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Partisan critics routinely cite Obama’s decision to announce a date certain for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan as evidence of his military incompetence and political naiveté. More to the point, they invariably juxtapose this disregard for Obama with reverential regard for Russian President Vladimir Putin – as if the former is to the latter as… Read more.
I have become a veritable Cassandra with my warnings about the folly of America’s involvement in Afghanistan. Instead of wondering why I keep beating this dead horse, however, my only wonder is why more people aren’t doing the same… Hell, even the recent spate of U.S. soldiers being killed by the Afghans they’re supposedly training… Read more.
Tiger Woods hobbled along the course at the Bridgestone Invitational last weekend. That is, until back pain forced him to withdraw. Everyone assumed it marked a major setback in his return from back surgery earlier this year. I knew better. And so did he. I explained the dilemma he faces in “Tiger Escapes to a… Read more.
President Obama is hosting 51 African leaders in Washington this week – in an almost jealous attempt to woo them from the courtship they’ve been cultivating with China in recent years. And he’s pulling out all the stops (and setting up all kinds of roadblocks) to give each leader the impression that the world’s most… Read more.
Here’s what I wrote in “WTF Is with Woody Allen,” April 12, 2014, after the New York Daily News ran an exhaustive report on the lack of diversity in his productions: It’s clearly his artistic prerogative. But you’d think a play [Bullets Over Broadway] that has so much to do with Harlem’s famous Cotton Club… Read more.
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A few years ago, I would’ve bet my life savings against the proposition that Facebook would become to social media what Microsoft has become to computer software. And I would’ve doubled down against the proposition that Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg would someday emulate Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates by becoming the richest man in the world.… Read more.
Botched executions have been competing with downed airplanes for 24/7 news coverage lately. Here’s the latest on the former: It took Arizona nearly two excruciating hours to execute Joseph Wood with drugs whose source the state concealed. Executions in California have been on hold since 2006 because of problems with lethal injections. Last week a… Read more.
Many young women wear Spanx these days. But they take umbrage at the suggestion that their Spanx is a modern version of the girdle their grandmothers wore. Spanx: a girdle by another name It takes willful self-delusion to deny this analogy. After all, the natural letdown women see on their Spanx-free bodies reveals the naked truth. The irony is… Read more.
Here, in part, is what I wrote about the Yukos Oil company almost 10 years ago, when Russian President Vladimir Putin was confiscating corporate assets and consolidating political power – all in an effort to reign for life as a latter-day Tsar: The Putinization of Russia continues apace, and Papa Joe Stalin must be very… Read more.
