Wouldn’t it be quite the scandal if the president of the United States were to pimp out his wife and her sister to use their sexual favors to win the endorsement of his influential predecessor? It was a smear that James Madison had to endure in the year leading up …
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10 November
Qaddafi May Be Crazy Like a Fox, But He Has Also Emulated the Success of Rommel, the Famous 'Desert Fox' From 70 Years Ago
In World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the legendary “Desert Fox” (“Wuestenfuchs”). Today in Libya, Col. Muammar Qaddafi is crazy like a fox. In the past few weeks, Qaddafi’s army has been driving east across the Libyan Desert, rolling up the democratic forces who bravely rose up …
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10 November
The IMF's Rotten Record
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is in the news. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence — but the rape charges against him symbolize the IMF: an institution of privilege that routinely acts to the disadvantage of the vulnerable. The IMF’s founding purpose vanished …
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10 November
The Case for Herman Cain for President — Solving for X
I graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in mathematics in 1967. Back then, we didn’t use fancy calculators to solve problems. Instead, we utilized formulas to “solve for x.” The same holds true in life. Throughout my own, “solving for x” meant learning how to nurture a family, how …
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10 November
KARL ROVE: State of the Union Speech Raises Questions About Obama's Seriousness and Slipperiness
President Obama gave more of a campaign speech than a governing address Tuesday night when he delivered his State of the Union message. Rather than offer any concrete prescriptions for the big issues the country faces, Mr. Obama offered soothing rhetoric and well-tested phrases (mentioning “jobs” 31 times compared to …
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10 November
A Fragile Freedom in Sudan
“We, the People of South Sudan, Grateful to the Almighty God for giving the people of the South Sudan the wisdom and courage to determine their destiny and future through a free, transparent, and peaceful referendum in accordance with the provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, 2005…Recalling our long and …
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10 November
Does Anyone in the Media Ever Read the Bible?
It happened again just the other day. I was reading the New York Times and I came across something so hilarious that for a moment it seemed to be some kind of joke. But this was in an obituary. The obit was about one George Whitman, the proprietor of the …
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10 November
Summer Soapbox — This Week's Winner
Politics in the United States can be likened to a tug-of-war. In a tug-of-war teams try to force each other across a line by pulling on a rope. The winner is the team that pulls the other team across the line first. Today there is a perpetual tug-of-war that rages …
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10 November
PETER JOHNSON JR.: What If Your Loved One Was a Hero and No One Cared?
In the hopeful advent of Christmas and in the optimistic wake of Hanukkah there is a sad, baleful September song playing in the halls of the U. S. Capitol and it echoes from New York’s Harbor to San Francisco Bay. It creates a miasma as thick and acrid and wrenching …
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10 November
Seeing 'Red' Over Russian Spies
Just last week President Obama visited with his old buddy, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev at the White House. In an overt effort to demonstrate how he had single-handedly “repaired” the relationship between Russia and the United States, President Obama took the Russian leader out for lunch to a Washington, D.C.-area …
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