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Only a mental case would pick on someone twice his size. Only this explains why a pint-size kid would pick on a kid twice his size. And only this explains why Hamas would begin lobbing rockets at Israel again. Well, what should happen in such cases was demonstrated in the video showing a pint-size bully getting body slammed by his much bigger victim that went viral last… Read more.
It’s 7:05 EDT and the first of this year’s Sweet Sixteen NCAA Men’s Division I basketball games is scheduled to tip off in 10 minutes. I’m running late for many reasons but mostly because I am not a big fan of college basketball. Frankly, I know few people who are. After all, most people’s interest… Read more.
She was certainly an iconic figure. The remarkable thing, however, is that her profession had little to do with it. To be sure, she was a very accomplished actress: starring in over 60 films and even winning an Academy Award for best actress for her roles in Butterfield 8 and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.… Read more.
Yesterday Israel demonstrated why it stands out in the Middle East not just as a Jewish state surrounded by mostly hostile Muslim ones, but as an unqualified democracy amidst dictatorships in varying degrees of benignity. (Granted, the dramatic revolutions now unfolding throughout this region might usher in bona fide democratic governments in a few countries, but… Read more.
No doubt Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide expected that his long-planned and long-anticipated return to Haiti on Friday would command at least as much international media coverage as his flight into exile in 2004. And it probably would have if the international media were not already preoccupied, if not obsessed, with coverage of not one but… Read more.
While I was doing a little research last night for today’s commentary on the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti, I came across a story about a one-legged wrestler who had just won a Division I national championship. This captivated my attention for two reasons: First, college wrestling (which is more like the challenging sport you see… Read more.
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Everybody also knows that China and Russia will veto any UN resolution to sanction a no-fly zone. This is why all of the talk about imposing one is just hot air. (“No-fly zone over Libya?” The iPINIONS Journal, March 16, 2011) I was wrong. Because last night the UN actually approved a surprisingly robust resolution (1973) authorizing not just a… Read more.
Democratic Senator John Kerry, neo-con Republicans, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the Arab League are all among the strange bedfellows calling for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya. They claim that this will give democratic forces a fighting chance against forces loyal to Dictator Muammar Gaddafi – who are now mounting a blitzkrieg… Read more.
Many of you have asked why I haven’t commented on the recent fight between labor unions and the Republican-controlled government in the state of Wisconsin. Well, it’s because I found the whole thing an anticlimactic farce. In a nutshell, the fight was over a bill Republican Governor Scott Walker was championing that was designed to strip public… Read more.
