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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) was founded in 1985 to promote the image of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the media. On Saturday night, former President Bill Clinton was the guest of honor at its 24th Annual Media Awards in Los Angeles. He probably felt prouder receiving his GLAAD… Read more.
We got him. This was what we heard as NBC aired communications on police scanners last night; it’s how we knew the manhunt was over. Like most people I sat riveted in front of my TV last night as an army of law-enforcement officials closed-in on the terrorist who got away. They were alerted by a… Read more.
No doubt you know by now that those responsible for terrorizing the Boston Marathon on Monday are two brothers, aged 19 and 26, who hail from the former Soviet republic of Chechnya. Incidentally, it’s an ironic indication (and indictment) of how wrong CNN was to describe its speculative suspect as a “dark-skinned male” that the… Read more.
Here is the friendly advice I gave Pervez Musharraf when it was clear his days as the benign dictator of Pakistan were numbered: It would behoove Musharraf to follow the trail so many of his predecessors have blazed into exile. And, frankly, given the numerous assassination attempts on his life, it would be understandable if… Read more.
Hopes could not have been higher for passage of the Senate’s gun-control bill last week after Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania struck a compromise on background checks. After all, Manchin and Toomey are de facto poster boys for the NRA – the gun-lobbying group most members of congress… Read more.
Here’s the warning I issued almost a year ago when Facebook became the latest tech sensation to go public: Let’s face it, haven’t you had enough of the mundane and often-recycled crap your ‘friends’ share … every day, several times a day? Even worse are the hucksters who keep begging you to ‘Like’ them or their page… Read more.
The American media went into full-9/11 mode about an hour ago with reports of explosions at the Boston Marathon. According to CNN, there were two coordinated bombs (near the finish line on famed Boylston Street at Copley Square) that, remarkably, killed only two but injured 46 – many with severed limbs. (Those numbers, especially for… Read more.
Tiger knows better than anyone that he will not be able to fully redeem his professional reputation until he wins another five Majors (i.e., from among the Masters in April, U.S. Open in June, British Open in July, and PGA Championship in August). (“Tiger Won…Finally,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 5, 2011) It’s an indication of… Read more.
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