Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
A preliminary PEPFAR roundup (and come add your ideas)
On Wednesday, the Congressionally-mandated evaluation of PEPFAR — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – was released. It’s nearly 700 pages long, and I haven’t but skimmed its major headings. But I’m interested in what the reaction has been, and since no one seems to have done it yet that I’ve seen, I thought I’d round up some response [...]
Things you should read this weekend
Tristan McConnell’s series of stories from “the new Mogadishu” for GlobalPost. I think the piece on underpaid city cops is my favorite. Spend some time with his slideshow, too. (And if you haven’t you should read McConnell’s piece on Somaliland for VQR. I told you why last week, but here’s a new reason: there are [...]
American Politics 101, for anyone who can stomach it
One thing I love about living abroad are the questions and opinions about American politics. When I was here in 2008, in the leadup to the election, I was amazed by how informed my Rwandan compatriots were about our politics. I couldn’t name their defense minister, but they could talk in detail about the Iraq [...]
Obama names Director of War Atrocities, croons to advocates, “Baby, it’s not how it sounds, I swear!”
It’s a mini-round up of the two most recent things I’ve read: One, Obama now has a war atrocities czar — formally known as the Director of War Atrocities and Civilian Protection. At least that’s what the Daily Beast is calling David Pressman’s new job, in an article that I found pretty confusing. Let’s hope [...]
Back home, a page from the Sarah Palin playbook
Remember back when Sarah Palin was baiting David Letterman over his stupid joke? (I know. I wish I didn’t either.) Remember the best part of that, when the pro-Palin people started slinging rape accusations around? And then mounted a shame-on-you media campaign against Letterman’s advertisers? Turns out the liberals might be a little better at [...]
"Your president's a jerk, let me buy you a sandwich"
This comes from the amazing Tom A. Peter, a Middle East correspondent for GlobalPost. It’s a wonderful reminder of two things: First, that just because Obama says nice things In The Muslim World doesn’t mean all Muslims are going to love America (again, or ever). And that hating a government is not the same as [...]
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