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Wednesday Night #1428
July 15, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1428

Rick Sindelar‘s return to Wednesday Night – after a 19-year absence – generated an enthusiastic and co ...

Wednesday Night #1427
July 8, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1427

Science and ethics The announcement that British scientists claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory from emb ...

President Obama & the Americas
June 29, 2009, Comments Off on President Obama & the Americas

Search ‘Latin America’ on www.wednesday-night.com The Eclipse of the Americas How the Trinidad Summit Marked ...

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers
June 26, 2009, Comments Off on Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers about the Presidential elections and the subsequent events 1) We, a group of Ir ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europe and the EU
June 8, 2009, Comments Off on Europe and the EU

The European elections saw a record low turnout of 43%. The centre-left did badly in most countries. The centre-right Eu ...