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Last April, I wrote this laudatory and hopeful commentary on the historic state visit of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko to the United States. After all, he not only led the Orange Revolution, which wrested power from Russia’s puppet president – Viktor Yanukovych, but survived an alleged KGB assassination attempt, which made the CIA attempt to… Read more.
Kony is Amin’s demon spawn Joseph Kony is a former altar boy. But it’s a testament to his venality that his name now symbolizes pure evil. That’s because he’s unleashing a reign of terror not seen on the African continent since the despotic rule of Idi Amin. Except that Amin had a noble cause. He wanted to… Read more.
How’s this for the law of unintended consequences: After liberating Afghanistan from the freedom-hating, women-beating, head-chopping Taliban, the Americans thought they were ushering in a new government that would guarantee its citizens all the universal freedoms westerners take for granted; including, most assuredly, freedom of religion. Now comes the barbaric (Talibanic) spectacle of this supposedly… Read more.
Americans emulated Frenchmen this week by taking to the streets all over the country to protest new immigration laws being debated in Congress that would make felons of illegal immigrants, and “literally criminalize the good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself” who help them assimilate. But where I have little sympathy for the rioters in… Read more.
It is fashionable to blame the media for focusing too much on superficial stories – like who will be the next American Idol, and not enough on important ones – like the genocide now raging in Darfur. However, I believe such blame is misplaced. After all, if Americans (and people all over the world) showed… Read more.
Many Americans convulsed in paroxysms of moral outrage on Tuesday when Florida prosecutors dropped all charges against sexy middle-school teacher Debra LaFave for perpetrating a series of sexual acts on one of her 14-year old students. But, as you may reasonably infer from the title of this article, I do not share their outrage. In… Read more.
What do you think Blair is thinking about his Iraq-war buddy today?Many Britons are citing disclosures about a campaign finance scandal as the reason for Prime Minister Tony Blair’s political purgatory. But that’s rather like citing disclosures about the Abramoff lobbying scandal for President George Bush’s living hell. Because, in fact, Blair is facing a… Read more.
“I think it would be a very interesting job because I actually think football, with all due respect to baseball, is a kind of national pastime that brings people together across social lines, across racial lines. And I think it’s an important American institution.” [Dr. Condoleezza Rice] National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Paul Tagliabue shocked… Read more.
“It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more….If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.” [Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi yesterday on BBC TV] When the truth is plain to… Read more.
In a remarkable display of fiery temper tantrums, over 500,000 bourgeois Frenchmen took to the streets yesterday to protest government plans to wean them from unsustainable state guarantees of jobs for life. Because, as farfetched as it may seem to nationals elsewhere, these congenitally-spoiled socialists insist that – once hired for any job – no… Read more.
