Barack Obama
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Muslim-American personalities and political polarization – part 1
In the first part of a long post, the author discusses Muslims in American public life, comparing how Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy broke barriers for African Americans and…
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The once and future “Brown Pundits”
Razib Khan recounts how Brown Pundits began as Sepia Mutiny wound down, divides South Asian Americans into assimilators, hybrid ‘South Asian Americans’ and traditionalists, and says the blog now interests…
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Geopolitics
Network of Death (yes, but….)
Responding to Obama’s speech on dismantling a ‘network of death’, the author argues the US is waging another Middle East war while its chief ally Saudi Arabia spreads Salafism, and…
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Yes, the first muslim president
Gallup data showing Muslims approve of Obama most and Mormons least, with the poster guessing at reasons including Tea Party claims and the Cairo speech.
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Geopolitics
Hindu Brotherhood: a seat at the high table
Commenting on Obama and Modi’s exchange of letters on economic, maritime and counter-terrorism cooperation, the author sees a trader’s bargain meant to keep India in the West’s camp, and calls…
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Q Poll- Obama worst prez (Reagan best)
A Quinnipiac poll finds 33 per cent of Americans calling Barack Obama the worst president since World War II, with Reagan ranked best; the post answers a commenter with sarcasm…
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Geopolitics
President 007
Excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices on Obama pushing into a closed meeting with China’s premier, which the poster jokes broke up ‘Chindia’ just in time, though it ranks below…
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Geopolitics
52/444/1979
A report that the US will refuse a visa to Iran’s pick for UN envoy, a former student revolutionary of the 1979 hostage crisis. The poster doubts that an American-Iranian…
