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Wimbledon got underway at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club yesterday. It is generally regarded as the most prestigious of the four major Tennis championships (aka Grand Slams). Truth be told, I have never understood why. I understand regarding it as the oldest – given that it was founded in 1877. But even that seems hardly… Read more.
Greek banks and the stock exchange will be shut on Monday after creditors refused to extend the country’s bailout and savers queued to withdraw cash, taking Athens’ standoff with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund to a dangerous new level… In the early hours of Saturday, Tspiras asked for extra time to enable… Read more.
Despite angry rhetoric and accusations of ‘blackmail’, negotiations were continuing in Brussels to find a last-ditch compromise to keep Greece in the euro zone to avoid a political train-wreck, economic chaos and financial market disruption. (Reuters, June 26, 2015) Time to give it up Europe. Besides, in a country famous for its ruins, leaving its economy in ruins might… Read more.
I have written many commentaries over the years on the issues the Supreme Court addressed in this case. Here, for the record, are excerpts from just a few of them. ___________________ From “Same-Sex Marriage Now Legal in New York,” June 27, 2011, with respect to same-sex marriages: I believe it is a self-evident truth that not… Read more.
No initiative has triggered an outbreak of Obama derangement syndrome among Republicans quite like Obamacare. Only this explains an erstwhile intellectual like FOX News commentator Charles Krauthammer, himself a psychiatrist no less, proffering partisan talking points as legal criticisms of the Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare. Not to mention the damning irony that their antic criticisms… Read more.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and agreed with the Obama administration that government subsidies that make health insurance affordable for millions of Americans should be available to all. By a 6-3 vote, a divided court affirmed an Internal Revenue Service ruling that subsidies should be… Read more.
“Clueless old fool” is one of the more endearing ways some readers ridiculed me after I wrote the following: Lady Gaga literally personifies the triumph of packaged and formulaic acts over talented performances. Which is rather a shame because this girl can sing… Most performers seem to think the key to success is looking and behaving in a… Read more.
That White kid who massacred nine Black people in their historic African Methodist Episcopal Church last week is clearly insane (even if not legally so). What I don’t get is why it took this for putatively sane South Carolinians to recognize the racist pride (for some Whites) and insult (to all Blacks) that flying the… Read more.
There have been many reports over the years on peacekeepers standing by and watching warring factions kill each other – as they did, to the U.N.’s eternal shame, in Rwanda. There have not been nearly as many reports, however, on peacekeepers exacerbating the scourge of civil strife by preying on people who depend on them for… Read more.
Woman on dollar bill The US government is teasing plans to put a woman on a dollar bill. Except that paper currency is falling into desuetude. That’s why the media hype surrounding this belated and misguided honor seems contrived. This celebration is like hailing the appointment of a Native American as Postmaster General of the United States Postal… Read more.
