Bob McCarty Writes

Which country is providing the most behind-the-scenes support for the Islamic Republic of Iran?
Most certainly making light of the fact that China imports a large percentage of its oil from Iran, my friend David Donar at Political Graffiti produced the cartoon at right which shows Uncle Sam behaving timidly in the face of a diminutive, [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) struck some early blows against global warming during his opening statement made this morning at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on global warming.  That statement, aimed primarily at Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the committee, appears below:
“Madame Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing today. This is [...]

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Frustrated officials in the Singaporean government, hoping to raise young adults’ interest in making babies instead of just money, have lost their collective mind and ordered pole dancing to be taught in its elite schools, according to a recent post at the Former American Professor in China blog.  Read the entire story here.
UPDATE: A reader [...]

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On the 20th anniversary of the bloodshed known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, there appears to have been little or no rain clouds at the site in Beijing where university students waged an anti-government protest.  There were, however, enough umbrella-toting government officials present to prevent members of the Western news media from reporting much news [...]

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My oldest son, Matt, just returned from a two-week trip to China.  Along the way, he found evidence that Wal-Mart is everywhere.
While traveling through a small mountain town approximately 500 miles north of the country’s border with Vietnam, he spotted the “Wal-Mart is coming” billboard shown above.

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