Ethnic pandering, as practised by so many politicians, is never a good thing. When you run for public office, you must consider the welfare and well-being of all voters, not just of a specific group. But, unfortunately, in a multicultural society, some ethnic groups wield so much power that a good candidate may be shot down, thus allowing a minority, especially one that hasn’t fully integrated, to call the shots and decide the outcome of elections. Frankly, that is highly unacceptable.
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Super Tuesday didn’t bring much-needed certainty
Well, there you have it. Super Tuesday has come and gone, and we’re none the wiser as to who will face off against Barack Obama in the fall. Mitt Romney has performed well, as has Rick Santorum to some (lesser) degree, but why Newt Gingrich would continue to fight on is beyond human reason.
America in 2012
If you expect to read some erudite predictions about 2012, you’ll be disappointed. We can all make educated guesses about what the future might bring, but true, gazing-in-a-crystal-ball predictions don’t exist. Even a mathematical approach, by collecting all the available data and having a computer run the most probable scenarios, will fail – because of the human factor. People are utterly unpredictable, and since politics, economics, sociology, etc. are about people, the only attitude we can take is that whatever happens, happens.
Rick Perry’s video NOT hate speech
Leave it to lefties to “misunderstand” things. Most of them are illiterate, while those who can actually read will go to extreme lengths to deliberately misinterpret what conservatives say.
US Congress and President – unfit to govern
People around the world are trying to prepare for another global economic crisis in the wake of the impending “bankruptcy” of the United States. No one knows exactly what will happen if the US fails to raise its debt ceiling and becomes insolvent. There seems to be a common consensus that it could trigger another worldwide recession, or something even worse, while others foresee problems for anyone – governments, companies and individuals – with a heavy debt load. More recently, there has also been talk that the price of oil could plummet to around $60 a barrel within short order.
The world we live in …
Working hard on several assignments, I have not had much chance to write material for this space. But I think it’s time to drop a few lines about this and that.
The title of this column, The world we live in …, could easily become the title of a new blog (and probably already is somewhere out there), but it’s also an accurate reflection of my thoughts and feelings about events that have occurred since I got too busy to work on my column.
America needs a dose of realism and common sense
A reader asked me recently about which of the Republican candidates I’d support if I could vote in the US presidential election. My answer was that I couldn’t vote for any of them, because none of them “grabbed” me. When I say “grab”, I mean to say that I am looking for a candidate that has the greatest potential of doing what’s right for America and who can set the country back on its rightful path to becoming the superpower it once was.
Ann Coulter, or why Republicans deserve our pity
Have a heart and feel some sympathy for Republicans in the US. They really don’t have it easy these days, not since the nutjobs have been released from the asylum and allowed to define the party line.
Time for America to wake up
The attempted assassination of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has left America with egg all over its face. For the country is now faced with international ridicule and outrage at what more enlightened people and civilizations consider Neanderthal behaviour. Problems aren’t solved through violence but debate and reason. In America, however, where the right to carry guns in public seems to matter more to more people than solving the economic crisis, unemployment or health care, one would have to be blind not to see that American society has set itself on a path towards violence.
America must come to its senses
The attempted assassination of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has left America with egg all over its face. For the country is now faced with international ridicule and outrage at what more enlightened people and civilizations consider Neanderthal behaviour. Problems aren’t solved through violence but debate and reason. In America, however, where the right to carry guns in public seems to matter more to more people than solving the economic crisis, unemployment or health care, one would have to be blind not to see that American society has set itself on a path towards violence.
US Congresswoman shot and in critical condition
A Congresswoman in Arizona was shot at a grocery store in Tucson:
Gabrielle Giffords, 40, an Arizona congresswoman, was shot at close range in the head, according to eyewitnesses. She was greeting constituents at a grocery store. Some of her aides were reportedly among those wounded. At least one was reported killed and a child was also among those shot.
Some news reports have said that the child has died, while Giffords remains in critical condition.
The gunman has been identified as Jared Loughner.
This tragedy was probably bound to happen, with emotions having been driven up to unprecedented heights in the wake of anti-immigration legislation in Arizona, and a general trend towards the hard right over gun control and resentments at Democrats and the current administration.