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President Trump has a notorious habit of variously taking credit for successes he had little to do with and praising things, only to see them fail. For example: He took credit for Ford’s decision to keep a manufacturing plant in Kentucky instead of moving it to Mexico. But then Ford announced that it never intended… Read more.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less about this wedding. In fact, you couldn’t have paid me enough to get up at 8 this morning, let alone at 4, to watch this royal spectacle. I have vented antipathy to royalty and all its appurtenances in many commentaries, including in “Homage to Royal Wedding,” April 28, 2011, when… Read more.
What is it about the continent of Africa that it suffers the worst not only of man’s inhumanity to man, but also of Mother Nature’s wrath? After all, no continent has been more beset by genocidal wars and political corruption on the one hand, and by drought and disease on the other. This led me… Read more.
I’ve been commenting on Catalonia’s fight for independence for years. My commentaries range from “Catalonia: Spain’s Kosovo Problem,” October 1, 2012, to “Catalonia Continues Sisyphean Climb Towards Independence,” October 2, 2017. The latter includes this defining observation: ____________________ Catalonia held an independence referendum yesterday. But only the Einsteinian definition of ‘insanity’ explains why. It’s bad… Read more.
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.
