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I am loath to abuse my standing as the deprogrammed son of an evangelical preacher man. But I am moved by the Holy Spirit (heehee) to at least acknowledge this seminal religious trend (and this is Holy Week after all): Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for… Read more.
Only children believe in fairy tales. Yet it took the tragic life of Princess Diana for many to realize that royalty is no fairy tale. Her son, Prince Harry, is reinforcing this realization. He’s claiming that British royals are trapped in gilded cages. And that makes their fairy-tale lives seem very grim indeed. British royals trapped… Read more.
Just last week, a (typical) white gunman allegedly sought to exorcise his demonic sexual impulses by shooting up three massage parlors in Atlanta, killing eight, including 6 Asian women. This week a (bogeyman) Muslim allegedly sought to avenge his schoolyard bullying by shooting up a supermarket in Boulder, killing 10, including a police officer. Here… Read more.
Colleges treat female athletes as second-class citizens, especially compared with their male counterparts. And one can hardly blame most female athletes for accepting it. After all, even the highly successful and celebrated women’s USA soccer team has been waging a decades-long battle for equal treatment in this respect, to no avail. Sedona Prince’s Viral Moment… Read more.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is confronting the most tumultuous moment of his three terms in office, after multiple women, some of them current or former state employees, accused him of sexual harassment or other inappropriate behavior. … Calls for Mr. Cuomo’s resignation have spread from Republicans to his fellow Democrats, and from Albany, the State… Read more.
In previous elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cast Arab voters as a peril, warning they were ‘heading to the polling stations in droves.’ He threatened two years ago to mount cameras at the polls in Arab communities — a move critics said was meant to suppress turnout — and he has disparaged elected Arab… Read more.
Ironically, I said most of what I want to about this show last year in “The Grammys: Not Only Irrelevant but Rigged?” January 26, 2020. Therefore, I will only add this: The Weeknd’s boycott might seem like the “temper tantrum” of a sore loser. Except that former Grammy chief Deborah Dugan let the cat out of… Read more.
On Thursday, President Biden signed what will undoubtedly be the signature and most critical legislation of his presidency, namely the $1.9 trillion Cares Act of 2021. In fact, it is so comprehensive that economists are hailing it for doing as much to alleviate poverty as to combat Covid. Here in part is how CNN reported… Read more.
The Chinese government’s alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations’ Genocide Convention, according to an independent report by more than 50 global experts in human rights, war crimes and international law. The report, released Tuesday by the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy think tank in Washington DC, claimed… Read more.
Prince Charles gets cold reception from Blacks Prince Charles today became the first royal to attend an official engagement following Harry and Meghan’s bombshell interview as he refused to comment on the scandal and told a nurse ‘I can imagine how exhausting it is’ as she described her work handing out vaccines. (The Daily Mail,… Read more.
