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Let the people have their say. That was the message in Berlin last week when German President Horst Köhler agreed to dissolve parliament, paving the way for a snap election, expected on Sept. 18. "The people should be able to decide the future policies of our country," K...
Having laid low while President Jacques Chirac took the heat for losing France's referendum on the European constitution, Nicolas Sarkozy is back, in the guise of a self-styled crimebuster. After an 11-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet while washing the family car in La...
Of course, the strategy may not work. The people might not be roused. Arroyo's popularity rating is at a historic low: polling organization Social Weather Survey in May found 59% of Filipinos were dissatisfied with her performance and only 26% satisfied. But Arroyo has no obvious successor. When Filipinos...
Most of this is nonsense. The Gods of Wisdom are bored. They are suffering fight-deprivation syndrome. The big spring battle in the Senate over filibuster rules and judicial appointments was resolved through compromise; Social Security has been talked to death; and the insipid Democrats have refused to confront the...
I watched the President go through his public paces last week-a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speeches touting Social Security reform and the Patriot Act-and his stubborn consistency was both admirable and annoying. His unwillingness to drop Social Security reform in the face of...