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Nobel Peace Prize puts China “On Tilt”
By Steve on December 11, 2010
In the 1998 film Rounders Matt Damon narrates the subtleties of No Limit Texas Hold-up poker: A brilliant player can get a strong hand cracked, go on tilt…and lose his mind along with every single…
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Why the Left and the Right hate the Rally to Restore Sanity
By Steve on November 10, 2010
A couple weeks ago I arrived home late Saturday night from a great evening with friends and the family. However rather than collapse in bed as is the norm (those that know me also know…
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Election 2010 recap
By Steve on November 7, 2010
Tuesday’s election came and went leaving a result everyone pretty much anticipated. Recently I had connected here in Hong Kong with the Republicans Abroad and so received an invite to their gathering downtown to watch…
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Hanging out with the Republicans!
By Steve on October 18, 2010
Its hard to beat the fast paced cosmopolitan nature of Hong Kong life… but as we approach the U.S. mid-term elections on November 2, I do feel a little nostalgic for some good old fashioned American partisan…
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Restore the Sanity 2010
By Steve on September 18, 2010
I try not to blog too often on Jon Stewart and the Daily Show…else I would hardly blog about anything else…but when he announced his “Restore the Sanity” rally for October 30 in Washington DC,…
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Conviction & Compassion: or What to do with my Democrat, Muslim, and Gay friends
By Steve on August 28, 2010
I recently had dinner with a new friend here in Hong Kong. We had been talking about different cuisines and I had been bemoaning the fact that my favorite Lebanese restaurant had closed. When I…
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Homeland INsecurity
By Steve on June 10, 2010
A good friend of mine is reading a book that he is dying to give me when he finishes it. Its called Son of Hamas and it tells the story of Mossad Hassan Yousef who…
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Immigration & the Nazis
By Steve on April 29, 2010
Where would be without the Nazis? I mean every national dialogue in America these days seems to draw comparisons to Hitler’s Germany? Whether its healthcare, militia groups, or reality TV shows, the comment always seems…
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“Good Friday” still good in Iowa
By Steve on March 31, 2010
Here’s what one Iowa town thought was a great political idea. Let’s suddenly change the name of a 2000 year old holiday and one that’s been celebrated in the town since practically its founding because…
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Selling Fear
By Steve on March 5, 2010
Would someone please save the Republicans from themselves! One of the charges that gets leveled at the GOP on a regular basis is that when they don’t have anything of substance to offer, they sell…