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On Tuesday, in a resignation more historic and shameful than that of former US President Richard Nixon, Michael Martin became the first Speaker of the British House of Commons in 300 years to be forced out of office — amidst increasingly indignant calls for his head. The high crimes and misdemeanors that incited these calls revolved around… Read more.
Pelosi: They mislead us all the time. Reporter: Madam Speaker, just to be clear, you’re accusing the CIA of lying to you… Pelosi: Yes. (Pelosi on May 20 insisting the CIA never told her that its agents were waterboarding, i.e. torturing, terror suspects.) Of course, accusing CIA agents of lying is rather like accusing them of spying … duh!… Read more.
I should begin by admitting that, as Sri Lankans waged civil war over the past 30 years, I never resolved whether my sympathies lie more with the Singhalese Buddhists who governed the country; or with the Tamil Hindus who claimed to be fighting a war of liberation and self-determination. This was due only in part to… Read more.
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.
