One should not take for granted the United States Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
For the past two weeks, I have been on vacation in Great Britain (just a few more days to go!). The trip has been great, but I won’t bore you all with the fun details of my vacation. But I will say that it has been quite interesting to watch the affairs of British Government played out in the local news tabloids (an apt description) as well as on the ‘telly’.
It is amazing to me that here in the United Kingdom, the television airwaves are owned by…the government. So guess what this does for choice and variety for the millions of Brits who do not have a satellite dish? You got it, there are only six stations in the whole country – and two of them always seem to be showing the same thing.
I tried to make a call on Prime Minister Blair today, over at 10 Downing Street – but could not get past the Bobbies! Tomorrow I’m going to try to get into the ‘Strangers Gallery’ at the House of Commons to watch the Q&A period with the Prime Minister in person. We’ll see if it is an raccous in person as it is on C-SPAN!
In the meantime, it remains tough to get political news here from back home — other than the few times I can get to an internet cafe (such as this one off of Trafalger Square!). That said, when I do get to one, I go straight to the FlashReport.
Another thank you to Nick for doing such a great job as Managing Editor in my absence. I hope that you all don’t get too used to his more-than-thorough gathering of the news. He must get up at Noon (oh, that’s 4am there in California) to put all of that together!
Cheers from England! We’ll be pulling for an English victory over Portugal on Saturday in the semi-finals of the World Cup – so that we can go to some great parties!