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Google won international praise last week for merely announcing that it intends “to review our business operations in China” after Chinese agents hacked into the Google email accounts of human-rights activists – who are deemed to be enemies of the state. Meanwhile, far too few pundits are bothering to note that these hackers just did to… Read more.
It is simply heart-rending to watch the images (which I see no point in republishing here) of Haitians living among the dead as they wait for food and water; to say nothing of those waiting for emergency medical treatment or to be rescued before earthquake rubble becomes their tomb. But this emotion is mollified somewhat by… Read more.
Haiti has never been salvaged from the political strife and unconscionable poverty, hunger and disease that have earned it the perennial dishonor as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere…. American presidents are almost as responsible for creating the nightmarish living conditions in Haiti as the succession of incompetent, corrupt and ruthless leaders they’ve sponsored… Read more.
Disgraced former baseball player Mark McGwire finally admitted yesterday that steroids fueled his stellar career, which was highlighted by the 1998 season when he out-juiced Sammy Sosa to become home-run king. Fittingly, he was dethroned by another juiced-up superstar, Barry Bonds, in 2007. Unfortunately, this admission is every bit as tainted as McGwire’s home runs. For… Read more.
Washington’s liberal establishment is “shocked, shocked” by the allegedly patronizing and racist things Bill Clinton and Sen Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly said about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. In fact, Clinton, Reid and many other politicians are exposed as preening hypocrites in Game Change – a book by TIME’s Mark Halperin and New York Magazine’s… Read more.
Here’s to getting over prudish self-consciousness and welcoming all-seeing, full-body scans…. Mind you, nothing demonstrates what a haphazard farce airport security has become quite like the fact that, after the shoe bomber bungled his attempt in December 2001, we were led to believe that every passenger had to take off his/her shoes for separate scanning to ensure air safety. For… Read more.
President Obama met on Tuesday with his Cabinet and national security team to discuss the intelligence failures that led to the near catastrophic terrorist attack on Christmas Day. But it was clear from the press statement he delivered after that meeting that he can offer no explanation for the slew of “red flags” telegraphing this… Read more.
President Obama met yesterday with his Cabinet and national security team to discuss the intelligence failures that led to the near catastrophic terrorist attack on Christmas day. But it was clear from the press statement he delivered afterwards that his meeting produced no explanation for the slew of red flags about this attack that all… Read more.
Fifty years ago, when everything white was right, it should have come as no surprise that little black girls preferred white dolls – as psychologist Kenneth Clarke showed in his seminal 1954 experiment. But it came as a disheartening surprise in 2005 when a similar experiment by a racially conscious high-school student, Kiri Davis, showed… Read more.
I wholly agreed with candidate Barack Obama when he argued during the 2008 presidential campaign that Afghanistan was “the good war.” For me, however, this only meant the US had a just cause (namely, avenging 9/11) to launch it – juxtaposed to Iraq (the bad war) for which it had no just cause. After all,… Read more.
