Sarah Palin will wait until 2016 to run for president. So says David Yepsen, the dean of Iowa’s College of Presidential Politics. A master of understatement, Yepsen says the former governor turned reality-show star needs to work on “the gravitas thing.”
For the “It can’t happen here” crowd: A South African comedian reflects on Sarah Palin and why there is no such thing as a Jacob Zuma joke.
Now that South African president Jacob Zuma has taken a third wife (or is she his fifth?), some say “Fine by me.”
Kenya is contemplating a new law to legalize polygamy. Most South Africans are opposed, one poll shows.
“The hunt for resources in Africa will grow fiercer in the coming years, as commodity prices rise and especially if global supplies of some natural goods (especially oil and gas) become more limited. Today there are direct flights from Malabo, the existing capital of Equatorial Guinea, to Houston and Americans are so active in the oil industry that they can come and go without visas.”
The Telegraph (U.K.)
