Analysis
Editorial: Celebrate the Olympic Games
August 2, 2008Hundreds of nations will participate in the 2008 Olympics, many of whom are in conflict, even at war with each other. All will be part of a single, peaceful event. Politics and the Olympics have always...
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Reflections on Obama’s world tour
July 30, 2008By most media accounts Barack Obama’s tour of Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Western Europe was a big success. The visits showed his worldwide popularity is very broad and ranges from people in the...
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Did hate speech lead to murder of Mexican immigrant?
July 30, 2008Commentary Three white youths have been arrested and charged by the Schuylkill County State’s Attorney with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the murder of undocumented Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez in the small Northeastern Pennsylvania town of...
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International law? Not in Texas
July 30, 2008Commentary The World Court has issued a ruling demanding that the United States live up to one of the most important treaties to which it is signatory, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The demand by...
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Obama in Berlin
July 26, 2008BERLIN -- I attended the big rally with Barack Obama here, July 24, not as a press representative but as one of the crowd. And what a giant crowd it was! The news reports counted “over...
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