Definitely, nature is not giving us a break. After a devastating earthquake that struck Haiti weeks ago, another earthquake has struck Chile Saturday and is triggering tsunami that put other nations around the Pacific Ocean in danger. The South American country’s infrastructures are damaged and the number of deaths still raising. I see the world [...]

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The health care summit organized by the White House ended as a fiasco. The Republicans and the Democrats could not reach an agreement about how to reform health care. It’s too early to say if the American public was more convinced by Obama‘s detailed exposition of policy or the Republicans’ same visceral argument in favor [...]

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The Toyota president, Akio Toyoda is in hot water. He was grilled by the US Congress about safety and reliability concerns identified in some Toyota automobiles. While the US Congress has the right to question the recent incidents, the general impression is that they are overreacting and are a little too harsh with the world’s premier [...]

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Former Vice-President Dick Cheney had his fifth heart attack, which seems a lot for one human being. He had a long political career and deserves to retire from politics and rest. Unfortunately, after the Bush administration left the White House, Dick Cheney has been the most vocal critic of the Obama‘s administration. It is unclear [...]

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Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, a Democrat, is not running for reelection. He claimed that Congress is not operating as it should. While his decision is courageous, many see him as a quitter. Democrats and Republicans tend to blame each other for not achieving what the American people expect them to do: serve them. Quitting is not [...]

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Andrew Joseph Stack, the tax protester who crashed his airplane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, is seen as a domestic terrorist by some. For many others, Mr. Stack is a hero. Tax men have always been hated, even in the Bible. The difference between America and other countries, such as Europe and Canada, is [...]

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The death of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month is making headlines. It’s like a killing in a James Bond movie. The killers, whoever they are, got their man and escaped. But they were caught on video and left behind what appears to be significant evidence. The killers used European stolen passports. Mossad, the [...]

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When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks, the West goes crazy. Tension is mounting between Iran and the United States and its allies about the nuclear matter. President Ahmadinejad understands that his words are carefully analyzed by his enemies. Clearly there is a sense of fear over the idea of a nuclear Iran. Iran’s neighbors know [...]

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Republicans and Democrats are quitting the congress. Many of them have announced that they are retiring. The question is, why now? Two explanations are possible: the American people are waking up after long years in a “coma” and people understand better that the American political system is a system of pure corruption. Democrats and Republicans [...]

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When it is about US national security, the political classes in America rarely agree and speak the same language. America is a democratic country, but the duel between Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Dick Cheney throughout the media is an illustration that the fracture is deep. It’s our way vs. your way [...]

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