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Phew…. Given the way Homeland Security and it’s enabling media outlets whipped the country into a paranoid frenzy last week, you’d think they were reacting to evidence that a long fuse had already been lit that was timed to blow up all of New York City and Washington, DC yesterday. Now, after this phantom fuse… Read more.
Wimbledon has finally decided to follow the politically correct fashion of other Grand Slams. It too will award women players equal pay for unequal work. But surely any proud (and principled) feminist must take exception. After all, to get equal prize money, women should play the best of five sets like men do, or men… Read more.
I applaud NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg for decreeing this week that, henceforth, the area where the twin towers were destroyed shall no longer be called ‘Ground Zero.’ Instead, it shall revert to its original name, The World Trade Center. But I urge him to decree also that, henceforth, the city shall no longer mark this… Read more.
If you didn’t know better, you’d think the terror alert that has New York City and Washington, DC in virtual lockdown right now is the first there’s been since 9/11. In fact, those alerts have been spooking us with annoying regularity ever since – forcing us to react like puppets on al-Qaeda’s strings to one… Read more.
Obama proved once again that he’s the best public speaker to grace this planet since MLK. It’s just too bad that all of his speeches amount to little more than hot air these days given the way ideologically committed do-nothing Republicans in Congress have been able to frustrate all of his plans to revive the U.S. economy.… Read more.
Think what you will of Sarah Palin, but she made a really good first impression on the national stage: remember her VP-nomination speech in 2008? Of course, she’s been such an unmitigated embarrassment since then that Republicans can be forgiven for thinking that speech was just a political wet dream. Which makes watching her flirtation with a… Read more.
Am I the only one who finds it discouraging that the most celebrated relationships between black and white women in film are those which feature the former working as a domestic servant for the latter? Here we are, 72 years since Gone with the Wind first celebrated this hardly “ennobling” relationship; yet people (mostly misguided,… Read more.
It never ceases to amuse me how doomsayers invariably point to clusters of natural disasters (like the one we’re experiencing this year) as signs either of the biblical end times or, more ominous, of the self-fulfilling prophecies of global-warming alarmists coming true. For the truth of the matter is that since time immemorial Mother Nature has… Read more.
A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other… By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other. (Sunday Telegraph, September 5, 2011) This is the unassailable reasoning a French judge proffered in deciding a rather… Read more.
