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To listen to some critics of British colonialism you’d think it was utterly devoid of any redeeming value. But as one who was subjected to it throughout much of his youth, I can attest that this is not so. Indeed, all one has to do is juxtapose the way education and civil service have floundered in post-colonial… Read more.
No doubt you recall reports last month that had deposed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak being rushed to hospital either in critical condition or “clinically dead.” In fact, here is how no less a news organization than the BBC jumped on the bandwagon of those reporting what seemed like his imminent death: Former Egyptian President Hosni… Read more.
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pulled a “full Ginsburg” on Friday by appearing on all of the major TV networks in a futile attempt to counter the pummeling he was taking from the Obama campaign about his business practices at his investment firm, Bain Capital. Specifically, Team Obama was flooding the media with stories about… Read more.
Instead of turning their cities into Orwellian fortresses, government officials should be recruiting individuals to infiltrate these terrorist organizations and using any means necessary to disabuse would-be terrorists of their jihadist ambitions. After all, no country has been on a more heightened terror alert since 9/11 than the United Kingdom. Yet, despite its labyrinth of… Read more.
Viagra, I get. But laxatives?! Read more.
Bashing China has long been fashionable among politicians in America. But everybody understands that this is rather like a crack addict bashing his drug dealer. Nevertheless, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) crossed the line yesterday when he spewed jingoistic indignation at the made-in-China uniforms members of the U.S. Olympic team are scheduled to wear… Read more.
Here in part is how I framed my suspicions about a conspiracy among Penn State officials when Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach of the storied Penn State Nittany Lions, was arrested last November on charges of sexually abusing little boys: Sandusky… used a group home he founded for troubled boys as a plucking ground for his pedophile pleasure…… Read more.
Nothing is more fatuous and misleading in American politics than (mostly Republican) politicians claiming that they are doing “the will of the American people.” And nothing has inspired them to make this claim quite like their partisan efforts to repeal Obamacare. But you’d think that orchestrating 32 congressional votes to repeal Obamacare and failing each… Read more.
The length to which some celebrity couples go to make a spectacle of their private lives never ceases to amaze me. But it’s only on rare occasions that I find the tabloid fodder they provide worthy of comment. (“Married fool: Peter and Stephanie, Ashton and Demi,” The iPINIONS Journal, September 23, 2010) Not even Tom… Read more.
Serena So here’s to Venus – the most athletic, graceful, intelligent and poised player ever in women’s Tennis (and the most articulate too)! Now, if she can only get her little sister Serena to spend less time in nightclubs and pastry shops and more on the tennis courts, they could still fulfill their promise of… Read more.
