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Politics
State of the Union – it sounds familiar
Jan 29th
The State of the Union address is a big deal in the USA. It’s a chance for the President to tell the Congress and the public what the situation is and how the country should move forward. The 2008 address was the final one for George W. Bush and I bet the Democrats were glad.…
South Carolina – not on topic, not much detail.
Jan 27th
A few days ago I heard about a debate on CNN between John Edwards, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I recently watched it on Youtube and made numerous observations. The WithdrawalThe first observation was the absence of Dennis Kucinich, the person who seems to be forgotten frequently during this campaign. What was the reason for…
US election process confuses the media
Jan 21st
After I found about about the results in Nevada and South Carolina and read some of the analysis on the internet, I ended up thinking the following: Does the mainstream media in the US understand their country’s election process? At the moment I don’t think they do. Recently Nevada had their caucus and the following…
Wyoming and Michigan – controversy reigns
Jan 17th
Everyone seems to have ignored the result in Wyoming. This is possibly because only the Republicans had their vote – the vote for the Democrats comes later on in the year. Only three candidates got delegates. Mitt Romney did well and got eight, Fred Thompson got three and the surprise was Duncan Hunter who got…
New Hampshire – the aftermath
Jan 9th
“I hope things are still unsettled after New Hampshire…” The quote above is from a comment that Alfred Thompson left on my previous blog post, which was about the US election up to (and including) the Iowa caucus. He typed that because he doesn’t want the whole process to be dominated by one person –…
U.S. Elections 2008 – up to Iowa
Jan 4th
This is probably going to be the first of a few posts covering the presidential race in the United States. I’ve been following it very closely because I have an interest in US politics and something like this is internationally important. First of all, below is a list of the candidates form the Democrat and…
An unbelievable loss
Nov 25th
Prior to the event happening, many people would have assumed this sort of thing could never happen. Maybe you thought that there would be enough safeguards in place. Obviously, we now know that this is not true. What am I talking about? This blog entry is about the 25 million Inland Revenue records that were…
The Blair Effect
Jul 1st
The year was 1997 – Tony Blair had just won a historic general election and become Prime Minister. There were crowds of people cheering as he went down Downing Street. The following are extracts from his victory speech on May 2nd of that year: “And this new Labour government will govern in the interests of…
The war on terror
Feb 10th
Ever since September 11th, 2001, there’s been one thing that’s dominated the news – the war on terror. There’s been so many sub-plots and it’s near impossible to tell when it will end. Despite the fact that I find terrorism abhorrent, I disagree with the war. It all started with an Al-Qaeda attack on the…