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Advanced imaging technology screening is optional for all passengers. Passengers who opt out of [advanced imaging] screening will receive alternative screening, including a physical pat-down. (TSA statement issued November 15, 2010) The media are reporting on a passenger who refused on Saturday to consent to a full-image body X-ray and then complained when a TSA… Read more.
Her heroic, even if terminally futile, struggle to restore democracy has garnered her remarkable spurts of international attention and acclaim. Most notable in this respect was when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 – after the National League for Democracy party she founded won a landslide general election (in 1990), which the… Read more.
China has become a Goliath in world trade by manipulating its currency. Therefore, the main event at this week’s G20 economic summit in South Korea featured the U.S. challenging China to stop this unfair trade practice. Well, suffice it to know that the U.S. failed to emulate David…. Read more.
If there were anything fair about the voting on Dancing With The Stars (DWTS), Bristol Palin would have been the first “star” eliminated from the competition. Yet, despite routinely receiving the lowest scores from the judges, viewers have now voted her into the semi-finals. Why? Well it has finally dawned on TV critics that Tea… Read more.
Based on the very popular James Bond films, one could be forgiven for thinking that practitioners of the dark art of espionage are licensed to kill. But this is just an enduring (and endearing) myth – at least insofar as those who work for Western governments are concerned. Indeed, nothing exposed how truly circumscribed spies… Read more.
The media are focusing a considerable amount of attention on the atmospherics of President Obama’s state visit to India. They are making much ado, for example, of the fact that the shellacking he took at home in midterm elections last Tuesday meant that Obama arrived in India a few days ago with his tail between… Read more.
In this age of Twitter and Facebook, no detail about the life of any celebrity, let alone the president of the United States, is too small or irrelevant to publish. Hell, even the Queen of England has become a twittering narcissist who launched her own Facebook page just today – presumably to compete with the likes… Read more.
U.S. President Barack Obama has admitted to feeling “humbled” by the results of the country’s mid-term elections held on Tuesday, which saw his Democratic party lose its massive majority in the US House of Representatives and coming close to squandering a massive majority in the Senate. (Yahoo News, November 3, 2010) Related commentaries: Midterm elections:… Read more.
As if chronic poverty, corrupt governance, an earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, and a cholera outbreak that is threatening to kill thousands more were not devastating enough. Now the poor, longsuffering people of Haiti, many of whom are still hovelling in post-quake, makeshift tents, are withering under the onslaught of Hurricane Tomas – with… Read more.
Here’s to the Rangers for spicing up this latest episode of As The Yankees Turn with this ironic twist at A-Rod’s expense. And just for that, and because they are the clear underdogs, I’m pulling for them to defeat the Giants and win their first World Series title. (Yankees return to their losing ways…, The… Read more.
