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Get over it! - From the London Review of Books
Corey Robin
BUYAmerican Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Joan Biskupic
Farrar, Straus, 434 pp, $28.00, November 2009, ISBN 978 0 374 20289 7
Elena Kagan, Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the retiring Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee in late [...]
I was one of the many people who welcomed the “election” of Ebrahim Rasool as Premier of the Western Cape back in 2004. After suffering under the ineffectual leadership of that Charles Bronson lookalike Gerald Morkel; the unspeakable windbag Peter Marais; and the arch opportunist and apartheid era Military Intelligence operative Marthinus van Schalkwyk (now [...]
So back to the recalling of Jacob Zuma. (I write the following with a degree of trepidation; I have just heard that there is a big emergency get-together at Luthuli house – ANC headquarters – and there are swirling rumours about newer and worse sexual indiscretions – all of which might make what I say below look silly and wrong.) – Nic Borain on the possible recall of President Jacob Zuma
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