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Chinese to Launch English-Speaking News Channel – More Choice for a Fair & Balanced America!

Interestingly, but perhaps not unexpectedly, China has announced plans to launch an English-language-speaking (bound to upset the French) 24 hour news channel (a ‘Chinese CNN’) to fluff-up their righteous Communist-spewing, human-rights-abusing, environment-destroying, currency-manipulating, African-dictator-supporting image beyond their locked-down totalitarian nation state.
Here’s to fair and balanced! But at least it expands our choice of international [...]

Fox News | Silence on Iraq Means …?

You know the war in Iraq is so far beyond recovery and success when the Bush Administration’s cable news mouthpiece, Fox News, shuns any mention of said war in favor of:

- Paris Hilton
- immigration reform so out of whack with reality as to emphasize the absurdity of Bush’s “Conversative” values and the far-left’s betrayal [...]

Americans | Don’t Give a Damn or Don’t Know Jack?

First let me quickly state that I am indeed a recovering European – a newly naturalized U.S. citizen – and I’ve come to a wholly different conclusion about Americans and their view of the world and of themselves.
The United States of America is an unwanted protagonist in a world that finds itself stewing, quite contently, [...]

Obama, a Muslim Madrassa & a Canny Clinton?

When the usual pack of political pundits on the wee handful of network news channels throw long looks of utter despair at Hillary’s less-than-hasty desire to ‘officially’ enter the 2008 presidential race … you have to throw the Senator from New York a begrudging wink and a nod, as much as that would kill me! [...]

An Interview with the Hon. J.C. Watts

JC Watts exudes a quite intoxicating calm. True, my meeting with the man was only thirty minutes long but if you tried, quite unfairly, to give him one label; one stark quality; ‘calm’ would be mine.
Oscar Wilde suggested, more than once I believe, that ‘nothing is so aggravating as calmness!’ I’d extend that quote one [...]

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