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And you probably thought Melania knew better … This was supposed to be a meeting at a hospital in El Paso to console grief-stricken survivors of a mass shooting. But the Trumps treated it like a photo op with groupies at a campaign rally. Think about the inhumanity it took for them to do that.… Read more.
No doubt you’ve noticed that President Trump has replaced traditional press briefings inside the White House with personal cattle calls outside on the South Lawn. His version features correspondents corralled inside a roped off area – looking not so much like reporters in a gaggle as like pigs in a pen. There they wait –… Read more.
I think background checks are important. I don’t want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people, or people with rage or hate, sick people. (The Washington Post, August 7, 2019) This, coming from a mentally unstable person who has his hands on nuclear weapons. Not to mention his hypocrisy, which invariably rears… Read more.
India and Pakistan have been fighting for territorial control of Kashmir ever since the British partitioned India in 1947. Indeed, not since the Peloponnesian Wars has one nation, divided against itself, fought so many wars to so little avail. To be fair, each side would insist that it has only ever engaged in cross-border skirmishes… Read more.
Toni Morrison, the 1993 Nobel laureate in literature, whose work explored black identity in America and in particular the experience of black women, died on Monday in the Bronx. … The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ms. Morrison was the author of 11 novels as well as children’s books and… Read more.
20 people were killed and at least 26 were injured in a shooting Saturday at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas. … Hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a gunman opened fire on people in a popular downtown area. Nine people were killed and 16 additional people were injured. (CNN, August 4, 2019) Please forgive… Read more.
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Dwight “Doc” Gooden was to baseball what Tiger Woods is to golf: a player so talented and charismatic that people like me – who weren’t fans of his sport – tuned in just to watch him play. Unfortunately, they shared a more fateful symmetry. Because Doc’s downfall at the height of his career presaged Tiger’s… Read more.
Here is how I ended my commentary on the first of these debates: Democratic contenders are scheduled to have another 11 debates. But I see no point in watching, let alone commenting, any further. (“Biden Gaffing the Nomination Away,” The iPINIONS Journal, June 29, 2019) Many of you have asked me to elaborate. I could… Read more.
I watch Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday mornings, religiously. You’d be hard-pressed to find a show that presents more informed discussion on issues of the day anywhere on TV. This became even more the case after the ignominious demise of my favorite interview and talk show, Charlie Rose. Zakaria ends each episode with a GPS… Read more.
