There are times when I am so proud to be from Delaware. Senator Biden, thank you. This article if from the Wall Street Journal and expresses Delaware's profound willingness to engage the world through trade, diplomacy and negotiation; a world that George W. Bush and John McCain seem so willing to alienate. Sen. Biden is right, we are on the wrong track and he is offering us the right track to be on; it is the successful policy we have used to engage the world through peace and prosperity. It must have felt so good to tell George W. Bush he is full of shit. I commend you sir. Republicans and Our Enemies By JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. May 23, 2008; Page A15 On Wednesday, Joe Lieberman wrote on this page that the Democratic Party he and I grew up in has drifted far from the foreign policy espoused by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy. In fact, it is the policies that President George W. Bush has pursued, and that John McCain would continue, that are divorced from that great tr...

"May [the Declaration] be to the world, what I believe it will be ... the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government." Thomas Jefferson's last letter written to Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826 In the chronicles of India's long march to independence people naturally tend to think of Mahatma Gandhi whose provocative use of non-violence brought the British Empire to its knees. But there were many groups advocating for Indian independence for a long time, many of them were inspired by the ideals of the American Declaration of Independence, as Gandhi himself was, until on January 26, 1930 Indians declared their independence to the world, led by a movement to end taxation on salt culminating on the march to Dandi . Our guest post today is an article by Mr.B. S. Prakash the Consul General of India in San Francisco an...