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Obama is being honored (primarily) because he is not George W. Bush! And it’s debatable whether he or Bush should be more insulted by this. Not to mention the insult to all of the truly accomplished people (like Nelson Mandela) who took such pride in being awarded this prize. But I’m sure Obama will be gracious, and will humbly accept… Read more.
Street demonstrations in Italy in the days preceding Berlusconi’s address evinced a palpable lust among many Italians for their pound of flesh from the Americans – no matter the facts in this case. [Italians accuse Americans of murder and deceit, TIJ, March 11, 2005] Many legal analysts in America are asserting that Amanda Knox (22)… Read more.
As a practicing attorney, I am all too mindful of the ease with which the public can access private information about anyone these days. In fact, this was demonstrated with poignant irony a few years ago when a blogger trolled Goggle’s own archives to find out all kinds of private information about its CEO Eric Schmidt. Frankly,… Read more.
December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy… (President Franklin D. Roosevelt) Given President Obama’s fateful decision last week to escalate the war in Afghanistan, all Americans would do well to remember the sacrifices (in terms of human life and national treasure) that are necessary to wage war. After all, far too many citizens… Read more.
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Only a couple weeks ago I published a commentary explaining why it came as no surprise that last month’s summit of Asia-Pacific leaders – that was intended to produce a consensus on legally binding climate change commitments – produced nothing but hot air. I noted that my cynicism about this Chicken-Little nature of the efforts… Read more.
The couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who crashed the Obamas’ first State Dinner last week are exhibit A for how grownups are dumbing deviancy down in their insidious quest for instant fame on reality TV. Because all indications are that this whole farce was concocted by these two nincompoops as an audition to appear on… Read more.
The media did quite a Barnum & Bailey job of drumming up suspense, but President Obama’s address tonight on his new military strategy “to bring this war [in Afghanistan] to a successful conclusion” was wholly anticlimactic. Not to mention the pedantry he displayed in restating all of the (now Bushy) reasons why this is a just war, which only served… Read more.
Two weeks ago I called on all residents in my mother country, the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), to withhold premium contributions to the National Health Insurance Board (NHIB) as a means of registering grave concerns not only about the construction and provisions of our new National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP) but also about the qualifications of Interhealth… Read more.
