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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.
The heat wave over the past 10 days has been the hottest and most prolonged in recorded history. Today marks our fourth consecutive day with temperatures threatening to soar above 100F. Read more.
By now you’ve probably heard or read some of the incomprehensible reporting on the discovery of the Higgs boson by physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva (CERN). Higgs boson (aka the God particle) was the theoretical missing link that explains (or should explain) the DNA – not just of our universe, but… Read more.
In defending the constitutionality of Obamacare before the Supreme Court in March, Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. argued that it could be upheld under Congress’s plenary power to regulate interstate commerce (aka the Commerce Clause). But a clear majority of the justices did not seem persuaded that this clause gives the government the power to… Read more.
I’m on record observing that wildfires are becoming as menacing to Western states as hurricanes have always been to Southern states. Never mind that far too many of these fires are ignited not by Mother Nature, but by human beings. Of course I always feel sympathy for those who lose their homes, to say nothing… Read more.
Just when I thought the banking industry could not fall any lower into disrepute came reports last week that the bad trading loss at JPMorgan Chase could exceed $9 billion. This stands in stark contrast, of course, to the estimate of a $2 billion loss its primping peacock of a president, Jamie Dimon, dismissed in May… Read more.
