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One of the more ironic features of President Obama’s one-month-old presidency is that his critics are accusing him – whose presidential campaign was predicated on hope – of not inspiring enough hope that the U.S. will weather this ongoing financial crisis. And it does not matter to them that Obama is merely honoring his promise to… Read more.
Sorry Mickey…. Read more.
I really enjoy cinema. And I appreciate the attention the Oscars often give to good but relatively unseen films like The Reader. Unfortunately, with all due respect to critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Academy), how much a film makes, not whether the Academy awards it an Oscar, is… Read more.
No one has been a more ardent critic of the black-victimology politics that Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have turned into a very profitable business enterprise. But even these firebrands occasionally stumble upon a perceived racial slight that is in fact worthy of outrage and protest. And such is the case with this cartoon that… Read more.
In the fall of 1973, President Richard Nixon of the United States had every right to feel invincible… Today, Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) also has every right to feel invincible… As farfetched as the comparison above might seem, the historical parallels between Nixon and Misick do not end there.… Read more.
I appreciate the fact that Alex Rodriguez became the first superstar baseball player to admit taking performance-enhancing drugs while still in his prime. He made this game attempt to come clean during a press conference yesterday at the Yankees’ spring-training camp in Tampa, Florida. Regrettably, he injected unnecessary doubt into his confessionby offering the patently… Read more.
Editorials from around the world were dripping with schadenfreude yesterday as they heralded the ‘first ever electoral defeat’ for Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez… Nevertheless, Chávez may yet have the last laugh. [Referendum defeat actually vindicates Chávez, TIJ, December 4, 2007] I remember well being criticized for sounding this cautionary note whilst other (more-authoritative) pundits were… Read more.
As improbable as it seemed when I launched this weblog, today marks the fourth anniversary of The iPINIONS Journal. Remarkably enough, I enjoy writing and publishing my commentaries even more now than I did back then. Therefore, I have no doubt that I shall be doing so for at least another four years. I only hope that you continue to find my… Read more.
If Livni succeeds (and I predict she will despite Israel’s notoriously fractious politics), she will become the second female prime minister in the country’s short 60-year history. It’s anybody’s guess, however, what her election would portend for Israel’s two most-pressing national issues, namely its looming war with Iran and elusive peace with Palestine. But, given… Read more.
One of the potential hazards of publishing online commentaries is that it’s very easy for experts on any subject you’re writing about to expose you as an uninformed fool. In fact, I know extremely intelligent people who refuse to even submit online comments out fear of having them undermined by more informed comments. Therefore, I… Read more.
