Politics Blog Posts

Sonia Gandhi, UPA chairperson, and de-facto head of the government, while addressing her party workers on the occasion of the release of UPA-II’s score card to the people of India, said: “Can anyone question the magnitude of changes we...

Throughout the Sunday talk shows, regarding the IRS scandal, I heard Republican after Republican attack the Obama administration over the supposed targeting of Conservative groups, such as the Tea Party. But by Monday morning I still didn't see what...

In the sixth of European Geostrategy’s ‘Long Posts’, Xymena Kurowska and Bence Németh enquire as to whether Central Europe has become a geopolitical playground for a plethora of internal, external and ‘caretaking’ powers. How might the reg...

  I feel sorry for Kapil Sibal and company for their zero-loss theory, CAG Vinod Rai says. None of the 30 Comptroller & Auditor Generals of India before him had created the kind of waves as he did. Vinod Rai threw up … Continue readi...

by Robert McCrum   Some while ago, with reference to Orwell’s essay on “Politics and the English language”, I addressed the language of the internet, an issue that stubbornly refuses to go away. Perhaps now, more than ever, we...

Sometimes folks come to my office and ask if there is a quick way to examine their fundamentals to deal with their finances? They continue: "We just don't seem to be at peace with our finances, especially when we have no debt." Puzzled, usually, I as...

This week the EU yet again has interfered in the general day-to-day living of those living within the European community by banning reusable olive oil bottles from restaurant tables. We here in the UK are among those who will HAVE to implemen...

Over the past couple of years, society has been going through a deep economic recession, with the official level of unemployment reaching nearly 2.5million people. Consequently there has been much material insecurity and hardship for a great many ind...

Now the Republicans have yet another another excuse not to govern, not to create more jobs, not to help the middle class, not to reform immigration to make it more fair, not to make tax laws more fair and not to help the poor and needy. Now they are...

This operation was purportedly risky, vital and expensive and involved the aforementioned Dr Stritchmarch replacing McGuinness' tired and failing anal set-up with an unbreakable Crystal Ass System™.

I started serving COMELEC as one of the BEI's at age 18.  And for that year of service I encountered different procedures in conducting Philippine Election both Local and National.Last 2010, Philippine Election start using the PRECINCT...

How is the European military-industrial base articulated in the French Defence White Paper? Is it still central to French interests, or increasingly less important?

What does the 2013 French Defence White Paper mean for European armaments cooperation? What is preventing the creation of a European military-industrial base?

The two photos below represent different captions designed to frame the story in a particular manner. The first photo is from AP and was reported by Elder of Ziyon. A Palestinian rioter tries to grab a weapon from a plain clothes Israeli police offic...

Welcome to Smile with us on Mondays Blog Hop   Link up any post that makes you or someone else smile, anything that brings a ray of sunshine on dark days. Link up your hops if you'd like, I love to meet new people and read their bl...

THESE WOMEN WERE GAUNT, STARVED AND YEARING FOR FREEDOM FROM THIS SEXUAL SADIST THAT ARIEL CASTRO WAS AND IS.  HOW COULD HE HAVE NOT SEEN HOW SICK THEY LOOKED. GHOSTLY WHITE AND SICK WHILE HE CONTINUALLY RAPED THEM. TO TOP IT OFF HE HAD A CHILD WITH...

Even as the worst crisis for the ruling UPA-2 coalition government continued to gain momentum every day this week witnessed two huge days for the media fraternity—Wednesday, the 8th of May 2013, and Friday the 10th of May 2013. That momentous Wedne...

I am #ElectrifiedforMay13 and this are some things you need to know before you vote for a party list on the 2013 Philippine elections. You can only vote for ONE (1) party list. Make it count. Of the 123 official party lists on the voting sheet t...

Recently a dear friend sent me an email to let me know that a well-known Christian writer was offering a bumper gift of free books written by himself and others upon the condition that we bought his latest book.  Immediately … Continue reading...

Hyderabad: Y S Bharati, wife of the jailed YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, has alleged that the cases registered against her husband were politically motivated.Talking to the English channel NDTV, she said it was the aim of the CBI to keep J...