Tag: "Georgia"
Identity Theft Not So Peachy for GA Business Owners
A friend alerted me to a security flaw on the Georgia Secretary of State website that has many business owners in the Peach State furious… and rightfully so.
“They didn’t care if it was a house or a military camp…They bombed everything.”
When it comes to stories about Russia’s invasion of Georgia (such as this one which tells how Russia is trying to make formal what it’s been doing for a long time), reporters make one fundamental mistake that colors their coverage wrongly. I’ve made the same mistake in some conversations I’ve had about Georgia. The mistake [...]
“Because our way is for democracy”
Michael Totten, reporting from Tblisi, Georgia, spoke to some survivors of the Russian attack on Gori. I thought this bit especially interesting: Her husband had remained behind and arrived in Tbilisi shortly before I did. “He was trying to keep the house and the fields,” she explained. “Afterward, he wanted to leave, but he was [...]
Russians Bluster and Bull***t on Our Op-Ed Pages
The Russian government has sent forth two mouthpieces to try to sway American public opinion this week. Mikhail Gorbachev has an op-ed in the New York Times wherein he said that Russia was just minding its own business in South Ossetia when the wicked Georgians shelled the city and forced them to act to save [...]
Yes, but They Don’t Go!
Even after signing a cease-fire agreement that says they have to leave Georgia, the Russians, like the Chorus of Policemen in the Pirates of Penzance, don’t seem to be in a very big hurry to go. In Gori, a strategic town on Georgia’s main east-west highway, six Russian armored personnel carriers, three tanks and two [...]
Condoleeza Rice Sounds Like A Carter-Era Throwback
I’ve been really disappointed with the Bush administration over the past year or so. I had thought, with the twin invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the robust and vocal support of the downtrodden in Iran, and the huge push to establish ourselves as something much less than the Devil in Southeast Asia, that the President [...]
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