The Carpetbagger Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
The initial response from the McCain campaign on the senator’s confusion about how many homes he owns was pretty weak. Put it this way, it talked about arugula and Hawaii. A couple of hours later, though, the McCain gang went with the one response that applies to every question. The McCain campaign is road-testing a new argument [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
from The Carpetbagger Report Posted August 21st, 2008 The initial response from the McCain campaign on the senator’s confusion about how many homes he owns was pretty weak. Put it this way, it talked about arugula and Hawaii. A couple of hours later, though, the McCain gang went with the one response that applies to every question. The McCain campaign is road-testing a new argument in responding to...
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | yesterday
... or even defense of an internationally agreed force. And that certainly, is arguably legal -- the initial response is arguably legal.But the further we move from the Georgian use of force and the Russian response to Russia "teaching Georgia a lesson" -- which is what this certainly looks like -- that is aggression. That is the illegal use of force against the territorial sovereignty...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... we were soon reassured everything would be all right."A spokesman for Oldham council said: "Our initial response was to fence off the affected area so that public safety was maintained. We have been in contact with contractors who will make the remaining exposed embankment safe."On initial inspection, there has been some damage to cars that were parked alongside the wall, but...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
... and compassion.Here's the author on her book:What prompted you to write Dinner with Mugabe?My initial impetus was two-fold. It was motivated by the observation that the story of Zimbabwe's recent past hasn't been covered in any significant depth in the media. There was obviously a much more complicated story to tell, I felt, not least because I met him myself many years ago, and once admired...
Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
... they know it and the world knows it.Apparently Barack Obama doesn't yet know it, judging by his initial response to news of the Russian invasion of Georgia, which was to call on "both sides" to cease fire and then go to the U.N.Later he changed his position to correspond to John McCain's more grown-up position that Russians have to pay a price if we expect them to change their behavior.The...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The arrest of 10 activists of SIMI in connection with the Ahmedabad blasts is impressive and, in a way, startling: the dishearteningly dilatory approach of previous, similar investigations has caused our expectations from our investigative agencies to be at an all-time low. Perhaps the initial response from Lalu Prasad Yadav, in which he wondered aloud about the quality of the case, can...
Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
... Council. This is an opportunity for NATO to review the situation in Georgia and to make an initial response to what has occurred in Georgia. Let me say that we continue to be focused on the immediate task of assuring that the Russian President honors the commitment that he undertook to the European presidency to have the withdrawal of Russian forces begin as of today. And it is our...
The Two Malcontents (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
... they know it and the world knows it. Apparently Barack Obama doesn’t yet know it, judging by his initial response to news of the Russian invasion of Georgia, which was to call on “both sides” to cease fire and then go to the U.N. Later he changed his position to correspond to John McCain’s more grown-up position that Russians have to pay a price if we expect them to change their behavior....
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
... for some fields and Simple Dublin Core for other fields in an application profile? To which the initial response included: I suspect the members of the small coterie that could explain this are all on vacation at this time. I am not in that group, but I will attempt an explanation anyway ;-) ... Leaving aside the DCAM (which is often puzzling), it seems to me that you need a way to...
Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
So far, reaction in the US to Russia’s invasion of Georgia has been all Vladimir Putin could have wished. Exhausted in every way by its experience in Iraq (a failure not much mitigated by recent progress there), its authority and sense of purpose quite depleted, the US looked slower and less decisive than Europe in its initial response, and that is saying something.It took repeated prodding...
Rook's Rant (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
... president who stupidly shelled one of the break away regions that Russia used to justify it's initial response. So, they actually had a real, existing incident to point to, as opposed to the dire "mushroom cloud" Iraq threatened us with back in 2002/2003. Oh, God! The Stupid BURNS!!!!!!!!!!!
The Crossed Pond (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
We had a pretty good discussion when the Georgia-Russia thing broke out about the candidates’ initial responses. Since that time, McCain just keeps going…and going…and going…and going… Here’s the quote that’s getting the most attention: “My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” Excitable drama queen much? I’d...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
... said hurricane recovery remains a top priority for his administration. But the administration's response to the hurricane, especially in the immediate aftermath when thousands awaited rescue at the Superdome, Convention Center and on rooftops from a slow-responding federal bureaucracy, brought criticism from Democrats and Republicans.Bush has admitted the initial response to...
The FreeThink Blog (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
4 days after the controversial 'Cities Unlimited' report was released by Policy Exchange, the media continues to assail the report's author over statements such as "It is time to stop pretending that there is a bright future for Sunderland”. Initial responses to the report - which said that regeneration in many Northern cities "will not happen, because it is not possible" - included...
