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Anyone who knows anything about the political success Bill and Hillary Clinton have enjoyed knows that Terry McAuliffe was the indispensable campaign fundraiser who made it all possible. As it happens, I know a little more than most about their relationship – having worked down the hall from Terry when he was serving as chief fundraiser… Read more.
No doubt you’ve heard or read about the White “lone wolf” who opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday, killing one TSA agent and wounding two others before police ended his shooting spree. Incidentally, what are we to make of the fact that, like the Boston Marathon bomber who survived a fusillade… Read more.
It speaks volumes that Europeans are ascribing no blame for this Lampedusa tragedy to the African governments that have failed their people so abysmally. This failure, after all, is the only reason why so many Africans, utterly bereft of hope at home, are fleeing to Europe in desperate pursuit of peace, prosperity, and happiness. But… Read more.
Turkey is for the first time connecting its European and Asian sides with a railway tunnel… The sub-sea passage that runs below the Bosphorus Strait, will link the Asian and European shores of Istanbul for the first time. The opening of the major engineering project marks the completion of a plan initially proposed by an… Read more.
I suspect what follows will mislead some of you to think that my views on this confluence of issues make those of the chauvinistic characters on Mad Men seem progressive. But before you get your panties all in a twist, I urge you to take a minute to search this weblog – using the words… Read more.
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Just last week, Gallup released a poll showing that 58 percent of Americans think that marijuana usage should be made legal, which is the first time in U.S. history that more than half of Americans have expressed support for legalization. (Huffington Post, October 29, 2013) Of course, far more compelling are data repeatedly showing that… Read more.
As attorney general, Douglas F. Gansler is Maryland’s chief law-enforcement officer. More importantly, he seemed destined to be its governor after elections next year. But Gansler’s electoral prospect changed last week when a picture showing him in the midst of underage kids dancing and drinking at a “Beach Week” party went viral. It looks like… Read more.
I’m on record stating (as I did most recently on October 17 in “Republicans Grant 90-Day Reprieve from Economic Armageddon”) that everything from the 2008 financial crisis to the 2013 government shutdown seems pursuant to an open conspiracy to make America look like a dysfunctional Banana Republic. Why? To propagate a specious correlation between America’s… Read more.
