Thomas Friedman has written an excellent piece on Spain’s recent elections (to read the article, you’ll have to create a free NY Times account and log in). Check this out:

Personally, I believe it’s na?ve to think that truth-in-government was the only thing motivating anguished Spanish swing voters after the bombings, and that there was not [...]

HAMAS leader Sheik Ahmad Yassin was killed yesterday.
What’s most amazing about this is the way that the world is reacting. Have we lost all sense of practicality? What possible reason can anyone give for wanting this man – one who is responsible for the hundreds of innocent deaths – to continue terrorizing innocent people?
At a [...]

Take a look at the following license plate, recently introduced in my home state of Georgia:

Not bad, eh? Nice design, colorful, etc. Plus, proceeds from the extra money Georgia drivers spend on this license plate go to environmental causes. I like it. I’m getting one.
Many Georgia environmentalists, however, don’t like it. Environmentalist Michael Moody recently [...]

In Slovakia, thousands of Roma are protesting the cutting of their welfare benefits. It appears that the state is going broke paying its citizens to sit around and do nothing. Previously, welfare benefits paid the equivalent of minimum wage. That amount is now being cut in half.
Prime Minister Mikul?s Dzurinda enraged many activists when he [...]