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Vick: Damn! This is really gonna screw up my game… It seems that no matter how many cautionary tales they witness (e.g. Magic Johnson’s career destroyed by HIV, Michael Jordan sued by his mistress for palimony, Dr J’s lust child descending upon him 18 years after one of his trysts, etc.), professional athletes will continue… Read more.
Well done – my good and faithful servant. Thou art blessed as the Pope of popes. No doubt Catholics would like to think that’s how God greeted John Paul II in Heaven. But President Bill Clinton created quite a furor yesterday with the following: The Pope centralized authority in the papacy again and enforced a… Read more.
The U.S. Congress welcomes Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko as the world’s latest hero of Democracy! Yesterday, the newly elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, received a triumphal welcome before addressing a joint session of the United States Congress. Yushchenko thanked President George W. Bush for standing firm in his support for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution .… Read more.
Mark Thatcher has been the bane of his mother’s existence for all of her political life: from his involvement in illegal arms dealing to getting lost in the Sahara desert while participating in an international car race. And now, in addition to causing her more emotional anguish and public embarrassment, he has sullied her good… Read more.
Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria Unlike anywhere else in the world, African Catholics are growing in number and are almost as faithful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church as Pope John Paul II was himself. Therefore, the selection of an African Cardinal as the next Pope would seem divinely inspired. But, since there is… Read more.
Marty Peretz: I pledge allegiance to George W. Bush and to the doctrine for which he stands…America, right or wrong! As President Bush continues his Forrest Gump-like domination of world politics, his detractors remain marginalized in stupefaction and awe (and nursing more than a little envy). For his American critics, however, these emotions have just… Read more.
In the fertile killing fields of the DR Congo even children must kill or be killed! During his 1998 celebrity tour of Africa, President Bill Clinton apologized (like he does so well) for being too preoccupied with his personal problems to deploy America’s political and military power to prevent the genocidal massacre of almost 1… Read more.
Last Sunday, on the news program 60 Minutes, Jane Fonda exorcised some of her demons in a book promotion conversation with Leslie Stahl. The interview provided some titillating and interesting bits of information: For example, Jane’s revelations about the most promiscuous of her 3 marriages (that had her cruising for women to engage in regular… Read more.
It’s always pathetic to see old, wealthy and powerful men hobbling around with their Lolita wives thinking of themselves as the masters of the universe. But, at least most of them have the self-confidence and good sense to require their gold-digging trophy wives to take them as come. Now entering stage left, however, is the… Read more.
Last weekend’s media focus on the death of Pope John Paul II covered up the report of yet another scandal to add to the legacy of President Bill Clinton: After almost a year of denying any wrongdoing, Clinton’s national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, pleaded guilty on Friday to the charge of stealing classified files… Read more.
