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After Arizona passed its new immigration law on April 23, 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder was in the vanguard of those condemning it. No doubt it was his presumptively authoritative criticisms that informed, and perhaps even incited, many of the millions who soon took to the streets in protest. In fact, Holder said on NBC’s… Read more.
But for the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, the global efforts to bailout Greece, or the general elections in the UK, the historic floods that left much of Tennessee under water two weeks ago would have received Katrina-style media coverage. Hell, just the flooding of the Grand Ole Opry would have been cause for “BREAKING NEWS” on… Read more.
Given the purportedly transformative nature of his presidency, which the passage of healthcare reform actually reinforced, one could be forgiven for wondering what is so transformative about President Obama nominating Elena Kagan on Monday to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens (90) on the United States Supreme Court. Especially since the White House has gone… Read more.
I’m almost embarrassed to disclose that I have only seen one Lena Horne movie: Stormy Weather – a 1943 musical based on the life and times of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson featuring many of the other top black entertainers of the day, including Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and the Nicholas Brothers. Even worse, I do not… Read more.
Last year I joined the chorus of political commentators all over the world in hailing the coalition government between President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party as the best hope for democracy in Zimbabwe. And we did so knowing full well that this coalition… Read more.
When Vladimir Putin plucked Dmitry Medvedev from obscurity in 2007 to succeed him as president of Russia, the consensus opinion was that Medvedev would be nothing more than a lap dog doing Putin’s bidding until Putin could resume his role as president in 2012. (The Russian Constitution provides that no president can serve more than… Read more.
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What a bloody mess! In a self-fulfilling prophecy yesterday, voters gave Britain the hung parliament that was so devoutly to be wished. For preliminary General Election results indicate that none of the three main parties will end up with the outright majority of 326 seats needed to govern alone. Instead, according to BBC projections, the… Read more.
Long before predatory trading in shady financial instruments – with no intrinsic value – caused Lehman Brothers to fail, the fall of Enron symbolized the fateful fallacy of building profits based on manipulations of corporate balance sheets. In fact, Enron’s trading in such exotic “commodities” as broadcast time for advertisers, weather futures and Internet bandwidth… Read more.
