Author: das monde

What are Republicans proud of?

 Are they proud of being good in scaring the bejesus out of everyone in each election cycle? To judge it from their latest ads and talks, the War on Terror is won by terror. Are Republicans proud of hurting Democrat...

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The New Middle East

Are you interested in what an Egyptian democracy activist and professor of political sociology at the American University in Cairo has to say about the New emerging Middle East? Read Saad Eddin Ibrahim in Washington Post. Here...

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Capitalism the Virtuous?!

Capitalism has made us better people – morally better. That is the core claim of the thick (over 500 pages) book The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by the economist prof. Deirdre N. McCloskey. And that is...

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Clarence Thomas prays for Bush

This is a peculiar news byte: The other night at a Washington book party for the President’s sister, Doro Bush Koch, the Supreme Court justice arrived with his wife, Ginny […] “We have to pray for your brother....

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Washington Pravda editorial

Washinton Post Pravda apparently gave the honor of writing an editorial to the fresh writer Domenich boy. How else would you explain this unapologetic ass licking: Mr. Bush Unvarnished PRESIDENT BUSH should hold more news...

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