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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.
The only meaningful step President Thein Sein has taken towards democracy was to release Suu Kyi in 2010 from nearly 15 years of house arrest. But he has since co-opted this former ‘democracy icon’ into his political establishment – as leader of the loyal (i.e., powerless) opposition in parliament. And nothing demonstrates the extent to… Read more.
With his eighth win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Monday, Tiger Woods finally reclaimed the world No. 1 ranking he lost four years ago. No doubt you recall that his downfall began in the wake of a sensational bimbo eruption that destroyed his marriage and sapped him of the aura of invincibility that was… Read more.
Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. And tomorrow it will hear arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act (aka DOMA), a federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. DOMA also holds that states that ban same-sex marriages are… Read more.
Here, in part, is the reasonable doubt I expressed last year after the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya’s founding father Jomo Kenyatta, on charges of crimes against humanity. I wonder what evidence the ICC possesses that ties Uhuru and the three other prominent Kenyans it indicted to the rapes and… Read more.
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Israel has become [as sacred a cow in American politics as Mom, apple pie … and guns] because, on the one hand, evangelical Christians consider its security key to their salvation; and on the other hand, politicians of every stripe consider pandering about its security key to their election. (“Americans More Jewish than Jews in… Read more.
To be honest, I am not a big fan of college Basketball. Frankly, I know few people who are. After all, most people’s interest seems limited to selecting teams on a whim from brackets in their office pools. But participating in this selection process (aka bracketology) has become as obligatory for political/social/cultural commentators as it… Read more.
