Tag Archive 'India'

The other one percent

The OWS people have made much of their pathetic status compared to the “wealthy 1%.” As I’ve mentioned before, this is a completely spurious argument, because it makes the 99% sound like a single homogenous lump all similarly situated to medieval serfs. Nothing could be further from the truth. In America, that 99% is a [...]

Make new friends, but keep the old . . . .

Make new friends But keep the old The one is silver And the other gold. –Song that every school child in my (and Obama’s) age group learned growing up. It’s becoming very apparent that Obama either wasn’t paying attention in school or that he is willfully disregarding one of the great pieces of folk wisdom [...]

India on high alert because of American muslim

This is an important story that’s getting almost no play in the American press:  the Indian government believes that an American Muslim who was arrested in connection with a plan to attack the Jyllands-Posten paper, was not only behind the horrific Mumbai massacre, but was also plotting attacks against Indian nuclear power plants.  The Jawa [...]