Tag: Georgia
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The Civil-Rights Issue of Our Time
While much of the country is rightly focused on the presidential election, there’s no contest more important to me this year than an initiative on the ballot in California. If it passes with a simple majority, Proposition 8 will take away the fundamental right to marry for same-sex couples in that state. The measure has…
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Georgian Nights and Days
A friend elsewhere (on Facebook) criticized my post yesterday about the Caucasus crisis. He said, in part: “with due respect, I’m a bit worried that even avowedly progressive people like you in America seem to hold rather one-sided view of the current South Ossetia crisis: without apparently/admittedly realising that a mirror-image history of our action…
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A Clear Voice
The United States is not speaking with a forked tongue about Russian atrocities in Georgia before the United Nations Security Council. Russia and the U.S. traded hot accusations at the Security Council over Moscow’s aggressive handling of its military operation in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia and the bombing of Georgia proper. Georgian diplomats…
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Hendrix down in Georgia
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A habit
Georgia Couple Win $270 Million Lottery Here are a couple of previous Georgia winners of the Mega Millions lottery (man on the left in 2o06 and the man on the right in 2007). Man at the counter: Damn, I didn’t win the Mega Millions again! Counterman: Yeah, some couple from Georgia won it. Me: It’s…