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And, just like Daniel, he comes out unscathed! To be fair, there was never any doubt that President Obama would be cheered more than jeered at Notre Dame. After all, despite the media hype about abortion, he could have begun his commencement address there yesterday by paraphrasing the way he began his speech at the… Read more.
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No doubt the entire nation of Kenya was watching anxiously yesterday to see what sentence the presiding judge would give Thomas Cholmondeley for killing a black man he suspected of poaching on his family’s sprawling estate. Here, for the record, is what I predicted: [T]he sentence will be closer to life imprisonment than a walk. That… Read more.
In what has to be the most ironic, and potentially implosive, development of his nascent presidency, Barack Obama is being dogged more by criticisms from liberals than from conservatives. Specifically, liberals are simmering with disillusionment over the fact that he has been systematically adopting many of Bush’s war-on-terror tactics, which they, and he, routinely condemned… Read more.
The only reason I revel in the outing of hypocrites like Sen. Larry Craig and former Rep Mark Foley is that they are professed Christian conservatives who legislate against gay rights during the day, then cruise for gay sex at night. [Sen. Craig is not a gay man … OK!? He just plays one in… Read more.
On Saturday night, comic Wanda Sykes elicited awkward, if not disapproving, groans at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner when she told the following joke: Rush Limbaugh, one of your big critics, boy – Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails… To me, that’s treason. He’s not saying anything differently than Osama bin Laden is saying.… Read more.
Even though delayed, it now seems that justice in this second case will not be denied. Because, after perhaps the longest preliminary hearing in the history of English jurisprudence – having convened last September, a judge ruled this week that there is in fact sufficient evidence for Cholmondeley to be tried for murder… If convicted,… Read more.
Forgive me, but I feel compelled to begin with a little gripe: Americans take so much pride in their progressive culture of middle-class working women that stay-at-home women are considered little more than latter-day stepford wives. Therefore, I find it more than a little schizophrenic that they are celebrating Michelle Obama’s metamorphosis from a middle-class working… Read more.
Like everyone else in America, I was grief-stricken for Elizabeth Edwards when the National Enquirer outed her husband’s extra-marital affair right after he kicked off his presidential campaign in the fall of 2007: The reason this was so shocking is that Edwards had endeared himself to millions of voters by presenting himself as a faithful… Read more.
