All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Rick Sindelar on Iran
June 24, 2009, Comments Off on Rick Sindelar on Iran

Protesters’ tenacity to decide the future in Iran By H. RICHARD SINDELAR (Houston Chronicle) The mullahs have miscalcu ...

Wednesday Night #1424
June 17, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1424

Update on Hungary Although the member nations of the European Union have benefited enormously from the elimination of ph ...

Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper
June 15, 2009, Comments Off on Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper

The way Mr. Flanagan sees it now, Stephen Harper is adrift in a vacuum of policy and principle, conniving only to retain ...

Jeff Rubin: Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
June 15, 2009, 2 Comments

A peak at oil reserves (The Economist) ACCORDING to BP, an oil company, the world has enough oil reserves to meet demand ...

Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?
June 14, 2009, Comments Off on Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introducti ...

William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead
June 13, 2009, Comments Off on William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead

Conrad Black’s umbrage over the Christopher Buckley memoir of his remarkable parents does less to diminish the boo ...

Blackrock
June 11, 2009, Comments Off on Blackrock

Barclays lands capital-boosting BlackRock deal LONDON/BOSTON — BlackRock has agreed to buy Barclays Global Investo ...

U.S. Healthcare
June 11, 2009, Comments Off on U.S. Healthcare

Health Care, North and South of the Border (Nicholas Kristof)  … my column examines Canadian and American health ...

Wednesday Night #1423
June 10, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1423

See Wednesday-Night.com for photos and more AECL ; Douglas Lightfoot’s letter of June 7 to Minister Lisa Raitt on ...

West Wing Wednesday Night #15
June 10, 2009, Comments Off on West Wing Wednesday Night #15

Isn’t this a most glorious stretch of sunshine? [Obviously not written from Montreal’s WN] Enthralled with b ...