By kathy on Jan 30, 2009 in Politics | 2 Comments
A disturbing video I found over at the Memriblog of Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari declaring the Jews as the source of troubles throughout the world. They were oppressors to the Germans during WWII which required the German Army to rise up and murder them. The reason six million Jews were murdered according to the [...]
By kathy on Jan 28, 2009 in Politics | 5 Comments
Economists from the Cato Institute buy full page ad in the New York Times slamming Barack Obama’s stimulus package. It’s a shame they have to buy an ad to get the opposing point of view into the Times.
“There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to [...]
By blogdog on Jan 28, 2009 in Politics, abortion | 1 Comment
The debate and/or division among opponents and supporters of abortion may never end. That supposition is based partly on the near equal division in US politics demonstrated in the back and forth restoring and rescinding of the Mexico City Policy initiated in the Reagan years and named after the location of a UN [...]
By blogdog on Jan 20, 2009 in Politics | 0 Comments
Woo Hoo!! It’s inauguration day in the United States. While Barack Obama scored big in the electoral vote over John McCain by about 2 to 1, the popular vote was 52% to 48%. That may be significant in election results but maybe not as a voter mandate. Both percentages are close enough [...]
By blogdog on Jan 10, 2009 in Politics | 0 Comments
There is the chance that as politics moves past the history of the 2008 Presidential campaign what was presented then will be forgotten. Is it reasonable to ignore issues raised about then Presidential candidate Barack Obama now that he will be sworn in January 20th as President Barack Obama? From his mysterious past [...]