Category: Current Affairs

John Stewart said last week that being in New York he clearly knew nothing about terrorism and he was glad that the red staters were there to tell him about it…. Maybe you are content to think that, to write me off as a “liberal” — the dreaded “L” word — and rejoice that your candidate has triumphed over evil, immoral, anti-American, anti-family people like me.

To be fair, just because Indians might be more organized at the political level, doesn’t mean they are aware of the issues facing them in this country either. On a more positive note, Mayor Bloomberg does a good thing by reminding the NYPD that they are not immigration officers and they exist to protect and serve everyone.

Joi Ito found a good article on the International Herald Tribune about what international observers are saying about our election process…. I don’t do it because I have affiliation to another country (unless we finally get the New York succession movement going), but because I have friends and family overseas, I like to travel and because of work and research.

And not just any Iranian, but Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi…. Cross-posted at Title VI.

This is a time for me to do something about the world I want to live in, and hopefully the rest of the liberals and progressives will feel the same way…. I believe in the idea of America, an idea that I believe this administration is fundamentally opposed to, and I will continue to fight for that idea and that ideal.

No comment on the Electoral Vote breakdown…. Will post once we know something for sure.

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My once criticism is that the author talks about how Hezbollah, PLO, the IRA developed political wings. However, all also provided social services, which is what gave their political ideology cachet amongst the people they were attempting to represent.