poverty while possessing millions. Check.

Take John Edwards for isntance. He turns every opportunity , from wife's cancer to opponent's insults into an advertismetn for asking money for campaign. He recently was paid 55,000$ by a university for talking about poverty. Guess what this trial lawyer did for learning about poverty? Worked for a hedge fund where he made millions!

The same goes on for other silver spooners like Barak Osama and John Kerry. They live in some superduper stratospheric state and look down upon mere mortals and decide throw a few pearls or pork chops to soothe their conscience.

The day when they stop ruining our lives to assuage thier consciences is the day there will be finally peace on earth.

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Sharks pounce on Paul Wolfowitz

May 15th 2007 10:37

Earlier this afternoon, Google flashed the first news about the Wolfowitz affair, the results of the World Bank inquiry against him which were leaked to the Press. It must have been late evening in the US. The verdict was against Wolfowitz but it was supposed to be released tomorrow. I have been taking Wolfowitz's side for some time now and I was dispirited to hear that new evidence cropped up against him.I hurriedly checked conservative blogs and their silence seemed ominous.

But, now it must be late night in the US but both the Wall Street Journal and the American Thinker have come up strongly in support of the matter. It seems the latest round of selective press leaks is as bogus as the rest of this whipped-up controversy..

By tomorrow, Paul Wolfowitz maybe gone. All this is happening because of tacit support of the Democrats in the US. They might just wish to spite the neocons whom theyhate so much. But, the result of the matter will be far worse.

Hitchens and WSJ speculate that this putsch is being carried out by European politicians who want to dethrone US from the long-held tradition that the World Bank president will be a US national. But, they are not connecting the dots. There is now a serious movement underway for what's been called transnational progressivism. Now that the US has decisively moved to the Right, it can no longer be allowed to man these supra-national organizations. Now that the politics of the Left have been definitely defeated at the national level, they are moving to where into these unaccountable, bureaucratic but international insititutions and if the US is cowed down, it is only a matter of time before the rest of us will be made to buckle under them.

If the UN bureaucrats decide global warming is true, then its true. It will produce a bogus report made by the ideological zealots and truth be damned and all of have will have to bear the effects. And if any official believes in reforming them, ridding them of corruption, make them accountable, then they will do to him what they did to Wolfowitz. So slowly, the national governments will be brought to heel, one by one. Only democracies which provide the chance to alternative viewpoints will have anything to lose under these systems. The tyrants and the corrupt will flourish.

Welcome to the brave new world !

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She's barren, that's true, so what's the problem?

May 3rd 2007 06:35

Hey. There's a lot of self-righteous chest beating over Senator Bill Heffernan's remarks that Juila Guillard is unfit for leadership becasue she is barren. I don't see why. The senator is entitled to his viewpoint and frankly, it is a valid point in some ways. I don't agree with it but that doesn't mean that it should be tossed out altogether from the public discussion. Leadership is after all about choices and the lifestyle choices of the person do show what the person is about, how trustworthy he or she is and all. If Julia Guillard has intentionally opted not to have children, I applaud her for that. That's her decision, for sure but she can't ask others not to consider that fact in their decision making whether to choose her as their leader or not. Bareen is not an epithet or a racial slur, it's a fact.

Leaders in public sphere inspire others to imitate them. So if a major woman leader in the country doesn't want children by choice, that does inspire other women in the country to make a similar decision. This might be inconsequential for some and profound for others. Therefore, it is a legitimate talking point. Julia shouldn't try to brush the comments away; instead she should explain why she made the decision she made and whether she would like other women to follow her lead

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Momentum builds up in the War on Terror

May 1st 2007 19:37

What an extraordinary week it's turning out to be! Around 120 people arrested in Saudi Arabia and terrorist attacks of 9/11 magnitude thwarted. Dirty bomb plots unearthed in London and many suspects either arrested or tried and convicted. Things turning around Anbar province, long the hellhole of Iraq, so dramatically that even the NYT has to recognise it. And now the news that Al-Qaeda head in Iraq has been killed by Sunni groups which only makes it better becuase it shows the terrorists and tribal leaders alliances are splintering.

Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi has not yet sent the Iraq Withdrawal Bill for the President to veto. Maybe she wants to clutch to the only legislation that she has been able to see pass under her watch and one that will be given partial birth abortion by the President's veto pen

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Cleaning up Cesspools

April 25th 2007 02:08

If I thought there was a slow momentum building up, a sliver of support for the embattled President of World Bank Wolfowitz, the Economist comes up with a disgraceful article which actually details the kind of abuse he is getting there:

In their rage, the staff have shed all deference and discretion. Some heckled their president to his face in the vast atrium of the bank's headquarters; others have written to bank directors urging them to seek his resignation. One of his two deputies, Graeme Wheeler, has

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The Defenestration of the Neocons

April 17th 2007 01:17

Donald Rumsfeld. DOuglas Feith. John Bolton. And now Paul Wolfowitz. Every one of neocons has been actively hounded and defanged and shamed and put out of office. But the latest " scandal " at the World Bank to get rid of Paul Wolfowitz shows the extent of corruption in the multilateral system.

Paul's been under fire for providing an unethical salary increase to his girlfriend. It turns out that Paul Wolfowitx tried to recuse himself of his girlfriend's amtter when he stepped in as the President. Not only the ethics board at the World banks stopped him from doing it but it actually suggested the salary increase which they tried to pin down on Wolowitz! He must be annoying the top brass of the World Bank where was fighting corruption, just as John Bolton annoyed the UN thugs where he tried to bring accountability to that monstrous bureaucracy. The international press went along with it because, as Melanie Phillips puts it , they are "obsessively seeking revenge upon Wolfowitz for his (absurdly) presumed role in single-handedly taking the west to war in Iraq

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Putin's iron grip grows

April 15th 2007 07:23

How stupid is Putin. Yesterday he had Gary Kasparov, the famous chess master, arrested. Gary was supposed to lead an anti-Putin rally. He had perhaps a couple of thosuand protesters. If allowed, there protest would have made news in Russia fora few days and elsewhere for a few minutes. What does he have to fear? his popularity in Russia is uncontested and even if wants to change the constitution and get elected for a third time, it was all smooth sailing for him. The public is behind him and most of the political class is in his pocket.But no. Putin has to deploy twenty thousand army personnel and arrest Gray even before the rally began and beat the rest of them to hell and put them in prison. Now this is major international news and it is official, Putin is a dictator. Gary Kasparov is not Khadovsky, the Yukos billionaire whom Putin sent to penitentiary. Gary is known worldwide and more importantly, the Yukos businessman was at least known to be corrupt but no such grievances against Kasparov exist. However quixotic his anti-Putin demonstrations might seem. If push comes to shove, this will again present a bitter dilemma to the West, the same they faced in Georgia and Ukraine. At least then, the choice was easy. But to support now insurrections in a powerful country like Russia would tip the scales of global balance. After all Putin started on this self-destructive path after what were to him his feudal holdings, Georgia and Ukraine, were yanked from under his feet. Slowly he is evolving into a classical tyrant. And if the cycle is complete, Russia will turn into a personal dictatorship yet again.

I used to like this man. No, I haven't looked into his eyes and seen his soul but I had always hoped that the understanding forged between Bush and him would steadily grow into a US-Russia relationship. How great that would have been for the world and the war on terror. Instead, the US-Russia relations have steadily soured which meant that Russia is arming Iran. People are already calling it a new cold war. Now this. Till now at least there was a tragic ring to these turn of events. You could at elast understand if not excuse Putin's behavior. Now this. Stupid, stupid

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Where are all the conspiracy theorists now?

April 9th 2007 14:40

When the British sialors were first kidnapped, the predominant sentiment around the world was that the US had asked the British to allow their sailors to be captured to start a war with Iran. As Rosie O' Donnell put it "it's Gulf of Tonkin, google it." Don't call it a conspiracy theory,stupid. It's the one rational explanation.

Well, well, the British sailors have all been released by the Iranians and they are even selling their stories to the notorious UK media. So where are those conspiracy theorists now? Maybe Bush really arranged for his puppydog Blair to get his sailors to be taken hostage by Iran so that he can release the Iranian "diplomat" who in turn can cry wolf and say he has been tortured by the CIA which I am sure increases the rating of the President and improve his standing in the world. That makes sense to me

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Nancy Pelosi's train wreck

April 6th 2007 11:12

This must be the funniest thing to happen in some time. Remember Nancy Pelosi who i sona trip to Middle East defying the Bush Administration? Well, she basically went there to stick it up to the President. But it's not always a good idea to do that when you yourself don't have an iota of common sense. She is acting like a President,, a Secretary of state and a college age acitvist of Moveon type, all in combined.

She refused to pass a resolution in the house supporting the Brits when thier sailors were taken hostage. A nice message to send to America's biggest ally. She then made a complete idot of herself when he pranced around Syria wearing a hijab. Then she became an unofficial diplomat and carried a peace message from Israel that even Israel did not deliver. After that goof up, things get even better. Apparently, Syrian President Assad told her he doesn't have time to meet her because he got a soccer match! Oops. Will this visit make her realise that she isn't the empress of the world and nobody has any use for her except for using her as a tool for propaganda purposes

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