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On Friday, in commentary entitled Turning MLK’s dream into a nightmare, I previewed Conservative talk-show host Glen Beck’s rally that took place on Saturday. Therefore, it would clearly be remiss of me not to publish a follow up. So here it is: Beck incited a fair amount of indignation, even anger, by promoting this rally… Read more.
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Tomorrow is the 47th anniversary of the I Have A Dream speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Clearly, under ordinary circumstances, one would just wait until the 50th to commemorate this occasion. But these are no ordinary times. Not least because the lips of… Read more.
Chileans rejoiced on Sunday when it was reported that the miners trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed copper mine were all still alive. In fact, the miners managed to attach a message to the end of the probe that rescuers drilled some 2,257 feet into this mine. Their message read: Estamos Bien En El… Read more.
I have always marveled at the derision with which some candidates charge their opponents as being “just another politician“- as if they were referring to someone with no more socially redeeming value than a common thief. Especially since all of them are acutely aware that, in making this charge, they are deriding the very office… Read more.
Reports are that business mogul Donald Trump, owner of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, effectively handpicks the winners to serve his PR purposes. Therefore, he would do well to tap Miss Haiti for Miss Universe this year for all of the international goodwill this would surely engender…. (Miss Haiti: a black nation’s white hope, The… Read more.
As I watched highlights of Roger Clemens testifying before Congress yesterday, it occurred to me that … the more he said, the more he incriminated himself – not only on the settled charge of taking illegal performance enhancing drugs, but also on the looming charge of perjury and obstruction of justice. (Forget the Hall of… Read more.
A couple of weeks ago, researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reported that: A stunning number of teens have lost a little bit of their hearing – nearly one in five – and the problem has increased substantially in recent years. (NPR, August 13, 2010) The chief cause of this pandemic of… Read more.
Reprinted from Caribbean News Now! caribbeannewsnow.com [NOTE: Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward pioneered the practice of writers relying on their own news organization to provide authoritative reviews of their books. So, in keeping with this practice, the following book review is reprinted here courtesy of my news organization, Caribbean News Now.] Book review: CHANGE We Can Believe In?… Read more.
