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Politics
01st July 2008
Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland has decided to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic games in an act of protest against Chinese actions in Tibet. This is a fact that few people through out the world are aware of and perhaps even fe...
30th June 2008
The term “Keep Austin Weird” has become overly used, and some would say Austin’s “weirdness” is growing increasingly hard to find, with the mass influx of those from other areas bringing their normality to town. Luckily with events like Spamara...
27th June 2008
The comically complicated PSA (Personal Savings Account) legislation bouncing around Congress will raise taxes, increase investment risk, and expand the size of government. Let's stop applying Band-Aids to spouting arteries. We are looking for a guarantee...
19th June 2008
As he sprints to the finnish of the 100 metre dash at the Beijing Olympics, George Bush is about to kill 2 birds, Barack Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with 1 slingshot and 1 stone. Not since St. Paul helped stone Stephen Martyr to death for supporting Jes...
19th June 2008
Gets your attention, doesn't it? The unfortunate thing though, is that most people will react negatively to this intentionally inflammatory, media-ready, title statement. Has some Wall Street virus attacked our financial experience memory chip? Bouncing...
05th June 2008
As the Bush loyalists run to the President’s rescue, George Bush has in fact now been exonerated and deified by Scott McClellan. The best selling tome of the former presidential bum boy is now flying off the shelves at Amazon.com faster than the new Bra...
04th June 2008
There is something I would like to get off my chest: why is it that when someone, anyone, utters the words “clothing-optional beach” a good number of men get this grin on their faces? You know the one that I mean. It's the one filled with so much sm...
12th May 2008
John McCain is about to ride to victory on the same unspoken winning lying promise fed to us by George Bush. It isn’t so much what has been said in the two year primary caucus as what has been withheld from us like gruel from orphans. Our political lead...
07th May 2008
Why does everything have to be held up to a standard of political correctness nowadays? Lately, it has pretty much become obvious that people are very careful about what they say to certain people, because they will be slapped with accusations of being p...
02nd May 2008
When running for office last year, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to include the respect for human rights as a vital part of France’s foreign policy.
Yet during his two-day state visit to Tunisia, he has not only failed to live up to tha...
02nd May 2008
The French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, arrived in the Colombian capital, Bogota, on Monday in the latest attempt to negotiate the release of more than 30 hostages being held by that country’s rebel movement Farc.
But Kouchner faces an uphill ...
01st May 2008
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, begins a state visit to Tunisia on Monday during which he’ll once again be promoting French industry. He’s also expected to put the finishing touches to his pet project of a Mediterranean Union.
But there’s ...
01st May 2008
The French remained largely unimpressed by Nicolas Sarkozy’s performance on prime time television last Thursday according to the latest opinion polls.
But unsurprisingly the French president did manage to reassure the party faithful, which is at leas...
30th April 2008
In Thursday evening’s much anticipated television interview, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, admitted that he had made some mistakes during his first year in office, and that they might go a long way to explaining his tumbling popularity ratings....
27th April 2008
The Dalai Lama has been made an honorary citizen of Paris.
On Monday the city’s council passed a resolution made be the mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, to bestow the symbolic title on the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet.
The timing couldn’t have been...
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