I appreciate the comments, questions and insults many of you e-mailed in response to Saturday’s article. But this cartoon expresses all I care to say in response to your e-mails. Nevertheless, I feel obliged to note that a casual search of my weblog will make it patently clear that my criticisms of Gore’s misleading and… Read more.
U.S. Congress set to condemn Turkey for disputed Armenian genocide
[Or why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems hell-bent on competing with Bush to see who can do most damage to U.S. ties with the Muslim world! ]One of the most salient and strategic blunders of the war in Iraq is the extent to which it has incited ill-will throughout the Muslim world towards the United… Read more.
Al Gore, the Nobel Laureate, now casts an even bigger shadow over the 2008 presidential campaign…
Meanwhile, the buyers’ remorse Bush supporters are suffering is matched only by the seething envy he’s feeling towards Gore. But, even though he has yet to issue a Shermanesque denial, trust me folks – if drafted Gore will not run! After all, even he is savvy enough to realize that being president will do nothing… Read more.
An Emmy, Oscar, and a Nobel: Now all that remains for Al Gore is the biggest prize of all: The White House…
This morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee revealed the worst kept secret in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize when it announced that Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are this year’s co-recipients. And in saluting them, the Committee proclaimed that they were selected: …for their… Read more.
Marion Jones Admits to Using Steroids. Why, Marion? Why?
Jones admits to using steroids A week ago, Marion Jones admitted she was a serial abuser of steroids. I was crestfallen. After all, Jones always denied using steroids – often with anger and indignation. I am very cynical. But I bought her denials hook, line, and sinker. She looked graceful off and on the track.… Read more.
Idolizing Che…?!
All around the world this week, parlor-room socialists are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. But it would not surprise me to learn that 99.9% of them have no clue who Che really was, or why they’re idolizing him. After all, Che was little more than a middle-class doctor from… Read more.
Fall classic: the Yankees lose again…!
Author’s Note: On Monday night, in “The House that Ruth Built”, the New York Yankees showed themselves – for the third-consecutive year – to be the biggest and most expensive losers in the history of professional sports. But instead of searching my brain for new ways to express my schadenfreude, I shall pay homage to… Read more.
Argentina’s First Lady poised to steal Hillary’s thunder…
Ever since Bill and Hillary Clinton proclaimed their “2 for 1” presidential plan in 1992, indignant political pundits – who have nothing to do with “a vast right-wing conspiracy” – have been trying, to no avail, to incite public outrage against their imperial ambitions. In fact, even I have written despairing lamentations on the prospect… Read more.
TCI Must Force Premier Misick to Resign
Force Misick to resign like Nixon Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has become as hopelessly compromised a national leader as President Richard Nixon was in 1974 Of course, in the fall of 1973, Nixon had every right to feel invincible. He was still reveling in a landslide re-election victory, had rendered his political opponents… Read more.
Putin checkmates former chess champion Gary (wannabe president) Kasparov
For much of the past year, international political pundits have been citing tell-tale signs of Vladimir Putin’s presumed intent to circumvent the constitution and extend his reign as president of Russia. And no one inspired more cocksure speculation in this regard than former world chess champion Gary Kasparov, Putin’s improbable but most popular political opponent.… Read more.