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My fellow Bahamians: Our handling of the Cuban detainees has already diminished our integrity and undermined our credibility in the international arena. Therefore, please prevail upon our government to reverse its ban of the showing of Brokeback Mountain in our country. Because such a ban only makes a laughing stock of our maturity as a… Read more.
Even though commenting on good news out of Iraq seems an oxymoronic proposition these days, I am sufficiently relieved by Jill Carroll’s release yesterday to do so. Carroll, of course, is the journalist who was kidnapped on the streets of Baghdad nearly three months ago by desert-variety bandits who now control movement there more than… Read more.
I, Whitney! Whack on crack? Whitney Houston is losing her battle with drugs. A year ago, almost to this day, I published a despairing post to this effect. She manifested the tell-tale ravages of drug abuse on her face and in her voice. I lamented her cracked-out look. I also derided her fatuous denials about using drugs. Of course, there… Read more.
Last October, American cable and broadcast stations saturated the airways with reports, in titillating detail, on allegations that black players from the Minnesota Vikings football team had engaged in entirely consensual orgies during a party-boat excursion – albeit in full view of other leering boaters. It begs notice, therefore, that these stations have given scant… Read more.
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.
