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Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel. The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the state of Palestine. This, according to the… Read more.
Notwithstanding all of the spectacular performances, the most compelling story in Baseball over the past 20 years has been the extent to which steroids fueled those performances. For the record, I believe performance-enhancing drugs and sports have become inextricably linked, and that only latter-day puritans masquerading as “sports purists” could believe otherwise. Lance Armstrong’s final fall… Read more.
Whenever friends parrot the cliché about Americans being too proud to do menial jobs, I cite the coal miners of West Virginia or the lumberjacks of Wisconsin to disabuse them of their ignorance. It never works. Of course, they can be forgiven their ignorance given the prevailing narrative about the refusal of Americans to do… Read more.
Frankly, the whole craze smacks of pandemic egocentrism. I can’t think of a single person on planet earth whose thoughts and activities I’d want to know about 24/7. Nor can I think of anyone with whom I’d even consider sharing my thoughts and activities so comprehensively (or is that compulsively?). (“It’s No Treat for Me To Tweet, The iPINIONS Journal,… Read more.
It seemed Thailand was bursting with national pride last week when President Obama made it the first stop on his historic trip to Southeast Asia. The president’s visit made quite an impression on Thailand, and adoring crowds gathered around him and chanted ‘Obama, Obama’ as he visited the Temple of Reclining Buddha just after arriving… Read more.
Yesterday Barack Obama became the first president of the United States to visit Myanmar (otherwise known as Burma). But it was hardly a cause for universal celebration. Specifically, international human rights groups criticized him for conferring legitimacy on this country’s oppressive regime. Not least because it is perpetrating the kind of ethnic cleansing of minorities… Read more.
Listening to all the carnival barking by Republicans and their Amen chorus in the media, you’d think the Obama administration actually conspired with al-Qaeda terrorists to attack the US Consulate in Benghazi on 9/11. They are calling for Watergate-style hearings. But their only credible charge is that, for national security reasons, the Obama administration used… Read more.
Dear Readers I fully appreciate that you might be experiencing donor fatigue after donating to such worthy causes as the Superstorm Sandy relief fund, the “I am Malala” education fund, and even the recently concluded U.S. presidential campaigns. But to the extent you have any discretionary cash left, please consider this appeal – not to… Read more.
No doubt you recall that Mitt Romney was caught on tape during the presidential campaign dissing 47 percent of the American people as a bunch of welfare parasites living off the wealth of people like him. And perhaps, like his VP running mate Paul Ryan, you thought Romney was just being “inarticulate.” In which case, consider… Read more.
