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“I really feel duped…I regret that phone call [to CNN’s Larry King Live on 11 January to defend as true the million little lies of author James Frey]….I made a mistake and I left the impression that the truth does not matter and I am deeply sorry about that. That is not what I believe.”… Read more.
Just days ago, I joined others in praising Google for defying the Bush Administration’s demand for information about the Internet searches and surfing habits of its customers. Google insisted that Americans had a reasonable expectation that their online activities would remain private. Yesterday, however, Google made a mockery of that principled stand by following the… Read more.
Last night, I was riveted to a BBC interview with Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Here’s why: In 1989, Iranian leader and self-anointed Islamic lawgiver, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a Fatwa (death warrant) against author Salman Rushdie for writing a book, Satanic Verses. The Ayotallah deemed it “a blasphemy against Islam”. Yet, since then, Rushdie… Read more.
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.
