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Josh feels our pain

By acanuck on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 1:25am |
You gotta love it. Or at least laugh out loud.Josh just double-posted on the main page.Ooh, Palin's coming up....
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Palin: please fasten your seatbelts

By acanuck on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 6:54pm |
Some on the far right think Sarah Palin is a "game-changer." I think they are right. I doubt that in the long run she can win the election for McCain. And I doubt she was at all properly vetted, or...
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What Obama said

By acanuck on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 6:51pm |
Barack Obama today (via Ben Smith at Politico):"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits. And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov....
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Georgia ceasefire? What ceasefire?

By acanuck on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 7:20am |
Ten days ago, I posted a blog noting that the ceasefire deal everyone insisted Russia was slow in living up to had not yet been signed by Georgia.After Condi Rice's visit to Tbilisi, it appears that both Russia and Georgia...
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Georgia hasn't signed the ceasefire

By acanuck on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 5:43pm |
George Bush and others in the West are railing about how slow the Russians have been to implement the six-point ceasefire brokered by the French president.Seems like a reasonable demand.But then I notice this, buried near the bottom of an AP story...
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Easing tensions in Georgia

By acanuck on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 5:46pm |
Reuters has a story headlined "U.S. to take control of Georgian ports: Saakasvili." "You have heard the statement by the U.S. president that the United States is starting a military-humanitarian operation in Georgia," the Georgian president said in a television address....
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Georgia: What happened in the lines of communication?

By acanuck on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 10:20pm |
Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said something quite significant on CNN. Here's the link: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/12/vo.georgia.flag.re... But I'll roughly quote: "We don't want to believe the U.S. gave Georgia 'the green light.' ... Our American colleagues SAY they are looking into...
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Iran: ex-Post factoids

By acanuck on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 11:44pm |
This is from today's Washington Post story catching up on Sy Hersh's expose of the $400-million U.S. plan to destabilize Iran:   "Among the opposition groups allegedly receiving cash and other assistance are ethnic Balochi dissidents in southern Iraq as well as established...
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Hillary's stunning last words

By acanuck on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 7:29pm |
All the chicken entrails point to Hillary conceding tomorrow night.HuffPost reports talks between the candidates about help in retiring her huge campaign debt and amnesty for her diehard supporters. All good signs.But there are concession speeches and there are concession...
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Hillary didn't really say that, did she?

By acanuck on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 7:28pm |
AP and Reuters both quote Clinton as saying, "until we have a nominee."But the New York Times' John Broder has it this way:“I’m going to make my case and I’m going to make it until I’m the nominee and we’re...

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