International Political Will

In light of Senator Harry Reid’s racist remarks about Obama (get it – in “light” of!), and Rush Limbaugh’s overt racist comments about Haiti, I bring you: “Racism: Bollywood Edition.”
When President Obama was elected, it was hailed in India as a sign of racial equality - as if it were some kind of achievement on [...]

It’s sometimes hard to identify your own culture – particularly for Americans, who are comprised of so many different people. People overseas often ask me what my favorite American food is. When I say Mexican, they just give me a strange look. But really, what is American food? Burgers and fries? (no, those are “French” [...]

Thank God for Jimmy Carter.
But I still have to wonder why it’s Carter’s job to report facts – wasn’t that supposed to be the job of journalists?
After the “9/12” protests last week, the news media tried to convince us that this represented a legitimate argument again Obama’s policies. We were told these were “real” fears [...]

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who until now showed that he understood the folly of the preemptive war doctrine, just crossed the line into Rumsfeldian stupidity. Instead of addressing the context and forming a new paradigm of strategic policy for the world, Gates hearkened back to the failures of arming proxy-states to further U.S. interests.

Here’s [...]

On ABC’s This Week, conservative columnist George Will blamed the financial crisis on poor black people:
“[W]e had regulation in effect…that would criminalize as racism and discrimination if you didn’t lend to nonproductive borrowers…to rig the housing market because the market would not have put people in homes they could not have afforded.”
This reason for the [...]