Monthly Archives: October 2009
Pro-democracy protesters carrying a mock coffin try to cross a police line during a demonstration demanding China improve its human rights record, outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong October 1, 2009 as China celebrates the 60th anniversary of … Continue reading
No Olympics for Chicago! Update by wordsmith: CNN floored that the charm and rhetoric of “The One” didn’t even see Chicago through past the first round: AP: The city was eliminated so quickly that some of the would-be revelers weren’t … Continue reading
Which in this case is also the failure of progressivism: Are We Witnessing the Collapse of Liberalism? By J. Robert Smith American Thinker Less than a year into his presidency, Barack Obama’s world grows bleaker. Liberalism’s world is bleaker. At … Continue reading
IOC members, including Britain’s Princess Anne, right, listen to Obama’s pitch in Copenhagen. The elimination of Chicago as a potential host of the 2016 Games marks the second loss in a row for the U.S. in Olympic selections. Pool-Reuters Oh … Continue reading