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Ever since Bill and Hillary Clinton proclaimed their “2 for 1” presidential plan in 1992, indignant political pundits – who have nothing to do with “a vast right-wing conspiracy” – have been trying, to no avail, to incite public outrage against their imperial ambitions. In fact, even I have written despairing lamentations on the prospect… Read more.
Force Misick to resign like Nixon Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has become as hopelessly compromised a national leader as President Richard Nixon was in 1974 Of course, in the fall of 1973, Nixon had every right to feel invincible. He was still reveling in a landslide re-election victory, had rendered his political opponents… Read more.
For much of the past year, international political pundits have been citing tell-tale signs of Vladimir Putin’s presumed intent to circumvent the constitution and extend his reign as president of Russia. And no one inspired more cocksure speculation in this regard than former world chess champion Gary Kasparov, Putin’s improbable but most popular political opponent.… Read more.
I was pleased this afternoon when a New York jury found Isiah Thomas, former NBA all-star and current coach of the New York Knicks, guilty of making unwanted sexual advances and verbally assaulting Knicks team executive Anucha Browne Sanders. And, in a truly devastating rebuke, the jury awarded Sanders $11.6 million in damages instead of… Read more.
In 2005, the U.S. Congress hailed Viktor Yushchenko, the first democratically-elected president of Ukraine, as the George Washington of his country. However, no American politician could have anticipated the obsession fractious Ukrainians evidently developed for elections after their split from the former Soviet Union. After all, Sunday’s national poll was the third in three years,… Read more.
The career of most Supreme Court justices is distinguished by the precedent-setting decisions they write. But that of Justice Clarence Thomas will undoubtedly be distinguished by the dark, silent (Zombie-like) shadow he casts over the court’s proceedings. Truth be told, however, no one could have expected Thomas to excel as a jurist; not even George… Read more.
