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Last week the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) decided not to prosecute the president of Kenya for inciting ethnic violence that killed 1200 men, women, and children, and displaced 600,000. War crimes prosecutors dropped charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday… Judges at the Hague-based court had on Wednesday given the prosecution… Read more.
Alas, for poor countries, this “false” conflict is all too real; and I’m in the save our economies camp. I have written far too many commentaries on this topic to count. Unfortunately, they’ve done little more than lump me together with the “heretics” trying to temper increasing alarms about climate change with calming facts about environmental… Read more.
The tragic death of Dr. Myles Munroe shocked The Bahamas. It evoked a national outpouring of grief that was unprecedented. Moreover, ongoing eulogies seem intended to put him on a fast track to sainthood. We should eulogize him, of course. But let’s resist the temptation to canonize him. This post is in that vein. Indeed, I waited this long to publish… Read more.
A grand jury in Staten Island voted Wednesday not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died after Pantaleo placed him in a chokehold. Garner, 43, died July 17 as he was being arrested for selling untaxed cigarettes. In a video of the arrest,… Read more.
If anyone hadn’t noticed already, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests are running out of energy and options. Benny Tai’s announcement, actually planned for some time, simply confirms it. After two long months, the movement has achieved nothing in the way of concessions from Hong Kong’s own government, let alone China’s. (BBC News, December 2, 2014) Benny… Read more.
The transmission is persistent and widespread. (Associated Press, November 21, 2014) When I read this update, I had a fleeting thought about Rosetta’s Philae probe roving all over Comet 67P and transmitting all kinds of evolutionary data back to Earth. No doubt this thought stemmed from the worldwide jubilation and media coverage that attended its… Read more.
With all due respect to the protesters, the issue is not whether Mubarak will go, for he will. (The man is 82 and already looks half dead for Christ’s sake!) Rather, the issue is who will replace him. And it appears they have not given any thought whatsoever to this very critical question… The devil… Read more.
Last night I was declaiming on the artistic (as opposed to the commercial) merits of the latest Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, when a friend began rhapsodizing about the Rolling Stones and their pouty-lipped leader, Mick Jagger. The uncultured gall; I was not pleased. As much as I admire the Stones’ longevity, I’m no… Read more.
Police Officer Darren Wilson — the suburban St. Louis patrolman who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown in early August – will not face criminal charges in the controversial shooting death, a grand jury has decided. Wilson, who is white, became a national figure after he shot the black 18-year-old multiple times in broad daylight on… Read more.
Nothing signaled the end of Robert Griffin III’s ill-fated stint as Washington’s starting quarterback quite like Dan Wetzel, the premier analyst for Yahoo Sports, writing a column on Wednesday under the headline, “RG3’s fall from grace as stunning as his meteoric rise to stardom.” Of course, given that Washington fans were already not only booing… Read more.
