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Tag Archives: Democracy

Stability

© Joel Pett Is unbridled democracy really that scary to the US government?

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Unfortunately, Mubarak said “no”

© Tom Toles UPDATE: Apparently Mubarak changed his mind today.

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Is anyone else worried about headlines that read “Protestors have won, Mubarak is stepping down”?

I thought the goal was to establish democracy in Egypt, and try to get rid of their crushing corruption? How does having Mubarak step down, to be replaced by his handpicked vice president, guarantee this will happen? Something tells me that Mubarak is trying to pull a fast one in order to get the protests […]

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Conservative Logic

© Tom Tomorrow Maybe he needs a robot with two heads, so it can believe two contradictory thoughts at the same time. The one thing we know for sure is that no matter what happens, it will be Obama’s fault.

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JFK on Egypt

© Keith Tucker Thom Hartmann has more to say about this. UPDATE: An interesting insider’s view of what is really happening in Egypt.

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The Tip of the Pyramid

© Clay Bennett Jon Stewart has a funny clip on the changing American position on the situation in Egypt.

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Eruption

© Ed Stein I love the fact that Ed Stein includes insightful commentary about his political cartoons on his blog. Here’s his comentary for this cartoon: It will be interesting, to say the least, to see how far the spontaneous popular revolution in Tunisia will spread through the Arab world. Will it stop in Egypt, […]

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Crushing Dissent

© Glenn McCoy There seem to be three possibilities for the general riots in Egypt: Mubarak crushes the dissenters, the dissenters force Mubarak to reform the government, or (like Tunisia) Mubarak leaves Egypt. What will happen, or even what would be best for Egypt, is anyone’s guess.

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