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President Obama’s Ten Days in Asia: What’s the Real Message?

President Obama’s Ten Days in Asia: What’s the Real Message?

President Obama just returned from a ten-day tour of Asia.  The tour was set up well in advance of midterm election results, and the timing must have been dictated in part by the G20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea, and ...Read more

Jeevan ka Parihas: The “Irony of Life” as Obama Visits India

Jeevan ka Parihas: The “Irony of Life” as Obama Visits India

Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize as a young President who chose to continue and even accelerate the war in Iraq (admittedly in an effort to end it – but still!!!) and ramp up military efforts in Afghanistan and ...Read more

Independents Made the Difference on Tuesday, and Will Again in 2012

Independents Made the Difference on Tuesday, and Will Again in 2012

The conventional wisdom held that the Tea Party would power the Republican Party to its many victories on Tuesday.  It did not turn out that way.   The crucial factor in the GOP’s success was not the Tea Party, but the ...Read more

Halloween and Midterm Elections: Fake Fear v. What Really Matters

Halloween and Midterm Elections: Fake Fear v. What Really Matters

Halloween was yesterday, and midterm elections are tomorrow.  What do the two days have in common?  Fear.  Apparently fear.

Arguably the most politically incorrect holiday on the planet, Halloween is about fake fear – the kind we feel on a Disney ...Read more

Centrism in the Age of Partisanship: A Personal Perspective

Centrism in the Age of Partisanship: A Personal Perspective

The turbulent politics of today has a lot of us asking ourselves where we stand.  The political ground is shifting quickly in this century, amid crises of terror, finance, unemployment, disaster, immigration, and burgeoning nation debt.    The political bases are ...Read more

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