Month: August 2008

As I stated earlier, Russia has invaded Georgia-proper and is pushing south. It looks like they will attempt to seize the town of Gori, cut Georgia in two, and then size up the situation. Their political goal appears to be...

Isn’t it elitist for Barack Obama to vacation in Hawaii?

The Clinton faction was unsuccessful in their attempt to use the party platform process to ban the use of caucuses in future presidential contests. It was an effort to delegitimize Barack Obama’s victory and it went along...

Crossposted from MY LEFT WING During a brief, albeit seismic argument with my husband this afternoon about l’affaire Edwards, some ideas crystallised; I realised just how cataclysmic the effect on Obama will be — in...

I don’t pretend to be an expert on the former Soviet Socialist Republics but I do get the strong sense that Russia is so bloated with income from high energy prices that they are feeling very aggressive and looking to...