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Yesterday, those of us who revel in the comeuppance of corporate crooks were treated to an unusual bit of judicial symmetry. Because, at virtually the same bewitching hour, Andrew Fastow, the wunderkind who masterminded the historic collapse of Enron, and Bernard Ebbers, the godfather who lorded over WorldCom’s fraudulent enterprise were both hauled off to… Read more.
After fielding so many stupefied enquiries about Bill Clinton’s FOX News Sunday interview, I felt obliged to view it last night for my blogging edification. And, frankly, my first impression was, why all the fuss?! After all, even before ABC’s Path to 9/11 “hit piece” on his war-on-terror record, Clinton and his political operatives were… Read more.
Until last summer, Jacob Zuma (right) was the unchallenged heir apparent to South African President Thabo Mbeki (left). After all, as deputy president, Zuma’s rock-star appeal amongst the (predominantly poor and uneducated) South African electorate made Mbeki seem like an interloper and even rivaled the appeal Bill Clinton enjoyed as U.S. president. (For the record,… Read more.
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Muslims have decreed that Pope Benedict XVI must die for implying that Islam has been hijacked by evil and inhuman radicals…duh! Meanwhile, you’ve probably heard about people dying in America from e. coli-laden spinach. In fact, U.S. intelligence experts have always suspected that al-Qaeda might try to contaminate the food supply. But using spinach hardly… Read more.
Turkey is arguably the most democratic and progressive of all Muslim countries. Yet, Article 301 of its penal code, which provides for the incarceration of anyone who “denigrates Turkish national identity”, has led to a series of criminal trials in recent years that make Turkey seem more like Afghanistan under the Taliban. In fact, Turkey’s… Read more.
Yesterday, while Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (Left) was strutting his stuff upon the international stage – at a meaningless Non-Aligned Meeting in Cuba and an equally meaningless UN General Assembly 61st Session in New York – army Commander-in-Chief Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin (Right, in green) was orchestrating a military coup d’état to oust him from… Read more.
On Saturday, it became patently clear to me that violent Muslim reaction to a homily Pope Benedict XVI delivered last week was beginning to ape their violent reaction to the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad last February. The alleged trigger that set Muslims off on this latest round of mob protests – to… Read more.
Not so long ago, some of us considered the war in Afghanistan as much an unqualified success as we deemed the war in Iraq an unmitigated failure. But a new crop of Taliban fighters are beginning to surpass die-hard insurgents in Iraq in their ability to undermine U.S. efforts to “stand up” a democratic government… Read more.
Since Tuesday, Muslims have been engaged in what is fast becoming an ironic and perverse religious rite: namely, defending perceived offenses to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad by rioting, looting and threatening to kill! Their latest acts of holy vigilantism were triggered – unwittingly, one assumes – by Pope Benedict XVI’s comments on a 14th… Read more.
