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China was uncharacteristically bold in demanding “a greater voice” on the world stage at last week’s summit on Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Honolulu. But I see no cause for the alarm this caused in some regions. After all, given the transformative mendicancy involved in the EU now competing with the U.S. to have China fund… Read more.
[T]his dead-beat dad, draft dodger, check kiter, book-sale scammer, embezzler, thrice-married serial adulterer?! (Gingrich takes political hypocrisy and chutzpa to new level, The iPINIONS Journal, March 10, 2011) This is how I dismissed Newt Gingrich’s announcement last May that he’s running for president. And sure enough he did little in the following months to raise… Read more.
Political analysts there are speaking openly about Malema doing to President Zuma what Zuma did to then President Thabo Mbeki, namely, depose him as head of the ANC and then replace him as president… Yet all indications are that Zuma is becoming sufficiently wary of Malema’s mushrooming popularity and commensurate political ambition that he’s reportedly… Read more.
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The above title sums up the thoughts that seized my mind when I first heard about the child sex abuse scandal that has Penn State University reeling today. It stems from allegations that 67-year-old Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach of the storied Nittany Lions football team, used a group home he founded for troubled… Read more.
‘I can’t stand him. He’s a liar,’ Sarkozy said of Netanyahu. ‘You’re tired of him; what about me? I have to deal with him every day,’ Obama replied. (CNN, November 8, 2011) This is the private exchange between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama that was caught on an open microphone at… Read more.
Silvio Berlusconi has been the richest and most charismatic man in Italy for many years. But the origins of his fortune remain such a mystery that many accuse him of “going into politics so as to not go to jail”. And into politics he did go. Moreover, few were surprised when he became the most… Read more.
Evidently Bill Clinton is so desperate to prevent Barack Obama from going down in history as a more transformative and consequential president than he that he has decided to write a book, Back to Work, trumpeting all of the policies he’d be pursuing if he were president today. Never mind that almost all of the… Read more.
Dr. Conrad Murray was only the latest quack who jumped at the chance to make a quick buck ($5 million to be exact) by serving as Michael’s in-house drug dealer in the guise of serving as his doctor… That said, I have no doubt that Murray is guilty of involuntary manslaughter as charged. For there’s… Read more.
