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“A picture is worth a thousand words” Never before in the history of American politics has that adage been more apropos than everything this picture says about this time in America’s fraught march toward a more perfect union. But I’d be remiss not to comment on the fact that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina,… Read more.
US President Joe Biden offended all notions of diplomatic sense and sensibility last month when he called Russian President Vladimir Putin murderous and Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch dangerous. I found his candor – in calling a spade a spade on the world stage – refreshing and encouraging in equal measure. But perhaps it just… Read more.
The South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the UConn Huskies last night to win the NCAA women’s national championship. And South Carolina did so with relative ease, winning 64-49. Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” inherent in low-seeded… Read more.
Podcast Episode 71: But I Am an Apostate. So Listener Beware… Read more.
News reports went viral yesterday about how military advisers to Russian President Vladimir Putin routinely lied because his war in Ukraine was not going to plan. Putin was misled by advisers who were too scared to tell him how poorly the war in Ukraine is going and how damaging Western sanctions have been, White House… Read more.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Virginia “Ginni’ Thomas, will cause him to retire in utter disgrace. This is unavoidable now. Because, in the days following the 2020 presidential election, she sent then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows a flurry of text messages, some of which The Washington Post published last… Read more.
The Academy did not think it appropriate to feature Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking about Ukraine’s fight to defend democracy. Instead it featured a fight between Will Smith and Chris Rock to defend Smith’s “open” marriage. At Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony, Will Smith shocked the room by approaching the stage and slapping presenter Chris Rock… Read more.
Podcast Episode 70: Xi and Patriarch’s Relationship with Putin Is Diabolical. But Hoops Star Is Innocent… Related commentaries: Russia invasion of Ukraine… Ukraine and Tigray… Zelensky criticizes Israel… Read more.
Below are my picks for this year’s Oscars. But, as usual, I feel obliged to preface them by stating my abiding lament, which I first stated over a decade ago in “My Review of the 2008 Oscars,” February 25, 2008. ________ With all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture… Read more.
By congressional practice, the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson gave senators an opportunity to examine her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court. But Republicans on the Judiciary Committee seized it to peddle conspiracies and pander to the MAGA kooks who now compose the base of their party. Jackson wrote over 570 opinions during… Read more.
