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What concerns me is that people around the world seem even more vested in this anachronistic institution today than they were when William’s parents, Prince Charles and Lady Diana, got married 30 years ago (on July 29, 1981). I have long maintained that royalty is anathema to the universal principle that all people are created… Read more.
In “Demystifying ISIS: Case against Obama’s Bush-lite War on Terrorism,” September 10, 2014, I delineated why it’s a patent folly that the United States is meddling, yet again, in the internecine struggle between Sunnis and Shias. Not least because these two factions of Islam have been waging it for a thousand years, and may continue… Read more.
We must face the sad fact that at 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, when we stand to sing ‘In Christ there is no East or West,’ we stand in the most segregated hour of America. (UC Berkley’s Oakland North, February 15, 2012) This is the famous and widely reported declaration Martin Luther King Jr. made… Read more.
President Obama is leading a coalition of the willing to fight Ebola that is almost as impressive as the coalition he is leading to fight Daesh (aka ISIS). (“Ebola,” The iPINIONS Journal, September 26, 2014) Related commentaries: Ebola… Bombing ISIS… Read more.
Obama ran for president by highlighting differences between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and those he intended to pursue. Except that I annoyed fellow liberals by pointing out the similarities between Bush’s policies and those Obama began pursuing almost from day one of his presidency. In fact, commentaries as early as “Obama Angers… Read more.
Actually, family and friends would attest that I have long proselytized the belief that we’d all be better off if nobody lived beyond 80. This stems from my very Bible-centric upbringing: Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for… Read more.
American forces took advantage of the airstrikes against the Islamic State extremist group in Syria to try to simultaneously wipe out the leadership of an unrelated cell of veterans of Al Qaeda that the White House said Tuesday was plotting an ‘imminent’ attack against the United States or Europe. The barrage of bombs and missiles… Read more.
If reports of Gaddafi’s most egregious abuses turn out to be true, I suspect they will still pale in comparison to those Chinese leaders not only committed during their brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, but are committing today in their continual vigilance to attack any sign of democratic expression as if it… Read more.
I published “Global Warming or Just Hot Air” on February 16, 2005—almost 10 years ago. In it I maintained that: Global warming (and cooling) are natural phenomena that have occurred in cycles since the beginning of time. But, for a more updated and authoritative proffer, consider this from Patrick Moore, PhD, the co-founder of environmental… Read more.
Robert Griffin III [RG3] hobbled through the Washington Redskins’ locker room on crutches, the kind of scene that has become so familiar. The franchise player was hurt again Sunday, dislocating his left ankle in the first quarter of a 41-10 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. The best-case scenario might have him playing again by Thanksgiving, but there’s… Read more.
