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Former presidential candidate John Edwards gained a great deal of political mileage by pretending to be a devoted husband to his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth. Now he’s being prosecuted for allegedly using campaign funds to keep his mistress and their bastard child a secret – not so much from his wife as from voters who were buying into his charade… Read more.
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Most titillating of all however is the controversy brewing over the reportedly intimate relationship Travolta had with Jeff Michael Kathrein – one of the two (male) ‘nurses’ who provided 24/7 care for Jett. (“Tragic Death of John Travolta’s Son Jett,” January 5, 2009) Virtually every Bahamian was horrified three years ago when two of our… Read more.
All of Washington waited with bated breath after word began to circulate around noon today that President Obama would soon be “making news” on same-sex marriage in a hastily arranged interview with ABC News. Well, here’s the headline-making excerpt ABC released immediately: I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I… Read more.
Here, in part, is the contrarian note I sounded last year when so many were celebrating the marriage of Prince Albert of Monaco and Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock of South Africa: Reports are that she tried to flee three times to avoid having to go through with her three-day royal wedding… Naturally, one wonders what could… Read more.
Even though we did not have the benefit of the type of scientific polling that made Sunday’s election results in France anticlimactic, the triumph of Hon. Perry Christie (left) and his Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) over Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham and his Free National Movement (FNM) in parliamentary elections yesterday came as no surprise. Preliminary results… Read more.
Virtually every poll this year had Socialist Francois Hollande defeating conservative (incumbent) Nicolas Sarkozy. And those polls were vindicated when Hollande came out on top in the first round of elections for the Elysée two weeks ago. This is why it came as no surprise when he handily defeated Sarkozy in a runoff yesterday (52… Read more.
Now the United States must decide whether to hand him over (as China is demanding), grant him indefinite refuge (as every human rights organization is urging), or negotiate a mutually face-saving compromise worthy of King Solomon (as both countries are undoubtedly trying to do)… (“Dissident leaves U.S. Embassy in China,” The iPINIONS Journal, May 3,… Read more.
I usually reserve updates to my commentaries for the annual compilation I publish in book form. Therefore, it is rather ironic that this is my second update this week. Here, in part, is what I wrote about this still-unfolding saga two days ago: Why continue the trade embargo against Cuba but trade with China? The… Read more.
