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Nationalism, not Democracy, stirs protests in China. Protests in mainland China are as common as the passing of Halley’s Comet. And, when they do occur, one can be sure that government officials have inspected every slogan and banner to ensure conformity with the Communist Party line. The Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, of course, was… Read more.
Rev. Al Sharpton: Hey, nobody owns me! Now, if you want to buy a piece of me, have cash, let’s talk…. It is with profound disappointment and disillusionment that I comment on yet another of the heirs to the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) who has defiled his legacy. The reprobate minister in… Read more.
Dial and the Warden’s wife: The potter and his clay or Biddle and Mrs Soffel? Here’s a story for the ages: Randolph Dial, a convicted murderer (serving a life sentence), finagled his way into a pottery class being taught by the warden’s wife and somehow manipulated her into helping him escape – with her in… Read more.
Atheist Fidel Castro lectures the Pope on the secular virtues of his Revolution… Last week, President Bush surprised many of his fellow Methodists (well-known for their religious reserve) by paying tributes to Pope John Paul II with fundamentalist emotion and conviction. In fact, he even offered a zealous defense of the Pope when his new… Read more.
Woods celebrates his fourth Masters win Just 2 days ago, sports commentators were lamenting the end of Tiger’s mastery over professional golf. Today, they cannot find words to describe his brilliant victory in yesterday’s Masters Golf Tournament. Click here for some of the thrilling details. News and Politics Read more.
Africa’s weapons of mass destruction make those Sadaam used on his people look like firecrackers. News and Politics Read more.
Fairy tales do come true….Queen Camilla despite her face! News and Politics Read more.
Vick: Damn! This is really gonna screw up my game… It seems that no matter how many cautionary tales they witness (e.g. Magic Johnson’s career destroyed by HIV, Michael Jordan sued by his mistress for palimony, Dr J’s lust child descending upon him 18 years after one of his trysts, etc.), professional athletes will continue… Read more.
Well done – my good and faithful servant. Thou art blessed as the Pope of popes. No doubt Catholics would like to think that’s how God greeted John Paul II in Heaven. But President Bill Clinton created quite a furor yesterday with the following: The Pope centralized authority in the papacy again and enforced a… Read more.
The U.S. Congress welcomes Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko as the world’s latest hero of Democracy! Yesterday, the newly elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, received a triumphal welcome before addressing a joint session of the United States Congress. Yushchenko thanked President George W. Bush for standing firm in his support for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution .… Read more.
