August 6, 2011This recent paragraph from The Economist neatly assesses the outlook for President Obama. “Any assessment of Mr Obama needs to acknowledge that when he was elected he inherited the in-box from hell: a financial collapse, a prostrated economy, two wars. Now he faces the opposition from hell: a reckless, populist Republican Party whose moderate voices [...]
April 16, 2011Michelle Bachmann, one of the faces of the tea-party movement in the US recently told reporters during one of her many, many speeches made in her race for the GOP 2012 candidacy, that “God told her to stop same-sex marriage” but not war, famine or poverty though, as the Huffington Post impartially pointed out. Nice [...]