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Archives for October 2013
Legalize Marijuana!
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at 8:21 AM
Just last week, Gallup released a poll showing that 58 percent of Americans think that marijuana usage should be made legal, which is the first time in U.S. history that more than half of Americans have expressed support for legalization. (Huffington Post, October 29, 2013) Of course, far more compelling are data repeatedly showing that… Read more.
PSA: Parents Who Let Kids Drink Are Not All Irresponsible
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 4:53 AM
As attorney general, Douglas F. Gansler is Maryland’s chief law-enforcement officer. More importantly, he seemed destined to be its governor after elections next year. But Gansler’s electoral prospect changed last week when a picture showing him in the midst of underage kids dancing and drinking at a “Beach Week” party went viral. It looks like… Read more.
Computer Glitches Undermine Obamacare, but Indict Republican Fare
Monday, October 28, 2013 at 6:53 AM
I’m on record stating (as I did most recently on October 17 in “Republicans Grant 90-Day Reprieve from Economic Armageddon”) that everything from the 2008 financial crisis to the 2013 government shutdown seems pursuant to an open conspiracy to make America look like a dysfunctional Banana Republic. Why? To propagate a specious correlation between America’s… Read more.
Seems there’s a ‘bug’ in America’s friends and family plan
Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 8:07 AM
I Said Putin Would Hand Snowden Over. I Was Wrong.
Friday, October 25, 2013 at 5:35 AM
Putin clearly has no use for Snowden. But, as a perfectly understandable matter of form, he must avoid any appearance of caving in to American demands to return him immediately… There seems little doubt that Putin will eventually hand Snowden over to his ‘American partner.’ And I assure you, he has every intention of doing so… Read more.
I Said Putin Would Pardon Pussy Riot. I Was Wrong.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 5:27 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been so lampooned for using staged heroics to boost his He-Man (Master-of-the-Universe) reputation that you’d think he would seize any opportunity to display a genuine human touch and, no less important, a self-deprecating sense of humor. An ideal opportunity presented itself in February 2012 when his thought police arrested three… Read more.
Something About Hannah
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 5:37 AM
I took a lot of flak (as I seem to be doing a lot lately) for writing the following about Hannah Anderson, the teenager a family friend allegedly kidnapped after murdering her mother and younger brother: Friends will attest to my abiding belief that there was/is much more to this story than a murdering, psycho-obsessed,… Read more.
Same-Sex Marriage Now Legal in New Jersey!
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 5:29 AM
I believe it is a self-evident truth that not allowing gays to marry is an even greater violation of the fundamental civil rights all citizens should enjoy than not allowing Blacks to vote. (“Same-Sex Marriage Now Legal in New York,” The iPINIONS Journal, June 27, 2011) Yesterday New Jersey became the 14th state to allow… Read more.
Chief Prosecutor Condemns SA President Zuma and his ruling ANC
Monday, October 21, 2013 at 5:43 AM
Here is what I wrote six years ago after South Africa’s ruling ANC dumped Thabo Mbeki in favor of Jacob Zuma as party leader, thereby ensuring an ignominious end to Mbeki’s tenure as the country’s second democratically elected president: It’s an insult to Mbeki’s distinguished career of public service that he’s being so unceremoniously upstaged… Read more.