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Many of my European friends upbraided me last year when I greeted the resurrection of their constitution by writing the following in an article entitled The EU Constitution is dead: People can be forgiven for having no clue that the heads of the 27 countries that comprise the European Union (EU) met in Portugal a… Read more.
I usually have a cynical regard for the deluge of eulogies that follow the death of famous people. But I know enough about the life and work of Tim Russert to believe every word uttered in his memory is true. No doubt you’ve heard what a consummate interviewer he was, having pioneered the interrogation method… Read more.
Canadians have always oozed righteous indignation when looking down on their Yankee neighbors still struggling to deal with race matters almost 150 years after the abolition of slavery. Indeed, one could be forgiven the impression that Canada enjoys complete racial harmony – unblemished by the legacy of slavery that still haunts America or by the… Read more.
Thousands of lawyers mounted a “Long March” on the Pakistani Parliament yesterday – not only to demand the restoration of judges President Pervez Musharraf sacked, but also to call on him to resign. This march, of course, stems from the fact that Musharraf spent much of last year trying to neutralize the judiciary to save… Read more.
Alas, the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) premier, Hon. Michael Misick, and Hollywood actress LisaRaye McCoy-Misick, won’t live happily ever after. They seem headed for divorce just two years after their fairytale wedding (Grace-Kelly Tiara and all). Premier Misick and First Lady LisaRaye For the people of the TCI, this is big news. Gossip is rife about… Read more.
After gathering that nobody is interested in my commentary on the unfolding situation in Pakistan, despite its potential for nuclear conflagration, I felt obliged to add my two cents to the talk of the day. So, here it is: I knew enough about Clint Eastwood as a film director to be skeptical when I first… Read more.
In the industrialised world transmission of HIV among men who have sex with men is not declining and in some places has increased. After years of trying to disabuse heterosexuals of the presumption that HIV/AIDS is a gay disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) is now reinforcing this presumption. In fact, according to Dr. Kevin… Read more.
In a feat that is tantamount to David defeating two tag-teaming Goliaths, Barack Obama has now defeated Hillary (and Bill) Clinton to become the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee. [Obama clinches Democratic presidential nomination, The iPINIONS Journal, June 4, 2008] When Hillary Clinton refused to concede defeat on Tuesday, her political agenda was patently clear: she… Read more.
I know what it is to try to build your own nation when danger is knocking on the door. [Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili] Of course, no one expected Putin to allow Saakashvili to show such public contempt for Russia with impunity. And, given his penchant for old KGB tactics, it was entirely predictable that Putin… Read more.
”What are you most looking forward to seeing here in America, John?” He replied, ”Bo Diddley.” [John Lennon of the Beatles upon his first visit to America in 1964] I found it difficult to contain my cynicism on Monday when news reporters and music critics were eulogizing Bo Diddley as “one of rock ‘n’ roll’s… Read more.
