The Great Ganesha

Apparently, in Albert Brooks’ last film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World there’s someone in a call center in Delhi who answers the phone by saying: “This is the White House. How may I direct your call?” Timothy Noah, a Slate columnist, writes that According to a study released in March by the Government [...]

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Regarding the article in the OpinionJournal I talked about and quoted below, an addendum: I’m not sure if I totally agree with that cartoon of a guy whose turban is unraveling into cobras which are attacking the supposedly US helicopter. First off, I thought we Indians had the monopoly on the stereotype of the turbaned [...]

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So it all started with Dubya announcing that a Dubai company was all lined up to take over handling certain (non-security-related) functions in US ports. Then, because of a huge hulabaloo caused by the Dems in Congress citing “security concerns,” the company itself backed out of the deal, leading to speculation that this would worsen [...]

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With the merger of the NYSE with Archipelago, there’s talk that the specialists will now be eliminated as far as trading of ETFs (or Exchange Traded Funds) are concerned. If you know anything about finance and trading on the NYSE, then you know that the “specialists” are those traders who match buyers with sellers on [...]

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Friedman never ceases to amaze me. Rarely (if ever) does one see an American journalist with such insight and understanding into complex international issues. The real problem was recently spelled out by an Arab-American psychiatrist, Dr. Wafa Sultan, in a stunning interview with Al Jazeera. Speaking about the Arab-Muslim world, Dr. Sultan said: ‘The clash [...]

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Interesting article from a couple of days ago by Tunku Varadarajan in the WSJ (read: conservative). In spite of the overt right-leaning, I think I agree with him. Political correctness has gone too far, crossing over into sectarian politicking… On Tuesday, Antonio Villaraigosa, the Democratic alcalde (or mayor) of Los Angeles, delivered to his city [...]

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