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The way China is huffing and puffing these days about blowing Taiwan away is raising alarms. Here is how The New York Times reported on Monday on its latest outburst: __________ China will not flinch from war if Taiwan takes a decisive step toward independence, and it does not trust the United States’ assertions that… Read more.
No doubt you saw images of Kim Kardashian channeling Marilyn Monroe at the annual Met Gala last month. The reason she was such a sight to behold is that Kim completely transformed herself to fit into the dress Marilyn wore when she famously serenaded Happy Birthday to JFK. Perhaps in unwitting homage to the Lee… Read more.
Podcast Episode 78 Trump gave me cause to make this pithy observation in a blog post on December 22, 2020: “None of Trump’s children (think Ivanka) or children-in-law (think Jared) can have any real love or respect for him.’ Ivanka vindicated my observation with her testimony this week before the House committee investigating the Jan.… Listen.
Behold the America that obsesses over CRT, whitewashes history, and watches only Fox TV… Related commentaries: Jan 6 hearing… CRT… Read more.
Truth be told, as I watched last night’s Jan. 6 hearing, I felt like a porn addict waiting for some tidbit of information or video clip to come along and arouse my interest. It never came. Hell, even that “damning exchange” between Liz Cheney and Ivanka Trump didn’t get a rise out of me… This… Read more.
China does not permit dual citizenship. But, like all authoritarian regimes, it is notorious for imposing rules on the masses which they allow the elites (e.g., like Putin’s oligarchs) to flout. And so it was that China permitted Eileen Gu to reap all the benefits of representing China at the Beijing 2022 Olympics without having… Read more.
On Friday, Macky Sall, Head of the African Union, led a delegation on a mission to Russia. They went to beg President Vladimir Putin to lift the Russian blockade on Ukrainian grain exports to spare millions of Africans now on the brink of starvation. Unfortunately, Putin demonstrated once again that he has nothing but contempt… Read more.
The comparisons between the killing of Genivaldo de Jesus Santos this week and the killing of George Floyd two years ago this week are as uncanny as they are unavoidable. Here is how Sky News reported it on Friday: _________ Videos showing a Brazilian man dying while trapped in the boot of a police car… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, Republicans are blaming this school shooting in Uvalde Texas not just on mental illness but on everything else except the most obvious culprit: guns. Beto O’Rourke, the former Democratic presidential white knight and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate, threw this into righteous relief on Wednesday. He crashed a press conference Texas Republicans were holding, and… Read more.
