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Edward Snowden made news this week with a plea for a presidential pardon that was as arrogant as it was pitiful. I have taken a lot of flak over the years for repeatedly denouncing him. Here are excerpts from just three of the commentaries I’ve written in this regard. __________________ From “Complaints about NSA Spying… Read more.
Don’t get me started on their blithe hypocrisy in reporting on Hillary’s e-mails… What do you think FOX News, the BBC, the New York Times, the Guardian, and other news organizations would do if Assange were leaking hacked e-mails of their anchors and reporters – purportedly to expose bias in the media? The obvious answer only hints at why my disgust with… Read more.
If the health of these presidential candidates is so important, each of them should submit to a full physical examination by a military doctor selected from the active-duty physicians who serve in the White House Medical Unit. After all, these physicians will be responsible for providing health services to the new president (and her family). That… Read more.
I’ve been lamenting prevailing ignorance among Americans for years — as my commentary “On Syria (and almost Every Other Issue) the American People Are Insolent, Ignorant Idiots,” September 10, 2013, attests. Their ignorance is such, in fact, that polling them on political issues is like polling athletes on medical ones. Only this clearly explains the… Read more.
Fiction doesn’t interest me at all. I haven’t read a novel since Lorna Doone. I meant to read Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea when it came out, but I didn’t… I’m not interested in being diverted from my own life. That was Andy Rooney, America’s most lovable and quotable curmudgeon, from his commentaries,… Read more.
Over the past few weeks, thousands of Native Americans from 200 tribes across the country traveled to North Dakota to stand with the Standing Rock Sioux as human shields. They were determined to prevent bulldozers from excavating near tribal lands for passage of a $3.8 billion oil pipeline, which they feared would not only damage ancestral cultural sites but… Read more.
I have already explained why no peace is at hand in such commentaries as “U.S. and Russia Strike Deal to Avert U.S. Bombing Syria … for Now,” September 16, 2013, “Bombing ISIS Smacks of Masturbatory Violence,” November 18, 2015, and “Putin’s Bush-lite Declaration of Mission Accomplished in Syria,” May 19, 2016. Yet here they go… Read more.
North Korea is commanding world attention again, after announcing that it tested another nuclear bomb earlier today. Duly spooked, leaders from China to America are reacting like alarmed parents chastising an unruly child for playing with fire, for the umpteenth time. South Korean President Park Geun-hye called it an act of ‘self-destruction’ showing the ‘maniacal recklessness’… Read more.
Donald Trump has edged ahead of Hillary Clinton in a poll released Tuesday, the latest to reflect a tightening race as the campaigns kick into high gear after Labor Day. The CNN/ORC poll shows Trump leading Clinton 45-43 percent in a four-way race, with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 7 percent and Green Party’s Jill Stein… Read more.
The Rio 2016 Paralympics got underway with the Opening Ceremony last night. If you live in the United States, however, you could be forgiven for having no clue (unless you happened to notice yesterday’s Google doodle heralding the start of these Games). To be fair, this ceremony did have to compete for media coverage with… Read more.
