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I’m on record not just opposing President Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan, but calling for an end to it long before he became president. But the only thing I consider worse than his efforts to exploit the killing of Osama bin Laden for political gain is the patently disingenuous and hypocritical way Republicans are criticizing him for similar gain. More… Read more.
My only concern is that China acts like a parent who seems to think her only duty is to feed and clothe her child – all guidance about and regard for right and wrong be damned… The one thing every brutal dictator who fell during the Arab Spring could count on was China’s tacit, and… Read more.
President Obama kicked off his re-election campaign yesterday with a fundraiser in my neck of the woods featuring none other than Bill Clinton. And why not; after all, the public rapport and repartee between these two have been such lately that one could be forgiven for thinking that Clinton had replaced Biden as Obama’s running mate.… Read more.
Yesterday the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on 11 counts of aiding and abetting all manner of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape. This conviction practically guarantees that he will spend the rest of his life in prison. But I predicted his fate would… Read more.
As recently as early March Bo Xilai was arguably the most popular politician in China – destined for a seat on the country’s all-powerful, nine-member Politburo Standing Committee later this year. Today he is under investigation for “serious discipline violations” – having been fired from his high-profile job as Communist Party boss of the thriving… Read more.
It is hardly surprising that this Secret Service sex scandal has … legs. But the only reason I’m revisiting it today is that President Obama finally weighed in last night in a way that flattered me even more than I suspect those Columbian prostitutes flattered the agents involved. As it happened, though, I was called… Read more.
Matt Fiddes is a reputed “martial arts master” who once served as Michael Jackson’s bodyguard. He claims that at a hotel in 2001 Michael asked him to be a sperm donor, and he obliged … and Blanket was born a year later. Now Fiddes wants his paternity confirmed by a court and acknowledged by Blanket’s guardian,… Read more.
All of the agents and military personnel who enlisted the services of Columbian prostitutes (21 of them at last count) were relieved of duty and sent home in disgrace within hours after the hotel called local police to settle the pay dispute. The potential they created to compromise the president’s safety is beyond measure. This… Read more.
All of the agents and military personnel who enlisted the services of Columbian prostitutes (21 of them at last count) were relieved of duty and sent home in disgrace within hours after the hotel called local police to settle the pay dispute. The potential they created to compromise the president’s safety is beyond measure. This… Read more.
