http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:22:48 +0000 http://bloghi.com/ http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/img_ch.hi?id=11340 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/ http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/08/28/why-the-europeans-should-love-john-mccain.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/08/28/why-the-europeans-should-love-john-mccain.html#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:07 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/08/28/why-the-europeans-should-love-john-mccain.html Politics is all about culture. Look for example at the McCain and Obama health plans. Barack Obama would have the government organize a health care market where private health-care plans competes with a new government run plan, and where the... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/08/28/why-the-europeans-should-love-john-mccain.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/12/bilingual-education.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/12/bilingual-education.html#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:54:05 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/12/bilingual-education.html Get rid of bilingual education – please. Here in Texas, 60 percent of all high school students that have been classified with having limited English proficiency (LEP), have been attending U.S schools for five years or more. Experts thinks the... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/12/bilingual-education.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/03/bortska-mda-svenskar.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/03/bortska-mda-svenskar.html#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:24:56 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/03/bortska-mda-svenskar.html ”Regeringen utgår från att folk som är sjuka är lata”, skriver Lotta Gröning med stark indignation. Tja, do you know what,  från den här sidan av Atlanten ser det ut som regeringen har rätt. Det är ingen hemlighet att antalet... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/06/03/bortska-mda-svenskar.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/22/say-no-to-bullies.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/22/say-no-to-bullies.html#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:20:41 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/22/say-no-to-bullies.html Is Lori Drew, the 49-year old Missouri mother accused of driving 13-year old Megan Meier to suicide, a cyberbully? She posed as a teenage boy and sent nasty messages via a MySpace account, among other things telling Megan the world would be a better... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/22/say-no-to-bullies.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/14/clinton-racist-or-opportunist.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/14/clinton-racist-or-opportunist.html#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 09:02:26 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/14/clinton-racist-or-opportunist.html Robert D. Putnam, a Harvard professor in Public Policy, finds that ethnic diversity is increasing in most countries. The reason: Immigration. And it is not a good thing, he points out, at least in the short run as immigration and ethnic diversity... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/14/clinton-racist-or-opportunist.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/06/gas-tax.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/06/gas-tax.html#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 08:22:36 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/06/gas-tax.html With gas prices soon at $4 gallon, oil at $120 barrel, and a world oil supply soon depleted, I had hoped Senators Clinton and McCain would have suggested a real energy policy – instead they settle on a gimmick. For by agreeing on the suspension of... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/05/06/gas-tax.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/23/hillary-loves-power-more-than-herself.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/23/hillary-loves-power-more-than-herself.html#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:55:29 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/23/hillary-loves-power-more-than-herself.html I don’t know what it is but the more I see of Hillary the less I trust her. I am not alone. 53 percent of the Americans share my opinion says a recent Gallup poll. And in Pennsylvania, a Pew research survey done in early April found that of 1,000... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/23/hillary-loves-power-more-than-herself.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/15/depression-recession-or-just-a-new-way-of-life.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/15/depression-recession-or-just-a-new-way-of-life.html#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:05:12 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/15/depression-recession-or-just-a-new-way-of-life.html The pack at Wall Street is running scared (again), and it really makes me wonder – don’t those guys have a single original thinker among them? Obviously not and it all has to do with hormones. Yes, you heard me right. Hormones associated with... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/04/15/depression-recession-or-just-a-new-way-of-life.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/17/attityder-viktigast-fa-rr-ett-lands-ekonomiska-framgayng.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/17/attityder-viktigast-fa-rr-ett-lands-ekonomiska-framgayng.html#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:42:56 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/17/attityder-viktigast-fa-rr-ett-lands-ekonomiska-framgayng.html Det är männsikors attityder om marknad, arbete och risk-tagning som bestämmer ett lands ekonomiska prestation, inte skatter eller arbetsmarknads regleringar, det säger ialla fall Edmund Phelps, nobel pristagare och ekonom på Columbia University.... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/17/attityder-viktigast-fa-rr-ett-lands-ekonomiska-framgayng.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/02/obama-is-turning-texas-blue.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/02/obama-is-turning-texas-blue.html#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:50:06 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/02/obama-is-turning-texas-blue.html Is the Obama tide turning Texas Blue? It looks like it. Record numbers of Texans are hitting the ballot, and Obama raised, in January, 179,000 dollars more than McCain. And in the highest presidential fundraising zip code in the state, 75025 in... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/03/02/obama-is-turning-texas-blue.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/28/do-the-u-s-need-a-proportional-election-system.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/28/do-the-u-s-need-a-proportional-election-system.html#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:56:08 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/28/do-the-u-s-need-a-proportional-election-system.html Is the Democratic convention heading for a Florida 2000 showdown? With the nomination being determined by superdelegates, or the outcome of a fight over two state’s right to cast delegates’ votes, that might well be the case. And it is not good... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/28/do-the-u-s-need-a-proportional-election-system.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/22/tillgayng-och-efterfraygan-pay-olja-ligger-bakom-usas-intresse-fa-r-milja-fraygor.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/22/tillgayng-och-efterfraygan-pay-olja-ligger-bakom-usas-intresse-fa-r-milja-fraygor.html#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:08:53 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/22/tillgayng-och-efterfraygan-pay-olja-ligger-bakom-usas-intresse-fa-r-milja-fraygor.html http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/lottagroning/article1808798.ab Om det blir skakigt med ekonomin försvinner USAs ambitioner för miljön, skriver Lotta Gröning i Aftonbladet. Det är inte korrect. För ointresserad av miljöfrågor , har... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/22/tillgayng-och-efterfraygan-pay-olja-ligger-bakom-usas-intresse-fa-r-milja-fraygor.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/21/is-special-interest-good-or-bad-for-the-democracy.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/21/is-special-interest-good-or-bad-for-the-democracy.html#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:07:08 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/21/is-special-interest-good-or-bad-for-the-democracy.html With small differences on issue, the only thing that set Senators Clinton and Obama apart is two words – I and we. “I could not work for Hillary”, my friend Brian a telecom executive says, “she is too egocentric, Obama on the other hand,... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/21/is-special-interest-good-or-bad-for-the-democracy.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/07/the-battle-over-texas.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/07/the-battle-over-texas.html#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:36:02 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/07/the-battle-over-texas.html After Tuesday’s tight run, the Obama and Clinton campaigns get ready for Texas. This weekend 100 of Obama’s campaign workers will hit the Lone Star State, and the opening of 10 campaign offices is expected. It is probably needed. More than 50... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2008/02/07/the-battle-over-texas.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/29/the-israel-lobby-and-u-s-foreign-policy-why-the-book-is-dangerous.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/29/the-israel-lobby-and-u-s-foreign-policy-why-the-book-is-dangerous.html#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:55:08 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/29/the-israel-lobby-and-u-s-foreign-policy-why-the-book-is-dangerous.html At cocktail parties I sometimes get an embarrassing question. “How could your country give the Nazis permission to transport troupes over your borders in order to attack your neighbor?” I am not taking about the US, but my former home country... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/29/the-israel-lobby-and-u-s-foreign-policy-why-the-book-is-dangerous.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/10/the-political-effects-of-decentralization.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/10/the-political-effects-of-decentralization.html#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:52:55 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/10/the-political-effects-of-decentralization.html “Nothing is more striking to a European traveller in the United States” Alexis de Tocqueville writes, “than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration”. “The power exists”, he concludes, “ but its representatives... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/10/the-political-effects-of-decentralization.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/04/defeat-for-hugo-chavez-social-vision-who-will-be-venezuela-s-next-caudillo.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/04/defeat-for-hugo-chavez-social-vision-who-will-be-venezuela-s-next-caudillo.html#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:29:13 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/04/defeat-for-hugo-chavez-social-vision-who-will-be-venezuela-s-next-caudillo.html             The more things change, the more they stay the same. Take Venezuela for example. Not long ago a travel agency in California started to arrange vacation trips to the country, on the... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/12/04/defeat-for-hugo-chavez-social-vision-who-will-be-venezuela-s-next-caudillo.html#comments http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/11/28/renewables-can-we-really-afford-to-be-left-behind.html http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/11/28/renewables-can-we-really-afford-to-be-left-behind.html#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:50:36 +0000 http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/11/28/renewables-can-we-really-afford-to-be-left-behind.html            A lot of people think it is too early to start investing into alternative sources of energy like solar, geothermal and biofuels. That a technology, that can give us clean and renewable... http://carolinecalais.bloghi.com/2007/11/28/renewables-can-we-really-afford-to-be-left-behind.html#comments