Bookworm on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve got a deadline, so I thought I’d just give you a few links to things that interested me this morning:
Rick Moran highlights Zimbabwe’s insane inflation, another horrible indictment of Mugabe, who took one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous nations and reduced it to abject poverty.
An Iraq War widow, trying to help others, was [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2007 | Filed under: Venezuela
From Venezuela, apparently just enough voters looked into the abyss and were afraid:
Venezuelans, by the slimmest of margins, rejected a constitutional referendum that would have allowed President Hugo Chavez to seek re-election indefinitely and tightened socialism’s grip on the oil-rich Latin American nation.
By 51 percent to 49 percent, voters shot down a referendum that included [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2007 | Filed under: Silly Stuff
Thought you’d enjoy this little bit of news out of Spain:
When the Spanish king Juan Carlos turned to Hugo Chavez and said to him, a touch irritably, “Why don’t you shut up?”, little did he know that his breach of diplomatic protocol would become a smash hit across the country.
Were the king to claim image [...]
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