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Another Italian government bites the dust…
A few of my Italian readers chastised me last October for writing that, with three governments in three years, the Ukrainians were: …on track to make the Italians’ promiscuous penchant for changing governments seem positively chaste. However, given that yet another Italian government fell yesterday, they may want to eat their words. Never mind the… Read more.
NFL League Championship Sunday
Real football fans will tell you that the most exciting day of the NFL season is League Championship Sunday, not Super Bowl Sunday (as fair-weather fans might say). And, true to form, last Sunday’s NFC Championship game between the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers (which the Giants won in OT 23-20) and AFC… Read more.
Actor Heath Ledger is dead…at 28
Most people seemed genuinely shocked by the news that Heath Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment yesterday of an apparent “accidental” drug overdose. Meanwhile, as I listened to everyone from entertainment reporters to his publicists offer spontaneous eulogies, I got the distinct impression that they were already committed to ensuring that the… Read more.
Obama-Day Tuesday: Do or die in South Carolina?
If Barack doesn’t win Iowa, it is just a dream. [Michelle Obama, Des Moines, Iowa September 26, 2007 – as reported by CNN] This quote by Sen. Barack Obama’s wife now has an eerily-resurgent resonance. Because it appears to have presaged not only Bill Clinton’s patronizing allusion recently to his campaign, but also the growing… Read more.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day!
The following are Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s final words. He delivered them at the end of a sermon at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on 3 April 1968…the day before he was assassinated: Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now.… Read more.
World Beware! Bush and the Saudis are talking down the price of oil…again
Many people thought Hillary Clinton was being rude – during Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate – when she called President Bush “pathetic” for flying over to Saudi Arabia this week to beg King Abdullah to lower the price of oil. Whereas, in fact, she was being kind. After all, there’s something positively venal and conspiratorial about… Read more.
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Ethnic Tensions Threatening Rwandan Genocide in Kenya
Almost three years ago, I wrote a commentary in which I lamented that “genocide is taking place in the DR Congo … on a scale that threatens to surpass the horrors of Rwanda”. I also urged President Bush to do all in his power to end this genocide because: We do not need another American… Read more.
Hey ALH, what about the Republicans?!
Since the Iowa Caucuses, I have received e-mails from a surprising number of you complaining about my ignoring the heated race for the Republican nomination. But even though I appreciate your complaints, I find them baffling. After all, I’ve been quite unabashed in declaring that, even though far too little distinguishes the two political parties,… Read more.