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There’s no denying that America has an arbitrary, even mercenary, immigration policy (which, for example, grants Cuban migrants an EZ pass but repatriates Haitian migrants summarily). Yet, compared with that of other countries, America has by far the most inviting and humane policy of them all. This fact is finally coming into stark relief for… Read more.
I fully appreciate why so many Americans winced at Russian President Vladimir Putin presuming to lecture the United States about the shortcomings of its democratic practices (in what had to have been a deliberately dated op-ed in the New York Times on 9/11). After all, with the notorious blunders of Iraq and Afghanistan still so raw in public consciousness,… Read more.
Last August, Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices are unconstitutional because they routinely violated the Fourth-Amendment protection of Blacks and Hispanics against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, the sight of dark-skinned men being stopped and frisked (invariably by White cops) had become as much a feature of life in… Read more.
You’ve probably heard about the big shootout here in Washington, DC yesterday that caused utter pandemonium – complete with building lockdowns, people running for their lives, and police cars crashing into security barriers (you know, those unsightly concrete bollards that dot every sidewalk). You’d be forgiven for thinking that not just one but a platoon… Read more.
According to researchers from Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine: Exercise may be as effective as medication in preventing early death in people who’ve had heart attacks or strokes, a new study suggests… This adds to a large volume of research on the benefits of regular physical activity. Exercise has been shown… Read more.
I have become so cynical about politics that I’m not the least bit surprised that Republicans forced the (partial) shutdown of the U.S. government yesterday merely to appease their hopelessly misguided, Obama-hating constituents; the welfare of the country be damned. I am not even surprised that a congenital mix of political ignorance and racial prejudice… Read more.
I was bemused when I read this headline today on the Huffington Post. Even more so when I read Bob Woodward pronouncing the following with evident consternation and indignation: Let’s call it what it is, they are trying to blackmail the president and say, ‘Look, we’re going to shutdown the government or default on our… Read more.
