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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has acquired a rather dubious reputation for orchestrating photo ops to burnish his political persona as a virile leader. These have included staging everything from flying in fighter jets to shooting a tiger, reportedly, just as it was about to eat a member of his TV crew, and fly fishing… Read more.
Among the causes that will surely contribute to the fall of America is the rise of rabid political forces like these Tea Partiers who believe that political compromise is akin to treason. Remarkably, this belief has injected such paralyzing insanity into American politics that erstwhile principled Republicans (like Senator John McCain) are now disavowing support… Read more.
It speaks volumes that the raping of thousands is becoming a more defining feature of the civil/regional war still brewing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) than the killing of millions. (This war began in 1998 and officially ended in 2003….) According to the UN Population Fund, there were 17,507 sexual violence attacks throughout… Read more.
Because China persecutes any citizen who dares to criticize its appalling record on human rights – as this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is currently finding out behind bars: Read more.
One wonders how long the camaraderie they enjoyed underground will last. Not least because reports are that they spent their final hours together squabbling over who would have the seemingly dubious honor of being the last to be rescued. And, contrary to most reports, the motive here was not heroic sacrifice, but a calculated desire to bask… Read more.
Women inject less libido and less testosterone into the equation. It helps in the sense that we don’t necessarily project our own egos into cutting a deal, making our point across, convincing people, reducing them to a partner that has been lost in the process. It’s probably overgeneralised what I’m saying and I’m sure there… Read more.
Unfortunately, this rejoicing was rudely interrupted when relatives – who sat in vigil (at campamento esperanza) for the 17 days during which the miners were presumed dead – received the damoclean word that rescuers would not be able to reach their still-kicking loved ones until Christmas. That’s four months from now. (Chilean Miners Trapped, The iPINIONS Journal, August… Read more.
With all due respect to 50 Cent, Lil Wayne and even Jay Z, Eminem is the baddest rapper in the business. And that he’s a white boy only makes this fact all the more extraordinary. Actually, it’s no exaggeration to assert that Eminem is to hip hop what Tiger is to golf (Tiger’s current slump… Read more.
Male members of Congress are swinging more freely now that President Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, has resigned. After all, Rahm was notorious for putting the squeeze on them even in the congressional showers to get them to support Obama’s legislative agenda. Read more.
I suppose if the late PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and former Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres could win the Nobel Peace Prize for a Palestinian peace that never was, [then why not Obama for accomplishments yet to be accomplished]. Which brings me to this final word about the… Read more.
