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Our prayers go out to the people of South Asia who were rocked by a massive earthquake yesterday that triggered mudslides and tremors which destroyed towns and villages across Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Thankfully, we know how quickly and efficiently the U.S (and other countries) responded to the devastating Tsunami that washed away so much… Read more.
Almost 50 years after Cuba’s socialist revolution, it is untenable for America to maintain an (affirmative action) immigration policy that gives Cubans EZ passes into this country (just to spite Fidel Castro); whilst erecting ever increasing barriers for all other immigrants from the Caribbean (even summarily repatriation many of them – as is invariably the… Read more.
Just when you thought it was safe to respect former President Bill Clinton comes a book by former FBI Director Louis Freeh – detailing how truly venal this man was, and probably still is. One of the highlights Freeh discloses on 60 Minutes this Sunday night is that – instead of demanding that his friends… Read more.
Billboard advertising the 15 October vote on Iraq’s draft constitution that Shia and Kurds hoped would be a mere formality In the grand tradition of American democracy, Iraqi Shia and Kurds joined forces in their provisional parliament last Sunday and unilaterally changed Iraq’s electoral law to make it almost impossible for disgruntled Sunnis to undermine… Read more.
Anyone who is unnerved by predictions of a cataclysmic terrorist strike – of a magnitude 1000 times greater than 9/11 – will be petrified by predictions of a pandemic outbreak of Bird Flu. Because World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists are predicting fatalities of between 50 and 150 million people; and, they seem resigned to the… Read more.
“White folks don’t understand about the blues. They hear it come out but they don’t know how it got there. They don’t understand that’s life’s way of talking. You don’t sing to feel better. You sing ’cause that’s a way of understanding life.” — From Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson It is a… Read more.
When Bush nominated the supremely qualified and inimitably reasonable Judge John Roberts to replace William Rehnquist as the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, he took the bite out of his Democratic adversaries who were frothing for a dogged political fight. And now his nomination of the well-qualified and temperamentally immaculate Harriet Miers to… Read more.
“You could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.” – William Bennett on his show Morning in America When conservative talk show host William J. Bennett posited this genocidal crime fighting strategy last week, he may have intrigued his listeners but he outraged everyone else in America. And,… Read more.
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Ex-FEMA Director Michael D. Brown testified on Tuesday before a Congressional Select Committee investigation preparation and response to Hurricane Katrina . But he found out that telling the truth in American politics invariably transforms one into a national joke! Of course, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis could have told him as much…. News and Politics Read more.
