Tag Archives: Politics

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river – Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river

Nikita Khrushchev

Problem of knowing too much

Tina: I saw your political opinion on Facebook and now I think you're an awful person. Wally: What did you think about me before? Tina: I didn't think about you before. Wally: Sounds like I got promoted.

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’ – Larry Hardiman

The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’

Larry Hardiman

These World Leaders Are a Worse Threat to Free Press Than Terrorism

These World Leaders Are a Worse Threat to Free Press Than Terrorism

Andy Cush

On Sunday, 3.7 million people gathered all over France to mourn the lives of those killed in last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack. It was almost a moving collective stand for freedom of expression in the face of terror and fear—except that its most prominent supporters are much greater threats to a free press than terrorism.

As the non-profit Reporters Without Borders noted on Sunday, and as London School of Economics Middle East Society co-president Daniel Wickham elaborated in a widely disseminated series of tweets, the world leaders given prominent photo-op placement at the Paris rally are not only free-press hypocrites—they’re by any measure worse threats to the world-changing possibilities of a free press than a couple terrorists with guns.

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best

Will Rogers