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The funny thing is that I don’t think there has ever been a wannabe president who was so damn proud of his ignorance. In any case, I’d say he has about 3 of his 15 minutes left before he becomes too much of a national laughing stock even for his Republican puppet masters. (Herman Cain’s… Read more.
It will probably be decades before my team, the Washington Nationals, even make it to a League Series, let alone the World Series. Therefore, I had no vested interest in the outcome of this year’s World Series that played out in such dramatic fashion over the past week. Except that I would have liked to… Read more.
I have noticed lately that more and more women are wearing fat suits on TV – either as a comedic gag or under the absurd pretense of presuming to experience what it’s like to be a fat woman. But I think a skinny bitch wearing a fat suit is every bit as offensive as a… Read more.
I am convinced that, if reelected, Obama will seal his legacy by lifting the embargo and normalizing relations with Cuba. But where I have advocated for this cause as a categorical imperative, I am not sure that CARICOM leaders fully appreciate what lifting the embargo augurs for our zero-sum regional economy. Be careful what you… Read more.
There’s nothing new about politicians embellishing their biographies to ingratiate themselves with voters. Most notable in this respect are men who fabricate military experience – complete with battlefield heroics. And, remarkably enough, they often suffer very little, if any, consequence – as former Connecticut attorney general, now U.S. senator, Richard Blumenthal, can attest. But I… Read more.
Westerners are expressing ‘shock, shock’ that every country coming out of the Arab Spring is vowing to be governed by the Sharia laws that made Afghanistan such a pariah nation under the Taliban. Specifically, they are spooked by the fact that just this week the Tunisians elected an Islamist Party to replace the (Western-supported) dictator… Read more.
I have felt obliged on more than a few occasions to condemn blacks (like Al Sharpton) for playing the “race card” while complaining about all manner of grievances. I suspect this is why so many people expressed shock when I led the chorus of those charging that race had everything to do with the salutary neglect… Read more.
It might seem impossible for a president to be triumphant, modest, contradictory, solemn and opportunistic all at once. Yet President Obama was just that when he made the following announcement on Friday: After nearly 9 years, America’s war in Iraq will be over… Over the next two months, our troops in Iraq—tens of thousands of them—will… Read more.
White conservatives clearly hoped that this black conservative would provide the pretext to absolve them of their racist sins the way Obama ostensibly did for white liberals. Except that Herman Cain is suddenly turning out to be more of a demonic black Archie Bunker than the messianic black Ronald Reagan he was supposed to be (or become). Not to mention… Read more.
Won’t these brutal dictators ever learn? Think what you will of the cowardly path Tunisia’s Ben Ali took by fleeing into exile. At least he was smart enough to avoid the humiliation Egypt’s Mubarak is now suffering. Mubarak’s being wheeled into court on his deathbed to face trial, which will surely end in his Saddam-like… Read more.
