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Nothing has bedeviled U.S. nation-building efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq quite like the determination of Sunnis and Shiites to fight each other instead of Islamic jihadists. Now, Turks and Kurds are fighting each other instead of ISIS, thereby complicating ongoing efforts in Iraq and bedeviling efforts to prevent Syria from becoming the Somalia of the Middle… Read more.
Here is how I decried the practice of exploiting gullible fans by releasing songs recorded and shelved long ago as newly discovered masterpieces: When producers raised the curtain on Michael Jackson’s much-hyped performance, in hologram form, at last month’s Billboard Music Awards, far from being thrilled, I was just creeped out. But it occurred to me that,… Read more.
The NFL didn’t budge on Tuesday. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, five weeks after hearing Brady’s appeal over the Deflategate issue, kept his suspension at four games. (Yahoo! Sports, July 28, 2015) In “NFL Investigation: Brady’s a Liar and a Cheat,” May 7, 2015, I not only declared my belief that Tom Brady is as guilty… Read more.
Baron John Sewel, 69, will step down from his roles as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees in the British parliament’s unelected upper house following the Sun on Sunday’s publication of a sordid 45-minute video. The paper claims Sewel stripped naked for a drug-fueled sex romp at his London apartment during which he referred to… Read more.
On Friday, Barack Obama became the first sitting president of the United States to visit Kenya. For Kenyans, it was a long time coming. But Obama finally gave them the love and recognition they longed for since 2008, when Americans elected this “son of Kenya” president, making him the most powerful man in the world.… Read more.
Becky Hammon continued to make history on Monday as she led the San Antonio Spurs to a NBA Las Vegas Summer League championship victory, becoming the first woman ever to do so… And that title [Summer League head coach] is just an extension of her day job – as an assistant coach on Gregg Popovich’s… Read more.
You have probably seen police dashcam video of the July 10 traffic stop that led to Sandra Bland’s arrest. Shockingly, she died of an alleged suicide in a Texas jail, under plainly suspicious circumstances, just three days later. I shall leave it to others to propagate racially motivated speculation about whether the manner of her… Read more.
I am unabashedly pro-choice. I have no moral qualms about women having the legal right to abort an unwanted pregnancy. But, as with every right, this one is not absolute; nor should it be. Because, just as the right to free speech does not entitle one to shout fire in a crowded theater, the right… Read more.
Here in Washington, DC, we endure pomp and ceremony for every mundane occasion imaginable. This is why the unsung nature of yesterday’s reopening of the Cuban embassy seemed almost as surreal as it was historic. Actually, if you don’t live or work here, you could be forgiven for having no clue how this historic event… Read more.
