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One can only imagine the excitement among members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee as they discussed all of the reasons why President Barack Obama was worthy of being awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. By contrast, one can only imagine the despair among members of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership (MIPAAL)… Read more.
Obama would be well-advised to cut America’s losses and retreat ASAP; to let the Afghans govern themselves however they like; and to rely on Special Forces and aerial drones to get al Qaeda. [Without [or even with] more forces, failure in Afghanistan is likely, TIJ, September 23, 2009] In light of President Obama’s ongoing review… Read more.
Obama would be well-advised to cut America’s losses and retreat ASAP; to let the Afghans govern themselves however they like; and to rely on Special Forces and aerial drones to get al Qaeda. [Without [or even with] more forces, failure in Afghanistan is likely, TIJ, September 23, 2009] Related commentaries: Without [or even with] more… Read more.
In his 1996 bestselling book, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, former comedian Al Franken, now the junior US senator from Minnesota, exposed (with eviscerating humor) the galling hypocrisy and brazen lies that permeate the conservative gospel Rush Limbaugh preaches on his radio talk show every day. For example, even though thrice-divorced, Limbaugh never… Read more.
Even though I endorsed his opponent, Segolene Royal, I admired the way Nicolas Sarkozy maneuvered his way through France’s notorious political caste system to become president of France. After all, he had neither the family nor the academic background of a would-be president. But I soon realized that what made the diminutive Sarkozy so successful… Read more.
The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr (MLK) has hardly been enhanced by the squabbling among his four children – pitting two of them who regard it as their inheritance to use for their personal benefit against the other two who regard it as a public trust for them to manage as zealous trustees. [Children of Martin Luther… Read more.
A few years ago I was among very few (liberal) columnists who dared to question the orthodoxy of global warming – as the related commentaries linked to below and regular readers of this weblog will attest. In fact nothing has distinguished the hate mail I’ve received in response to commentaries I’ve written quite like those I received… Read more.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more ardent and hopeful supporter of President Barack Obama than me. But I think this award is … well … a bit much. For no matter the rationalization, there’s no denying that the Nobel Committee awarded him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today (just 9 months into his presidency) not… Read more.
The failures of CARICOM have become so notorious that talking about them incites more contemptuous laughter than lawyer jokes. And there’s probably no greater monument to these failures than the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which was established in 2001 to replace the Privy Council as our final court of appeal. Establishing the CCJ codified… Read more.
