You've heard of resume inflation? You've heard of people who lie about having Ph.D.s or Ivy League pedigrees in order to get ahead?
Bush Confesses to Waterboarding. Call D.C. Cops!
São Paulo, Brazil - As Israel celebrates 60 years of statehood this month, Palestinians are taking the opportunity to remember the catastrophic shattering of their society in 1948. It is not simply a question of recalling the past; they continue to struggle for self-determination and to have their rights recognized under international law.
Creators Syndicate - "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper," wrote T.S. Eliot in the closing couplet of "The Hollow Men."
Chicago Tribune, in an editorial: "For a man who so resents being summed up in sound bites, the Rev.
Whew! I'm certainly glad to hear the "snippets" from Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons "in context."
Jimmy Carter returned from his visit to Hamas, having embarrassed his country, infuriated the Israelis, and accomplished nothing.
Creators Syndicate - Nobody with a functioning memory should be too quick to condemn Jimmy Carter for daring to speak with the leadership of Hamas, as nearly everyone along the American political spectrum suddenly has felt obliged to do.
NEW YORK -- A lot of smart people have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how and why President John F. Kennedy seemed to evolve from an indecisive fool in launching the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 into the cool and calm commander defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.
Creators Syndicate - You could see the pain, anger and frustration in Sen.
Creators Syndicate - There's a lot of talk lately about how John McCain might just be the luckiest guy in America, what with the Democrats still fighting among each other, the Rev. Wright proving that friends can be worse than enemies, and Republicans swallowing their doubts about their about-to-be nominee and giving their support to a guy many conservatives can barely stomach. No doubt, he's one lucky fella.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 33 - 5/12/2008 - Last week's highly entertaining episode of the Jeremiah Wright Show didn't tell us anything new about the demagogic reverend. He stands by his sick notion that American foreign policy and jihadist terrorism are equivalent, his defense of Louis Farrakhan, and his wacky conspiracy theory that the AIDS virus was cooked up by the federal government.
The senior U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, will have "all the time he needs," President Bush vowed earlier this month. But whether the United States has all the troops it needs — for Iraq, Afghanistan and other potential world hot spots — is another matter entirely.
High Unemployment and High Inflation Make This Recession Different
Why Is America So Mean?
Creators Syndicate - Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's spiritual advisor and former pastor, holds a charter membership in the white-man-done-me-wrong, things-remain-the-same, we-feel-your-pain club.
Al Franken, the erstwhile comedian turned U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota, admits he owes $70,000 in taxes to 17 states for income derived from speaking engagements since 2003.
Creators Syndicate - As the Rev. Jeremiah Wright gleefully tours the airwaves, inflicting severe political damage with almost every utterance, he is proving that racism isn't the only obstacle to a black president.
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has announced it is sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. As I'm writing, I see it on CNN, steaming ominously into that strategic body of water entered through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, to scare Iran out of its wits so that it will behave!
John McCain probably didn't go to Youngstown last week expecting enthusiastic applause for his support of NAFTA. He surely didn't expect listeners at Youngstown State University to swoon or sway rapturously as he preached the virtues of free trade. In Ohio's hard-hit Rust Belt, McCain drew polite applause, but no loud huzzahs, when he insisted that globalization is good.
Creators Syndicate - This week millions of high school seniors across the nation will mail forms and checks to colleges announcing their intention to matriculate. It's the culmination of what some say was the toughest year ever to pry open the golden doors of academe.