Category: Politics
Mitt Romney is a Swiss-bank-account-owning liar. So says Newt Gingrich. (+video)
Mitt Romney is a Swiss-bank-account-owning liar. So says Newt Gingrich. (+video) Newt Gingrich has lobbed one attack after another on front-runner Mitt Romney, driving down Mr. Romney’s likability rating among voters. The Obama campaign has compiled the slams in a video. Newt Gingrich officially drops out of the presidential race Wednesday, and the Obama campaign [...]
Occupy 2012: Day 1 of protests yields a mixed review
Bandits The politics of ethnicity have been the Ethiopian modus since the end of the Communist revolution (in fact it was just an autocratic dictature). The problem is to determine how ethnicity melts in the national frame. Moreover in a multiethnic region such as Gambella the problem is to find out what is national. What [...]
One year after Osama bin Laden death, Obama’s balancing act still tricky (+video)
One year after Osama bin Laden death, Obama’s balancing act still tricky (+video) President Obama’s speech shows little has changed in Afghanistan despite the Osama bin Laden death. Obama is still in the position of assuaging a war-weary public at home while sticking with plans for a 2014 end to the war – with some [...]
One year after Osama bin Laden death, Obama’s balancing act still tricky
One year after Osama bin Laden death, Obama’s balancing act still tricky President Obama’s speech shows little has changed in Afghanistan despite the Osama bin Laden death. Obama is still in the position of assuaging a war-weary public at home while sticking with plans for a 2014 end to the war – with some US [...]
Jimmy Kimmel cracks wise at Washington’s ‘Nerd Prom’ (+video)
Makati, Metro Manila The Philippines’ main financial district. This is the city of Makati in Metro Manila. The wide street that snakes into the middle of the buildings is Ayala Avenue. If you click on the photo, you’ll see a note, of where the Oakwood buildings are. Just an additional information, to those who are [...]