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In continuing the 18-year ban on media coverage of US troops returning home in body bags, President Bush insisted that he was doing so out of respect for the troops and regard for their families. But everybody knew that he was doing so because he feared that broadcasting this deadly cost would have a demoralizing… Read more.
My previous commentaries on Michael Jackson make it clear that I harbor very conflicted feelings about him. For, on the one hand, I’m his biggest fan: Paying tribute to Michael Jackson as the King of Pop is rather like paying tribute to Joseph Ratzinger as the Pope. For, where his musical genius was concerned, Michael was not… Read more.
Australia is roughly the same size as the contiguous Unites States. But it has a population of only 22 million people; the US has 307 million. Therefore, you’d think Australia would be solicitous about attracting new immigrants to its shores. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. For the record, over 1 million people… Read more.
Who would’ve thought that President Obama, the first black president of the United States, would be liable to criticism for fostering extracurricular activities that exclude women. Yet, ironically, that is precisely the case. This criticism reached a tipping point last week when he invited only male members of his Cabinet and Congress to the White… Read more.
Last night, in the house that Jeter built, the New York Yankees won a long-awaited berth into the World Series by defeating the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 to win the American League Championship Series, four games to two. Of course, any team would be happy to brag about winning 40 league pennants and 26 World Series championships – as the… Read more.
Government officials and news reporters are doing more to cause a panic than this virus will do to cause a pandemic… [F]ar too few government officials and reporters are bothering to assure the public that this outbreak is no more deadly than the garden variety flu that kills over 36,000 Americans every year. And, even though it’s a new… Read more.
Nine hours into jury deliberations on Wednesday in Nassau, Bahamas, Justice Anita Allen, the presiding judge in the case of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta, declared a mistrial after she got word that a politician blurted out the following at a local campaign rally: Well, we have some… Read more.
On Wednesday, the Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Hon Kurt DeFreitas, issued a press release in which he announced that: … there is insufficient evidence to charge [former Premier] Michael Misick with any offense in connection with a complaint of serious sexual assault made against him by an adult female U.S.… Read more.
I’ve read quite a bit about the love affair that blossomed during the last days of British rule in India between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Edwina, the wife of the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire, Lord Mountbatten. And nothing has been more revealing in this respect than the love letters they… Read more.
On September 17, Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) declared President Hamid Karzai the outright winner of the August 20 presidential election with 54.6 percent of the vote. And since then, Karzai has been insisting that allegations of voter fraud were nothing more than a red herring being propagated by his arch rival (and sore loser) Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s… Read more.
