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Corporate sponsors and media executives alike must be salivating with anticipation over the boon this scandal will deliver in television ratings once he returns. And trust me, there’ll be no shortage of corporations not only eager to replace any that dumps Tiger but also willing to pay even more for the privilege of having him as their spokesman. [Tiger… Read more.
Barack Obama was the first non-white male to be elected president of the United States. He then became the first president to sign a universal healthcare bill, despite the heroic efforts of other presidents to do so for over 100 years. He then became the first president since Ronald Reagan to sign a significant nuclear reduction treaty with Russia. … Read more.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin traveled to Venezuela a week ago today to sign a series of multibillion-dollar agreements with President-for-life Hugo Chávez. These agreements are purportedly aimed not only at helping Chávez build a space industry and develop a nuclear program but also at deepening military, energy and financial ties between their two countries.… Read more.
Statistics show that China’s coal mines are the deadliest in the world – with accidents killing 2,631 miners there last year. Therefore, it came as little surprise when 153 of them were trapped in a flooded mine two weeks ago. Miraculously, 115 have been rescued, but 33 remain unaccounted for (and must be presumed dead).… Read more.
The title of this commentary might suggest a reference to the food garden that first lady Michelle Obama has grown into such an attraction at the White House. But it is not. Instead, it refers to the fact that, within weeks after President Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, I found myself having to caution patience… Read more.
I have only two things to say about this year’s tournament: 1. It seems every one – from seasoned sports analysts to President Obama, a self-proclaimed expert – failed to pick a single team that ended up in the Final Four, let alone picking Duke or Butler to win the championship. This should finally disabuse all of… Read more.
Because, like Barnum, Jobs has proved with the launch of the iPad that there’s (still) a sucker born every minute. Are you one of them….? Read more.
Rape Day and RapeLay are video games about rape. They have Westerners fulminating with moral outrage. Some are even demanding a ban on them. Rape Day and RapeLay video games These Japanese “hentai games” feature men stalking and raping nubile girls “to win.” That’s why Western critics say they not only normalize but encourage rape.… Read more.
If I’m not mistaken, Vanity Fair is the first mainstream publication to name Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley as the philandering role models who led Tiger astray. Here’s what it reports in this respect – as a sidebar on a multi-page spread of his mistresses – in this month’s issue: When Tiger showed up in Vegas, he was… Read more.
It is a fateful indication of how little progress the US has made in Afghanistan that President Obama had to deploy even more cloak and dagger maneuvers to visit there last weekend (over eight years into this war) than former President Bush did in 2006 (five years after launching it). And you’d think that having… Read more.
