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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘White House’

Simon and Ron Lift Me Up…

By Denis Campbell • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Features
 
by Denis Campbell
This has been a depressing week. The ugly, angry mobs surrounding McCain – Palin, the potential, as my colleague Charley James writes, for last second raw racist 527 group adverts, a deeply divided country dragged into and immersed in yet another banal and trivial ‘business as usual’ political campaign instead of seriously debating [...]



Abstinence, Chastity, Hypocrisy, Control, Belief, Recovery, Redemption… Reality

By Denis Campbell • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
These seven deadly virtues ran headlong into the seven deadly sins as The Straight Talk Express and Smug Religious Right collided head on in New Orleans and Minneapolis yesterday. Dozens were wounded in separate incidents as riot police and troops stood at the ready to bring everyone forcibly on message.
Facing no choice, the same Conservative [...]



The Way of the World

By Denis Campbell • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Book Reviews
by Ron Suskind
From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation’s struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to [...]



The Brown Mutiny, Chapter One

By Denis Campbell • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Features
It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]



Happy Friday! Please Blend vs. Stir or Shake

By Denis Campbell • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics
On my 10th US Independence Day abroad, I’ll walk across our meadow to where the UK’s Severn River meets the Irish Sea and toss in the contents of a tea bag to celebrate. US holidays abroad are a bit strange. It’s Friday here. No hours-long parades, political speeches, fireworks, over-stuffing myself at cookouts or other [...]



Blowback Mountain Colombia

By Denis Campbell • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics
Colombian forces yesterday launched a rescue of 15-hostages, some held for as many as 10-years, by FARC rebels. “I would remind you that these things require incredibly long planning and coordination, et cetera,” said Republican presumptive nominee John McCain. “There’s no way possible that it could have had anything to do with our visit that [...]



In Praise of Lions

By Denis Campbell • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Features
Senator Ted Kennedy was escorted by police motorcade from Mass. General Hospital in Boston back to the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport this afternoon. A smiling Ted waved to reporters and as he has so many times during the tragedy that seems to dog this American family, he spent his time in hospital boosting the spirits [...]