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There’s no denying the potential triggers inherent in NATO forces conducting military exercises in the Baltic Sea this week. Especially given that Russian forces are more poised than ever to invade Ukraine, and Putin is planning to deploy new intercontinental ballistic missiles. Not to mention that Obama is planning to deploy tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery bases… Read more.
After Donald Trump threw his hat into the ring yesterday, you’d have thought the contest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination could not become any more of a circus. But candidate Lindsey Graham may have just topped (or trumped) Trump. For, after raising eyebrows by promising to have “rotating first ladies” if elected president, here… Read more.
African leaders are beaming with foolish pride today over the way they conspired to help Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir abscond from justice. They perpetrated this conspiracy during an African Union summit in South Africa last weekend. Even though dismayed, I am not surprised. After all, I presaged this years ago in “Arresting Bashir? Even more of… Read more.
So why are news organizations still portraying him as a hero instead of a zero (aka traitor)? Britain has been forced to move some of its spies after Russia and China accessed the top-secret raft of documents taken by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, British media reported. The BBC and the Sunday Times cited… Read more.
In May 2011, detectives of the NYPD Special Victims Division arrested then IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) on charges of criminal sexual assault, attempted rape, and unlawful imprisonment. To say his arrest was sensational would be an understatement; after all, they literally boarded his plane and cuffed DSK as he was departing/fleeing from New York for… Read more.
Of course, there’s nothing new about people passing for a member of a different race or ethnicity. But their reasons for doing so were invariably to escape a life of discrimination, oppression, or even worse. Most notably, Blacks in America passed for Whites to escape the legacy of slavery, including dehumanizing Jim Crow laws; Jews… Read more.
If these politicians were not lead vocals in a chorus of moral crusaders, I would not give their sexual escapades a moment’s thought. For the unadulterated pleasure of afflicting these hypocrites, however, I don’t even mind being bedfellows with a publicity-seeking hustler like Larry Flynt. (“DC Madam Outs Sen. David Vitter as a Faithful ‘John,’” The… Read more.
The media have provided saturation coverage over the past few weeks of the endemic corruption that has attended the selection process for the FIFA Men’s World Cup. Media executives would probably cite – without a hint of irony – the reputational damage this coverage caused as their reason for providing such scant coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which… Read more.
You know you’ve come a long way, baby, when you can say there’s not a single person in your circle of friends who smokes … cigarettes. I’m always taken aback these days when I happen upon someone inhaling suicidal cigarette smoke anywhere in the United States. Frankly, I don’t know why it’s any more socially… Read more.
You can be forgiven the impression that America is experiencing an epidemic of violent confrontations between Black kids and White cops. Their latest confrontation, which went viral on Sunday, had White cops hurling profanities, and one of them even drawing his gun, just to disperse Black kids at an unruly pool party near Dallas, Texas.… Read more.
