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The irony seems completely lost on American media that they’re the ones terrorizing us by featuring so many politicians and security experts stoking mundane fears about Russia’s ability to prevent terrorist attacks during next month’s Winter Olympics. Not to mention their hysterical reporting on a cell of black-widow suicide bombers now allegedly lying in wait… Read more.
No doubt you recall how governments around the world made quite a show of pledging billions to help relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti after that catastrophic earthquake in 2010. While those governments were basking in praise for their generous pledges, however, I was sounding this cautionary note: I just hope this outpouring of support is coordinated… Read more.
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The reforms I’m proposing today should give the American people greater confidence that their rights are being protected, even as our intelligence and law enforcement agencies maintain the tools they need to keep us safe. (The New York Times, January 17, 2014) This was how President Obama framed competing, if not mutually exclusive, interests in… Read more.
I began commenting on the soap opera that is the private life of French President Francois Hollande seven years ago only because of the mockery French media were making of their vaunted reputation for discretion in affairs of the heart. But truth be told, I now see no greater redeeming social value in continuing to… Read more.
Surely Jameis Winston, Florida State’s Heisman Trophy winning-quarterback, could be forgiven his excited utterances during a post-game interview on January 6; after all, he’d just led his team to the national championship (34-31) over Auburn. Except that the (White) mother of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron was not in a forgiving mood. Because she reacted to… Read more.
High heels have long been seen as a key hallmark of womanhood, a symbol of sophistication that sets women apart from men and signals a female’s sense of style and grace. (Huffington Post, January 12, 2014) Only a willing suspension of common sense explains why women do the things they do to look beautiful. And… Read more.
This might reveal too much about what I do for entertainment, but I watched the final round of the U.S. (Women’s) Figure Skating Championships on Saturday night. In fact, I’ve watched many of these competitions (which double as skating’s Olympic trials). And never before have I seen so many top women tripping over their skates… Read more.
Reporters and pundits alike were swooning over the broken and contrite heart Chris Christie, New Jersey’s Republican governor, displayed during an epic two-hour press conference on Thursday. In fact, this reputed political bully humbled himself to apologize for the “abject stupidity” members of his staff and his top appointee at the NJ Port Authority engaged… Read more.
All of Washington was atwitter yesterday over excerpts the New York Times and Washington Post published from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s forthcoming book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War. Significantly, President George W. Bush nominated Gates in 2006 and President Obama retained him until he retired in 2011, evidently, as a thoroughly dismayed… Read more.
