“Some shots are gonna be fired in this room tonight…” So said White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt, just as the White House Correspondents Dinner was getting underway on Saturday. Sure, maybe it was just figure of speech, referring
What are they doing up there? Or, to repeat myself from a few years ago, ‘What the F**k is Happening on the Moon?’ The Artemis II mission to the moon has been surrounded by significant hype and excitement: justifiably
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again…’ So said the
A simple proposition: is the long-awaited destruction of the Al-Aqsa mosque about to be carried
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“He’s no Churchill…” President Trump famously said of the British Prime Minister weeks ago. This was of course the US President’s typically
So, it looks like Bibi isn’t dead: but it was a fun diversion for some while it lasted. In fairness, the online
As ominous ‘black rain’ was falling over Tehran, the US/Israeli Holy War in Iran entered week two. There’s a lot else too.
“The President was shocked this morning when he learned of the new Israeli bombardment of west Beirut…” and ”expressed his outrage.” No,
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon…” Events unfolding in the Middle
I’ve been pondering this for some time; and have tried to somewhat lay out the subject as best as I can here in this article. This is something of a thought-experiment; trying to track the various strands of consequences from a single event, but moreover, trying to understand why that
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This year’s Christmas piece was originally going to be like last year’s and focus on an element of the Nativity tradition; instead, given current events and the popular reaction to them, I decided to go with a different subject – specifically, Islam and Christianity. There is now, perhaps inevitably, a
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So. The crucifixion. And the resurrection. A story, a myth, or an ideal or a foundation-stone of faith, that has exerted an almost unparalleled power over generations, societies, and millions and millions of people for almost two-thousand years. Did it happen? No one knows. No one will ever know. Even
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The even more serious question might be ‘What almost happened?’
Very little that could be deemed exciting seems to happen
You want to know something weird? Of course you do.
The case of escaped prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife, who has
As Mossad operations go, this one was technically impressive. Not
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I deliberately waited some time before attempting to write a
In a mansion in the fictional Xanadu, a vast palatial
So a new blockbuster called Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has just
There’s nothing in all creation more exciting than the words
Hollywood movies and other media being used for propaganda purposes
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Considered the ‘darkest album in the history’ of music, and
Pearl Jam’s induction into the Hall of Fame could probably
Long-awaited albums are not an uncommon phenomenon in modern music,
Twenty years ago, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were in
Tonight, twenty years after Kurt Cobain chose to burn out