David Kirkpatrick has an interesting analysis in the New York Times about how badly Morsi miscalculated in the months and days leading up to his ouster as president of Egypt by the Army, including his faulty information: Inside Mr. Morsi’s office. Mr. Morsi’s team checked the official crowd count, sent
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Transformation #nlpoli
Provincial Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador have a political philosophy that is equal parts Machiavelli, Kafka, and the Three Stooges. For the first few years they seemed to be constantly plotting and manoevring, always one step ahead of their opponents at home and abroad. Those days are gone, now, replaced
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