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But, in doing so, it sacrificed religious pride for political gain. Now it has neither. An evangelical pastor who former presidential candidate Mitt Romney denounced as a ‘religious bigot’ delivered a prayer at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday. … Romney criticized the choice of a man who has said all… Read more.
Ms Trump took centre stage [Monday] to launch her ‘Be Best’ public awareness campaign to help children, including discouraging cyber bullying. Her choice of issues had earlier raised eyebrows given US President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter to attack his political opponents. (ABC News, May 7, 2018) Apropos of raised eyebrows, twits trolled her for… Read more.
It might seem preposterous to even suggest that any journalist is as much the conscience of journalism as Martin Luther was of Catholicism. But Nicholas Kristof might be worthy of such praise. Kristof is a New York Times columnist and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes – for reporting (1990) and commentary (2006). Therefore, his voice… Read more.
In fact, reports are that Trump’s announcement of his decision to withdraw triggered explosions within hours: Syria on Tuesday said Israel carried out an attack on a military base south of Damascus, which was used by Iranian forces. … The [Israeli] military said it identified what it said was unusual movements of Iranian forces in… Read more.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) announced his resignation on Monday, just hours after a shocking report in The New Yorker detailed four of his former romantic partners’ accusations of physical abuse. On Monday, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam went on the record to say that Schneiderman, 63, ‘repeatedly hit them, often after… Read more.
I feel obliged to begin with a perverse confession. I find horse racing morally repugnant. But I love Audible books. Therefore, as I read the results of this race, I was seized with a wistful thought that the horse by that name should have won. I suppose the poetic justice in that would have mitigated… Read more.
Review Reprinted from Caribbean News Now Published May 3, 2018 By Ben Anson Caribbean News Now associate editor Around this time each year, Anthony L Hall, a weekly op-ed columnist for Caribbean News Now, delivers a collection of his frequently outspoken and controversial thoughts and opinions concerning the preceding political year and this year is… Read more.
Frankly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a shameless, irrepressible charlatan. Only this explains his Chicken-Little warnings about Iran being within months of possessing nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the map, which he’s been proselytizing for decades. Mind you, he warned about Iraq in similar fashion. Indeed, it’s arguable that no individual did more… Read more.
Frankly, the idiom “monkey see, monkey do” seems a fitting sub-heading for the alleged misdeeds of all the idiots involved here: A New York doctor [Harold Bornstein] who served as President Donald Trump’s personal physician is alleging that Trump’s lawyer, bodyguard and an unidentified ‘large man’ raided his office for medical records. Bornstein said ‘the… Read more.
