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[Author’s Note: This article was originally published almost four years ago (on August 4, 2006). Back then I was commenting on reports that Prince Albert had proposed to South African beauty Charlene Wittstock. Well, even though accurate, those reports turned out to be wildly premature. Because Albert announced only last week that he had finally… Read more.
Based on the same principles that limit presidents to two four-year terms, I believe senators should be limited to two six-year terms and representatives to five two-year terms. This is why I cannot join the chorus of those now eulogizing Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia for becoming a veritable institution by holding on to… Read more.
President Obama and other G20 leaders met in Toronto last week to draw up more plans for a coordinated approach to combating the ongoing global financial crisis. Never mind that each leader duly ignored the plans for such an approach that were delineated in the communiqué following last year’s G20 summit. And there’s every indication… Read more.
Not even Patraeus, who is roundly hailed as a war hero for executing the surge strategy that drove al-Qaeda out of Iraq, will be able to convince Afghans that it is sensible to work with the Americans for one more year only to face the wrath of the Taliban for the rest of their lives. (McChrystal… Read more.
South Africans appear to be the only ones who have no problem with the monotonous blaring of vuvuzelas that are drowning out the cheers and jeers that normally imbue matches with their adversarial pathos. Even worse, they make it impossible for players and coaches to communicate on the pitch, and have even caused thousands of… Read more.
This isn’t just insubordinate; it’s downright contemptuous. In fact, McChrystal is cultivating a fraternity with the soldiers under his command that makes a mockery of the tradition of civilian command and control of the military… This is an easy call. Not least because the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits any military personnel from demeaning the commander… Read more.
I woke up this morning to a war story that read like the classic dispute between President Truman and an insubordinate General MacArthur during the Korean War or between President Lincoln and an insubordinate General McClellan during the Civil War. But, remarkably enough, this one was between President Obama and his top commander in Afghanistan, General… Read more.
With Democratic wingnuts like John Stewart and Maureen Dowd not only ridiculing his response to the BP oil spill but even questioning his competence, President Obama does not need Republican wingnuts like Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. But the “friendly fire” Obama is now taking from these liberal pundits merely exposes the fact that, just… Read more.
Here in part is what I wrote after Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed the Obamas’ first state dinner last November: [T]his whole farce was concocted by these two nincompoops as an audition to appear on the reality TV program The Real Housewives of D.C… I’ve seen an episode of one of these now franchised programs… Read more.
Be mindful of the apartheid-like poverty that still exists just outside those first-class stadiums. Read more.
