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Former Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali no longer lives in the Netherlands – having been constructively exiled after the country’s immigration minister, Rita Verdonk, revoked her citizenship. Yet, so much political controversy attended her exile that the national row and (soul searching) she left behind finally caused the Dutch government to fall last week. Regular… Read more.

Ken Lay died yesterday and I’m obliged to comment. But since my Mummy told me many years ago to never speak ill of the dead, I shall avoid being disrespectful by being brief. In this previous article, I wrote about Lay’s criminal trial for the labyrinthine fraud he lorded over at Enron. In fact, by… Read more.

Perhaps it was a good omen (or just a fortuitous opportunity to display the independent spirit of 1776 that could not be missed) that – after 2 aborted attempts – the Space Shuttle Discovery finally blasted off yesterday – on Independence Day. As I understand it, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sent these… Read more.

Independence Day, 4th of July Read more.

In this previous article (dated June 25), I lauded the heroic showing of my sentimental pick in this year’s World Cup, Trinidad and Tobago (T and T), before they were eliminated by quadrennial favorite England. I also reveled with undisguised schadenfreude, however, over the (superpower) U.S. being kicked out of contention by (Third World /… Read more.

Alas, more bad news for a few of my colleagues and their fellow smokers who stand in formation and puff gauntlets of toxic fumes in the front of office buildings all over America. Because, now that the U.S. Surgeon General has declared second-hand smoke an “alarming public health hazard”, one can be sure swift measures… Read more.

To hear President Bush and members of his Administration wailing indignantly this week because the New York Times reported on the U.S. (war-on-terror) strategy of tracking terrorists through bank records, one would have thought its reporters burglarized the White House war room and stole the information that appeared in the report. But nothing could be… Read more.

Yesterday, after reading newspaper headlines and hearing TV sound bites about the notorious Gitmo case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, one might have thought the U.S. Supreme Court had decided that President George W. Bush was himself a war criminal. But after reading the decision (and all the news deemed fit to print about it), I realized… Read more.