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ABC News’s The Note reported last month:
“[Billionaire] Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary — an outrage he has asked us to fix,” [President Obama] told a joint session of Congress [in September] when he revealed his American Jobs Act.
Here is how the President’s plan might work using Buffett as an example. [...]

Press release from the Canadian-Hungarian Democratic Charter
A new global civil-rights advocacy group – the Canadian-Hungarian Democratic Charter (CHDC) – based in Montreal, Canada, issued a worldwide indictment against the government of Hungary, which is a member of the European Union and NATO. Compiled by an international team of respected academics, headed by Concordia University political [...]

This is a guest post by Professor Alan Johnson
The Guardian columnist Deborah Orr has written a controversial and very heavily criticized article about the Gilad Shalit deal.  She has argued that ‘the prisoner swap between Hamas and the Israeli government [is] an indication of how inured the world has become to the obscene idea that [...]

As you might expect, a whole bunch more is now coming about about Bob Lambert, the police spy who ran a string of infiltrators into Left wing organisations, and who also posted as an activist with London Greenpeace.

Today’s instalment – previously discussed here – is the news that Bob Lambert’s ex-girlfriend is seriously angry.
A former police [...]

The Christ at the Checkpoint conference scheduled for 2012, aims to:
“provide an opportunity for evangelical Christians who take the Bible seriously to prayerfully seek a proper awareness of issues of peace, justice, and reconciliation.”
To do so in a Christian way, you would need a commitment to truth.
Here is the 3rd affirmation of the Christ at the [...]

An anti-Islamist protest meets Mr Ghannouchi on his way to vote in Tunisia today. No, it wasn’t the EDL on an awayday.
The caption says:
“Après avoir menacé le peuple tunisien la semaine dernière , Aujourd’hui 23 OCTOBRE 2011, un moment historique pour la Tunisie !!! Depuis son retour RAched Ghannouchi divise la Tunisie en Deux. Ces [...]

Yes, they’ve branched out and are already on the scene covering the Occupy LSX protests in London.

Update: Damn. Why are the SWP and the Communists the only ones who ever seem to hand out signs at these protests?

Just when Andy Newman at Socialist Unity has driven me around the bend with another of his stupid anti-imperialism-über-alles posts, he links to something like this and I end up forgiving him all– at least until the next stupid post.

I guess Hank Jr. was only about 14 at the time.

Saudi Arabia has largely escaped the wave of protests and demonstrations comprising the Arab Spring. But that doesn’t mean everything is fine there, either economically or politically.
The Saudi Jeans blog reports on the detention of Feras Bughnah and Hosam al-Deraiwish after they produced and uploaded a video to YouTube about poverty in the capital city [...]

In today’s Times Rose Wild has a ‘feedback’ column (£) in which she offers a fairly light-hearted survey of readers’ correspondence.  The first issue she discusses is correspondence prompted by a cartoon by Morten Morland which appeared on Monday.  Wild notes that Morland was ‘surprised and distressed’ by the fact many people wrote in to [...]