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Just ten days ago contract negotiations between NBA players and owners became so deadlocked that both sides retained lawyers to settle their claims in court. This put the entire season in doubt, which led me to comment in part as follows: Many commentators were surprised when NBA players called team owners’ bluff by refusing to… Read more.
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To listen to his critics, you’d think President Barack Obama signing into law the Patient Accountability and Affordable Care Act (healthcare reform) in March 2010, which made healthcare affordable for over 40 million uninsured Americans, constituted an even greater blight in the blighted annals of American history than President Andrew Jackson signing into law the… Read more.
I have been obliged on a few occasions to explain why I quote from previous commentaries so often. In a nutshell it’s because I find nothing more disingenuous and self-serving than commentators waxing clairvoyant on unfolding events by claiming they predicted things would be thus in one or another commentary, but conveniently failing to provide… Read more.
Everybody knows that the Israelis and Palestinians will reach a peace deal before the Republicans and Democrats reach a debt deal. Indeed, given the way Washington politicians played Russian roulette over raising the national debt limit this summer, it is hardly surprising that the six Republicans and six Democrats on this Super Committee are doing the… Read more.
The length to which some celebrity couples go to make a public spectacle of their private lives never ceases to amaze me. But it’s only on very rare occasions that I find the tabloid fodder they provide worthy of comment. Such was the case with Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher – who seemed to be… Read more.
Players invariably say that they would play the game for free. Therefore, they should have no fear of the owners threatening to call off the entire season. By contrast, this would clearly amount to the owners – who are businessmen first and foremost – cutting off their nose to spite their face. This is why… Read more.
Sasha Grey is finally getting the mainstream-media attention she craved. After all, nothing says you’ve arrived these days quite like being invited to appear on The View, which she reportedly did yesterday. Except that she was invited only to react to the national outrage she incited when word got out that she was the “Read Across America” guest… Read more.
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.
