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Blackest Magic

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

As Yedy dissembles, I am inspired to return to blogging.
Watch this video and be amazed. Needless to say, I am very envious of our panchakoti (five crore) Kannada brethren for their good fortune to watch all this live, and be entertained 24-7 by Yedy and Deve Gowda & co.
Since October, Yedy and Deve Gowda seem [...]

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Mah man Richardson

Friday, November 10, 2006

Okay, there is much to comment on this week’s Congressional Elections. All in Good time.
But we also have to declare open the new Games: the presidential primaries for 2008.
I don’t vote but here is my pick though. Watch this AD and name me one POL who can pull this off.
Bill Richardson for President.

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Senator Sessions on immigration

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Dana Milbank profiles Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama in the WAPO. We know he isn’t in favor of immigration legislation that Senate is expected to approve tomorrow but read this excerpt:
Forecasting a mass immigration of 73 million to 92 million over the next 20 years, Sessions described the process in extraordinary detail: “The nuclear family [...]

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Before you launch your revolution, will you get your dates right?

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

What’s that, on the back of that t-shirt?
“1847-2006,
… Divide and Rule….
Nothing
has changed
But, WE
will
Change it.”
Perhaps they should be excused. After all, being science students, they ain’t supposed to know no history. Even the super intelligent, meritorious ones, unless they study for civil services exams.
From the ones who have been never on a hunger [...]

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Privacy and survaillance

Monday, May 15, 2006

In one of the early episodes of the West Wing, President Bartlett has to choose a Supreme Court nominee. The safe choice (White, Anglo-Saxon, Centrist) is all for limiting privacy rights whereas the risky choice (Latino, EX-cop, edgy, very liberal) comes through the test both Toby and Sam have set for him. Sam makes an [...]

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Civil liberties

Friday, May 12, 2006

There is plenty of outrage over the recent revelations that as part of the Bush administration’s ‘terrorist surveillance program’, tens of millions of Americans have been spied upon. Eugene Robinson called the program a bald faced lie. Let me not chronicle here all the charges and allegations that Bush and his cabinet members have repeatedly [...]

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