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I thought the media could do no more to champion style over substance in American politics. But the way they’re hyping the first debate of this presidential election has disabused me of that thought. For I am truly stupefied that TV reporters and commentators are encouraging viewers to determine who wins not by the answers they… Read more.
This also explains why relying on millennial voters is like holding onto quicksilver. Read more.
Tensions have resurfaced this week in the wake of another round of black men being shot by police. The shootings of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have served only to fuel the simmering unrest seen nationwide since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, news of the end of this celebrity relationship is providing as much fodder for gossip as news of its beginning did. Angelina Jolie broke the news to Brad Pitt that she wanted to end their two-year marriage and 12-year romance just days before filing for divorce… Though Pitt, 52, was aware that their marriage… Read more.
I’ve been calling for the United States to prosecute Snowden from the day news broke about his NSA theft. Commentaries like “Complaints about NSA Spying Are Schizophrenic … and Misguided,” June 8, 2013, “I Spy, You Spy, We All Spy,” July 2, 2013, and “From Spycraft to Stagecraft, Snowden Debuts as Putin’s Useful Idiot,” April… Read more.
Obama delivers his final address to the UN General Assembly today. Unfortunately, his recitation of achievements during his tenure as leader of the Free World will be undermined by the persistence of too many crises that have defied, even made a mockery of his leadership. Those crises include the menace of North Korean nukes, the intensification… Read more.
Evidently, even President Obama has become afflicted with Trumpitis. For only this explains the conceited and crass clarion call he issued to blacks on Saturday night. The occasion was a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation gala in Washington, DC. With Democratic leaders increasingly worried about a lack of passion for Hillary Clinton among young black voters, President Obama is rolling… Read more.
Actually, peasant protests in China are no more a portent of political revolution than worker strikes in America are. Chinese police fired rubber bullets at villagers and arrested 13 people on Tuesday in an overnight crackdown to suppress demonstrations in a southern fishing village that became internationally known five years ago for protesting land seizures. Police… Read more.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus fiercely criticized the way Donald Trump delivered his brief admission Friday that President Barack Obama was born in the United States, saying it was insufficient and demanding an apology for Trump’s years-long push of ‘birther’ claims. ‘This is a disgusting day,’ said Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat from North… Read more.
Alas, like Wile E. Coyote, most users will never get it. Samsung voluntarily recalled the models after a spate of serious malfunctions, but the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has now demanded the return of the potentially dangerous devices. According to Samsung, the problem affects 2.5 million phones globally, including one million in the US.… Read more.
