Posts on 12/02/20
Reminder: It`s WAIS Wednesday!
(John Eipper, USA, 12/02/20 12:46 pm) Beloved Colleagues, don't forget it's WAIS Wednesday! You may have opened your heart and your pocketbook yesterday for Giving Tuesday, and humanity thanks you. But I trust you ...
Read moreSadiq al-Mahdi, the "Chosen One"
(Edward Jajko, USA, 12/02/20 12:27 pm) Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi had an interesting link with history, in that he was the great-grandson of Muhammad Ahmad, called by himself and his followers "al-Mahdi," the guided one, the Muslim equiva ...
Read moreJail for Trump? A Question from the UK
(Paul Preston, UK, 12/02/20 10:11 am) Like other "guiris inocentes" in WAIS, I have no right to intervene in this debate. Given the incompetence of the government under which I live, I am only too aware of the adage about glass ...
Read moreI Sort of Feel Sorry for Trump...
(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 12/02/20 6:45 am) I must confess my narrow admiration for Donald Trump, his incredible willingness to keep rolling forward as the road before him disintegrates, as nonpolitical institutions, history, and supporters wit ...
Read moreThe Republicans are the Party of the Working Class
(George Aucoin, France, 12/02/20 4:36 am) In response to Cameron Sawyer's question (December 1st) regarding the National Review being a "Democratic mole," I'm afraid he misses the point. That publication has nothing ...
Read moreThe California Effect and the Electoral College
(Cameron Sawyer, Russia, 12/02/20 4:27 am) The striking difference in what the popular vote looks like with and without California, for both the 2016 and 2020 elections, which our A. J. Cave has written about on a couple of occasions, has been ...
Read moreDeath of Sudan`s Former PM, Sadiq al-Mahdi
(Martin Storey, Australia, 12/02/20 3:43 am) The WAIS community has been talking a lot about Diego Maradona's death, leaving in the shade another man, who passed almost at the same time: former Prime Minister of the Sudan, Sadiq al-Mahdi. H ...
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