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President Obama is on a state visit to Japan. It’s the first by a sitting U.S. president in almost 20 years. Therefore, you’d expect the media to be covering each step he takes on Japanese soil as if he were John Glen walking on the moon. Yet his visit is competing for coverage not only… Read more.
Affirmative Action Weren’t the past 40 years of affirmative action intended to rectify the lingering consequences of slavery and Jim Crow? Never mind that white women and wealthy Blacks were the ones who benefited most…. Enough already! (“Senate Apologizes for Slavery; Blacks Say, ‘Show Us the Money (Reparations),” The iPINIONS Journal, June 19, 2009) This… Read more.
Foremost I should say that Edward Snowden strikes me as little more than a narcissistic, egotistical, publicity-seeking idiot who is to national intelligence what Kim Kardashian is to media celebrity. What’s more, he seems every bit the media whore she is, and is probably hoping that his NSA leaks will make him even more famous… Read more.
I’ve read enough about Gabriel García Márquez (Gabo) to know that he was that rare writer who was as critically acclaimed as he was commercially successful. That he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and enjoyed J.K. Rowling-like book sales attest to this. Yet how fitting in this age of Twitter that most… Read more.
Female teachers having sex with students has become rampant. This week, several of them entered this rogues’ gallery. Female teachers having sex with students To be fair, these sex crimes are, on balance, victimless. And female teachers as sexual predators are, on balance, harmless. In fact, the only wonder for me is why 99.9 percent… Read more.
Michael Phelps made quite a show of declaring his intent to retire after the 2012 London Olympics. Here, for example, is a definitive exchange he had with Anderson Cooper on the May 8, 2012 edition of 60 Minutes, the most widely watched news program in the United States: Cooper: What happens if your mom, you… Read more.
Republicans are not going to like the New Yorker’s latest cover. The illustration nods to Obamacare’s recent victory, and shows President Obama feeding medicine to a little boy… Artist Barry Blitt told the magazine ‘I enjoyed drawing Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Michele Bachmann as petulant children — and I especially wanted to draw an… Read more.
Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he has undergone a successful microdiscectomy for a pinched nerve that has been hurting him for several months… The procedure was successful, but Woods will be unable to play in the Masters Tournament, instead requiring rest and rehabilitation for the next several weeks… The goal is for Tiger to resume… Read more.
‘Biker chic: Gisele Bundchen channelled 1970s New York by wearing a leather jacket and, big boots and dark shades in the city today’ Read more.
