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Reprinted from Caribbean News Now! caribbeannewsnow.com Book review: The iPINIONS Journal – Commentaries on the Global Events of 2012 by Anthony L. Hall Published on April 12, 2013 Once again, another year of world events has elapsed and Caribbean News Now op-ed columnist Anthony Hall has published his eighth retrospective compendium of insight and observations… Read more.
Hell, given their cozy relationship with President Obama, it would not surprise me to learn that he personally sanctioned their visit as goodwill ambassadors pursuant to the ‘people-to-people’ program he initiated to promote greater cultural exchange between Americans and Cubans. (“Beyoncé and Jay-Z Representing Pop and Hip Hop in Cuba,” The iPINIONS Journal, April 8,… Read more.
Something’s terribly, and obviously, wrong with this picture: I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments… Read more.
Thank God I never bet anything more than my pride on sporting events. And it’s a damn good thing I have so much of it. Because neither my pick for the men’s championship (Ohio State) nor the women’s (Baylor) even made the Final Four. Truth be told, I became even less interested than usual in… Read more.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. This was how the UK Evening News quoted Margaret Thatcher, then the Conservative MP for Finchley, turning male chauvinism on its head – to the delight, no doubt, of her audience at the National Council of the… Read more.
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.
