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It was bad enough when actress Mila Kunis was blindsided on TV earlier this year by a marine she didn’t even know asking her to be his date for the annual Marine Corps Ball. Because it was clear even to her in that awkward moment that to reject him would be to appear is some… Read more.
[Dear Readers: No doubt many of you recall the aggressive way I challenged the British in a series of commentaries (between 2007 and 2009) to intervene in the UK Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands (aka my mother country) to get rid of the corrupt and incompetent local politicians who were treating our… Read more.
Last week news organizations and financial markets were reacting like chickens with their heads cut off to efforts by the European Union to deal with its current debt crisis and put in place measures to prevent another one. At the end of this EU summit on Friday news reports and financial analyses indicated that the… Read more.
[I]t’s important to know that basketball is to Syracuse what football is to Penn State: a veritable religion and cash cow to boot. Further that legendary coach Jim Boeheim is to Syracuse basketball what legendary coach Joe Paterno was to Penn State football: a god worshiped like the Golden Calf. Now consider that the accused… Read more.
Charlie Rose, my favorite TV interviewer, appeared on Larry King Live last night to share details about the health crisis that kept him confined to a hospital bed for a month (and then to his home for an additional 5 weeks)… [I]t was instructive for me to listen to Charlie talk about his commitment to… Read more.
[W]inning tournaments in his inimitable fashion is the only way to eradicate bacchanalian images of his private life from public consciousness – even if not from the tabloids. And only this will give his understandably spooked corporate sponsors the cover they need to feature him as their spokesman once again. When I wrote the above… Read more.
It is being intoned like a mantra in Washington these days that Pakistan is an ally the U.S. can’t live with and can’t live without. And all indications are that the same is being intoned in Islamabad about the U.S. as an ally. In fact, this is a relationship that is now defined by mutual… Read more.
Murray has been a guilty man walking ever since Michael died on June 25, 2009. The only real issue now is whether he’ll be sentenced to the max, which in this case is only four years. I say yes. (Murray is guilty, but MJ is not without blame, The iPINIONS Journal, September 30, 2011) Far… Read more.
I indicated in my commentary Penn State’s Catholic Church problem that it was only a matter of time before other schools became embroiled in a similar scandal. Sure enough, here comes Syracuse University; and the similarities – in terms of the nature of the allegations and the cover up – are uncanny. For starters, it’s… Read more.
