Tag: america
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OPW: “The Future”
Today on Other People’s Words, a beautiful poem by Wesley McNair called “The Future.” On the afternoon talk shows of America the guests have suffered life’s sorrows long enough. All they require now is the opportunity for closure, to put the whole thing behind them and get on with their lives. That their lives, in […]
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Review: The Bugle (Podcast)
TimesOnline With the Writers Guild of America still on strike, the absence of late-night commentary on politics has been missed. Though the quality of the commentary was rarely exceptionally high, late night comedians did provide a useful and informative diversion for those less tempted to read the papers (like myself, most of the times). So […]
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Taking A Break
Today, I’m doing something all Americans have done, or think they should have. It’s that time of the summer. That’s right, time for the family road-trip. I am, for probably the last time, riding in a car with my parents and two of my sisters along I-80 going east. And as we pass through Cheyenne, […]
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Global Unease With World’s Major Powers
A few days ago, I read about the recent results of the Pew Global Attitudes project. Here is part of Pew’s summary of their own results (full summary here): A 47-nation survey finds global public opinion increasingly wary of the world’s dominant nations and disapproving of their leaders. Anti-Americanism is extensive, as it has been […]
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OPW: Zbigniew Brzezinski on America’s Role
Today on “Other People’s Words,” what Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Adviser, told Charlie Rose about the actions the next president must take to restore America’s place in the world. I think the next President should say to the world that the United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems […]
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Review: Creature Comforts (US)
Though I had not intent to review this TV show, I find it hard not to. But to really explain, I have to explain how I found it. I’d seen the ads and thought it looked cute, if a little boring. So when I found it while flipping channels one day, I paused and watched. […]
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After Bush: How to Restore America’s Place in the World
Our (that is to say the United State’s) requirement that all presidents must be natural-born is patently absurd. Though the first person to make me reconsider this rule was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has shown himself to be an incredibly bipartisan and wise Republican in recent times, it is actually Fareed Zakaria, the Newsweek columnist and […]