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...Comedy can have a political point but it is not political action, and what Colbert said on the stage of the Washington Hilton - funny or not - means far less than what the ardent posters at ThankYouStephenColbert.org would like it to. While it may have shocked the President to hear someone talk so openly about his misdeeds in the setting of the correspondents dinner - joking about "the most powerful photo-ops in the world" and NSA wiretaps - I somehow doubt that Bush has never heard these criticisms before. To laud Colbert for saying them seems to me, a card-carrying lefty...
...also been an ardent education critic, attacking the Ivy League in general and Harvard specifically. If you are studying the humanities at Harvard, she says, you aren’t getting a good education...
...aftermath of Katrina, Republicans and conservatives watching the black exodus savored the idea of winning back the city. But as it turns out, the poor and dispossessed, who suffered the most from the mishandling of the Katrina aftermath are turning out to be ardent supporters of Nagin - at least based on the wobbly numbers available. "What he?s done is reverse his base," says Ed Renwick, political analyst and director of the Loyola University Institute of Politics. "He got 85% of the white vote when he was elected first time. Now, this time, he?s likely to get a small...
...become among fans. Many are now asking why Spain - a country that, after the terrorist bombings in Madrid of March 11, 2004, prided itself on its tolerance toward outsiders - can't seem to curb the ugly scenes that blight its stadiums. Such scenes are not new. "Ultras" - fans whose ardent devotion to their teams has often spilled over into violence - have long been a feature of the Spanish game. "This kind of behavior began 20 years ago in isolated incidents," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement Against Intolerance, an ngo that monitors the incidence of racial abuse in Spain...
...even many of those who had previously supported his Boss smelled the rat. "You listen to this-and you think: one of us must be an idiot," said Vasyl Koktysh, a construction worker, on the morning of the election. "But I know I'm not." Always an ardent Lukashenko supporter, he said he would not vote for him anymore...