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Of course Paterno escaped justice in this life when he passed away in January — leaving behind a legacy of nothing but shame, shame, shame. But if there is a God, Paterno must be catching a hell of a lot of heat in the afterlife. (“Paterno Engaged in Pedophile Cover-up,” The iPINIONS Journal, July 12,… Read more.
Surely, with more Americans firing off guns than lighting up cigarettes these days, the wonder is that there aren’t more of these rampages…. Related commentaries: Media adding to tragedy... Read more.
Truly, the only media coverage this tragedy warrants is the few minutes it takes to cite the number of casualties (12 dead, 59 wounded); to carry President Obama’s moving expressions of national sorrow; and to assure the public that the gunman was apprehended on the scene in Aurora, Colorado. Of course, I get that watching this… Read more.
Reports are that the border agents (namely, immigration and customs officials) who are supposed to stop terrorists from entering the UK to strike have themselves decided to strike … over pay and job security. Alas, this only reinforces the impression that a bunch of keystone cops are in charge of security preparations for the London Olympics.… Read more.
My, how far we’ve come from the 1980s, when Tom Wolfe glorified investment bankers as “masters of the universe” in Bonfire of the Vanities. For inasmuch as Wolfe parodied the confluence of their sins (most notably, racism and greed), even he did not fully appreciate the utter venality, vacuity, and depravity of the financial transactions… Read more.
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.
