AT A MEETING OF THE ANGLOSPHERE...:

New Zealand enters new era of conservative rule (ROHAN SULLIVAN, 11/08/08, AP)

New Zealand entered a new era of conservative rule Sunday, with incoming Prime Minister John Key promising to be a moderate amid fears some of the country's policies on global warming and indigenous people could be rolled back. [...]

Key campaigned as a moderate, but his policies include plans to eventually abolish special parliamentary seats for Maori and making the country's greenhouse gas emission trading scheme more favorable to business.

On Sunday, he promised to follow through on tax cuts and pro-business, tough-on-crime policies that include registering the DNA of any suspect arrested for an imprisonable crime.

"I don't believe we need to be radical," Key told the TV One network in one of a round of media appearances Sunday. "I've made it quite clear I want to run a center-right government, a moderate government."

Obama, Polish president at odds on call (Christina Bellantoni, November 9, 2008, Washington Times)

President-elect Barack Obama's private conversation with Poland's president created an international disagreement Saturday, with President Lech Kaczynski saying Mr. Obama promised to continue a missile-defense system and the transition office saying the Democrat made no such commitment.

...it won't be President Obama's pigment that makes him stand out.

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Posted by Orrin Judd at November 9, 2008 10:24 AM