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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was forced to leave a Seattle, Washington rally without speaking after protesters claiming to represent the Black Lives Matter movement stormed the stage and took the microphone from the Democratic presidential hopeful. ‘I think it is unfortunate because among other things I wanted to talk about the issues of black lives,’… Read more.
As the media hyped so cravingly, it was all about Donald Trump. Which is why nothing any of the other ten candidates said during this debate will have much, if any, lasting impact. I feel obliged to note, however, that U.S. presidential debates have always been more spectacle than substance. For example, the first televised… Read more.
Here, in part, is how I commented a few years ago on reports that Jimmy Savile, the British Dick Clark, was a serial child sexual abuser: All of England is still reeling with shock and indignation at recent revelations that Sir Jimmy Savile was a predatory pedophile (and an alleged necrophiliac). Savile was the nationally beloved host… Read more.
Got that, New York? I was in the vanguard of progressives decrying the fact that none of the bankers on Wall Street – whose shenanigans caused the global financial crisis of 2008 – were ever prosecuted. Everybody knows that rank criminality and dishonesty among (predominantly white) casino croupiers masquerading as investment bankers – much of it having… Read more.
Me: Ask Vladimir Putin. During his recent trip to Kenya and Ethiopia, President Obama seized every opportunity to rebuke African leaders for the administrative incompetence and endemic corruption that have kept their countries mired in poverty and strife. But I suspect nothing made them squirm quite like the way Obama criticized their habit of defying… Read more.
I pledged some time ago to eschew commenting on the WWE-style battle royale masquerading as a fight for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But reports on Donald Trump’s latest rant against President Obama hit a nerve, which is saying a lot given his record of racist taunts about Obama’s birth certificate and college transcript. Before… Read more.
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Nothing has bedeviled U.S. nation-building efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq quite like the determination of Sunnis and Shiites to fight each other instead of Islamic jihadists. Now, Turks and Kurds are fighting each other instead of ISIS, thereby complicating ongoing efforts in Iraq and bedeviling efforts to prevent Syria from becoming the Somalia of the Middle… Read more.
Here is how I decried the practice of exploiting gullible fans by releasing songs recorded and shelved long ago as newly discovered masterpieces: When producers raised the curtain on Michael Jackson’s much-hyped performance, in hologram form, at last month’s Billboard Music Awards, far from being thrilled, I was just creeped out. But it occurred to me that,… Read more.
