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I find it foolhardy to comment on presidential politics even before midterm congressional elections. Yet nothing will stimulate more such premature speculation quite like the oracle of political journalists, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, declaring on CNN yesterday that an Obama-Clinton ticket is “on the table” for 2012. But instead of joining all of the nattering fools now mouthing… Read more.
Announcing vague terror alerts and altering plans in reaction to them is not only unwarranted but also self-defeating. After all, these responses only embolden terrorists to make more threats – hoping to incite more terror and disrupt our lives in perpetuity. The silver lining in this instance though is that, perhaps, this hoax will cause… Read more.
Everyone from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to President Obama expressed shock and outrage last week when it was “revealed” that American scientists deliberately infected 696 prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago. The scientists were attempting to determine whether penicillin could prevent the transmission of this sexually transmitted disease.… Read more.
Republicans were venting professional indignation when Democrats invited Steven Colbert on September 24 to testify before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law – while in character as the acerbic news anchor he plays on his comedy show. Yet these are the same Republicans who invited Elmo in April 2002 to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on… Read more.
[Author’s Note: The following was published on Monday. Interest in the interview was such that I was nearly persuaded to feature it for the entire week. But I thought that would’ve been too self-indulgent. Meanwhile, only a few people seem to have noticed that my webmaster had uploaded the interview as a permanent feature… Read more.
