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I am an abiding, perhaps even a pioneering, critic of acting awards. Because it has always been self-evident to me that who wins has far more to do with public relations than acting talent. No less an actor than Meryl Streep threw this into disillusioning relief when she hailed PR guru Harvey Weinstein as God… Read more.
Donald Trump proved long ago that Americans are as hooked on him as they are on drugs. This explains cable stations covering his asinine tweets like drug dealers pushing dime-bags as treats. But it also explains publishers peddling books about his presidency like cartels shipping cocaine in bulk. Trump’s presidency has spawned a cottage industry… Read more.
In “Democrats’ Achilles Heel: Ostrich-like Silence on Spikes in Urban Crime” on August 21, and “Folks, If Crime Stats Begin Rivaling Covid Stats, Trump Wins! So Shut Up, AOC!” on July 12, I argued, in fact warned, that BLM protesters are looking too much like marauding rebels without a cause. Only this explains BLM mobs… Read more.
Scores of people were arrested Friday in Zimbabwe as hundreds of military troops as well as police attempted to thwart an anti-government protest, with streets empty and many people hiding indoors. … Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe as the economy implodes. Inflation is more than 700%, the second highest in the world. Now the coronavirus… Read more.
Edward Snowden is declaring vindication. I’m still a critic, but I can’t blame him. Seven years after the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended… Read more.
It has been self-evident for years that Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to “neutralize” anyone who poses a threat to his presidency for life. And no one posed a greater threat than opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This is why I asserted – in “Protests Unmasking the Insecurity and Cowardice Behind Putin’s Swagger and Bravado”… Read more.
Five years ago, Islamists attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine. They did so to avenge its publication of plainly offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. They not only killed 12 people in that attack, including five famous cartoonists, but executed “a wave of jihadist strikes across France.” I duly commented in… Read more.
Even more than democracy, celebrity defines Western culture. In fact, my dismay over people either worshiping living celebrities or deifying dead ones moved me way back in 2005 to write “Celebrity-Obsessed World Has Made Actors and Rock Stars the Statesmen of Our Times.” This is why I trust you’ll deem it meaningful whenever I join… Read more.
See calendar for details on early voting state by state here … (In states where there is no early in-person voting, get your ballot, vote, and mail it in at the earliest possible opportunity.) I urge voters in reputed “swing states” (namely Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin)… Read more.
