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I get at least 50 emails everyday referring me to articles that are supposedly worthy of commentary. However, at the risk of offending readers who send those emails (i.e. the few who are not devoted family members and friends…), I invariably trash them as little more than SPAM. But once in a blue moon, I… Read more.
Ever since President Bush launched his Millennium Challenge Account for African development (in March 2002) and his $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS relief (January 2003), I’ve been arguing – to the consternation and apparent dismay of almost all who bothered to listen – that Bush has done more (and offers the best solutions) to… Read more.
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America: As a further mark of respect to the memory of Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the United States, NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws… Read more.
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At about 10 pm EST last night, Saddam Hussein stepped defiantly into the gallows and took the hangman’s noose with no hint of the fear his executioners hoped to see. And, after he allegedly damned America and an Iraq without him, Saddam was hanged with uncanny proficiency. It seems U.S. President George W. Bush has… Read more.
When Egyptian authorities threw political dissident Ayman Nour in prison last week, he became only the latest opponent of a benevolent despot to be jailed under dubious circumstances. Yet, except for reporting the event as just another news story, international media made little mention of the fact that Nour’s imprisonment confirmed Egypt’s notorious retreat from… Read more.
When news broke on Christmas Day that James Brown (73) had died of congestive heart failure, I did not think his passing was worthy of comment; except perhaps to note that he was probably the most famous and enduring one-hit wonder in entertainment history (ie. “I feel good”; I dare you to name another hit?).… Read more.
Today, John Edwards must be thinking that his 2008 U.S. presidential campaign is doomed to fail. After all, he chose what he thought was the slow news week between Christmas and New Year’s Day to maximize coverage of the announcement of his candidacy, only to have the deaths of James Brown and former president Gerald… Read more.
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works! These are the memorable words President Gerald R. Ford uttered to signal the end of Richard Nixon’s scandalous presidency and the beginning of his ill-fated two and a half years as the 38th president of the United States. Ford passed away on Tuesday… Read more.
