"(Political Animal) THE ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY.... What may prove to be the single most damaging angle to Sarah Palin's role on the Republican Party ticket? There are quite a few contenders (ethics scandal,...
A new car that should be released in 2010, claims to be run on a combination of compressed air and fuel. The company that makes the car, Zero Pollution Motors, claims that is can achieve up to 106 miles per...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe Sway to get the Ethnic Vote is underway as two Presidential candidates fight to get elected as President. It seems both are trying to top one another in who is the more...
"The crowd that assembled on Dover’s Hill near Chipping Campden last Friday weren’t in the Cotswolds for views of the rolling countryside.They came instead for scenic pleasures of sheer, shinbone-shattering violence that forms part of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.To the...
One neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica, has come up with a novel way to curb street violence: a weekly boxing event. Local amateur combatants square off each Thursday in a makeshift ring, and so far it seems to be...
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"Washington (ABC Live): As fight in Democrats to be nominated as presidential candidate is going to be photo finish. Smelling it now both main contenders Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama has started to debate on role of party super delegates in final say in tie situation."
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All Democratic candidates including Barrack Obama have signed the American Freedom Pledge, other than Hillary Clinton who refused. Can America survive four more years of Billary? "Senator Barack Obama has...
This week's Independent Spirit Awards nominations (for many, this writer included, the last real barometer of good filmmaking in North America) netted a number of significant nods for Canadian filmmakers and actors....
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"Boris Johnson was today chosen as the Tory candidate to take on Ken Livingstone for the post of London mayor.
The gaffe-prone Henley MP garnered three-quarters of the votes cast as he saw off the challenge of less well-known contenders Victoria Borwick, Andrew Boff and...
I thought it was only Repubulicans who were the party of corruption weren't they? "REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a...
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The Guardian UK reports this morning that democratic contenders for the White House are hiring bloggers to spread the mesage that they are better than their republican counterparts. All this while democrats are...
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Is this "damning with faint praise" or am I missing something here? Pollster Gallup has just released a poll which rates the contending Republican presidential candidates and finds (apparently) some lukewarm...
"Recent events in the Palestinian territories are a powerful reminder of the limits of democracy in the Middle East and the pitfalls of rhetorical excess in past election seasons. After all, democracy in Iraq, specifically, and the Middle East in general, was, according to...
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"The big challenges facing the UK such as terrorism and climate change cannot be solved "unless we involve the people of this country", Gordon Brown says.
To achieve that the Labour Party must reform and modernise again, he told a youth hustings in Oxford.
"Only 1% of the...
"While watching the Republican debates, the British author writes, "Jesus -- I found myself inwardly exclaiming, as a post-Christian European -- Jesus, what century are we in?""
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