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پیر 24 مارچ 2008Monday, March 24, 2008
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani
Yusuf Raza Gillani has been elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Here is some news and analysis on his election.
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منگل 11 مارچ 2008Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Black Flag Week
Aitzaz Ahsan has declared this week to be Black Flag Week to protest for the restoration of the Pakistani judiciary. Let's all take part in this week.
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جمعہ 22 فروری 2008Friday, February 22, 2008
Pakistan Election Aftermath
Musharraf's allies lose big in Pakistan but the Bush administration is still pro-Musharraf. A coalition government of PPP and PML-N is in the offing.
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اتوار 17 فروری 2008Sunday, February 17, 2008
Pakistan Elections
Pakistan is having elections today. Violence has taken its toll though in dampening any enthusiasm. There are also worries about rigging.
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منگل 5 فروری 2008Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Super Tuesday
Today is Super Tuesday with lots of primaries and caucuses. We urge everyone to vote for Barack Obama.
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منگل 8 جنوری 2008Tuesday, January 08, 2008
New Hampshire Primary
Today is the New Hampshire primary. Here are some predictions and thoughts about the election. Go Obama!
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بدھ 2 جنوری 2008Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Primary Campaign
The primary season has been on for eternity, but the elections start tomorrow. I support Obama while Amber supports Richardson. On the other hand, I plan to vote against Giuliani.
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پیر 22 اکتوبر 2007Monday, October 22, 2007
Pakistan Political Poll
A discussion about a series of polls about political opinions in Pakistan. In short, Musharraf and the ruling PML-Q are very unpopular, Bhutto and PPP are losing their popularity too while Sharif is gaining. The religio-political leaders are losing too.
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بدھ 26 ستمبر 2007Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Presidential Candidate Quiz
Now that the Presidential election is just more than a year away, let's take a quick first look at the Democratic and Republican candidates.
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جمعرات 17 مئی 2007Thursday, May 17, 2007
بش کے دیس میں خدا
امریکہ مذہبی ملک ہے۔ یہاں ایتھیئسٹ کو اچھا نہیں سمجھا جاتا۔ خدا پر یقین کو اچھے انسان ہونے کے لئے لازمی قرار دیا جاتا ہے۔ ذاتی اور عوامی دائرہکار میں ایتھیئسٹ کے بارے میں ایک عام امریکی کیا خیالات رکھتا ہے اس بارے میں کچھ سروے کے نتائج حاضر ہیں۔
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پیر 16 اپریل 2007Monday, April 16, 2007
Barack Obama
Senator Barack Obama was in town for a rally. Here is my report on his speech. Overall, Obama is a good speaker, though I am not ready to support him yet.
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منگل 7 نومبر 2006Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Vote Early, Vote Often
Today are the midterm elections. Do vote and vote against the Republicans as they have become arrogant. Also it is good to throw out the governing party once every few elections.
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اتوار 11 جون 2006Sunday, June 11, 2006
Suicide as Asymmetric Warfare
Three prisoners commit suicide at Guantanamo Bay and the reaction of US officials is absolutely shameful, calling the suicides "asymmetric warfare," "good PR move," and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause."
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پیر 21 نومبر 2005Monday, November 21, 2005
Letter to a US Representative
Greetings Web Community, I drafted the following letter with the intent of sending it to my representative in the US House of Reps. Before executing my plan, I wish to gather comments from this online community. LETTER BEGINS Our country’s...
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منگل 15 نومبر 2005Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Empire and Torture
Torture is bad, empire might even be worse, especially when all the people in the world could be its subjects.
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جمعرات 13 اکتوبر 2005Thursday, October 13, 2005
More Quiz Fun
It's a new batch of online quizzes: A quiz about my politics, another on religion (am I a Muslim or an agnostic?), another on how I'll die and cocktails of my name and nickname.
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جمعرات 6 اکتوبر 2005Thursday, October 06, 2005
Pro-Torture Senators or the Nazgul?
Nine senators voted against stopping torture. All are Reublicans, of course.
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منگل 14 جون 2005Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Reaction to Criticism
The Bush administration responds to Amnesty International's cataloging of abuses in Gitmo and beyond by tarnishing Amnesty's name. The Musharraf regime saves Pakistan's reputation by not allowing Mukhtaran Bibi, a gang rape victim, to go abroad.
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ہفتہ 4 جون 2005Saturday, June 04, 2005
Belated Memorial Day Thoughts
Some thoughts on what Memorial Day means and whether we can differentiate between commemorating the sacrifice of soldiers and supporting wrong or unjust wars.
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جمعرات 5 مئی 2005Thursday, May 05, 2005
Litmus Test for Telecom Meetings
The Bush administration has litmus tests for everything. If you don't support them, then you don't count. The latest is the news that Kerry supporters were nixed from a telecom standards meeting.
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پیر 25 اپریل 2005Monday, April 25, 2005
Paging Captain Arrrgh
Senator Santorum is acting as a shill of "Big Weather" as he tries to ban the National Weather Service from providing weather forecast services to the public.
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بدھ 22 دسمبر 2004Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Civil Liberties, Republicans and TV News
There is an interesting public opinion survey out from Cornell. In a study to determine how much the public fears terrorism, almost half of respondents polled nationally said they believe the U.S. government should – in some way – curtail...
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جمعرات 11 نومبر 2004Thursday, November 11, 2004
Exit Polls and Moral Values
There has been lot of talk about "moral values" being the most important issue in the Presidential election this year. Here are the results of the exit poll question in order of decreasing Bush margin...
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منگل 2 نومبر 2004Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Biting My Fingernails
It is election day. I am sitting on the floor with the computer in my lap and watching a borrowed TV. I have to continually switch internet connections between leeching off a neighborhood wireless connection and when that’s not available,...
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جمعرات 28 اکتوبر 2004Thursday, October 28, 2004
Presidential Election Polls
I am a kind of data junkie. I follow lots of polls and watch (or follow on the net) election night coverage for quite a few countries. I used to stay up all night to watch election results trickle in...
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بدھ 27 اکتوبر 2004Wednesday, October 27, 2004
A Survey About Muslim Americans
Zogby has done a survey of American Muslims for Project MAPS. Here are some poll results I found interesting: 82% of American Muslims are registered to vote this year. The top reason for not registering is not being a citizen...
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پیر 18 اکتوبر 2004Monday, October 18, 2004
Electoral College Modifications
I have said before that I am no fan of the electoral college and that statement would stand irrespective of the results of the 2000 presidential election. Unlike Unqualified Offerings, I am more of a small-d democrat than a small-r...
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منگل 12 اکتوبر 2004Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Voting Rights History
Since the election is only 3 weeks away, I was wondering about the history of voting rights in the US. As I understand it, in the early days of the United States, voting was limited to white men who also...
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بدھ 6 اکتوبر 2004Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Vice Presidential Debate
Here are some scattered thoughts on yesterday’s debate between Cheney and Edwards. It is difficult to watch a debate when one’s baby is being fussy. As a corollary, consoling the baby is more important than watching two politicians talk. Dick...
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منگل 5 اکتوبر 2004Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Vote for Syed Kerry
Hey, American Muslims, vote for a Syed. “New research by Burke’s Peerage reveals that Mr. Kerry is the only presidential candidate in U.S. history who has genealogical descent from Muslims, Jews and Christians.” Mr. Kerry is kinsman of the Shi’ite...
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جمعرات 30 ستمبر 2004Thursday, September 30, 2004
Presidential Debate
In my obviously biased opinion, Kerry did better than Bush. But I don't think any one of them convinced many undecided voters...
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بدھ 29 ستمبر 2004Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Legal Torture
Obsidian Wings has a very important post about a bill in Congress which will allow the US to legally send suspected terrorists to any country for torture. The Republican leadership of Congress is attempting to legalize extraordinary rendition. “Extraordinary rendition”...
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ہفتہ 25 ستمبر 2004Saturday, September 25, 2004
Urban Vs Rural = Democrat Vs Republican?
Via Political Animal, there is an interesting data analysis about the Democrat-Republican divide. The two parties today not only represent different political philosophies but find their core support in different kinds of communities. The nation has gone through a big...
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جمعہ 3 ستمبر 2004Friday, September 03, 2004
George W. Bush: Words Speak Louder Than Actions
You must watch the Bush video made by the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It’s really good. It is titled “George W. Bush: Words Speak Louder Than Actions.”...
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جمعہ 11 جون 2004Friday, June 11, 2004
Torture, Emperor and Forgetfulness
Via Mark Kleiman, I came upon the story of the torture memo in the Wall Street Journal. Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president wasn’t bound by laws prohibiting torture and that government agents who might torture prisoners...
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جمعہ 26 مارچ 2004Friday, March 26, 2004
Political Contributions
I knew that one could check who has contributed to political campaigns by name on the Open Secrets website. But now you can enter an address at the Fund Race 2004 website and find out who contributed to whom in...
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جمعرات 11 مارچ 2004Thursday, March 11, 2004
Magic Third Party
I had planned on ignoring Nader this year, but HijabMan has compelled me to write. What I’m puzzled by, is what I see as ‘short term’ thought. Sticking with the current two party system, shuffling between two parties that obviously...
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منگل 2 مارچ 2004Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Presidential Endorsement
Since today is Super Tuesday and there is a primary here in Georgia, may be I should go ahead and endorse somebody. There are obviously a few caveats: I am a New Jersey resident, so I can’t vote in Georgia....
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بدھ 18 فروری 2004Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Pakistan and Iran are Arab?
There was a really bad article in the New York Times by Leslie Wayne about Arab Americans backing Bush in this election cycle. Leslie Wayne considers Iranians and Pakistanis as Arab too. Who knew? Fortunately, I don’t have to debunk...
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جمعہ 13 فروری 2004Friday, February 13, 2004
Kucinich at Tech
Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich had a rally at Georgia Tech on Feb 10. I didn’t get a chance to attend. But here is a report from the campus paper. A delayed flight, however, pushed back the featured speaker’s first...
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Consistency
The human mind is a strange thing. It has this enormous capacity to hold conflicting and contradictory ideas without exploding. Consider, for example, this Washington Post-ABC News poll. Barely half – 52 percent – now believe Bush is “honest and...
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پیر 8 دسمبر 2003Monday, December 08, 2003
Gay Marriage
Reading the post on Muslims Under Progress (about American Muslim tilt to the left and how that is wrong because of the left’s support of among other things gay rights) as well as several posts on Alas, a Blog, I...
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جمعہ 5 دسمبر 2003Friday, December 05, 2003
An Impressive Endorsement
Brian Ulrich has a very good and idealistic post explaining his endorsement for the Presidential election next year. One day a couple of summers ago, I was wandering with some friends through the streets of Madaba, Jordan, looking for a...
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جمعہ 14 نومبر 2003Friday, November 14, 2003
Political Surveys
You might have heard of the Political Compass survey which asks you a bunch of questions and then maps you on a two-dimensional map where the horizontal axis is for left/right economic views and the vertical axis signifies libertarian/authoritarian. My...
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جمعہ 7 نومبر 2003Friday, November 07, 2003
Meeting Wes Clark
I didn’t exactly meet him, just attended the Wes Clark event here at Tech today. There were about 200 people there (I am not a crowd-counter; so I might be wildly off). Wes Clark gave a 20 minute speech which...
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جمعرات 9 اکتوبر 2003Thursday, October 09, 2003
Zack for President
I support Senator Hatch’s proposed resolution, not entirely for selfless reasons. Hatch has introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution’s ban on non-American-born presidents by allowing people who have been U.S. citizens for at least 20 years to be elected...
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بدھ 8 اکتوبر 2003Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Governor Schwarzenegger
Interesting election there in California yesterday. I didn’t like Gray Davis, so it’s good he’s out. However, I am very unimpressed with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I must admit that I am fond of intellectuals and policy wonks in politics and no...
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پیر 6 اکتوبر 2003Monday, October 06, 2003
Iraq, Media, Politics and Public Opinion
Via Balkinization, I found a survey of US public opinion of the Iraq war and related matters. This survey has a lot of interesting information regarding public beliefs about the Iraq war and their correlation with media and political beliefs....
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بدھ 1 اکتوبر 2003Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Plame Affair
You probably already know about the leaking of a CIA operative’s name by administration officials. It has become a big story as a result of CIA request for an investigation. At CIA Director George J. Tenet’s request, the Justice Department...
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پیر 29 ستمبر 2003Monday, September 29, 2003
Nepotism?
Is this nepotism or is it just a small world? Douglas J. Feith is undersecretary of defense for policy. His former firm has recently established a task force dealing with issues and opportunities relating to the recently ended war with...
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منگل 23 ستمبر 2003Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Wes Clark
Very interesting that Wesley Clark has shot up to be the top Democratic contender just after announcing his candidacy. Here are the results from CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls over the last month...
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جمعہ 5 ستمبر 2003Friday, September 05, 2003
Woodrow Wilson
Once again Wilsonian ideas are popular, both with liberal hawks and neoconservatives. So I thought I should excerpt some comments about Wilson from the book I am reading nowadays about the Versailles Peace conference at the end of World War...
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بدھ 27 اگست 2003Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Favorite Presidential Lies
The Washington Monthly has rated the lies told by recent Presidents and has come up with George W. Bush as the biggest liar (surprise!) I am interested in the article, however, because of these gems from Reagan. After opining in...
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جمعہ 22 اگست 2003Friday, August 22, 2003
Fox Loses "Fair and Balanced" Lawsuit
Good news. A federal judge on Friday denied Fox News Channel’s request for an injunction to block liberal humorist Al Franken’s new book, whose title mocks the Fox slogan “fair and balanced.” U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said Fox’s claim...
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جمعرات 21 اگست 2003Thursday, August 21, 2003
Georgia Senator Race
Zell Miller is retiring next year as the senior senator from Georgia. Civil rights leader and former mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young is thinking of running for the open seat. Thirteen years after he last held elective office, Andrew J....
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جمعہ 15 اگست 2003Friday, August 15, 2003
Fair and Balanced
You might have heard of the Foxnews lawsuit against Al Franken. Fox News Channel has sued liberal humorist Al Franken and the Penguin Group to stop them from using the phrase “fair and balanced” in the title of his upcoming...
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بدھ 6 اگست 2003Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Do Democrats Need the South?
There has been speculation in the Blogosphere recently about whether a Democratic candidate for President needs to win the South and whether it is necessary for him to be from the South. It is true that the South has generally...
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اتوار 27 جولائی 2003Sunday, July 27, 2003
Huffington Vs Huffington
Now that could be an interesting race for California Governor: Arianna Huffington running against her ex-husband Michael Huffington. Any guess as to how many people will vote for the wrong Huffington? The rule-busting California gubernatorial recall election took a turn...
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جمعرات 24 جولائی 2003Thursday, July 24, 2003
CIA's War
Josh Marshall quotes the Nelson Report about war between the CIA and the administration. and the war has just begun, intelligence community sources warn. The Iraq/Niger debacle is but one of “a whole series of stories which are ready to...
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جمعرات 17 جولائی 2003Thursday, July 17, 2003
I Don't Speak Muslim!
On CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Senator John Kerry had this to say: “And I believe the obligation of the United States government, of the president is to rapidly internationalize the effort in Iraq, get the target off of...
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بدھ 16 جولائی 2003Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Yellowcake and Moussaoui
No, I am not trying to link the two. These are the big news in recent days. I thought about blogging about them, but I don’t have anything original to say and lots of bloggers have already posted about it....
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جمعرات 10 جولائی 2003Thursday, July 10, 2003
Bush on Slavery
It’s not often that I agree with President Bush or praise him, but his speech in Senegal about slavery is pretty good. For 250 years the captives endured an assault on their culture and their dignity. The spirit of Africans...
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منگل 8 جولائی 2003Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Presidential Quiz
Here are the Presidential candidates ranked according to how they match with my views on a few select issues according to SelectSmart: Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (100%) Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (85%) Sharpton, Reverend Al -...
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جمعرات 26 جون 2003Thursday, June 26, 2003
Lester Maddox 1916-2003
Lester Maddox who became Governor of Georgia on a segregationist platform in 1966 died yesterday. Here is his main claim to fame (or rather infamy): Mr. Maddox first came to national attention in 1964, after he violated the newly signed...
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John Edwards
I haven’t been following news about Presidential candidates yet, but this speech by John Edwards is good. Our ancestors came here to escape a world where birth was destiny, and build a nation where all are born with the right...
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بدھ 18 جون 2003Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Deference to the Executive
Go read a great post by Unqualified Offerings about the decision of the DC Appeals court backing secrecy for Sept 11 detainees. NOW....
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منگل 3 جون 2003Tuesday, June 03, 2003
Burke Marshall, 1922-2003
Burke Marshall has died. Burke Marshall, the government’s legal strategist on civil rights in the era of freedom rides, the Birmingham church bombing and the March on Washington, died yesterday at his home in Newtown, Conn., near Danbury. He was...
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The Poor Man at his best
The Poor Man is supposed to be on semi-vacation working on his thesis (like me), but he is at his funniest and snarkiest posting loads of material. I can excerpt it, so I am linking to all his recent posts....
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پیر 2 جون 2003Monday, June 02, 2003
Eric Rudolph: Terrorist
Eric Rudolph, longtime fugitive and terrorist, was finally caught a couple of days ago. When Rudolph bombed the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA in 1996, I still was more than a year away from coming here. But Olympics are...
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منگل 27 مئی 2003Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Impeach them all
If it were up to Unqualified Offerings, 7 out of our last 11 post-WWII Presidents would have been impeached. The only ones to finish their terms: Truman, Eisenhower, Ford and Carter. JFK is iffy. Jim, please don’t make impeachment a...
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بدھ 21 مئی 2003Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Protestors are Terrorists
Via Unqualified Offerings, here’s the strange case of the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC). CATIC spokesman Mike Van Winkle said such evidence wasn’t needed to issue warnings on war protesters. “You can make an easy kind of a link that,...
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پیر 10 مارچ 2003Monday, March 10, 2003
Torture
A debate has been raging in the blogworld recently about using torture on Al-Qaeda members. Here are some of the posts on the topic: No Conclusions: Volokh Conspiracy For: Oliver Willis, The Agitator Against: CalPundit, Unqualified Offerings, Light of Reason,...
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بدھ 5 مارچ 2003Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Confederate Flag
One of the good things to come as a result of the patriotism expressed by people after the terrorist attacks of September 11 has been the large number of US flags on display everywhere. I like it especially since now...
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بدھ 19 فروری 2003Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Eenie, meenie, minie, moe
One learns new things every day. Via Eve Tushnet, I found out that two African-American women have sued Southwest Airlines. The reason is said to be the reciting of “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go.” This...
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جمعہ 14 فروری 2003Friday, February 14, 2003
Budgets and Wars
CalPundit is worried that the Bush administration has not budgeted for the Iraq war. It seems that’s not the first time. They did not budget for aid to Afghanistan for the 2003 budget either. The United States Congress has stepped...
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جمعرات 6 فروری 2003Thursday, February 06, 2003
Democracy or Dictatorship
Zachary Latif recently wrote against democracy in the Muslim world: In fact one remains hopefully that there will be no significant upheaval within the Islamic Crescent since autocracy, in a convoluted way, is the one redeeming aspect of the Islamic...
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Japanese American Internment
Representative Howard Coble (R-NC), chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, agrees with the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (“for their own protection”). Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., made the remark Tuesday on WKZL-FM...
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بدھ 5 فروری 2003Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Marijuana
I don’t discuss drug policy since I don’t know much about it and also because I am a little conflicted about soft drugs like marijuana. The drug war is probably a bad idea in my opinion, but I don’t agree...
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جمعرات 30 جنوری 2003Thursday, January 30, 2003
Evolution Controversy
When I came to the US, I was very surprised to find out that a lot of people here consider the theory of evolution to be wrong of “just a theory” (the word “theory” as used by laymen is very...
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بدھ 15 جنوری 2003Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Better than Hitler, Stalin and Castro
Add any other of your favorite dictators, thugs or murderers. Is this a good slogan for a country that is proud of its democratic tradition? Unqualified Offerings has a new tongue-in-cheek (I think) version of the pledge of allegiance: I...
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پیر 6 جنوری 2003Monday, January 06, 2003
Race
Eve Tushnet has a series of thoughtful posts on race (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6a, 7, 8, 8a, 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9e). She discusses the employment study that I talked about earlier (1, 2, 3, 4). I...
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جمعرات 19 دسمبر 2002Thursday, December 19, 2002
Democracy and the Middle East
Here is something to chew on: Journal of Democracy’s special issue on the Middle East Oxblog’s earlier debate about the issue. David Adesnik on Algeria vs Iran Found via David Adesnik of Oxblog. I’ll be reading these in the next...
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بدھ 18 دسمبر 2002Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Affirmative Action
This post by Matthew Yglesias mirrors my views about affirmative action....
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پیر 16 دسمبر 2002Monday, December 16, 2002
States' Rights and Slavery
Patrick Nielsen Hayden notes how the South in the 19th century paid only lip service to states’ rights when it came to fugitive slaves: But claiming to be coerced while actually practicing coercion is a dark art that Southern racists...
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جمعرات 12 دسمبر 2002Thursday, December 12, 2002
Bush on Lott
Finally, a condemnation from President Bush: We must also rise to a second challenge facing our country. This great and prosperous land must become a single nation of justice and opportunity. We must continue our advance toward full equality for...
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منگل 10 دسمبر 2002Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Lott Again
So Lott has finally apologized: “A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the discarded policies of the past,” Lott said. “Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was...
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ہفتہ 7 دسمبر 2002Saturday, December 07, 2002
Let's Roll Back Time
This is what Trent Lott said at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday: “I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country...
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بدھ 4 دسمبر 2002Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Redux: The Non-Taxpaying Class
I am getting a lot of hits (my definition of “lot” may differ from yours) for searching on this WSJ editorial. I am #11 (yes, that’s near the end) on Google. I thought I should point my readers to my...
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جمعرات 28 نومبر 2002Thursday, November 28, 2002
Tax the Poor
It seems like the Wall Street Journal editorial I mentioned before was inspired from Neal Boortz. Writing on his website on Aug 1, Boortz describes “THE DEMOCRATS’ (SECRET) PLAN FOR AMERICA”: Remove a majority of voters from responsibility for income...
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بدھ 27 نومبر 2002Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Voting Systems
I have always felt that the first-past-the-post (or plularity) voting system as practised in the US (except the Louisiana senate seat) and the UK is flawed since a house elected using this system does not reflect the will of the...
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منگل 26 نومبر 2002Tuesday, November 26, 2002
WSJ Editorial: The Non-Taxpaying Class
E.J. Dionne, Tim Noah and Josh Marshall are making fun of the Wall Street Journal editorial last week which basically says: [A]s fewer and fewer people are responsible for paying more and more of all taxes, the constituency for tax...
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جمعہ 22 نومبر 2002Friday, November 22, 2002
Bush Tax Cut
Very interesting table from the Tax Policy Center about how the Bush tax cut of last year would affect the rich and the poor after it is all phased in. Overall, the change in after-tax income will be 1.8%. The...
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