Month: June 2007

Americans Shocked by Romes Rage

Another gem from the Financial Times.  Americans visiting Rome were shocked, shocked they tell at us at the level of vitriol directed at the President’s visit to Italy. A family from Tennessee tells the tale: For the...

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We’re Now Arming the Sunni Insurgents

Really, it’s all true. BAGHDAD, June 10 — With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they...

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Global Political Risk Index

Citi Private Bank to Provide Its Clients Eurasia Group’s ”Global Political Risk Index” for Economic and Political Risk Analysis NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 7, 2007–Eurasia Group and Citi...

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Bottomfeeding Republicans

We see a lot of Republicans defending the President. Politicians are inclined to support the leaders of their party against almost any charge. Republicans have no monopoly on that tendency. But when the shit goes down and it...

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