Archives for June 2006

Yesterday, after reading newspaper headlines and hearing TV sound bites about the notorious Gitmo case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, one might have thought the U.S. Supreme Court had decided that President George W. Bush was himself a war criminal. But after reading the decision (and all the news deemed fit to print about it), I realized… Read more.

On Wednesday, Caribbean Net News reported that Grenada and Dominica are the latest Caribbean countries to sign up for PetroCaribe. That, of course, is the energy/economic pact Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is touting as a “Bolivarian Alternative” to the Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA). If one buys Chávez’s sales pitch, PetroCaribe promises to: …contribute… Read more.

Just months ago, I published this article heralding the peace agreement brokered by the United States between the Israelis and Palestinians as “one giant leap for peace in the Middle East.” But anyone reading news reports coming out of that region today can be forgiven for asserting now that that agreement merely promised comfort to… Read more.

When Warren Buffet, the world’s second richest man, announced his charitable gift on Monday, even more shocking than the amount involved ($31 billion) was the fact that the recipient was Bill Gates, the world’s richest man. And, I suspect I was not alone in wondering:Why not his children? He has 3: Susan, Howard, and Peter.… Read more.

A few weeks ago, when the whole world was singing the praises of Angelina Jolie – for condescending to give birth to her child in Namibia, I published this article entitled To Jolie and Pitt – a child is born…to save Namibia? As the title suggests, mine was a discordant voice of unmitigated apostasy (towards… Read more.

Given international media obsession with the World Cup and American media preoccupation with Ann Coulter and Angelina Jolie, chances are that many of you heard little – and read even less – about President George W. Bush’s pivotal performance at a European summit last week. Yet he traveled to Austria and assembled a bona fide… Read more.

Last Thursday, with its humiliating loss to Third-World Ghana in Nuremberg, Germany, great expectations that the U.S. would accomplish its mission of winning this year’s Word Cup were summarily dashed. Alas, its mission in Iraq is not the only victory America’s superpower is unable to guarantee…. NOTE: Although I harbored no great expectations, they were… Read more.

Alas, last week when all of America was expressing shock, shock at Ann Coulter’s ice-cold diss of some 9/11 widows, I was confined to bed and under doctor’s orders to keep my poison pen dry. Although, it might shock many of you to know that I would not have wasted any ink hurling vitriol at… Read more.

Last weekend, I hobbled out of my sick bed to join my siblings at the graduation ceremony of our sister Maureen at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. And, such was our pride and jubilation that – when her name was called to receive her medical degree – our uproarious standing ovation sent… Read more.