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It was not the result of a national election but it still counts. By being elected the new leader of Jamaica’s ruling People’s National Party (PNP) on Saturday, Portia Simpson Miller will automatically become prime minister when PJ Patterson, the current PM, retires in a few weeks – after 14 years in power. Here’s to… Read more.
“Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them … Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard… Read more.
It is naive, if not stupid, to regard the jingoistic hysteria in America over the ports deal the Bush Administration consummated with the UAE as anything but racist! Dubai UAE, US ports deal Read more.
After Sasha Cohen (L) of the United States and Irina Slutskaya (R) of Russia ended the short program in the women’s Figure Skating competition on Tuesday in a virtual tie, everyone presumed last night’s final would be a cold war battle for the gold between them, figuratively, with the other skaters fighting for bronze.… Read more.
Yesterday, virtually every international news organization ran with stories heralding the arrest of indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic. This, after every newspaper in Serbia reported it as fact. Mind you, every reputable news editor in the world knows that unrepentant nationalists in the Serbian government trade in rumors about his arrest to curry favor with… Read more.
“Yes, there were gas chambers. Millions of Jews died. There is no question. I don’t know the figures. I’m not an expert on the Holocaust.” This is the constrained admission of an acclaimed historian and author of 30 books who made a veritable fortune peddling revisionist nonsense about the Holocaust – including his infamous charge… Read more.
“On the war of ideas or the struggle for hearts and minds…American efforts have not only failed, they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended….American direct intervention in the Muslim world has paradoxically elevated the stature of, and support for, radical Islamists, while diminishing support for the United States to single digits… Read more.
“Katrina was a national failure, an abdication of the most solemn obligation to provide for the common welfare.” Last Wednesday, the U.S. Congress released its 520-page report, A Failure of Initiative, on the abysmal failures of the government’s Katrina relief effort. But the only people who seemed surprised by its water-over-the-levee findings were the finger-pointing… Read more.
As you probably gathered from Thursday’s column on the Cheney hunting accident, I don’t have much regard for media priorities when it comes to news coverage in America. For example, when was the last time any of you heard or read a report on the trial of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling for allegedly perpetrating… Read more.
Earlier this week, Iraq’s American overseers expressed embarrassment – disguised as frustration – with the way even their newly-appointed, no-nonsense judge is allowing Saddam Hussein to make a mockery of his trial for crimes against humanity. And no one delights in their embarrassment more than Saddam himself. Indeed, he jumps at every opportunity to get… Read more.
