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For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside. One can be forgiven for thinking that, with those words, President Obama sealed Assad’s fate as surely as, with a thumb down, a Roman emperor sealed that of a gladiator. After all, as leader of the world’s only… Read more.
President Obama led a chorus of world leaders hurling patently meaningless condemnation at North Korea yesterday after it launched a long-range missile/satellite into space. Never mind that the only thing newsworthy about this launch is that (after the fifth, brazen attempt) it appears to have been successful. Moreover, all indications are that the only danger… Read more.
Perennial contender Juan Manuel Márquez of Mexico shocked the world on Saturday when he knocked out Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines in the sixth round at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. And nowhere was this shock felt more profoundly than in Pacquiao’s home country where he’s a bona fide national hero. Pacquiao, of course, is the eight-division… Read more.
In a proverbial case of closing the barn door after the horses have fled, most sites have now yanked the audio of the infamous prank call two Australian DJs made last week to the London hospital where a finally pregnant Duchess of Cambridge (nee Kate Middleton) was being treated for acute morning sickness. But here’s… Read more.
Not allowing gays to marry is an even greater violation of the fundamental civil rights all citizens should enjoy than not allowing Blacks to vote. (“Same-sex Marriages Now Legal in New York,” June 27, 2011) It is no exaggeration to lament that I have received more hate mail in response to my commentaries on same-sex… Read more.
Dear Readers/Friends, Thank you for all of your get-well wishes. I really appreciate it. By the way, I always thought colds/flu forced one to lose weight. Yet I somehow managed to gain 22 pounds in 10 days. Go figure…. ALH Read more.
Actually I’m just suffering sinus headaches/migraines that make it impossible to look at my computer screen for more than a few minutes. My doctor has ordered me to rest (and “de-stress”) in a dark room for a few days…. I hope to be back on Monday. Read more.
With all due respect to the protesters, the issue is not whether Mubarak will go, for he will. (The man is 82 and already looks half dead for Christ’s sake!) Rather, the issue is who will replace him. And it appears they have not given any thought whatsoever to this very critical question. The devil… Read more.
I had a profound sense of déjà vu yesterday listening to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threaten intervention by the United States if the Syrian government uses weapons of mass destruction against its own people. Concerns are that a besieged President Bashar al-Assad will deploy WMDs to finally exterminate the popular uprising that has been… Read more.
Alas, the usual nincompoops in Congress and on Wall Street who are doing their damnedest to make falling off this cliff a self-fulfilling prophecy. Never mind that the automatic increases in taxes and cuts in spending that lie at the bottom of that cliff (if Congress fails to enact a credible plan by January 1, 2013 to… Read more.
