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Ode to Esmeralda … A few places of worship transcend religion. Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris is one. Indeed, it speaks volumes that it was a must-see even for a convicted apostate like me. As the opening line of this commentary indicates, Victor Hugo’s classic The Hunchback of Notre-Dame inspired my pilgrimage in 1983. Yet I… Read more.
A moment was delivered on Sunday in Augusta, Georgia, that many thought they’d never see again in this lifetime. With a final round 70, Tiger Woods cruised on Sunday to his fifth victory at The Masters. … The 2019 Masters victory serves as the 15th major win of Tiger’s career, which now puts him just… Read more.
As it happens, I featured this photo in “Separating Migrant Children from Parents. This Is America…Too!” June 20, 2018. Its plainly heartrending nature compelled me to begin that commentary as follows: On too many occasions in the course of human events, man’s inhumanity to man provokes commentaries that inflame passions more than shed light. This… Read more.
Book review: The iPINIONS Journal – Commentaries on the Global Events of 2018 by Anthony L Hall Reprinted from Caribbean News Now By Caribbean News Now contributor 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… Read more.
A little background on this international farce seems warranted. Accordingly, here is what I wrote nearly eight years ago in “Ecuador Grants Wikileaker Julian Assange Asylum … in London,” August 20, 2012: ____________________ Such is the nature of groupthink among Western commentators that you’d be hard-pressed to find any who oppose, as I do, Ecuador’s… Read more.
Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat” of watching low-seeded teams (a.k.a. Cinderellas) upset top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Unfortunately, the tournaments rarely live up to this hype, respectively. True to form,… Read more.
Professional commentators often give me cause to wonder if they’re plagiarizing my commentaries. (I know this makes me seem even more immodest than usual.) But that wonder usually amounts to no more than a pause. This was not the case, however, with my commentary on “Operation Varsity Blues.” That of course was the sensational sting… Read more.
The New York Times and Washington Post reported that some of Mueller’s investigators were frustrated about the limited information Barr included in his four-page summary [of Mueller’s 400-page report] submitted to Congress on March 24. Members of the special counsel’s team complained to associates that the evidence they compiled on whether Trump obstructed justice was… Read more.
[Note: I have written 4,135 commentaries on this weblog over the past 15 years. What follows is the longest by far … Reports are that even a 33-character tweet tests the attention span of most people these days. Therefore, I fully appreciate how daring (or foolish) it is to publish this 21,000-character commentary. And no,… Read more.
