Some people have absolutely no shame. Take the senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, for example. I could not help but double up in raucus laughter the other day when I saw him on television yelling “look at this bill!, look at this bill!” while brandishing what I suppose was the current stimulus package...
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Just two weeks into the Obama administration, naysayers are already pronouncing the man and his administration a failure! And the reason, his promise to institute ethics reform and the revelation that some of his nominees had lapsed tax payments. That’s right. The same group who sat idly by, and in most cases were accomplices...
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I have always had a little suspicion of how the folks at Microsoft would handle the pressure when a solid competition came along. Of course, we all thought that competition was going to be Apple, but it turns out that it is actually from Linux.
A few years ago, Linux Operating systems were a “pain...
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It was actually shocking to read that Senator John McCain made an off-hand “joke” about the U.S. sending cigarettes to Iran to “kill” the Iranians. The logic of such a level of thinking is frightening, to say the least. It is not stretching it if we argue that for some reason yet unexplained to...
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I have been hard pressed of late to understand the mind set of so-called religious leaders who dabble into politics. Who in the name of the God they claim to serve authorized them to prescribe policy or dole out advice on behalf of the rest of us – Christian, Muslim, Pagan, Agnostic, believer and...
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Now that the three parties involved in the latest round of the Middle East crisis have shown us what they are made of, what is next? The recent Israeli “training manoeuvres, the U.S. exercises in the Persian Gulf, and now the Iranian testing of their longest-range missile seems to be setting the stage...
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The recent exoneration of the Ramsey family in the 1996 slaying of Jon Benet Ramsey once again exposes the undue influence the media has in the administration of fair justice in the United States today. It will be recalled that John Ramsey found his daughter’s body in the basement of the family’s Boulder, Colorado,...
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In an apparent aside recently, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was quoted as expressing anger and disappointment toward Senator Barack Obama for his tendency to “talk down to Black people”. On the face of it, it will seem like a simple “mis-speaking” – a word that is getting a life of its own in this...
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The political pronouncements of U.S. President George W. Bush following the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center have collectively come to be known as “The Bush Doctrine”. These foreign policy principles were anchored on the declaration that the United States of America had the right to treat “hostile” nations, particularly those suspected of...
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It was with shock that I learned today of Tim Russert’s death from an apparent heart attack. Of all the Sunday shows I have watched over the years, Meet The Press was one that I could sit through without hurling invectives at the TV for something that was not going right – hosts not...
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