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Admittedly, I’m not a big Baseball fan. In fact, I pay no attention to the sport until after Labor Day when Division Championships begin in earnest. And even then, I find highlights on ESPN SportCenter enough to satisfy my interest. But the New York Yankees transcend sport to such a degree that they make news… Read more.
In a controversial move, Angelina Jolie has donned blackface for her newest role. She is playing Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl. Daniel Pearl was the Wall Street Journal reporter whom Muslim extremists kidnapped and subsequently killed, releasing footage of his beheading online. Angelina Jolie in blackface Of course, Jolie is becoming almost as famous for her charitable… Read more.
As a general proposition, possessing nuclear weapons is sheer lunacy, which makes the United States and Russia the biggest lunatic nations in the history of mankind. Beyond this, trying to control which countries possess nuclear weapons under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is as inherently unfair as it is patently unenforceable. After all, every sovereign… Read more.
After 11 years as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was unceremoniously ousted, not by the British electorate, but by a cabal of “wobbly” backbenchers in her own Conservative Party. Now, after 12 years in office, Tony Blair has been ousted – in similar fashion and with no less humiliation – by a coven of Machiavellian princes… Read more.
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Last December, I incurred the wrath of many normally collegial readers of this weblog for writing an article, here, entitled OH MY GOD! The government’s been spying on us…. They were incensed because I ridiculed the shock and moral outrage people expressed after reading (or, more likely, hearing second hand) about the NSA domestic surveillance… Read more.
This week, CNN is featuring a series on Africa entitled Killing Fields: Africa’s Misery, The World’s Shame. The host of this chronicling of Africa’s persistent woes is Anderson Cooper who has been promoting it with the following indignant charge: …this humanitarian crisis has received virtually no attention from the media over the past few years.… Read more.
North Korean President Kim Jong-Il is a temperamental and insecure man. Only this explains his habit of making nuclear threats from time to time. Whenever he does, he commands the international attention he craves so pathologically and extorts the aid his people need so desperately… This explains why he’s s jealous of the way the international… Read more.
Almost a year ago, riots by disaffected and unassimilated black and Muslim youths in France disabused many Europeans of the rosy scenario they harbored about racism in Europe. And, not surprisingly, many white Americans expressed unbridled schadenfreude that these Europeans – who routinely criticized the epidemic of racism in America – were now being singed… Read more.
…anyone who is even contemplating a sexual assault against a child, understand that your life will be ruined. [Rep. Mark Foley announcing the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 just months ago] In a desperate attempt to compete with the trash cable news channels put out 24/7, news divisions at the major… Read more.
