Nigeria’s future, in many ways, turns on the question of ethnicity and politics, the same questions that have hounded Nigeria since its founding. These questions will be at the fore as Nigerians head to the polls next year to elect their next president.
Essentially, Palestinian President Abbas has been invited by the U.S. to either negotiate without a leg to stand on or accept a face-saving endorsement that changes nothing on the ground.
It might be easier to talk Venezuela off the nuclear-weapons ledge if the U.S. weren’t so intent on filling the coffers of its own nuclear-weapons industry.
By panicking and detaining Russians working on its nuclear plant, Iranians risk incurring the enmity of Russia.
The song Take This Job and Shove It hit No. 1 on the country music charts in 1978. The blue-collar worker in the song that Johnny Paycheck made famous was working up the nerve to leave the factory after 15 years on the production line. It wasn’t necessarily the best time to mouth off at the line boss. The U.S. economy wasn’t so hot. Unemployment was 6.1 percent, which politicians considered unacceptable. Real wages, which peaked in 1973, were in a long tailspin. Unions continued to hemorrhage members. Workers were angry, and the song captured some of that feeling.
Iraqi politicians take their first steps toward a functioning government, but it will be months before anything meaningful coalesces.
It appears that to Sen. Barbara Boxer and other Congressional Democrats blaming the Palestinians for the possible collapse of peace talks is of greater importance than the actual success of the negotiations.
Apparently it’s obvious to everyone but Israel and the United States that the Middle-East can’t take the first step to becoming a nuclear-weapons-free zone until Israel acknowledges its own program.
American military intervention, in threat or deed, could very easily encourage the Southern Sudanese to attack the north secure in the belief that the United States had its back.
The Rally to Restore Sanity repeats liberals’ greatest error: when Republicans go on attack, hunker down somewhere in the middle and plead for civility.