What is wrong with America? Sarah Palin, the ultimate self-promoter, is on TV again, this time with a special series on TLC. The first show had an estimated 4.6 million viewers. Like a wind sock, 4.6 million people did not resist the temptation to see the show. If you do not want to see something on TV, then [...]

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Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed in Burma. She spent seven years under house arrest and fifteen of the last twenty one years in prison. The pro-democracy activist is a very strong and determined woman. Her freedom means also more trouble ahead for the junta in power in Burma. History has taught [...]

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The climate at the G20 meeting in South Korea is one of division and finger pointing. It is seen as a war of currencies. China has been accused by the US and Europe as a manipulator of its currency, boosting its exports. Pressure on Beijing did not work. Finally, last week, the Feds decided to pump $600 [...]

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Sarah Palin is attacking everything to get attention. This week she has been giving economics lessons to the US Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve made a decision to buy $600 billion in long term U.S. Treasury bonds as an extraordinary measure to help the U.S. economy. Palin’s main concern is the fear of potential inflation. As [...]

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The Democrats are recovering slowly from their bad dream. Critics have said that the Democrats were out of touch with reality. For sure, the expectations of the American people are too high. There is no way even a Republican president could have fixed the economy in two years. The president has accepted his share of responsibility. President [...]

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There is a difference between dream and reality, night and day, rhetoric and actuality. After the GOP wins in midterm elections, there are already signs that the political arena is going to become a circus. It seems that the American people have given their hope and trust to the GOP out of desperation, not because [...]

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President Obama‘s press conference and speech after the bloody congressional loss was painful. I have seen a broken man! Despite all the predictions prior to the elections, it seems that the president did not anticipate the huge upset of his political party. President Obama certainly knows that he is not the first to endure such a painful fiasco. [...]

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The American people have spoken.  The Republican party won control of the House of Representatives. The Tea Party won key races in Kentucky and Florida. The Democrats have managed to hold onto control of the Senate. It was a good night for the Republican party. The Democrats must be scratching their heads. It is the law of [...]

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We are finally at the turning point of the Obama presidency. Today, America is going to the polls. Regardless of which poll you see or which TV channel you watch, the overall predictions are in favor of the GOP. Americans are obsessed with change but seem to have a short memory. John Boehner, one of the most [...]

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The Tea Party circus that claims to be the “guardian” of the American constitution and speaks on behalf of the American people has certainly heard the response of the real American people at the rally to ”Restore Sanity and/or Fear” in Washington. Thousands of people showed up to show the Tea Party movement that America is a multi-racial [...]

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