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It’s regrettable that so much more is known about the Tuskegee Black laborers who were used as guinea pigs in syphilis experiments than about the Tuskegee Black pilots who fought as heroes during World War II. But that’s about to change with the release this weekend of the epic movie Red Tails – so named… Read more.
If these politicians were not lead vocals in a chorus of moral crusaders, I would not give their sexual escapades a moment’s thought. For the unadulterated pleasure of afflicting these hypocrites, however, I don’t even mind being bedfellows with a publicity-seeking hustler like Larry Flynt. (“DC Madam outs Sen. David Vitter as a faithful ‘John,'”… Read more.
China reached an earth-shifting milestone last year when, for the first time in history, more than half of its 1.3 billion people were reported living in cities than in the countryside. Clearly this is not as dramatic a movement as the Long March (1934-35), but it could prove equally significant in the epic annals of Chinese… Read more.
Much is being made about the cover story Why are Obama’s Critics so Dumb? How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics by Andrew Sullivan in this week’s issue of Newsweek. Sullivan is an erstwhile conservative political commentator who now describes himself as an “unabashed supporter of Obama.” The main point of his story is… Read more.
No doubt it was a harrowing experience for all passengers on Friday night when the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground and capsized off Italy’s Tuscan coast. And I’m sure the tales of survival will soon be the stuff of legend. But it’s a manifestation of the myopia and conceit that permeates our twitterverse… Read more.
I am pretty sure this phenomenon will die a media death this weekend when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots show Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos, in convincing fashion, that winning football games has absolutely nothing to do with how much of a spectacle one makes of praying to God. (The divine Tim… Read more.
Two years ago, agents from Israel’s revered Mossad were caught on CCTV in Dubai carrying out a hit on a senior Hamas leader. They were universally ridiculed, and I duly piled on: It’s bad enough that these spies can be seen in Technicolor going into public bathrooms and coming out in their laughable disguises (some… Read more.
A video of U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan went viral yesterday. But instead of hiding their faces in shame, this is an occasion for U.S. government officials to hold their heads high. Let me hasten to clarify. No doubt this is an unpardonable desecration. And it is bound to incite paroxysms… Read more.
I was hoping to get through this NFL season without feeling obliged to comment on the plainly fleeting phenomenon that is Tim Tebow’s “tebowing.” Alas, popular demand has forced my hand. So here is my two cents worth. There is no denying that Tebow is the luckiest SOB to ever play the game of football.… Read more.
‘No drama Obama’? Then how about C-H-A-O-S?! (The die is cast: Obama nominates Hillary…, The iPINIONS Journal, December 1, 2008) I wrote the above to counter the prevailing view that Barack Obama was so cool that his term in the White House would be free of the petty drama that characterized the terms of all… Read more.
