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I was in the vanguard of those calling for President Biden to announce he will not seek reelection. Yes, I cited prevailing concerns about his age. He’s 80. But I also noted back then that, among other things, he promised he’d serve only one term – as a transitional president; he risked the backlash that befell… Read more.
North Korea supplying Russia Chinese weapons The X factor in the war in Ukraine is whether China will end up supplying weapons to Russia the way the US is supplying them to Ukraine. I submit that China will not. But it faces an abiding dilemma: China has a geostrategic interest in seeing Russia prevail. But it fears doing… Read more.
We’re doomed... Read more.
Black Michael Jackson took extreme measures to look White. Yet he convinced his White daughter Paris that she is Black. Sick. Paris may identify as Black, but she’s White But if men can identify as women, surely Whites can identify as Blacks? Asking for a friend. No, really, Rachel Dolezal. Except that Paris’s confusion is as mental as it is racial. Discussing the matter with Rolling Stone magazine in… Read more.
Another week, another coup Military coups in Africa are far more regular than presidential elections in America. Africa has had 486 attempted coups since 1950 (214 successful), whereas America has had only 59 elections (and 1 attempted coup). So, waking up this morning to breaking news of a coup in Gabon was hardly surprising. Military officers in Gabon said they… Read more.
Sha’Carri’s redemption Sha’Carri Richardson won the Women’s 100m last week at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Many are hailing it as her redemption. I understand why, but I disagree. They are hailing it as her redemption because of what happened at the 2020 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. Richardson won the Women’s 100m. And she did so with speed… Read more.
The kiss that ruined Spain’s football fiesta Everyone was ecstatic. Hell, even Queen Letizia rushed down to the field to lead the Spanish players in jumping for joy – complete with fists punching in the air. After all, they had just defeated England to win Spain’s first Women’s World Cup. Who could’ve foreseen the scandal a jubilant… Read more.
Prigozhin’s dead C’mon, Vlad! Having your enemies fall from buildings is suspicious enough. But having their plane fall from the sky is incriminating. Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first public comments Thursday on the plane crash believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, saying the Wagner leader was ‘talented’ but made ‘serious mistakes in life.’ The crash Wednesday took place… Read more.
First Republican presidential debate It was not Mr. Trump’s chief rival in the polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who emerged at the epicenter of the first Trump-free showdown on Wednesday, but instead the political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy, whose unlikely rise has revealed the remarkable degree to which the former president has remade the party.… Read more.
In Trump Republicans trust Trump voters are more likely to believe the former president is telling them the truth than their friends and family or religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. (Axios, August 21, 2023) That, of course, is the very definition of cult worship. After all, nobody in their right mind is… Read more.
