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Reports are that business mogul Donald Trump, owner of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, effectively handpicks the winners to serve his PR purposes. Therefore, he would do well to tap Miss Haiti for Miss Universe this year for all of the international goodwill this would surely engender…. (Miss Haiti: a black nation’s white hope, The… Read more.
As I watched highlights of Roger Clemens testifying before Congress yesterday, it occurred to me that … the more he said, the more he incriminated himself – not only on the settled charge of taking illegal performance enhancing drugs, but also on the looming charge of perjury and obstruction of justice. (Forget the Hall of… Read more.
A couple of weeks ago, researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reported that: A stunning number of teens have lost a little bit of their hearing – nearly one in five – and the problem has increased substantially in recent years. (NPR, August 13, 2010) The chief cause of this pandemic of… Read more.
Reprinted from Caribbean News Now! caribbeannewsnow.com [NOTE: Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward pioneered the practice of writers relying on their own news organization to provide authoritative reviews of their books. So, in keeping with this practice, the following book review is reprinted here courtesy of my news organization, Caribbean News Now.] Book review: CHANGE We Can Believe In?… Read more.
Any adult who has not read any of the novels in Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander trilogy, which begins with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is rather like a child who has not read any of the novels in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. This analogy fairly indicates what a literary phenomenon Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy,… Read more.
It speaks volumes about the brazen, pathological and pervasive nature of the “corruption crime spree” alleged against Illinois’s sitting governor, Rod Blagojevich, that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald felt moved to describe it as “staggering”. In fact, in presenting the Justice Department’s 76-page complaint, Fitzgerald claimed that, because a clearly delusional and venal Governor Blagojevich was escalating his crime spree to such irreparable… Read more.
Last weekend President Obama not only declared the Gulf Coast open for business, but even took his daughter Sasha for a swim to dispel any suspicion that the waters there were unsafe (for humans or the fish we so love to eat). It’s just too bad that his declaration was drowned out by his mixed messages… Read more.
In his Farewell Address to the American people in 1961, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must… Read more.
This pretty much explains why President Obama and Democrats in Congress have been unable to strike agreement with Republicans on any issue. Frankly, the Republicans’ strategy for dealing with everything from the banking crisis to climate change has been every bit as cynical and simplistic as Nancy Regan’s strategy for fighting the war on drugs: “just say no“. … Read more.
