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A few years ago I was among very few (liberal) columnists who dared to question the orthodoxy of global warming – as the related commentaries linked to below and regular readers of this weblog will attest. In fact nothing has distinguished the hate mail I’ve received in response to commentaries I’ve written quite like those I received… Read more.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more ardent and hopeful supporter of President Barack Obama than me. But I think this award is … well … a bit much. For no matter the rationalization, there’s no denying that the Nobel Committee awarded him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today (just 9 months into his presidency) not… Read more.
The failures of CARICOM have become so notorious that talking about them incites more contemptuous laughter than lawyer jokes. And there’s probably no greater monument to these failures than the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which was established in 2001 to replace the Privy Council as our final court of appeal. Establishing the CCJ codified… Read more.
As far as debunking Christian folklore goes, it is not nearly as dramatic or titillating as The Da Vinci Code. But it’s far more significant. For scientists at the Italian University of Pavia, led by Luigi Garlaschelli, have now proven, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the hallowed Shroud of Turin (L), widely believed to be… Read more.
The way Saturday Night Live (SNL) parodied President Obama’s failure to follow through on campaign promises demonstrates why liberals have already become so disillusioned with his presidency. For here, in part, is how his hopeful presidential checklist was lampooned on Saturday night by the show’s Barack Obama impersonator (who, incidentally, looks more like Pee Wee… Read more.
My first impression upon reading the BBC headline ‘Pope warns of ‘new colonialism [in Africa]’ was that Pope Benedict XVI was decrying the way communist China was buying up political influence all over the continent. After all, China’s dealings with the genocidal government of Sudan makes it patently clear that it will not allow moral… Read more.
Rio!!! You’d be hard-pressed, however, to find a pundit who did not insist that, with the popular triumvirate of President Obama, his wife Michelle and Oprah Winfrey doing the closing pitch, the IOC was bound to award the 2016 Olympic Summer Games to Chicago. In fact, most commentators claimed that Obama would not be competing with other heads of state for… Read more.
When it was first reported that Bahamian Senator Pleasant Bridgewater (49) and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne (47) were arrested for attempting to extort $25 million from John Travolta, I’m sure we all thought they had something truly compromising on him (like pictures of the Hollywood actor in flagrante delicto … with another man). Therefore, imagine… Read more.
