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Steven Chu…
10-Dec-08Colin Powell devastates McCain…
20-Oct-08The presidential race is certainly heating up. This youtube clip is a devastating indictment of McCain by one of my favorite statesmen, Colin Powell. It is heartening to see that Colin Powell actually gives voice to the “disenfranchised” Republican. The Republican party had an opportunity to remake itself in this election cycle, it chose not [...]
Don Boudreaux
28-Mar-08Don Boudreaux, Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University, occasionally comes up with some great lines, his latest:
“Almost all that any politician says on any topic other than political strategy should be treated with even less respect than would be accorded a professional circus-clown’s speculations about string theory.”
You have to love [...]
Tectonic shift in Iraq…
04-Mar-08NY Times has just published an article that points out an interesting emerging trend in Iraq. Young people have lost their faith in their religious leaders. Wow, unexpected. Personally I think developments like these bode well for a long-term movement away from radicalism.
Barack Obama & Marc Andreessen
03-Mar-08Marc Andreesen is turning out to be one of my favorite bloggers. He is always publishing witty insights both in and out of the tech & business world. He has a great post today on his meeting with Barack Obama in 2007. If you weren’t an Obama supporter beforehand this post may very well make [...]
Stiglitz savages Bush…
12-Nov-07Joe Stiglitz, Noble prize winning economist, savages Bush in a must read article over at Vanity Fair. In the article he predicts a generation long struggle for America to recoup its position in the world, not a pretty picture.
Will the doomsayers win this time around? Or will the US pull off another remarkable recovery? Only [...]
Counterpoint to Sicko!
14-Sep-07John Stoessel has a brilliant op-ed response to Michael Moore’s Sicko in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Great reading and highly recommended.
Scathing indictment….
29-Jul-07Walter Mondale, former Vice President to ex-President Jimmy Carter, has a must-read editorial in today’s Washington Post. Mondale details how he partnered with then President Carter to re-define the role of the Vice-Presidency, from backwater political office to the President’s closest and most trusted advisor.
Carter & Mondale’s re-definition continued through both Republican and Democratic Presidencies. [...]
Sicko…
16-Jun-07Recently I had an opportunity to see Michael Moore’s latest titled Sicko. Sicko is a devastating indictment of the US healthcare system. In a work that evokes the great muckrakers of the past Moore tackles a deep and complex subject in a coarse, and at times, vulgar way. That shouldn’t be taken as an indictment [...]
A brief bit of levity…
04-May-07Disneyland in China? No, not Walt Disney, instead a complete knockoff including Mickey, Minnie, & the rest of the gang. Apparently not owned by Disney. Talk about real intellectual property theft.
Pictures and fun over at japanprobe.