Archive for the ‘Elections’ Category
When whowouldtheworldelect.com ran the polls, Ron Paul came on top. Now, it’s the economist’s turn. So far McCain has a clear lead in Macedonia.Sri Lanka has 30 electoral-college votes and Obama’s thrashing McCain 69%-31% right now. Bob Barr is not inc…
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Move over Jesus, the world has a new messiah:Cute or Creepy? Till about 1.30 it is kinda cute, but then it gets creepy. Very very creepy. I can imagine a conversation between a typical American Mom and her child, in the summer of 2009 after Obama becom…
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Here’s something for you Sarah Palin/Asif Zadari haters. The two met recently in New York and here’s what happened:On entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials this afternoon, Palin was immediately greeted by Sherry Rehman, the country’s …
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Obama is down in the polls, including on InTrade, which means lots of people are quite literally betting he will loose. So the Sri Lankan communalists are now pointing to racism to explain this turn of events. Case in point – this Island piece by …
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Despite vowing to oppose unauthorized wiretapping legislation, senator Obama decided to flip-flop on the issue and support wiretapping bill anyway. This is now one of many ‘policy shifts’ by Obama scrambling to center of the spectrum after taking a rid…
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Drew Carey in another installment of his series at Reason.tv takes a swing at the U.S. protectionists’ (Obama-types) fear mongering over NAFTA.
Something that’s rarely understood by protectionist all over the world is that the biggest source of “job…
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Having the Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr on his show, Steven Colbert, the American satirist said the following,”I, myself, am a Libertarian,” he said. “I don’t want big government to infringe on my right to tell other people how to live….
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Last time, it was Obama’s ignorance which became abundantly clear when he commented that Sri Lanka has a religious conflict. Today, it’s Newsweek’s turn. In an article titled “War is the answer” The newsweek comments,In addition to being an ethnic conf…
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Could be Bob Barr. The former republican seeking the nomination of the Libertarian Party. From Reason,The smallish room Bob Barr booked for his presidential announcement was overflowing with journalists. I’ve seen every Ron Paul 2008 event held at the …
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It seems the Pillayan group(TMVP) a break away (still-armed) group of the Karuna faction a break away faction of the LTTE, who contested under the government’s election symbol and patronage seems to have won the elections in the Eastern province after…
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James Pethokoukis of Capital Commerce points out a serious flaw in all those new “green collar” jobs Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton hope to create in their plans to battle climate change. He writes,As Clinton said in one presidential debate, “This is…
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That’s probably an understatement. Obama’s debate performance on the last democratic debate is the worst I’ve seen of him. Obama having gone through a rough time, with his ‘bitter’ comment and pastor wright’s association came under heavy fire under Cli…
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Oh, turns out it’s Gilani, Yousaf Raza not Gulliani, Rudy. My bad.
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Obama speaking about the Sri Lankan conflict, gets it horribly wrong. He thinks Religion is fueling a civil war in Sri Lanka in an interview in November 2007. Here’s the quote :W. E. B. Du Bois said that the problem of the 20th century is the problem o…
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Comes from the Huffington Post, Obama’s a mac, Clinton a PC.
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Mankiw writing for the New York Times,NO issue divides economists and mere Muggles more than the debate over globalization and international trade. Where the high priests of the dismal science see opportunity through the magic of the market’s invisib…
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Ouch:That’s got to hurt. I Rest my case.[via India Uncut]
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