Aristide Returns

Haiti has been hit by two devasting earthquakes already.First, the January 2010 7.9 quake that wreaked nationwide desolation. Make-shift campsThen, "Baby Doc" Duvalier returned to a nation, still reeling from natural disaster and national dissolution. The...

I Beg to Differ, Senator Begich (D-Alaska)

LA Times article "Congress again averts a federal shutdown" (March 18, 2011) shares an intriguing quote from the junior senator of Alaska.After outlining the legal l0g-rolling of the current Congress to prevent a government shutdown while cutting wasteful...

Sharron's Right Angle

Tea Party Republican Sharron Angle is both outgoing and controversial. She gained a lot of attention for herself in the 2010 U.S. Senate primaries against establishment Republicans endorsed by the party machine.Both traits probably hurt her in the general election...

Muhammed, Mahmoud, and Celebrity Spokesmen

Taking on another opponent, former Heavyweight champion of the world Muhammed Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) is demanding that Iranian "president" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad release American hikers who were arrested for trespassing nearly two years ago.The world...

Letting a Crisis Go to Nuclear Waste

If not for the Earthquakes wreaking havoc on the Japanese, the threat of nuclear meltdown would not be troubling the Japanese, or dissuading future investors in nuclear energy.Nations have nothing to fear from nuclear energy, one of the safest means of providing...