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With the latest media feeding frenzy over President Hollande’s love life, the French have utterly destroyed their enviable reputation for discretion in affairs of the heart. Here’s how I presaged this unseemly twist in their national character six years ago: So much for the reputed quizzical insouciance of the French when it comes to marital… Read more.
Today The Bahamas celebrates 40 years of independence. I heartily join in hailing our motto: “Forward, Upward, Onward, Together” … my Bahamaland! We are a nation of only 320,000 people. Yet not even the political and cultural hegemony of the United States can chasten our national pride. But this is precisely why we make such… Read more.
The United States is considering pulling out all its troops from Afghanistan next year, U.S. officials said, amid tension between the President Barack Obama’s Administration and Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government. (Reuters, July 9, 2013) I am pleased to see President Obama finally coming to his senses. But this raises the question: what has he accomplished… Read more.
Remarkably enough, though, Roger was/is not the story. For going into today’s final, all anyone in the media was reporting on or talking about was the prospect of his opponent Andy Murray becoming the first Briton to win this British Grand Slam since 1936 (a Cubs-like losing streak of 76 years). Alas, like a good… Read more.
I find it curious that Obama is effectively calling on the Egyptian military to guarantee the protesters’ democratic aspirations. Ironically, he and other Western leaders seem to believe that the best way to transition from Mubarak’s dictatorship to democracy is by installing a de facto military dictatorship. (“Crisis in Egypt: the End Game,” The iPINIONS… Read more.
I have no doubt that when the time finally comes, South Africans will put on a state funeral for Nelson Mandela that will make those Catholics put on for dead popes seem modest and irreverent. And the least of it will be the who’s who among world leaders queuing up to pay their last respects.… Read more.
According to Edward Snowden’s latest rolling disclosures, when it comes to international spying, the United States targets allies like France and Germany as readily as it targets frenemies like China and Russia. Unsurprisingly, the Europeans are “shocked, shocked,” and are expressing feelings of profound betrayal: The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and French president, François Hollande,… Read more.
It is self-evident that Michael Jackson was a serial Pedophile. Even worse, though, is that his brothers enabled him. And they did so because they are venal parasites. Based on HIStory, I used to be a big fan. I regarded Jackson as the most talented performer in the history of entertainment. But prosecutors charged him in 2005 for… Read more.
