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The International Criminal Court must file charges against Vladimir Putin. This, for the war crimes he’s lording over in Ukraine. Granted, it might take a revolution of the kind Vladimir Lenin mounted to arrest him. But they should file the charges and issue the arrest warrant as a matter of principle. This will help the… Read more.
Washington is all atwitter this week over the latest leaked audio recordings. These feature Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plotting to finally rid the Republican Party and the country of the clear and present danger former President Donald Trump always represented. Of course, the reason for the buzz is that McCarthy gives new meaning to the… Read more.
Sunday’s race made clear that any hope Lewis Hamilton had of winning his eighth Formula One title this year is already up in smoke. The Daily Mail reported on his ongoing frustrations and epic falling from grace on Sunday as follows: ________ Lewis Hamilton has given up on his hopes of winning the 2022 Formula… Read more.
Elon Musk has the whole world at twitter over his bitcoin bid to buy Twitter. It’s a bitcoin bid because his interest in Twitter seems every bit as impulsive and careless as his interest in that cryptocurrency turned out to be. Menacing Bitcoin Recall that, in February last year, Musk tweeted that Tesla had bought… Read more.
Podcast Episode 72: Unlike the Germans, You’d Even Be Willing to Ration Gas, Right…? Related commentaries: Ukraine… Read more.
Like me, you have probably wondered why so few Africans blame Vladimir Putin for what so many know is his own war in Ukraine. But now we know… Of course, this is the same president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, who is aping other world leaders by playing mediator between Russia and Ukraine just for… Read more.
“A picture is worth a thousand words” Never before in the history of American politics has that adage been more apropos than everything this picture says about this time in America’s fraught march toward a more perfect union. But I’d be remiss not to comment on the fact that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina,… Read more.
The South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the UConn Huskies last night to win the NCAA women’s national championship. And South Carolina did so with relative ease, winning 64-49. Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” inherent in low-seeded… Read more.
Podcast Episode 71: But I Am an Apostate. So Listener Beware… Read more.
News reports went viral yesterday about how military advisers to Russian President Vladimir Putin routinely lied because his war in Ukraine was not going to plan. Putin was misled by advisers who were too scared to tell him how poorly the war in Ukraine is going and how damaging Western sanctions have been, White House… Read more.
