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I don’t mind admitting that … I have never swung a golf club, let alone played a round of golf. Yet I’m as big a fan of the game as anyone else – whenever Tiger hits the links. [Tiger wins British Open … again, TIJ, July 24, 2006] Like most people I know, I have… Read more.
The story is not that Sarah Palin has made a book of her whining, self-righteous political platitudes; it’s that multitudes of stupid Americans are buying it. In fact, they have already bought over 700,000 copies of her Palinist Manifesto entitled Going Rogue (though one can be forgiven for reading it as Going Rouge) since its release… Read more.
Last week, TIME published what many political pundits are heralding as the definitive article on President Obama’s adoption of a series of right-wing policies that his left-wing base finds anathema. The article, entitled The Fall of Greg Craig (Obama’s top lawyer), recounts the behind-the-scenes war at the White House for the soul of Obama’s presidency,… Read more.
Given the way Scottish authorities handled the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi last summer, the only thing left for them to do now is act like Captain Renault in Casablanca by exclaiming that they’re shocked, shocked to find that Megrahi is still alive! For here’s a little of what I wrote about this release… Read more.
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Virtually every international news organization ran this week with stories about President Obama bowing down before the Japanese emperor. But only The Freeport News (in The Bahamas) reported the fact that the most humbling bow of all was the one he made before the Chinese president. It is depicted in this editorial cartoon below, which shows the purported leader… Read more.
This week, international news organizations reported the fact that Raul Castro is continuing the reign of terror his brother Fidel launched almost 50 years ago as if it were every bit as shocking as the fact that President Barack Obama is continuing many of the oppressive war-on-terror tactics his predecessor George W. Bush deployed after… Read more.
Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. A year ago today, this was how President-elect Barack Obama dismissed any thought of compromising on the deadline to sign a binding global-warming treaty at next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen. Yet at last weekend’s summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Singapore, he… Read more.
[NOTE: Efforts to implement healthcare reform in my mother country of the Turks and Caicos Islands have become so contentious that they make similar efforts in the US seem positively harmonious. Today’s commentary is a follow-up to Monday’s, in which I called for a national boycott of a new National Health Insurance Plan (NHIP) as… Read more.
