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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.
Famous Americans have always snubbed US presidents to make political points. But never before in the history of this republic have so many snubbed any president the way they are snubbing Donald Trump. This trend began famously enough on the first day of his presidency. That’s when celebrities of every stripe boycotted his inauguration ceremonies.… Read more.
Et tu, Brokaw? MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski’s has added her name to the more than 60 women [including Maria Shriver and Rachel Maddow] who signed a letter supporting NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw after sexual harassment allegations against him were published by Washington Post and Variety: The testimonial was made public one day after … former… Read more.
Have you noticed Kanye is already sporting blonde hair, man boobs, and (sometimes) blue eyes…? This might explain his antic love for Donald Trump: After all, to paraphrase Kanye’s most famous political statement: Donald Trump doesn’t care about black people. Then again, to paraphrase Obama’s take on him: Kanye is a Jackass, whose talent gives… Read more.
Video of a woman being pulled away from her weeping daughters on a California street and shoved into a US Customs and Border Protection vehicle is drawing criticism of the manner in which federal agents are enforcing immigration laws. … Perla Morales-Luna, 36, came to the US illegally at the age of 15. (CBS News… Read more.
A jury found Bill Cosby guilty Thursday of [three counts of] drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home near here 14 years ago … each punishable by up to 10 years in state prison, though the sentences could be served concurrently. … The case was the first high-profile trial of the #MeToo era.… Read more.
I stood with fellow students in the early 1980s in calling on corporations and governments to cripple South Africa’s Apartheid regime with boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS). We were trying to force democratic reforms that would grant civil rights to the country’s historically oppressed blacks. I could not have been prouder. But I knew that… Read more.
