Archives for December 2006

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Despite the mess President George W. Bush has created in Iraq, the U.S. remains the greatest force for good in the world – providing, as it does, more financial and humanitarian aid to the poor (especially throughout Africa, Asia and the Caribbean), and doing more to broker peace (especially in the Middle East and on… Read more.

This is not iffy data [or bush medicine]. This is serious data. [Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health, at a press conference on Wednesday confirming the dramatically positive correlation between circumcision and reductions in the incidence of HIV/AIDS] I’ve been promoting circumcision as an effective treatment for the prevention of HIV/AIDS… Read more.

I think it was fitting, despite the obvious irony, that the last report Ed Bradley presented on 60 Minutes before he died a month ago was an exposé on the miscarriage of justice in the racially-charged Duke University rape case. To recap: Last March, a black stripper accused several members of the all-white (except for… Read more.

If there were still some reservoir of doubt in the international community about the fact that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, it would probably constitute a shrewd geo-political strategy for its leaders to cultivate that doubt. But since this fact was an open secret even before Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu confirmed it in 1986, it… Read more.

Last Summer, after it became clear that her ties to the quagmire in Iraq made her unelectable, I abandoned my crusade for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to run for president of the United States in 2008. Then, in October, after a number of his closest advisers persuaded me that – despite his coy demeanor… Read more.

… When a politician is caught with his hand in the cookie jar, instead of inciting moral outrage, it merely provides comic relief. And Mr. Jefferson is only the latest to become a laughing stock amongst a presumed (Congressional) den of thieves. This is the cynicism I expressed last May in my commentary on the… Read more.

Now, to get the UN to change course from its corrupt ways, perhaps President Bush should task his Iraq Study Group (which the world seems so enamored of) to devise 79 reform recommendations for this Tower of Babel masquerading as the last bastion of international diplomacy. Related Articles:Despite his good deeds, Bolton forced to bolt… Read more.

Lucky for Bush that he’s a religious teetotaler…. Vladimir Putin, Alexander Litvinenko radiation poisoning Read more.

Yesterday, members of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) delivered their 79 (change-the-course)recommendations – like a Christmas gift – to President Bush at a White House breakfast meeting, and to the American people at a Capitol Hill news conference. (Incidentally, unless the number “79” has some numerological power that will make their recommendations more enforceable, I… Read more.