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...They, and increasingly the rest of India's citizens, are simmering with the feeling that things are not right. From public anger over Mumbai's botched response to the 2008 terror attacks, to rising alarm over the Maoist insurgency across a wide stretch of central India, to the frustrations expressed in the biggest Bollywood hit ever - a 2009 film, 3 Idiots, that skewers the grade-obsessed higher-education system - India is a country ready for unflinching points of view. "India is not a poor country," Bissell says. "It's a poorly managed country...
...inconvenient truth liberals are going to have to confront: ... the birther conspiracy theory was first concocted by renegade members of the original Obama haters ... a splinter group of hard-core Hillary Clinton supporters who did not want to give up the ghost ... Wing nuts exist in both parties, wherever anger and absolutism drive people to believe that their political opponents are their personal enemies...
...This month, the President also approved the sale of $6 billion worth of arms to Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory. That provoked further anger from Beijing. Three senior Chinese military officers were quoted in an official newspaper suggesting that the government should sell some U.S. Treasury bonds in retaliation...
With these acts of legislative sabotage, Republicans tapped into a deep truth about the American people: they hate political squabbling, and they take out their anger on whoever is in charge. So when the Gingrich Republicans carried out a virtual sit-down strike during Clinton's first two years, the public mood turned nasty. By 1994, trust in government was at an all-time low, which suited the Republicans fine, since their major line of attack against Clinton's health care plan was that it would empower government. Clintoncare collapsed, Democrats lost Congress, and Republicans learned the secrets of vicious...
...celebrated as a triumph of monetary unity. The 16 nations in the so-called euro zone could certainly use another dose of that founding spirit today. As questions mount about the very future of the currency due to the ongoing Greek debt crisis, there seems to be more anger in parts of Europe over Greece's financial recklessness than a willingness to save Planet Euro from imploding by bailing Athens out. That's certainly the case in Germany and France - the two largest euro zone economies - whose peeved taxpayers will have to contribute the most if Greece...