Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has “very slim†chances of regaining power in the 2013 elections, and any return to military rule in the country would be a disaster, a senior US official said on Wednesday. “He has about as much chance of coming back to power as (former Soviet) President (Mikhail) Gorbachev,” The News [...]
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Musharraf has “very slim chances†of winning democratic elections in Pak: Holbrooke
November 18th, 2010 |
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Pak journalist disappointed over Bushâ€s â€plagiarismâ€
November 17th, 2010 |
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Ahmed Rashid, one of Pakistan”s most respected journalists, has said that he is disappointed that parts of his work appear to have been plagiarized by former US President George W Bush. Rashid said that it was never a compliment when politicians plagiarize ideas or comments from journalists without acknowledging their work. A US website said [...]
Kanye West’s Media Trainer Quits After “Today†Show Incident
November 14th, 2010 |
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Kanye West’s newly hired media trainer told him doing the “Today†show interview wasn’t a good idea….and apparently, the rapper didn’t listen to her and went through with it anyway, which has caused a lot of problems to date. Kanye was invited to the “Today†show to respond to comments former President Bush made to [...]
Kanye West Cancels “TODAY Show†Concert Following Feud With Matt Lauer
November 12th, 2010 |
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Team Lauer or Team Yeezy? So much for Black Friday on The Plaza! Tempermental hip-hopster Kanye West has pulled out of his scheduled Thanksgiving Friday performance on The TODAY Show following his feud with NBC correspondent Matt Lauer. Yeezy — who drops his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, on Nov. 22 — [...]
Noam Chomsky: No Evidence that Al-Qaeda Carried Out the 9/11 Attacks
November 5th, 2010 |
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Leading liberal intellectual Noam Chomsky just told Press TV:”The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade C…
George W. Bush: “Kanye West Katrina Racist Outburst Worst Moment Of Presidencyâ€
November 3rd, 2010 |
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Kanye West: Ruining lives. One simple-minded Southerner at a time. Before he was Tweeting in all-caps or storming stages on unsuspecting country stars, the gabby “Golddigger” rapper was flipping the bird at the highest-office in the land: The US presidency. And Kanye’s big mouth had a lasting impact on inept conservative George W. Bush. President [...]
Dick Cheney’s Oily Dream
September 5th, 2010 |
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is currently saying that Dick Cheney’s vision of policy towards the Middle East after 9/11 was to re-draw the map:Vice-President Dick Cheney’s vision of completely redrawing the map of the Middle East following…
The True Meaning of the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy
August 18th, 2010 |
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The Founding Fathers believed in freedom of religion, and tolerance of all religions. The Constitution enshrines freedom of religion.As such, anyone who tries to ban Islam as evil is anti-American.As Greg Palast argues, if we ban mosques because some M…
“South Park†Takes On Tiger Woods On 14th Season Premiere
March 15th, 2010 |
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South Park kicks off its 14th season with a swift kick in the pants to scandal-scarred golfer Tiger Woods. Over thw past 13 seasons, the boys have been haunted by dead celebrities, poked fun at the Church of Scientology, and stuck it to former President Bush. Now, the foul-mouthed fourth-graders are back for another season [...]
Sarah Palin’s Greatest Fails of All Time
February 24th, 2010 |
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There are a few “greatest hits” compilation videos of her blunders floating around the Internet, but today, we’d like to bring some of the greatest moments together into a more formal gathering. They’re surely not the only ones, but here we present 15 of Sarah Palin’s greatest fails of all time.


Top Military Commander Says Getting Bin Laden is Key to Defeating Al Qaeda. Why Now, When the Government Has Ignored Bin Laden for the Past 8 Years?
December 8th, 2009 |
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The top military commander in Afghanistan – Stanley McChrystal – says that getting Bin Laden is the key to defeating Al Qaeda.Getting Bin Laden sounds fine to me. But apparently the Bush administration couldn’t have cared less about him.The oldest – …
NASA’s new rocket: The first (and last?) flight of Ares
October 29th, 2009 |
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The launch of the Ares I-X raises hopes at NASA
NASA’s new Ares I-X rocket was launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Centre, in Florida, on October 28th. It is part of the American space agency’s programme to replace its ageing shuttles and create a vehicle that could take people to the moon. The political backdrop to this test flight, which cost $455m and lasted only a few minutes before splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean, is uncertainty over whether Barack Obama’s administration will continue the course set by President Bush (high in ambition, low in funding) or set out on a new path that matches the agency’s goals with its budget. Without more money, this will mean conceding that Americans will not return to the moon by 2020, as Mr Bush hoped. And a change in this direction might mean scrapping Ares in favour of something cheaper.
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Tech Industry Can Learn from DOJ Inquiries into IBM Mainframe Business
October 14th, 2009 |
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Analysts say the Department of Justice’s inquiry into complaints about IBM’s mainframe business should give other large technology vendors an idea of how the antitrust issue will play out under the Obama administration. The analysts also draw on IBM and Apple as examples to give tech giants a couple of suggestions on how to dull the pain of such inquiries.
– Five months ago, on May 11, the Obama administration revoked an antitrust
policy established during President Bush’s regime that regulators said hindered
their ability to take on anticompetitive behavior by companies that dominate
their market.
At the time, Department of Justice officials said a…
Republican US senator ‘to resign’
August 7th, 2009 |
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Republican Senator Mel Martinez of Florida is to resign, according to US media reports.
Mr Martinez had already announced his intention not to stand for re-election when his term ends in 2010, citing a desire to spend more time with family.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist is one of the candidates vying to be the Republican senate candidate in 2010.
As governor, Mr Crist will now pick an interim senator to serve for the remainder of Mr Martinez’s term.
Immigration reform
Born in Cuba, Mr Martinez, 62, was first elected to the senate in 2004, having served in President George W Bush’s cabinet as secretary of housing and urban development.
Mr Martinez was a staunch supporter of President Bush’s attempts to reform the US immigration system, which made him unpopular with some conservative Republicans.
He has denied suggestions that his decision not to seek a second term was inspired by his tough electoral prospects.
"My priorities have always been my faith, my family and my country, and at this stage in my life, and after nearly 12 years of public service in Florida and Washington, it’s time I returned to Florida and my family," Mr Martinez wrote in a resignation letter obtained by the Associated Press.
His resignation will be "effective on a successor taking office to fill out the remainder of my term," AP quotes the letter as saying.
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Well-Known Lawyer Discusses Justice Department Shenanigans
August 6th, 2009 |
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Jon Eisenberg is a very well-known California lawyer. Eisenberg literally wrote the book on California appellate practice.In a new interview, Eisenberg says that Bush is a felon, and reveals the games played by the Department of Justice:[Interviewer] …
Henry J. Stern: The Petri Dish of Politics: Starting with New York
July 29th, 2009 |
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When one asks what can be done about the errant or corrupt public official, we would first respond that the question is very difficult to answer.
David Sirota: A Revelatory Look at D.C.’s Media Matrix: Yes, These People Really Believe They Decide the “Facts”
July 27th, 2009 |
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My newspaper column last week generated some Official Pushback from the biggest of big media. The column focused, in part, on how the Washington press…
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Do Conservatives Follow the Framers — or the French?
July 24th, 2009 |
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Who declared that the country’s legal system is “poorly organized if a judge enjoys the dangerous privilege of interpreting the law or adding to its…