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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has been making news all year – not only by blaming insatiable demand in the United States for the drug-related violence that has turned Mexico into a veritable war zone, but also for declaring that the legalization of production, transit, and sale of all prohibited drugs is the only way… Read more.
To the sporting snobs who dismiss car racing as a simple-minded, redneck sport (especially those who’d rather sit around for hours watching pot-bellied men club and chase a little ball over manicured lawns until – with all of the suspense of watching paint dry – they manage to plunk it into a little hole in… Read more.
In typical herd-like fashion, political pundits of every stripe are now asserting that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters will do for the Democratic Party what Tea Partiers have done for the Republican Party. Except that there’s one glaring distinction which completely negates this analogy. First, though, it might be helpful to recall that many of these… Read more.
Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope. (MLK) After a two-month postponement because of Hurricane Irene, the MLK Memorial was finally dedicated this morning — highlighted by a stirring tribute delivered by President Obama. Needless to say the occasion was replete with symbolism … and irony: The symbolism stems from the fact that,… Read more.
Regular readers know that I have a soft spot for the Ukrainians. Unfortunately, ever since their triumphal Orange Revolution in 2005, they have done nothing but trample all over my hopes for the political development of their country. The latest in this respect came on Tuesday when a judge sentenced former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko… Read more.
A federal judge in New York City just sentenced Raj Rajaratnam to 11 years in prison, a $10 million fine, and forfeiture of $53 million in assets. Much is being made of the fact that this sentence is the harshest ever imposed for the insider trading that was/is customary practice on Wall Street. Word on… Read more.
Here is what I wrote a few years ago when the Israelis struck a deal with the Palestinians which called for Israel to release 199 Palestinian prisoners in return for two dead Israeli soldiers: Such deals reflect the value Israeli leaders place on the lives of Israelis relative to Palestinians that is simply untenable. After all,… Read more.
Nothing demonstrates what a double-edged sword Twitter can be quite like the spectacle Demi and Ashton have made of themselves by exposing every nook and cranny of their daily lives to the millions of twits who follow them. They clearly should have known that when things go bad (as was inevitable), those millions of followers would feel… Read more.
Just watched, in-flight, a press conference by Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, during which they laid out a chilling and admittedly thrilling (foiled) plot by senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (the Quds Force) to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States and bomb both the Saudi and Israeli Embassies.… Read more.
