The iPINIONS Journal

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I used to like Jimmy Carter…until his bitching – as an (energizer-bunny) arm-chair ex-president – prevailed upon a thin-skinned and fickle President Bill Clinton to diss members of his own administration to quell Carter’s vainglorious criticisms. And, his bitching was never more persistent, and Clinton’s appeasement of it never more egregious, than when Carter ingratiated… Read more.

My 20 April 2007 “Good (news) Friday” feature was entitled Wither Wolfowitz: The belated comeuppance of another Bush man. And in it I reveled in the professional humiliation career staffers at the World Bank were inflicting upon their swaggering (Bush-lite) boss Paul Wolfowitz – in a remarkably organized and sustained effort to force him to… Read more.

No one should be surprised that Venezuelan President (for life) Hugo Chávez is a bullying, thin-skinned megalomaniac for whom freedom of expression is tantamount to anarchy. Nor should anyone be shocked, shocked that he’s hell-bent on squashing any political opinion that challenges his Castro-inspired quest for absolute power in Venezuela or his Bolivar-inspired quest to… Read more.

I appreciate it when visitors have good things to say about their Caribbean vacations. After all, the livelihood of my people depends on tourists regaling other with their stories. But I resent it when tourists presume they know how beautiful my country is after spending a few days there lounging on a beach at some… Read more.

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IMMIGRATION Just a few weeks ago, before heading out on my annual march in support of rights for illegal immigrants, I wrote another article in my series of laments about the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. And in that article I reiterated that only the McCain-Kennedy bill contained all of… Read more.

Last Friday, Caribbean Net News (CNN) published my commentary – entitled The tragedy of being Haitian at home and at sea – on the interdiction of a Haitian boat by the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) police, which resulted in the tragic death of 61 refugees after the boat capsized. And in that commentary I… Read more.

Yesterday God struck down controversial televangelist Rev Jerry Falwell with a sudden heart attack. He died while sitting comfortable in his office at Liberty University, which he founded in 1971 in his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia as a Bible training college. It is a manifestation of God’s abiding grace, however, that he allowed Falwell to… Read more.

Last February I published an article in which I expressed dismay and consternation over the refusal of the Japanese government to acknowledge the historical fact that Japanese authorities forced “comfort women” in Japanese-occupied territories to work as sex slaves during World War II. But here, in part, is how I urged the relatively-new government of… Read more.