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To his victims and their sympathizers, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse is a White vigilante who committed double murder. To his defenders, he’s a folk hero who lived out their gun-rights fantasies. Rittenhouse acquitted Gun violence has become such a feature of American life that no one should be surprised that a jury acquitted Rittenhouse. But the following from a CNN… Read more.
Last year, China notoriously disappeared no less a person than Jack Ma, its Jeff Bezos who founded Amazon-like Alibaba, for three months. All indications are that the government detained him for re-education after he got so big for his britches, he thought he could publicly ridicule the ham-handed way apparatchiks were implementing President Xi’s domestic… Read more.
Covid is clearly far more infectious than the flu. And, with a death toll of over 750,000 in the United States and over 5 million worldwide, it is clearly far more deadly. But you’ve probably noticed medical pundits all over the media lately drawing all kinds of comparisons between Covid and the flu. Their apparent… Read more.
Just weeks ago, Europe was hurling moral indignation at the migrant crisis America allowed to unfold under a bridge near the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. As it happened, I alluded to Russian mischief in the title to my commentary on that crisis, namely “Er, VP Harris, the Migrants Are Coming, the Migrants Are… Read more.
Based on court testimony, it’s evident that Britney Spears was ill-served during her nearly 14 years under conservatorship. In hindsight, it might be that she was crying out for help in her hit song, “I’m a Slave 4 U”, even before then. Of course, her fans could be forgiven for receiving it as her sexy… Read more.
Episode 54: And It’s More About Honoring Veterans than Shopping for Deals… Listen.
There seems no denying that, the more Donald Trump humiliates Republican men, the more they seem to want to kiss his ass. This has been the most stupefying feature of American politics since 2016. Senator Ted Cruz infamously put a fetishistic twist on cuckoldry in this regard that is just too perverse for words. Of… Read more.
Black civil rights leaders spent this year pleading with poor people (of all racial backgrounds) to get the Covid vaccine to save their lives. Unfortunately, celebrity worship in America is such that Aaron Rodgers wields more influence among those poor people than all of those Black civil rights leaders … combined. So bear that in… Read more.
Episode 53: Frankly, Democrats Are Behaving Like SNL’s Version of The Suicide Squad or The Peanuts Gang… Related commentaries: Joe Manchin… Listen.
Colin L. Powell was remembered for his leadership skills, his love of ABBA and Bob Marley and “his sense of humor, his insatiable curiosity and his comfort in his own skin” at a funeral Friday that drew presidents past and present, military leaders and hundreds of Washington dignitaries. Among those in attendance were Powell’s wife,… Read more.
