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Despite panic-inducing media reports, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 10 times as many people die in the United States from the flu each year than the number of those who have died from Ebola in all of Africa. (“Ebola,” The iPINIONS Journal, September 26, 2014) Related commentaries: Ebola Read more.
I am on record decrying members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding the hallowed Peace Prize to people who were so plainly underserving. I did so, for example, when they awarded it jointly to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,Shimon Peres, and Yitzhack Rabin in 1994 for brokering peace between Israelis and Palestinians that never was; and… Read more.
[NOTE: In light of the pandemic coverage of Ebola, I have decided to reprise this commentary, which I published originally on September 26. In the two weeks since, U.S. officials have held so many press conferences to hail the resources available to treat victims here (compared to what’s available in Africa) that they bordered on… Read more.
It’s one thing for White House staffers to write books to settle scores and make a quick buck – as Bush’s former Press Secretary Scott McClellan did with his truly damning What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception. But it sets a new precedent for betrayal in this respect for a former cabinet… Read more.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. While most people are aware of breast cancer, many forget to take the steps to have a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same. We have made a lot… Read more.
The following excerpt – from “Return of Baby Doc,” January 20, 2011 – telegraphed (and effectively sums up) my thoughts on the timely death of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier: Theories abound about Baby Doc’s return – ranging from it being pursuant to a political plot orchestrated by the U.S. and France, to a desperate attempt to… Read more.
The irony seems completely lost on American media that they’re the ones terrorizing us … [to death]. (“America, Stop Scaremongering…” The iPINIONS Journal, January 22, 2014) Hysterical, terror-inciting reporting has become so mainstream that, in just the past few weeks, one could be forgiven for thinking that Russia was triggering World War III; that China was… Read more.
For a little context, here is a relatively lengthy excerpt from “China Buying Up Political Dominion Over the Caribbean (Latin America, and Africa),” February 22, 2005, in which I presaged (almost 10 years ago) the spectre – not only of countries selling their sovereignty to China for easy cash, but of China placing increasingly mercantilist… Read more.
If you consider what incredible access members of the public have always had to U.S. presidents, you would only begin to appreciate the almost fatalistic challenges Secret Service agents face on a daily basis. This is why, despite the assassination of JFK in 1963, a close call on Ford’s life in 1975, and an even… Read more.
Here in part is what I wrote in 2009, when pictures of Olympic champion Michael Phelps toking on a bong that would make Snoop Dogg green with envy went viral: Of course, with all they have invested in, and can still make off, this greatest Olympian of all time, I suspect advertisers and USA Swimming and/or the… Read more.
