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After just having a conference call interrupted so that my business colleagues could “watch President Bush lead the nation in a moment of silence”, I think it’s time to get some perspective on the elaborate national day of mourning that 9/11 has become. After all, this wallowing in grief-stricken jingoism – complete with the affected… Read more.
The best way to honor those who died is for the government to not only do everything possible to prevent it from happening again, but also be as prepared as possible to react when it does. Unfortunately, the government is not doing nearly enough to prevent another 9/11. Moreover, it seems no more prepared to… Read more.
No man is above the law. People in democratic countries generally take comfort in that axiom. But Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is disabusing us of this comfort. No public interest in prosecuting TCI Premier Michael Misick Kurt de Freitas is the attorney general of the TCI. He has decided… Read more.
Therefore, after orchestrating his third (stealth) visit to Iraq this week, the above is how the malapropistic Bush might express his now-porous support for Iraqi PM al Maliki… Read more.
The great tenor Luciano Pavarotti died today at 5 a.m. [11 p.m. Wednesday EDT] at his home in Modena….The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. [Manager Terri Robson] It would be presumptuous, if not disingenuous, for me to wax too sentimental about Pavarotti. Besides, there are… Read more.
Lawyers all over Washington seemed dumbfounded today by reports that Craig’s announcement of his “resignation” from the US Senate on Saturday was merely a statement of his intent to resign. But I was not dumbfounded so much by this “Breaking News” as I was by the reaction of fellow lawyers to it. After all, here’s… Read more.
On Sunday, news agencies from Asia to America heralded the purported breakthrough in Six-Party Talks (involving the United States, North Korea, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea), which are aimed at dismantling North Korea’s nuclear program: [T]he DPRK will provide a full declaration of all their nuclear programs and will disable their nuclear programs by… Read more.
After members of Jamaica’s ruling People’s National Party (PNP) elected Portia Simpson Miller as their leader in February 2006, here’s the cautionary note I struck as I paid tribute to the historic precedent she set: It was not the result of a national election, but it still counts. Because, by being elected the new leader… Read more.
On Wednesday, a 9ft-high bronze statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela was unveiled in London’s Parliament Square – making him the first black man to join a pantheon of mostly-British statesmen memorialized at this historic site. Though this statue is of one man, it should in actual fact symbolise all of those who… Read more.
[T]hey are also mindful that – as the most unpopular (lame-duck) president in US history – Bush has nothing to lose, but much to gain, by attacking Iran. After all, only the opinion of historians matter to him now. And nothing would do more to redeem his presidential legacy than a preemptive strike to destroy… Read more.
