“Acronym” is Uncle Jay’s word of the week, and he employs them frequently while covering a wide range of topics (below) in this week’s edition of Uncle Jay Explains the News: NASA blew up the moon; Miley Cyrus decided to dump her Twitter page in order to regain some of her privacy — and then [...]
Uncle Jay Explains the News: Oct. 12, 2009
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments
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Sarah Palin Clearly the ‘Washington Outsider’
October 2nd, 2008 · 9 Comments
It took her almost an hour to get there, but Sarah Palin finally reached the point when she, the hockey mom from Wasilla, was able to distinguish herself as vastly different from Joe Biden, the six-term U.S. senator from Delaware. “Oh, yeah, it’s so obvious I’m a Washington outsider and someone just not used to [...]
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UN Ineffective Against Armed Bandits in Darfur
April 17th, 2008 · 19 Comments
Claiming banditry against food trucks as the root cause, officials with the United Nation’s World Food Program announced today they are cutting rations to the people of Sudan’s Darfur region. “Attacks on the WFP food pipeline are an attack on the most vulnerable people in Darfur. With up to three million people depending on us [...]
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Blogger to Discuss ‘Crisis in Darfur’ on BBC Radio
April 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
It has become a regular occurrence for me to appear as a guest on BBC Radio’s World Have Your Say, a program which airs weekdays at 5 p.m. CT in the U.S. Today’s topic is the Crisis in Darfur, a project being tackled jointly by Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (See [...]
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