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The arrest of alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic is not getting nearly the media coverage that attended the killing of Osama bin Laden. But I’m sure this does not diminish at all the vindication it portends for Mladic’s victims. Granted, this discrepancy in coverage stems from the fact that bin Laden was a global terrorist who masterminded the most devastating attacks… Read more.
I appreciate that few people even bother to pretend that this holiday has anything to do with fallen troops. All the same, as you’re enjoying fun days at the shopping mall or at the beach, please take a moment to remember the troops – especially those who are still languishing in Iraq and Afghanistan (where another eight of… Read more.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK), of course, is the IMF head who police hauled off an Air France plane on May 14, just as it was about to depart for Paris from New York. He was duly arrested for first attempting a few hours earlier to rape a maid when she came in to clean his hotel room and… Read more.
My heart really goes out to all of the people who were affected by the series of twisters that have utterly devastated everything in their path across the South and Midwest of the United States in recent weeks. The most deadly of them hit Joplin, Missouri on Sunday, killing over 120 and bringing the total… Read more.
I have written many commentaries extolling Lance Armstrong’s remarkable accomplishments – not just as a professional cyclist (most notably his unprecedented and unequaled seven consecutive victories in the Tour de France), but also as a fundraiser for cancer research (most notably the over $400 million he has raised primarily through donations to his LIVESTRONG website).… Read more.
Chances are that you’ve never even heard of the Kingdom of Bhutan, let alone its 31-year-old monarch, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. More to the point, regular readers will appreciate that – given my democratic condemnation of the royal wedding of William and Kate – this is hardly an endorsement of the royal wedding of Jigme and… Read more.
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2011 AD—On May 21st, Judgment Day will begin and the rapture (the taking up into heaven of God’s elect people) will occur at the end of the 23-year great tribulation. On October 21st, the world will be destroyed by fire (7000 years from the flood; 13,023 years from creation). (ebible fellowship.com) This is utter rubbish… Read more.
This week the vast majority of media reports and commentaries worldwide were either about the arrest of IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn or about the lovechild of former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Therefore, it seems fitting that I should end the week with this update on another political scandal. This one stems from the arrest in November of… Read more.
If these politicians were not lead vocals in a chorus of moral crusaders, I would not give their sexual escapades a moment’s thought. For the unadulterated pleasure of afflicting these hypocrites, however, I don’t even mind being bedfellows with a publicity-seeking hustler like Larry Flynt. (D.C. Madam outs Sen. David Vitter as a faithful “John”,… Read more.
