You know Newt Gingrich is coming from behind to overtake Mitt Romney when Romney fired a shot at Gingrich today. It was supposed to sink Gingrich’s ship. He called him a “lifelong politician.” [WAPO] At the start of this campaign this claim was already losing its charm. Now even some stalwart Democrats have had enough… [Read more…]
November 27, 2011
President Obama is fond of referring to America’s “millionaires and billionaires.” To-date, we have more of them than anyone. Even with the recession, there are still about 10.5 million millionaires in the US. Our national fiscal demise is a complicated issue. The mid-management jobs that enabled the middle class to thrive are not here in… [Read more…]
November 26, 2011
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, was interviewed back in January 2011 by the Economist about the future of privacy. http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2012/2011/11/technology-powering-individuals?fsrc=nlw|newe|11-25-2011|new_on_the_economist But hold, it was all about the importance of sharing. But let’s back up. Sandberg said during the interview that the head of Google gave her the best advice she had ever got: Go where there’s… [Read more…]
November 20, 2011
It’s been coming on for a long time. In Paris – that capital that used to be so chic with women who wore clothes and accessories only they could wear – is no more – just look at the crowds. Europeans have become, well, drab. This drabness has been communicated to millions in America. OR… [Read more…]
November 15, 2011
In her recently released autobiography, Then Again, Diane Keaton at 65 reveals she still loves her good friend,Woody Allen. She has stood by him through thick and thin but she was with him during his most productive period – the Annie Hall era. Among the films from this collaboration was Play it Again Sam, in… [Read more…]
November 14, 2011
Sunday, Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter made a very detailed and straightforward report on his Administration’s involvement with Occupy Philadelphia, of current municipal needs and provided a profile of a changed Occupy leadership and mix. [link to the full news conference] http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=8430335 Following this, a FOX News reporter attempted to interview members of the Occupy movement and… [Read more…]
November 13, 2011
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These videos just in of Remembrance Sunday in London, 2011 with the Queen leading the ceremonies at the Cenotaph. Kate and Camilla share a laugh: The moment of silence: Nimrod from Elgar’s Enigma Variations: History of Remembrance Day
November 11, 2011
Robert D. Kaplan is a visionary. Highly controversial but with a well-informed historical perspective, in a seminal article in the Atlantic Monthly (February, 1994) titled “The Coming Anarchy,” he wrote about survival in a post-cold war world. I never forgot it and, in point of fact, have moved that issue of the Atlantic with me… [Read more…]
November 9, 2011
Perhaps now Americans can look at colleges and money and get the priorities straight again. A small boy was raped by the Assistant Football Coach at Penn State and report of it did not involve removal of the perpetrator or garner safety for that boy and countless others after that. The rich and the powerful… [Read more…]
November 7, 2011
I can’t remember when the Tea Party constituents harassed citizens on the opposite side of the fence. They were loud and confrontational at Town Hall Meetings but not any more so than anyone there with a gripe. They never targeted anyone other than a legislator. Why bother with anyone else. Anyone else doesn’t change laws… [Read more…]
November 7, 2011
One has only to watch the video from CBS News to get the scope of the problem: The problems encountered with so much vacant housing inventory have more implications than unsightly vacant residences and all they can generate, it also has kept housing prices depressed, made many who purchased them benefit from the bad luck… [Read more…]
November 6, 2011
About the only organized and orderly large crowd these days may be found during the Muslim Hajj. Participants are fulfilling long-held beliefs and goals. Crowds in Egypt during the Arab Spring and that sprung up elsewhere in the Near and Middle East had common purpose – to free their countries from decades of dictatorship. It… [Read more…]
November 1, 2011
It has been asserted that a National Restaurant Association Board Member may have leaked information about the Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Settlement. Let’s stop scanning the membership of the NRA to ascertain who would have had a motive to do in Cain. The information could also have been found in a fortune cookie. Lets focus… [Read more…]
November 1, 2011
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Well isn’t this special: U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger issued the order, which state officials did not fight. “Political expression deserves the highest level of protection and it was unacceptable for the state to suddenly shut down protesters’ speech and forcibly oust them from Legislative Plaza that has long been used as a place for… [Read more…]
November 1, 2011
SamHenry has a confession: I am addicted to reading the prose created by spammers who try to appear as if they have read your post in its entirety and that it smacks of: the very information sought good writing a desire to connect Now this kind of information came attached to specific posts. NOW there… [Read more…]
November 30, 2011
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