Author: michael o. allen
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Presumption
I have no problem whatsoever with Caroline Kennedy being named to the United States Senate seat from New York that Hillary Clinton will be vacating if she is confirmed as the new Secretary of State. In fact, I could offer a couple of powerful argument why Ms. Kennedy should be named (and I will later…
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Like I said . . .
Patrick Fitzgerald, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is a public menace. He makes it hard for people to exist and behave as they normally would in their natural habitat. Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko and others were doing only what came natural when Fitzgerald decided to stick…
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According to Google
At least its Analytics application, no one is seeing this post. The photographer is a Michael Castielli and this image is licensed by Creative Commons in his name. Is this cat fierce? He certainly has a fierce visage. Or, is it curiousity, which, as you know, they say killed the cat. Unless I’m getting that…
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Wacko Jacko's Mask of Zorro
Michael Jackson steps out in his most bizarre outfit yet By Simon Cable He has never lacked creativity when it comes to fashioning a ‘disguise’. But Michael Jackson’s latest effort is remarkable, even by his standards. With his trademark trilby hat and a black eye mask, the troubled 50-year-old looked a dead ringer for Zorro.…
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"A passion for justice"
The Fed Who Blew the Whistle Is he a hero or a criminal? by Michael Isikoff NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Dec 22, 2008 Thomas M. Tamm was entrusted with some of the government’s most important secrets. He had a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, a level above Top Secret. Government agents had probed…
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How not to win a war
Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders By JAMES GLANZ and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by…
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Rich's indictment
Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich By FRANK RICH ROD BLAGOJEVICH is the perfect holiday treat for a country fighting off depression. He gift-wraps the ugliness of corruption in the mirthful garb of farce. From a safe distance outside Illinois, it’s hard not to laugh at the “culture of Chicago,” where even the president-elect’s Senate seat…
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Nat Hentoff weighs in
In two columns last week and this week, Village Voice columnist and legendary civil liberties activist Nat Hentoff argues vigorously for bringing American officials responsible for human rights abuses during The Bush Years to be brought up on War Crimes charges. Last week he said: With regard to serial war crimes, “accountability” would mean putting…
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O.J. Convicted for double murder!
Even I can see that O.J. got a raw deal by Marc Lamont Hill Last week, after years 14 years of legal wrangling and media attention, O.J. Simpson was finally sentenced for the double murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. As a result, he will spend up to 33 years in prison for…
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A place of honor
Black Airmen coming to Obama’s Inauguration By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE When the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black force of elite pilots, emerged from combat in World War II, they faced as much discrimination as they had before the war. It was not until six decades later that their valor was recognized and they received the Congressional…