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BLOG: Robert Gibbs is a clown

Ryan Gach February 16, 2010

The White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is a silly clown. Perhaps instead of mocking Sarah Palin for notes written on her hand for a recent speech to the Tea Party Movement, Gibbs should have been...

BLOG: NYPD Releases New Aerial Photos of World Trade Center Attack

Ryan Gach February 16, 2010

The recent release of dozens of photos showing lower Manhattan in a smoky and fire-filled storm, with the Twin Towers burning in the foreground, are a grim reminder nearly nine years after the attacks...

Foreign Affairs

Ryan Gach December 4, 2008
Contrary to popular belief, I am enjoying my new life in China, so much in fact that I have decided to stay the entire academic year. My hostility toward China is only present when I am about to be run over by a Range Rover or city bus. If my critics did the same, they would see my sense of humor.

Foreign Affairs

Ryan Gach October 9, 2008
I am running toward the Bird's Nest in Beijing with my inhaler closely gripped and my Hail Marys whizzing away. A Range zips past with horn blaring and tinted windows glaring. The 100-foot city buses that have accordion-like expanders swerves around me with the driver swearing.

Foreign Affairs

Ryan Gach September 4, 2008
"On Aug. 31, 2008, capitalism of the West and communism of the East were married in a loud and boisterous ceremony in Beijing. The bride, whose father is Adam Smith, looked tired, as if she was unsure of the marriage about to be performed. Meanwhile, the groom, whose father is Karl Marx, wore a toothy grin that indicated confidence and an ever-expanding outlook toward the future.
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