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I have become a veritable Cassandra with my warnings about the folly of America’s involvement in Afghanistan. Instead of wondering why I keep beating this dead horse, however, my only wonder is why more people aren’t doing the same… Nothing suggests that the war in Afghanistan is being waged in a parallel universe quite like more… Read more.
My advice to the regular refs is to swallow your pride and settle (ASAP!) before you are not only permanently replaced but completely forgotten. (“NFL: Replacement Refs … and the Call,” The iPINIONS Journal, 2012) In the above-quoted commentary I presented a clearly rational case for the NFL to stick with the replacement refs by pointing… Read more.
When NFL owners locked out regular (unionized) referees this summer over pay, pension, and other contract issues, they surely did not anticipate that the talk of the league at this point in the season would be more about bad calls than good plays. This talk came into stark relief on Monday night after a bad… Read more.
The BBC was forced to issue a public apology to Queen Elizabeth II yesterday after one of its journalists blithely recounted a private conversation she had with him a few years ago about an alleged terrorist who was living openly and notoriously in London. The conversation should have remained private and the BBC and Frank… Read more.
The annual UN General Assembly amounted to little more than a queue of world leaders delivering canned speeches. And even though none of them said anything of any consequence (Do they ever?), it would be remiss of me not to comment. (“World Leaders Blow Hot Air…,” The iPINIONS Journal, September 26, 2007) As this quote… Read more.
I’m not a big Football fan. I spend far more time reading about Football games on Mondays than watching them on Saturdays and Sundays. Black quarterbacks: good enough for the NCAA Nevertheless, as I channel-surfed through college games on Saturday, the number of Black quarterbacks stood out like a yellow flag on the field. After all, I… Read more.
Who is the fakest of them all? Print models who get airbrushed to look more mannequin than human? Or ordinary women who paint themselves to look like print models? And the winner is … a tie: I will assert here that the deception inherent in airbrushing images is only a more high-tech form of the deception… Read more.
The debate over whether serving time in prison should be more about punishment than rehabilitation has been going on forever. Therefore, I shall suffice to share that I side with advocates who believe that our common humanity and enlightened interest (should) compel us to do all we can to rehabilitate all prisoners – even those… Read more.
Claims about Jesus being married are becoming as farcical as claims about Obama being foreign. Granted, this latest claim has more of a patina of credibility because it stems from research conducted by Harvard Divinity School Professor Karen L. King. Except that when one reads beyond the sensational headlines, Professor King’s findings about Jesus being… Read more.
Yet another Afghan police betrayed his U.S. trainers on Sunday by opening fire on them, killing four. This brought to 51 the number of NATO soldiers killed in these so-called “green-on-blue” attacks so far this year. Ominously, this happened just days after Afghan authorities ejected some 700 members of the Afghan security forces for suspected… Read more.
