Archives for August 2006

Actually, that title pretty much sums up my commentary on yesterday’s foiled terror plot. Because the good news is that British intelligence allegedly prevented presumed al Qaeda terrorists from blowing up 10 U.S. airplanes filled with passengers on a transatlantic flight from London to the United States. But talk about “shock and awe”: Given all… Read more.

My mother country, the Turks and Caicos Islands, remains one of the few “Overseas Territories” of the United Kingdom. But, as regular readers of this weblog know, for years now, I’ve been zealously advocating for us to sever this Lilliputian relationship. Yet, it was not until Dr Michael Misick (PNP) was elected “Chief Minister” 3… Read more.

After the most recent article on my favorite “ex-communists”, the Ukrainians, a number of you emailed to ask: why them, and not the Lithuanians, Georgians or nationals of any number of other countries that comprised the former Soviet Union? And, as much I would have liked to cite some historical or geo-strategic reason, I was… Read more.

…We liberals couldn’t possibly be so intolerant and hateful, because our ideology was famous for ACLU-type commitments to free speech, dissent and, especially, tolerance for those who differed with us….Now, in the closing days of the Lieberman primary campaign, I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly… Read more.

Last week, the news was saturated with simmering reports about the heat wave that had most North Americans suffering through Death-Valley summer temperatures. Therefore, I cannot blame 60 Minutes, the most popular TV news program in the United States, for capping those reports on Sunday evening with an opportunistic re-broadcast of its Chicken-Little piece on… Read more.

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When this war began several weeks ago, I criticized Hezbollah for deliberately igniting it by ambushing and kidnapping Israeli soldiers in the North when Israel was already on an anxious military alert over the kidnapping of one of their soldiers in the South by Hamas militants. But when it retaliated with a blitzkrieg through Southern… Read more.

Regular readers of this weblog know that I’ve been unsparing in my criticism of Prince Albert II of Monaco, 48, for not only living an egregiously promiscuous lifestyle but also fathering children (2 that we know of) out of wedlock. But he incited my most indignant ire after he renounced the birthright of his black… Read more.

I wholly endorse the libertarian view that adults should be allowed to use any recreational drug they desire without fear of prosecution – so long as that use does not harm innocent third parties. And I have no patience for trite and inherently flawed moral arguments to the contrary, unless proffered by a bona fide… Read more.