“Happy Hajj,” Everybody!
* Bumped Up * Let the White House Proclaim: Happy Hugo Chavez Day! Happy Ramadan! Happy 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire! Happy Eid-ul-Fitr Happy Earth Day! Happy Eid-ul-Adha!...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden, Sleeps With the Fishes **UPDATED**
Update below the fold. I had another post all ready to go this morning of Lara Logan’s interview on “60 Minutes,” but that can keep until tomorrow. Today, the big news, as President Obama announced...
View ArticleHoopla!!
Bin Ladin is dead. Again. In the last ten years he has been reported “killed” at least four times. The only difference this time was that the President of the United States announced the death of the...
View ArticlePak-US: Charlie Brown, Lucy and the Football
One of the most familiar story lines in the beloved comic strip “Peanuts” involved malicious prankster Lucy holding a football and encouraging poor Charlie Brown to kick it. At the last moment, Lucy...
View ArticlePakistan’s Urban Sprawl
It’s surprising to many that the majority of Pakistanis support the Islamists and their apologists as the saviors of their religion. But this didn’t happen overnight. The mindset of the large segment...
View ArticleThe Saudi Hollywood Makeover
The tense relationship between Pakistan and the United States has often been described as a bad marriage. Like a couple teetering on divorce but frozen in mutually dependent inertia, the U.S. wants one...
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Guess Who Hates Us Even More Now Than When Bush Was President?
The French? Well, they might, but no, that’s not who I mean. The British? Well, most likely, especially they way Obama has dissed them (like sending back the bust of Churchill, and that is the mere tip...
View ArticleThe Sorry State of Pakistan
Osama bin Laden: killed and al Qaeda: on the run. That’s the balance sheet — more or less — that the U.S. has to share with the world. Meanwhile, its biggest ally in the War on Terror — Pakistan — has...
View ArticleThe House Divided
“It has been argued by some people that the policy of partition always led to Civil war. It certainly did in India and Cyprus and palestine and Ireland. This was not bad thing for Britain. It kept them...
View ArticleLeT’s Hafiz Saeed
I have been asked to post this clip with translation. Click here to view the embedded video. The news story above has been taken from an Indian news channel. I do not agree with the title of the video...
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