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No, I’m not “too much of a snob to comment on the Miss USA thing” (as regular readers who have feasted on my Britney, Paris and Nicole commentaries can readily attest). So, here’s my two cents’ worth: Donald Trump is successful, in part, because he’s a shameless, irrepressible, self-promoting megalomaniac. And no one knows how… Read more.
Last September, when Pope Benedict XVI – Germany’s most famous native son – criticized tenets of Islam which incite Muslims to riot, Muslims reacted so violently, including issuing death threats against him, that the Pope was forced to perform a series of public apologies to quell their fury. But I promptly criticized him for being… Read more.
In a March 2005 column I predicted that the battle within the Anglican Church over the role of women and gays would eventually blow its worldwide communion asunder. Back then, some of the most influential dioceses in the United States and overseas – especially in Latin America and Africa where the Anglicans are competing with… Read more.
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Despite the mess President George W. Bush has created in Iraq, the U.S. remains the greatest force for good in the world – providing, as it does, more financial and humanitarian aid to the poor (especially throughout Africa, Asia and the Caribbean), and doing more to broker peace (especially in the Middle East and on… Read more.
This is not iffy data [or bush medicine]. This is serious data. [Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health, at a press conference on Wednesday confirming the dramatically positive correlation between circumcision and reductions in the incidence of HIV/AIDS] I’ve been promoting circumcision as an effective treatment for the prevention of HIV/AIDS… Read more.
I think it was fitting, despite the obvious irony, that the last report Ed Bradley presented on 60 Minutes before he died a month ago was an exposé on the miscarriage of justice in the racially-charged Duke University rape case. To recap: Last March, a black stripper accused several members of the all-white (except for… Read more.
If there were still some reservoir of doubt in the international community about the fact that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, it would probably constitute a shrewd geo-political strategy for its leaders to cultivate that doubt. But since this fact was an open secret even before Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu confirmed it in 1986, it… Read more.
Last Summer, after it became clear that her ties to the quagmire in Iraq made her unelectable, I abandoned my crusade for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to run for president of the United States in 2008. Then, in October, after a number of his closest advisers persuaded me that – despite his coy demeanor… Read more.
… When a politician is caught with his hand in the cookie jar, instead of inciting moral outrage, it merely provides comic relief. And Mr. Jefferson is only the latest to become a laughing stock amongst a presumed (Congressional) den of thieves. This is the cynicism I expressed last May in my commentary on the… Read more.
