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Donald Trump is nothing more than the P.T. Barnum of business: a huckster who thrives on the notion that “there’s a sucker born every minute”… Sadly, far too many people think Trump would make a good president. They are the suckers to whom he could sell swampland in the Florida Everglades as beachfront property, or discredited degrees… Read more.
Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK), the IMF head who was arrested on Saturday for allegedly sexually assaulting and attempting to forcibly rape a maid in his hotel room, pleaded at his arraignment yesterday that his international stature made him eminently worthy of bail. But New York City Judge Melissa Jackson sided with prosecutors who countered… Read more.
For over a decade now my favorite show on TV has been Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. As the promo for this New York-based show states, it is based on crime stories “ripped from the headlines”; i.e., art imitating life. Well, in a case of life imitating art, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (aka DSK), the powerful head… Read more.
Officials in the Obama Administration are leaking all kinds of details from the “treasure trove” of secret information U.S. Special Forces seized from bin Laden’s compound. They are reportedly doing so to demystify the dead al-Qaeda leader. But, with the release of tidbits about his use of hair dyes and natural Viagra (not to mention… Read more.
I am acutely mindful that my commentaries on the growing pains of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are taking on the specter of flogging a dead horse. This is why I am loath to write yet another one on the following regressive phenomenon that is now unfolding there: African leaders once personified unbridled despotism. Now they’re… Read more.
…this 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) Yes, Newt Gingrich threw his hat into the ring yesterday. But hiding all of the baggage he’s carrying behind the self-righteous message he’s preaching is a balancing act that is bound to collapse:… Read more.
Politicians and pundits – in Pakistan and the United States – have been waxing indignant to the point of belligerence over the past week about the potential fallout from the spectacular way U.S. Special Forces willfully violated Pakistan’s sovereignty to get Osama bin Laden. For example, on the one hand, we had Pakistani Prime Minister… Read more.
Sports history is replete with superstar athletes who vow to retire at the top of their game. Yet just this year Brett Favre and Lance Armstrong joined the long list of those, including Michael Jordan and Mohammed Ali, who failed to do so. By contrast, I cannot recall a single superstar coach ever making a… Read more.
The killing of Osama bin Laden has policy makers in the United States finally debating in earnest about what is the best way to fight the war on terrorism. And, in a similar vein, they are wondering whether this pivotal development provides an expedient pretext for President Obama to accelerate the timetable he has laid… Read more.
