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With all of the media focus on democratic uprisings across the Middle East these days it’s easy to forget that coalition forces are still bogged down in a misadventure to bring democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq. Therefore it’s more than a little ironic that no less a person than U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reminded… Read more.
I say give the hosting gig back to Billy Crystal, permanently! (The Oscars, The iPINIONS Journal, March 6, 2006) As this opening quote indicates, I’ve been arguing for years that producers should give up trying to make the Oscars into a comedy/variety show. And last night’s cringe-worthy offering proved yet again why they should. But one would have thought that,… Read more.
It is probably as much a wonder that Charlie Sheen has managed to star in the number one sitcom on TV (Two and a Half Men) for the past eight years as it is that Muammar Gaddafi has managed to rule Libya for the past 41 years. After all, it is well documented that both men… Read more.
My Picks: Actor in Leading Role: Colin Firth – The King’s Speech Actor in Supporting Role: Christian Bale – The Fighter Actress in Leading Role: Annette Bening – The Kids are All Right Actress in Supporting Role: Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit Best Director: Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech Best Picture: The Kings Speech… Read more.
Superstar athletes invariably vow (early in their careers) to retire at the top of their game. But few of them ever do. In fact only two come to mind: one is heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano who retired with a perfect 49-0 record, which included an instructive victory over his childhood hero Joe Louis – who… Read more.
Proving that Saif Al-Islam is in fact his son, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi delivered a rambling and menacing diatribe of his own on Tuesday, making the one Seif delivered on Sunday seem like President Abraham Lincoln’s lucid and ennobling Gettysburg Address by comparison. More to the point, though, I got the eerie impression that Gaddafi was channeling the… Read more.
Natural disasters – like earthquakes – should always remind us that there but for the grace of God… But there’s no denying that living in a relatively rich country increases one’s chance of surviving such disasters tremendously… It’s bad enough that accident of birth can consign one to a life of chronic poverty. It just… Read more.
Whose next: Abdullah of Saudi Arabia? Abdullah of Jordan? Saleh of Yemen? … Gaddafi of Libya? The prospects make me positively giddy. When Obama spoke of HOPE and CHANGE during his presidential campaign these are not the transformations I anticipated; but I’ll take them. Allah-u-akbar! (Egypt on Fire, The iPINIONS Journal, January 31, 2011) This… Read more.
