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Russia used “little green men” in Ukraine. China used predatory loans in Uganda. But the effect was the same in both countries: Extraterritorial control! First a little context: You should all have a friend like my old college roommate … One of the many reasons why is that he texted me on Saturday to invite… Read more.
Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade. President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from… Read more.
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty… And so it went, as the judge read 9 of 9 guilty verdicts for Travis McMichael, the first, and clearly most guilty, of three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. But I suspect many Blacks (and, to be fair, many whites) were so relieved after hearing that first guilty verdict, they probably… Read more.
Donald Trump is a pathological liar. But no court has found that he’s a perjurer, yet. Meghan Markle is a pathological liar. But a court has now found that she’s a perjurer, too. Which means she trumps Trump as the most notorious liar in public life. Meghan Markle is a perjurer Meghan Markle apologised to the Court of Appeal… Read more.
To his victims and their sympathizers, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse is a White vigilante who committed double murder. To his defenders, he’s a folk hero who lived out their gun-rights fantasies. Rittenhouse acquitted Gun violence has become such a feature of American life that no one should be surprised that a jury acquitted Rittenhouse. But the following from a CNN… Read more.
Last year, China notoriously disappeared no less a person than Jack Ma, its Jeff Bezos who founded Amazon-like Alibaba, for three months. All indications are that the government detained him for re-education after he got so big for his britches, he thought he could publicly ridicule the ham-handed way apparatchiks were implementing President Xi’s domestic… Read more.
Covid is clearly far more infectious than the flu. And, with a death toll of over 750,000 in the United States and over 5 million worldwide, it is clearly far more deadly. But you’ve probably noticed medical pundits all over the media lately drawing all kinds of comparisons between Covid and the flu. Their apparent… Read more.
Just weeks ago, Europe was hurling moral indignation at the migrant crisis America allowed to unfold under a bridge near the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. As it happened, I alluded to Russian mischief in the title to my commentary on that crisis, namely “Er, VP Harris, the Migrants Are Coming, the Migrants Are… Read more.
Based on court testimony, it’s evident that Britney Spears was ill-served during her nearly 14 years under conservatorship. In hindsight, she might have been crying out for help in her hit song “I’m a Slave 4 U” even before then. Of course, her fans could be forgiven for receiving it as her sexy coming-of-age anthem.… Read more.
