Hans Rosling (Host of the BBC documentary The Joy of Stats) tweeted “In 2009 Saudi Arabia had a lower Democracy score than Tunisia, Egypt & Libya http://www.bit.ly/12T624m, In fact the lowest in the world!”  In the original link he shows for the year 2009 these three countries where recent uprisings have occurred or are occurring […]

I was sent this good first hand account of the events in Madison, WI on Twitter which are on their 6th day and their similarities to those on the Middle East. I couldn’t have written it better.  He tells me he believes there will not be violence in Madison. The Worden Report: Protests in Wisconsin […]

In the last few weeks we’ve all seen the images of violent protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen. Some pundits in the US have focused on fears that these uprisings are being driven by Islamic extremists somehow connected to the Islamic Brotherhood and by Al Qaeda’s #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri (an Egyptian) or fears that it […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders I-VT gave an impassioned 8.5 hour speech from the senate floor yesterday to protest the Obama tax cut surrender. To take headlines away from this President Obama brought out former President Clinton to the White House Press room to give a 30 minute press conference. It seems to have worked with the […]