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By all accounts, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is as informed, articulate and bright as his boss, President Bush, is uninformed, inarticulate and dumb. Yet these men were reputedly bonded by self-righteousness and mutual confidence in the probity of their respective leadership.But even they could not remain unaffected by the growing crescendo of doubts… Read more.
In a post-election news conference today, President George W. Bush admitted that the Republicans took “a thumpin”, accepted full responsibility for it and then announced that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had fallen on his sword as a result…. More on Bush’s stunning about-face on calls for Rumsfeld’s resignation tomorrow…. Donald Rumsfeld Resigns Read more.
As of this posting, the Democrats have wrested control of the US House of Representatives in convincing fashion (having won 33 instead of the 15 races needed), and are poised to win control of the Senate in a dramatic squeaker (having already won 4 of the 6 races needed, and are leading in the remaining… Read more.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. [Bill Vaughan] With apologies to Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes, have you ever wondered why Election Day in America is not a national holiday? After all, more than any political machine, this… Read more.
Yesterday, political pundits tried in vain to imbue Saddam Hussein’s anticlimactic death sentence with political relevance. And, oddly enough, both Republicans and Democrats seem convinced that it might provide a reprieve for those Republicans whose own political death penalty is scheduled to be executed in elections tomorrow. But it’s American soldiers dying in vain, not… Read more.
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During a now notorious screed last week, conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh accused actor Michael J Fox of “faking” the effects of his Parkinson’s disease – during a TV-ad – to elicit sympathy and support for stem cell research. I readily concede that I am agnostic about: Whether stem cell research is just an infanticidal… Read more.
Last year, I wrote an article, here, entitled For some, doing business in China means leaving your conscience at the border, in which I lamented the trend of multinational corporations ignoring all regard for universal human rights just to get a piece of the Chinese economic pie. In fact, here’s how I began that article:… Read more.
For years, I’ve been concerned about the Putinization of Russia; which, in case you haven’t been paying attention, is the determined plan by its neo-Stalinist president, Vladimir Putin, to roll-back the democratic reforms launched by his predecessors: namely, Mikhail Gorbachev, who introduced glasnost (transparency) in his failed attempt to restructure the Soviet Union’s moribund bureaucracy… Read more.
BREAKING NEWS: Transcripts prove that George W. Bush is smarter than John F. Kerry! This is the title of a commentary, here, dated 8 June 2005, in which I lampooned the truly stunning revelation that the seemingly-dumb George Bush graduated with a better GPA from Yale University than the seemingly-smart John Kerry. But, notwithstanding his… Read more.
