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01.26.2009 4:51 pm

Catholic bishops warn of passive genocide

Catholic bishops in Africa have denounced Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and have called on South African leaders to stop supporting him or be “complicit in passive genocide,” according to the International Herald Tribune. The bishops called for Mugabe to step…

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01.19.2009 6:13 pm

Open thread: Commutations, security and snacks

As was expected, President George W. Bush commuted the sentences of two border patrol guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for seriously wounding a suspected drug runner. They now are…

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07.14.2008 1:00 pm

If you think inflation’s bad here…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

500,000,000 dollar Zimbabwean bank note…then check out Zimbabwe, which has the highest rate of hyper-inflation in the world. It’s even gotten to the point that the government will soon run out of the paper it uses to print its currency on.

One U.S. dollar is…

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06.12.2008 5:42 pm

Blogging the Khalilzad conference call

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Zalmay KhalilzadAt 3:00PM this afternoon I participated in an editorial conference call with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad (former ambassador to Afghanistan and later Iraq). During the call, Ambassador Khalilzad addressed a broad range of topics, including repression in…

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