The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball."
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Tuesday, August 19
WSJ: As U.S. Economic Problems Loom, House, Senate Sweat the Small Stuff
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 19 Aug 2008 03:06 PM EDT
The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball." More>>>
The End of the Post-Soviet Era
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 19 Aug 2008 01:21 PM EDT
The United States must proceed with enormous caution...The Kremlin has successfully used divide-and-conquer strategies numerous times on numerous issues, including at the United Nations, where it (together with China) successfully delayed international responses to Darfur, Burma and Zimbabwe. The Kremlin is sending a clear message to the world: Countries can commit horrendous human rights abuses with impunity. At a minimum, this lack of response has had an enabling quality. While violating another state's sovereignty, Russia advances a 19th-century approach to international affairs. It views democracy as a rather weak system and unsuitable for Russia. It also considers the elastic sovereignty of the European Union soft and ineffective. The Kremlin has betted on international ambivalence toward Russia's crackdown on the opposition and its monopolization of power, and I fear that it made a good bet." More>>> |
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