Archives for January 2006

Conservative leader Stephen Harper enjoying the thrill of victory with his family last night after being declcared Canada’s new Prime Minister-Elect! Over a week ago, I predicted that Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party would race to an easy win in Canada’s national elections – leaving PM Paul Martin and his ruling Liberal Party wallowing… Read more.

“When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run it has been run like a plantation and you know what I am talking about.” Indeed I do Hillary…all too well. With that politically incorrect rhetorical flourish last week, Hillary Rodham Clinton – the putative Democratic candidate for U.S. president in 2008… Read more.

On Friday, Google won commendations from technology professionals and end users alike for refusing the Bush Administration’s demand for information about the online search queries and activities of its customers. Unfortunately, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft cooperated with similar demands. This, just as they did last summer when the communist government of China deputized them to… Read more.

Dear Readers…Friends I was genuinely touched that so many of you took the time and effort to email expressions of sympathy after reading about my Daddy’s death. I have never received more than 500 emails in one day (spam included). Since publishing his death notice on Thursday, however, I have received over 3100 emails of… Read more.

Reuben H. Hall, Sr (1929 – 2006) My Daddy died last night He was a great man – complete with tragic flaws He will be missed. May God have mercy on his soul! May he rest in peace… Read more.

A few weeks ago, when TIME revealed Bono and Bill & Melinda Gates as its 2005 Persons of the Year, I thought it was sublime. After all, no one did more last year than Bono to lift the debt burden ($40 billion) that has suffocated economic development in Africa – like an Albatross – for… Read more.

On Sunday, Chileans elected Michelle Bachelet as their new president – making her the first female head of state in Latin America. But, despite being a cause for unqualified celebration, officials in the Bush Administration greeted this good news with little more than pro forma acknowledgement. Here’s why: For U.S. President George W. Bush, Bachelet’s… Read more.

The following are the final public words of American civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr. They were delivered at the end of a speech in support of striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on 3 April 1968 — the day before he was assassinated: “Well, I don’t know what will… Read more.

A week from tomorrow, Canadians will go to the polls to ratify Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as their new Prime Minister. Click here to read why all of the desperate attempts by incumbent Liberal Leader PM Paul Martin to hold on to power have bitten him in the ass and only reinforced his Party’s reputation… Read more.

Last week, in the immediate aftermath of Israeli PM Aerial Sharon’s massive stroke, televangelist Pat Robertson announced that God confided in him that He struck down Sharon for daring to give to Palestinians land He promised the Jews, His chosen people. This week, however, after the Israelis were so outraged that they rescinded a $50… Read more.