Op-Ed Columnist – 3 Days of the Sotomayor – NYTimes.com.
Read it, and you just summarized ~35 hours. Hilarious. I only watched part of Day 1, but definitely on the spot.
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Op-Ed Columnist – 3 Days of the Sotomayor – NYTimes.com
Published July 16, 2009 current events , politics Leave a CommentTags: confirmation hearing, Congress, current events, judges, politics, Senate, Sotomayor, Supreme court, United States
Iran election — fast counting?
Published June 16, 2009 current events , politics Leave a CommentTags: current events, Iran, iran election, politics
How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner?
via The Associated Press: AP Top News at 9:03 p.m. EDT.
A very good point.
I always like photographic stories: here is a great one about the election by Boston.com:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html
Gary Locke!–Commerce Pick Carries Lengthy China Résumé – NYTimes.com
Published February 25, 2009 current events , politics 2 CommentsTags: gary locke, happy things, politics, seattle politicians, washington
Commerce Pick Carries Lengthy China Résumé – NYTimes.com.
For some reason, I have irrationally positive feelings about Gary Locke. Something about my formative years being spent under his governorship, perhaps.
However, I have met him a couple of times, so I can say, without any danger of influence of my irrationally positive feelings, he is a remarkably smart guy, articulate and a person I wholeheartedly trust to do a good job.
…it seems everything Obama does just keeps my expectations of this administration soaring higher and higher.
I hope this won’t be another Tony Blair, with us all hating him in 8 years.
Khatami is running!!!!
Published February 8, 2009 politics Leave a CommentTags: Ahmadinejad, Iran, Mohammad Khatami, politics
Mohammad Khatami is running for office.
When I was learning Comparative Government, all of the books we were reading were so hopeful for a change in Anglo-Iranian relations, because Khatami was still in power. Of course, the books were all at least 6 months-1 year old, so Ahmadinejad had already taken over.
But maybe now, all the things that Ethel Wood was saying may finally come true.
Exciting. Here’s a link to the BBC article.
Obama in the South?
Published October 18, 2008 politics Leave a CommentTags: election, khaled hosseini, kite runner, obama, politics
“Take Judie Almond, 68, from the small rural town of Wadesboro, an hour’s drive from Charlotte. She is a true social conservative. Resolutely anti-abortion, she fears that the country is on such a slide that homosexual marriage will not only soon be lawful but might become mandatory. ‘We can’t become a homosexual nation,’ she said with passion.”
Yet she is voting for Obama. Maybe he really will win the South?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/19/obama-democrats-carolina-charlotte
Update: another opinion about McCain’s campaign by Khaled Hosseini, author of the Kite Runner, here.
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