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A 1987 Pepsi ad [during the making of which special effects set Michael’s hair on fire] is now being linked to more controversy as a child who worked on the commercial has filed a sexual assault complaint against the late singer last week in court… Two sources have said the complaint is sealed but revealed… Read more.
Pro-Moscow insurgents in eastern Ukraine declared independence Monday and sought to join Russia, undermining upcoming presidential elections, strengthening the Kremlin’s hand and putting pressure on Kiev to hold talks with the separatists following a referendum on self-rule. (Associated Press, May 12, 2014) While President Vladimir Putin gobbles up even more of Ukraine, Western leaders are… Read more.
Michael Sam made history (of sorts) on Saturday when the St. Louis Rams selected him in the seventh and final round of this year’s NFL Draft. But it’s important to keep his selection in context. Here, in this regard, is what I wrote earlier this year, when everyone hailing Sam today was hailing Jason Collins,… Read more.
I never went to journalism school. But even I know enough about journalism to know that it is not giving people what they want. It’s giving them accurate and reliable information on events, issues, and trends to function as informed citizens. In short, journalism is more about informing than entertaining the public. Except that CNN… Read more.
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I respect the significance of five Nobel Prize-winning economists endorsing a report by the London School of Economics’ IDEAS Center titled “Ending the Drug Wars.” But the way the media are hailing this report you’d think it called not for ending the drug wars, but for decriminalizing all drugs. Now that would’ve been a report… Read more.
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.
