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A recent headline in the International Herald Tribune (IHT) read: “Guantanamo drives prisoners insane, lawyers say.” Different people will respond to such a headline in different ways. For instance, liberal peacenik types won’t be able to get through the article without an ample supply of Kleenex. Heartless conservatives on the other hand may... »

Is there simply no way of preventing a hopelessly misguided ex-president from traveling the world and thwarting current American policy whenever he pleases? Apparently not. That would be Jimmy Carter, by the way, whose current Middle East tour is slated to include a “very important” meeting with Hamas, an organization which is... »

Just when you think Ted Turner can’t possibly get any crazier than the wack job he’s always been, he spits out a lulu that absolutely blows you away. Case in point, in a recent interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose the topic of global warming came up and Turner’s outlook about what will happen... »

Let me get this straight. You mean Hollywood just released “Stop Loss,” yet another in a recent spate of Iraq war movies, and as usual, attendance was dismal? Gee, I wonder why nobody’s going to see these movies? According to Nikki Finke in his “Deadline Hollywood” column, an anonymous “studio source” provided this... »

NECKER ISLAND, British Virgin Islands: Richard Branson was lounging under the starry midnight sky on this palm-dappled speck of an island recently when he popped a sobering question. Okay, I didn’t write the above vivid opening dripping with tropical ambiance. It’s from the introduction to an article entitled “At island retreat, Branson and... »

Right now, Hillary Clinton must be wondering how many more lucky breaks she can get to keep her hanging on in this presidential race that she’s obviously been losing to Barack Obama. Once thought a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination and eventual coronation as commandress-in-chief, she’s had to suffer the disappointment and indignity... »

It’s funny the things some Democrats will say about other Democrats, particularly about those who happen to be black and running for president. Take Geraldine Ferraro, for instance. Remember her? She was the first serious female vice presidential candidate in our nation’s history, stuck on a doomed ticket with Walter Mondale as he... »

Last weekend, “Saturday Night Live” did a skit about a CNN debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Problem was, the only African-American male cast member they had available couldn’t reasonably portray Obama because he has a very different body type and it just wouldn’t have worked. So, do you know what they did?... »

With all the intellectual substance of “Tutti Frutti,” a silly Little Richard song from the 1950s, the Barack Obama campaign continues to rock and roll across America, racking up primary victories like gobs of gumdrops. Back in the ’50s, songs like “Tutti Frutti” with their juvenile lyrics were ridiculed by grown-ups. Now,... »

Here we go again with another political scandal, compliments of the New York Times, our national paper of record. Call it an October surprise, only seven months early. But then they can never start too early in their efforts to smear the Republican candidate, even if it’s the one they endorsed. ... »

If you like it when evil terrorist masterminds get what’s coming to them, yesterday was a stellar day. Imad Mughniyeh, one of the world’s most elusive and wanted terrorists, took one for the glorious Islamist cause when he and his car were blown to kingdom come. The only thing that could have... »

If they gave out an award for the most addleheaded statement ever made by a politician in the long and eventful history of civilization, it just might go to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the following: “Terrorists kill people. Weapons of mass destruction have the potential to kill an enormous amount of... »

Actually, all I got was this lousy headache. Well, that, and the unwanted sense of the increasingly looming inevitability of a McCain nomination. Now hold on just a minute. I’ll have everyone know I’m not suffering from McCain Derangement Syndrome. Not like the desperate caller I heard just moments ago on C-Span... »

While well-intentioned Americans continue to argue over the morality of using the interrogation technique of waterboarding even in rare circumstances against some of the worst beings to ever walk upright on the planet, al-Qaida in Iraq continues to find new ways of plumbing the depths of human depravity in its bid to prevent Iraqis... »

This is what will happen if America makes a left-wing multiculturalist its president. Barack Obama told a French magazine that if he is elected, he will hold a summit with Muslim countries in order to try and improve the United States’ image around the world. Hmm, this sounds vaguely familiar. Oh yeah, now... »

Here’s a headline that’s like music to my ears: “John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race.” It’s the kind of news that makes me feel like getting up and dancing a jig. No more will we have to suffer his disingenuous pandering about “two Americas.” No more of his class warfare... »

In a recent column I theorized that the somewhat puzzling appeal of Barack Obama as a presidential candidate had to do with his admirers’ happy-headed fantasies of a return to something resembling the “Camelot” years of the JFK administration. I argued that Obama was being seen as a kind of 21st century, multicultural... »

Ordinarily, concern about global warming is one of the last things you’ll hear coming out of the Arab world. And why is that? Well, probably because it has absolutely nothing to do with the singular, overriding obsession du jour of that unlovely realm of the planet: the Arab-Israeli conflict; or, more specifically,... »

Does anyone see the irony in the Martin Luther King holiday being followed the very next day by the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision? Talk about a stark moral juxtaposition. King Day celebrates the life of a man who spurred a national movement to grant oppressed and disenfranchised... »

It’s not everyday you see a plethora of headlines like the following: “Bin Laden son wants to be peace activist.” “Bin Laden’s son in horse ride for peace.” “Osama’s son wants British visa to live with granny bride.” What the heck is up with all that? Well, let’s just say it appears that the apple doesn’t necessarily... »