Posted in Election, Republican, Democratic, US on February 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Truly, politics is a game of the unpredictable. Just a few months back, no one would have thought that anybody could shake Hillary Clinton from atop the Democratic line-up, and as for the Republicans, Rudy Giuliani seemed to be some extent the shoo-in (notwithstanding his multiple marriages, his support for abortion, and a few other […]
Posted in Islam, Violence, Democratic, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism, Society on January 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Pakistan is really facing strange days. After the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination more than a month back, the country seems to going through some mighty strange days. For one, the President and former army chief, Gen. Musharraf is blamed by large sections of the country’s population for having a role in the assassination; if […]
Posted in House, Legal, Investigate, Spy, Intelligence, Justice, Discussion, US, Bush, Democratic, Republican, Terrorism on September 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Former attorney-general, Alberto Gonzales was under fire for a number of his statement and actions when he was acting as the Chief Legal Officer of the US. He was the one who authorized a specific movement of the Government towards the legality of torture for getting information, much greater ease of wire-tapping and spying on […]
Posted in Democracy, Defense, Republican, Democratic, US, Society on September 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Embattled Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig finally resigned after it was pretty clear to him that he was losing his party’s support. The Republican Party is not comfortable with sexual indiscretions by its senators, and quite clearly, this is a trap of their own making. They have always sought to rule on a moral basis, […]
Posted in House, Spy, Intelligence, Court, Democratic, US, Bush, Terrorism on August 4th, 2007 No Comments »
For some time now, the Bush administration has wanted to get clear approval to tap phone conversation of people living abroad, but whose phone conversations pass through US based switching points, so that conversations of terrorists based outside the US can also be intercepted. The current act, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, […]
Posted in Discussion, House, Investigate, Court, Republican, Bush, Democratic, US on July 26th, 2007 No Comments »
The controversy over the firing of the US attorneys by the Bush justice department has been played at various levels and through the media over the past few months. Congress has been attempting to get White House aides and Justice Department personnel to depose in front of them for months now. When Attorney General Gonzales […]
