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I believe there’s going to be a signed peace treaty [between the Israelis and Palestinians] by the time I leave office . . . I’m on a timetable . . . I’ve got 12 months. (President George W. Bush, January 11, 2008) Just weeks ago, President Bush went to Iraq hoping to be serenaded with… Read more.
In a move as socio-pathetic as it was politically strategic, beleaguered IL Gov Rod Blagojevich appointed former State Attorney General Roland Burris, 71, to fill Obama’s Senate seat. This, despite assurances from his lawyer that he would heed admonitions by everyone from President-elect Barack Obama to the entire Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate that anyone… Read more.
After the public humiliation she suffered for buying into James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces (of lies) hook, line and sinker, Oprah Winfrey must be wondering about her literary Midas touch now that she’s been ensnared in yet another sensational literary hoax. This time, the writer who duped her with a daring love story masquerading… Read more.
Harold Pinter was such an accomplished playwright that here’s how the Nobel Academy regaled him as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005: Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles. With a minimum of… Read more.
Eartha Kitt was one of few entertainers to win accolades in show business as a triple threat, namely, as an accomplished singer, dancer and actor. In fact, nothing affirmed her multifaceted talent in this respect quite like the fact that she was nominated for the Grammy, Tony and Emmy awards. Yet curiously enough, Kitt will… Read more.
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I defended Barack Obama when right-wing critics were trying to derail his presidential campaign by tarring him with the incendiary black-liberation rhetoric of his pastor, Rev Jeremiah Wright. And no one was prouder when he was elected as the first black president of the United States. That is why it pains me to have to join the chorus of those now… Read more.
Last week, Jacob Zuma – the man generally expected to be the next president of South Africa – aped Muslim jihadists by unleashing a pack of lawyers on “Zapiro” – the nom de plume of his country’s most celebrated political cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro. Zuma claims that the Zapiro cartoon pictured above “injured his dignity and reputation“, and he’s demanding Shapiro’s life savings… Read more.
Because shoe him once, shame on you, shoe him twice … can’t get shoe’d again ! Read more.
I suspect people all over the Caribbean, if not the entire world, are thinking that the political farce still unfolding in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) could never happen in their country. Therefore, in defense of my mother country, I feel obliged to begin this commentary by noting the following: The parliamentary procedures and… Read more.
