Entries Tagged as ‘foreign policy’

September 19, 2008

Amnesty International's inconsistent stand on the "right to life"

Below is a screenshot of Amnesty International’s front page.

Here is one of the headlines:

Amnesty International has long promoted the abolition of the death penalty, yet their choice of the words “right to life” seems contradictory. Amnesty also campaigns for women’s sexual and reproductive rights, which includes access to abortions. They write endlessly about [...]

July 27, 2008

9-11: A look back

I know it’s July and almost seven years since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but Gerard Baker’s humorous take on Sen. Obama’s global unification trip made me think of a piece by Victor Davis Hanson from September 27, 2001. Basically, Hanson (a classicist and historian) puts the immediate [...]

July 25, 2008

Barack "The Messiah" Obama

Political motifs are always absurd, that’s the nature of politics. Each opponent seeks to make their adversary appear unfit and extreme. However, in every caricature there is a certain amount of truth. Without it they would simply be jokes, not tools. Such is the case with “the Messiah” image of Senator [...]