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When Barack Obama said he wanted to be a transformative president I’m sure he did not have in mind a transformation from the personification of hope in 2008 to the personification of despair this year. Yet this is the only transformation his (predominantly Republican) critics see. What is delusional about this, however, is that chief… Read more.
I felt conflicted on Monday when I heard that a federal jury had acquitted former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens on all six counts related to lying to Congress about taking steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Because here is what I wrote four years ago after watching this seven-time Cy Young Award winner testify at a… Read more.
As if to highlight the dramatis personae that will provide palace intrigue throughout his presidency, he announced almost simultaneously that he has no intent to marry his partner Valérie — deriding marriage, in true socialist fashion, as a ‘bourgeois institution.’ No doubt this will help Ségolène get over the understandable resentment and jealousy that must… Read more.
Perhaps I should have titled this commentary Reporter Heckles Obama: Republicans Taking Disrespect for the Obama Presidency to New Lows. For even though every president has been subjected to some measure of contempt in the rough-and-tumble of partisan politics, no president has been subjected to the kind of contempt Republicans and their media enablers have… Read more.
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Over the past few months, pro-democracy protesters were ruing the fact that those benefiting most from their blood, sweat and tears are members of the Muslim Brotherhood who, after winning control of parliament, seemed hell-bent on turning Egypt into an Islamic state … like Iran. Indeed, some protesters were so wistful that they began rallying… Read more.
I suspect Lance Armstrong thought his legacy was secure when federal prosecutors announced a few months ago that, after investigating all allegations of doping against him, they would not be filing any criminal charges. But I warned him back then, in Feds Give Lance Armstrong Reprieve on Doping (February 8, 2012), that popping that champagne cork might be… Read more.
Yesterday virtually all major newspapers around the world featured one of two stories about Russia – both of which suggest that the recent restoration of Vladimir Putin as president marked the beginning of political repression at home and cold-war aggression abroad that are eerily reminiscent of Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror. In other words, where… Read more.
No doubt you’ve seen Republicans and their right-wing hit men (most notably pundit Charles Krauthammer) all over the media accusing the White House of compromising nationality security just to make President Obama look good. Their accusations pertain to disclosures (aka leaks) that enabled the New York Times and other publications to report on how the… Read more.
If you are one of the suckers who paid big bucks to watch Saturday’s WBO Welterweight fight in Las Vegas between champion Manny Pacquiao and challenger Timothy Bradley, I hope you realize that you bought into a spectacle that has more in common with reality TV than real sport. That said, by all accounts, Pacquiao… Read more.
