Archive for the ‘politics’ category

A Good Week For International Change

February 20th, 2008 | In politics, world 

Irotzabal
If there are four big pieces of international news this week, it would be hard to make them anything but these. And if there were for big pieces of good international news this week, it would be hard to make them anything but these:

The Kofi Annan-led mediation team seems to be getting close to a […]

What Might Have Been: Unity ‘08

February 13th, 2008 | In politics 

David Berkowitz
This is something that’s been sitting on my computer for sometime. I recently found it again and decided it was interesting enough to put up here. This is a platform/speech that I devised for (recently shuttered) Unity ‘08 around August of last year, likely with Mr. Bloomberg in mind. It’s more eloquent than I […]

About Super Tuesday

February 6th, 2008 | In politics 

Josh Thompson
Let’s recap: A lot of people in a lot of states participated in presidential nominating contests yesterday. Though no one expected Huckabee to win anything, he did. And no one expected that McCain would be derailed; he was not. No one expected that the Democratic race would have a decisive conclusion; it does not. […]

Review: Obama’s SC Victory Speech

January 28th, 2008 | In politics, review 

In my younger years, I was given some advice that I’ve always taken quite seriously: Never have any heroes who remain above ground. And though that may sound like a claim that a person should only make heroes of sewer rats, subway conductors, and water sanitation engineers; it’s not. Depending on who you ask, it […]

Savage Politics

January 23rd, 2008 | In politics 

Marc Nozell (cc)
I admit it. I was wrong. I don’t like it. I don’t like this whole mess one bit. This presidential campaign has already disappointed me. A lot.
Last time I addressed the presidential nomination process, I called it “exhilarating.” And though I did hesitate to use the word at the time, I decided it […]