Ethiopia launched an attack on Eritrean soil last week, claiming to target “terrorist camps”. The action signals an increase in tension between the two neighboring East African countries, who have an extended history of clashing.
Frustrated with the state’s government, one Independent activist in Utah has taken a novel approach to dealing with his representatives in the legislature: he’s put them up for sale online.
California’s Independent – decline-to-state – voters will decide November’s gubernatorial race between Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown.
Given the US public’s deep dissatisfaction with the Democratic and Republican parties, numerous political commentators and prognosticators have suggested that the current political climate favors outsiders and the Independent.
“People above politics”. This is the headline that greets visitors to Governor Charlie Crist’s campaign site. Crist, the governor of Florida, recently surprised many with his decision last week to leave the Republican Party and run for US Senate as an independent.
No one would argue that today’s political discourse reaches the heights of intelligent repartee. You’d have to go back to media figures such as William F. Buckley and politicians such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) to find much in the way of politics as an intellectual pursuit.
