Former US President Jimmy Carter Meets with Hamas
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Jimmy Carter
Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter met with Nasser al-Shaer on Tuesday. Shaer is a former education minister and a former Deputy Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. He is considered a [...]
Popularity: 12% [?]
Absolut Advocates Mexican Conquest of America
Absolut Vodka just published this ad today:
So Absolut is willing to give half the US to Mexico? Apologists argue that this is just a reprint of the 1848 map of Mexico, invoking nostalgia for a good vodka. But they haven’t looked closely at the 1848 map of Mexico; because the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo didn’t [...]
Popularity: 25% [?]
Obama on Race
Race is a different thing down South. For as much as a Californian or Utahn may love to throw the word around, racism just isn’t the same there as in the South. So I think we have a peculiar perspective on Obama’s speech today.
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has insisted on staying away from race-based discussion, at least [...]
Popularity: 59% [?]
Communists Win Again in Spain
I don’t know anything about who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy in this world, but I do get a little scared when a “socialist” party wins anything. One of the default jokes in the US throughout the 70s was “[Insert any news here]… and Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead!” That was [...]
Popularity: 26% [?]