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Beyoncé and Jay-Z incited a lot of outrage for visiting Cuba last week. They reportedly went to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary, which they did by touring historical landmarks and spreading the goodwill of American Pop and Hip-Hop music. But, given the way Republican congressmen beholden to Miami Cubans are reacting, you’d think Bey and… Read more.
Evidently, not since Clarence Thomas tried to woo Anita Hill with tales about “Long Dong Silver” has a man treated a woman so disrespectfully as when President Obama called California Attorney General Kamala Harris beautiful during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser on Thursday. For the hysteria he incited among the latter-day guardians of feminism went… Read more.
The Second Amendment specifically refers to ‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.’ No doubt the framers thought it necessary because the American people might have to mount a second revolution if their own government became too tyrannical. But I suspect they thought this militia was necessary primarily to… Read more.
I truly appreciate having a few people who, from day one, always seemed more interested in reading my commentaries than I have ever been in writing them. Most notable in this respect is a dear friend whose penchant for laying on passive/aggressive guilt trips is so earnest it’s comical. This was brought into comic relief… Read more.
The current crisis has already gone too far. Nuclear threats are not a game. Aggressive rhetoric and military posturing only result in counter-actions, and fuel fear and instability. This, according to NBC News, was the anxious alarm UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounded yesterday after North Korea announced plans to restart a nuclear reactor it shut… Read more.
Media memes are usually not worth reading, let alone commenting on. But the one generating the most buzz over the past few days is worthy in both respects. It stems from a letter by Princeton alum Susan Patton (published on Friday in The Daily Princetonian) advising female students to, in effect, be as serious about… Read more.
