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Nine hours into jury deliberations on Wednesday in Nassau, Bahamas, Justice Anita Allen, the presiding judge in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta, declared a mistrial after she got word that a politician blurted out the following at a local campaign rally: Well, we have some… Read more.
On Wednesday, the Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Hon Kurt DeFreitas, issued a press release in which he announced that: … there is insufficient evidence to charge [former Premier] Michael Misick with any offense in connection with a complaint of serious sexual assault made against him by an adult female U.S.… Read more.
I’ve read quite a bit about the love affair that blossomed during the last days of British rule in India between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Edwina, the wife of the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire, Lord Mountbatten. And nothing has been more revealing in this respect than the love letters they… Read more.
On September 17, Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) declared President Hamid Karzai the outright winner of the August 20 presidential election with 54.6 percent of the vote. And since then, Karzai has been insisting that allegations of voter fraud were nothing more than a red herring being propagated by his arch rival (and sore loser) Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s… Read more.
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.
