Politics

Tiger Woods Wins PGA Player Award, Loses Tag Heuer Watch Deal The relentless wave of bad news about Tiger Woods took a brief respite Friday when his fellow professional golfers voted him the player of the year.  This was the 10th time in 13 years as a professional that Woods has won the award, a…

When President Barack Obama touches down in Copenhagen, Denmark, tomorrow, he will be entering a hornet’s nest of urgent, competing priorities that will test his negotiating skills like never before. Far from the kumbaya conference that one might expect for a gathering devoted to saving the planet, the two weeks of United Nations-sponsored climate talks…

DC OKs Same-Sex Marriage Just days after black voters helped put Houston’s first openly gay mayor into office, the Washington, D.C. city council struck its own blow for gay rights. The federal district’s local lawmakers voted Tuesday night to allow same-sex marriage, making it the sixth jurisdiction in the U.S. to pass such a law.…

Hiring the former New York mayor to help reduce Rio’s horrific crime rate is a really bad idea. Rio has hired Rudy Giuliani to tackle its crime problem. When the idea first came up, I kept hoping the mayor of my favorite Brazilian city would come to his senses before he made a big mistake.…

Despite the brilliant Nobel rhetoric, Barack Obama is a president treading water. The peace efforts in Iran and between Israel and the Palestinians that seemed so promising at the end of summer are fading. America will soon have 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan. The bombings and general destabilization in nuclear-armed Pakistan continue at a frightening…

Facebook Terrorists Can we ever catch up with al-Quaeda? They turn out to be such tech wizards. It’s such a contradiction to the images we see on TV whenever the coiffed suits are talking about our global enemies: bearded guys walking through mountain passes with guns slung over their shoulders and wearing robes and those…

OBAMA’S NOBEL MOMENT The brother can preach. U.S. President Barack Obama delivered another dazzling speech this morning as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that many Americans say he doesn’t deserve. In his far-reaching Nobel “lecture,” as the speech is called, the President acknowledged the controversy and said he could not argue with…

Way back in the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton argued that Barack Obama hadn’t the mettle to connect his inspiring rhetoric with actual reform, that soaring speeches are poor weapons for the Beltway battle zone. Her skeptical, tough-lady political persona was anachronistic in those pregnant times. But listening to Obama’s latest Big Speech Tuesday, on jobs,…

January 2009 “Prince” Joe Henry, 78, a Negro League all-star baseball player with Memphis Red Sox, Indianapolis Clowns and Detroit Stars died on Jan. 2. Sam “Bluzman” Taylor, 74, a blues singer-songwriter/guitarist, died Jan. 5 from complications of heart disease. On Jan. 4, Giselle Salandy, 21, Trinidad and Tobago’s unbeaten female boxer and winner of…