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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.
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Throughout the 2004 presidential campaign, Senator John Kerry tried his damnedest to expose the fallacy of President Bush’s war-on-terror by repeatedly citing a CIA field commander’s claim that, in December 2001, US forces had Osama bin Laden cornered in a cave in the mountains of Tora Bora, Afghanistan (and even had him in their sights),… Read more.
Yesterday, President George W Bush of the United States and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran joined the queue of world leaders delivering canned speeches before the Annual Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. None of them said anything of any consequence (Do they ever?). But the dirty UN secret is that… Read more.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has just delivered an esoteric dissertation on the history of science and the categorical imperatives of reason – according to his doctrinaire religious perspective. But I’m sure the only thing that stirred interest amongst his wary audience was the 5-minute flourish at the end of his lecture, during which he defended… Read more.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have tipped his hand unwittingly during his interview on 60 Minutes last night. Because he manifested a classic case of projection when he ascribed to President George W Bush the intent to use the threat of attack as psychological warfare against his people. One wonders, after all, what his repeated… Read more.
Nothing vindicates Michael Moore’s hagiography of Cuba’s healthcare system (ie, the one for party officials and foreigners only) quite like the fact that Cuban doctors have managed to keep a “terminally ill and dying” Fidel Castro alive for over a year…. It is debatable, however, whether this fact is more galling to partisan critics of… Read more.
Sex makes smart men do stupid things. You know, like Bill Clinton having sex with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. But drugs make smart men do even stupider things. You know, like Oscar De La Hoya cross-dressing and having coke-fueled orgies with call girls. And letting them take pictures of their revelry to boot. Oscar De… Read more.
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