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My commentaries will attest that I’m no fan of Bill and/or Hillary Clinton. And, frankly, the way they used and abused Monica Lewinsky – complete with Hillary slut-shaming her as a “narcissistic loony toon” – is the least of it. They have done far worse to far more important people. Remember Lani Guinier? But I… Read more.
I mean, what are we to make of a ragtag bunch of wannabe Islamists, calling themselves Boko Haram, kidnapping over 250 “mostly Christian” girls from a school in Nigeria to sell as child brides (in border countries) — simply because these ignoramuses think Western education is evil and, moreover, that girls should not be educated?… Read more.
It hardly bodes well for national unity in Ukraine that the pro-Western parliament is now calling not only for closer ties with Europe but also for Yanukovych’s arrest on charges of mass murder. Indeed, bear in mind that the country was virtually split down the middle at the last election in 2010—with those in the West… Read more.
The title of this post says it all. What’s more, I’ve denounced this European appeasement in numerous commentaries. But I summarized my denunciation and presaged what this appeasement portends in “Checkmated on Crimea, Obama Plays for Rest of Ukraine” on March 7, 2014. Europeans appeasing Putin Now comes another case of European appeasement. Germany is refusing to join… Read more.
More than 1 million people in South Sudan have fled their homes at a crucial time of the year: planting season. Famine, aid officials say, could be the result, and the U.N.’s top official for human rights said Wednesday she is appalled by the apparent lack of concern by the country’s two warring leaders that… Read more.
Last July, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made quite a show of announcing his Mideast peace initiative: ‘All of the core issues are on the table for negotiation, with the goal of reaching a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months,’ Kerry said. ‘The time has come for a lasting… Read more.
