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Total Politics: Top 20 NI Blogs…
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
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The peace process not such a good model after all
Which reminds me…. Platform for Change’s driving force Robin Wilson has produced a corrective to the notion that the lessons of the NI conflict are easily exportable. Like myself, Robin is associated with the Constitution Unit. He introduced his new book in a CU blog which I here reproduce. The water crisis in Northern Ireland [...] read our review »
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“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review »
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Comment on US blogger (and professional trouble maker) Andrew Breitbart dies…
on 2 March 2012 at 7:06 pm
I always viewed folks of Breitbart’s type provide proof of a degree of freedom of expression. And his was extreme.
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Comment on Why did Toby Harnden refuse to attend the Smithwick Tribunal?
on 15 February 2012 at 2:02 pm
My only direct experience with Mr. Harnden’s reportage was his utter misrepresentation of a meeting that I attended in 96 or 97. Since that time, I haven’t believed anything he has written.
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Comment on US elections: Real battle may be for dominance in Congress…
on 13 February 2012 at 4:50 pm
The Congressional races are the most difficult to accurately forecast, simply because there are over 400 of them over a vast area where circumstances vary widely. If the recent improvement in jobs creation persists, it will be interesting to see how the areas where improvement was best and worst vote. The economy will definitely be the most important factor come November.
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Comment on Football eligibility row illustrates unionism’s inability to respect ‘The Other’ tradition
on 11 February 2012 at 3:35 pm
I think it makes Dodds look kind of pitiful, complaining about these kids making their own decision about what is best for them. Like a man who refuses his wife a divorce, insisting she stay with him in a loveless marriage. Pitiful.
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Comment on “Opportunity on Mars – 8 years and counting!”
on 26 January 2012 at 4:06 pm
The older I get the more impressed I’ve become with the quality control managed at NASA. Imagine, all these decades later and this stuff still sends info back in a form we can use. I hope the Voyager and Opportunity outlive me.
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Comment on Newt: I am America and I am the law
on 21 January 2012 at 3:45 pm
The chance of a President Gengrich being in a strong enough political position to tell the Supremes to go hang is of a very low order of probability, in my estimation.
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Comment on “A drum major for justice”: Martin Luther King Jr Day
on 16 January 2012 at 3:36 pm
MLK certainly did change things here in the US, and for that I think the world should be grateful. While it is true that we didn’t get through the sixties without violence, I believe without MLK it would have escalated to an entirely different order of magnitude. Had that happened, I’m not sure what sort of society would have emerged.
As for what quote I would inscribe on the Memorial, I would go with “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” from the Letter from Birmingham Jail.
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Comment on Maltreating victims may condemn us to the folly of repeating the past
on 29 December 2011 at 4:13 pm
For years now I have tried to understand when I read that victims are not listened to. I think many people listen to them all the time, as well as read their opinions in the newspapers. In short, I think they are listened to frequently by just about all concerned, and some who are not. Does listening to victims demand agreement with their perspective? I try to put myself in the shoes of someone who lost a loved one via political violence and I must confess it is difficult, very difficult. I expect it isn’t much different for many people. But is everybody expected to defer to the judgment of people so scarred? Candidly, I think that would be a big mistake.
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Comment on US Republican party forsaking the Republic for an aging Culture War?
on 19 December 2011 at 5:03 pm
In as much as we are still about a year from the polls, I would not hazard a guess at the eventual nominee of the Republicans. I would say, however, that for Ron Paul to become the nominee, he would have to become something other than what he is today in order to become acceptable to those who vote in Republican primaries. Or he would have to fundamentally change the party.
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Comment on US Republican party forsaking the Republic for an aging Culture War?
on 17 December 2011 at 9:18 pm
Interesting of you to mention the ‘know-nothings’, NY’er. I said the same thing to my sister a couple weeks ago. I know more than a few Republicans who loathe the Teabaggers and birthers who are dragging that party down.
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